Making Roads Safer Chief Object of Weaver Highway Group's Report
Richmond Dec 19 Proposals to make roads safer dominate the Weaver highway commission report to Governor Price. The panel backs a unified state highway system, an anti diversion amendment, stricter pedestrian and bicycle safety rules, school bus standards, and increased safety education and police presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver Highway Group
Richmond
Weaver Highway Study Commission
Price
Einor Yeste
Weaver Commission
State Highway Department
Safety Education
Division of Motor Vehicles
Conor Godrick
Fredericksburg
Robert F. Baldwin
Norfolk
B. B. Ferguson
Portsmouth
J. R. Woodwin
Highway Department
Bristol
Culpeper
Lynchburg
Salem
Staunton
Suffolk
State Highway Commission
Fund Integrity
General Assembly
Virginia
Division of
Department of Highways
Seaford Man Marks 78th Birthday With Daily Bicycle Ride
Seaford Delaware resident P Frank Atkins celebrated his 78th birthday by a daily bicycle ride. He credits 61 years of cycling for his health noting he never skipped a day of riding. In a separate note, the author of the line Yet each man kills the thing he loves is Oscar Wilde from his Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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Seaford
Del
P. Frank Atkins
Oscar Wilde
Reading Gaol
Night Of Light Proclaimed In Cumberland Maryland
Cumberland mayor Harry Irvine proclaimed a Night of Light for Christmas Eve from dusk to midnight to symbolize America's stand against dictatorships and war. Potomac Edison Company agreed to floodlight public buildings in Cumberland to support the effort.
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Cumberland
Europe
Harry Irvine
America
Irvine
Potomac Edison Company
Local Notes From Grimes Area Report December Events
Mr Miller Owens and family moved from Stephenson to John Hubbard's home. Birth announced for Mr Jason Whetzel and wife. Ernest Albright visits with sister Mrs Wheizel. Mrs Velona Gardner injured arm in a fall. Ernest B. Clevenger served on Winchester grand jury. William Lamp improving after illness. Butchering near end. Ben Hubbard reports large porkers about twelve hundred pounds. Mild, southern-like weather. Christmas and New Year wishes from Star correspondent.
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Ernest B. Clevenger
Near Here
Winchester
William Lamp
White Hall
Ben Hubbard
Star
Christmas Observance At Galilee
The Galilee Church of Christ Bible School holds its annual Christmas tree and program on Monday night December 25 at 8.00 p m The public is invited The program features multiple recitations songs and readings led by Minister Wilbur A Reid and various performers from the church including Rosaline Dettra Charles Leight Mary Bird Hudson and Hazel Bageant A Christmas pageant The Light of Loving Giving by seven girls and a Santa Claus treat conclude the event.
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Galilee Church of Christ Bible School
Child Divine
Wilbur A. Reid
Charles Leight
Rosalene Dettra
Mary Bird Hudson
Mrs. Carr
Betty Clevenger
Douglas Lamp
Emmett Dettra
Victor Crim
Sumorous
Hazel Bageant
Mary Graves
Charlotte Harrison
Jean Graves
Charles E. McVay
Edgar Gordon
Ada Russell
Horace Leight
Mildred Jones
Frances Bageant
Anna Kerns
Hazel
Lucy Clevenger
Frances Smith
Marie Clevenger
Elizabeth Crim
Earl Smith
Robert Clevenger
Margery Nealis
Helen Crim
Betty Lucy
Charles Kerns
Christian
Atlanta
James Crim
Donald Leight
Santa Claus
Bees behind siding yield 100 pounds of honey
Addision New York resident Eynil Olkey irritated by bees at his home ripped away siding and found about 100 pounds of honey stored in the walls.
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Addison
N. Y
Eynil Olkey
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Maginot Line
New York
Winchester and Vicinity
Thomas P. Morgan, Jr
Washington, D. C
Grimes Greanings
Galilee
Bible School
N. Londoun St
Orerr
Cas
Raylass Stores
Lane
Governor Winthrop
Swimley Furniture Store
George Washington Hotel
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