Principal Maps Pupils Homes To Aid Bus Routes
D Hover of Middlugh School draws a detailed area map showing each pupil’s home with streets lanes streams and surface types. The 2 foot square wall chart labels about 150 families and lists bus arrival times road hazards and routes. Hover believes the map saves time and aids emergency planning for rural transportation.
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D Hover
Middlugh School
House of Ethy
Hoover
Merete
Mary Jones
Joshiny
Local National Fruit Plant Closes Near-Record Season
The Winchester National Fruit plant near Route 7, largest in a 12‑plant chain, tops a year of near record apple processing. Canned apples, apple sauce, jelly, and cider vinegar drive 1,065,000 in season outlay with about 215,000 paid to growers. 150 to 200 regulars earn roughly 90,000 in off season payroll. Stayman York and other varieties power canning and sauce as the plant expands from cider to broad fruit processing under Armstrong.
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Arstrong, Jr
Armstrong
Winchester
Route 7
Martinsburg
Strasburg
Waynesboro
the Star
Yorks
Stayman
York
Winesap
Rome Beauty
Grimes
Jonathan
King David
Delicious
Staymans
Ben Davis
Grace Church Prayer Service Tonight at 7 30 P M
A notice announces a prayer service at Grace Church this evening at 7 30 led by the pastor who plans to discuss Christmas hymns. The invitation to attend is extended. The document also records a court notice from the Clerk’s Office of the Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia dated December 6, 1939 regarding a land sale case involving the Gibbens family and related heirs requiring appearances and publication.
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Grace Church
Corporation Court T
Winchester
May Gibbons
Joyce Gibbens
Als
Ruth Woelfel
George Woel
Charles M. Gibbens
Florence Kens
Fannie Peck
Florence E
John Fox
Florence Fox
C. M. Gibbens
Virginia
Furter
Corinne Barnett
Harm & Kern
Varles A. van Meter
Orr
Circuit Court
Baltimore
State of Margid
Anna Elizabeth Eter
Maryland
Ann Eliza van Meter
Commercial Savings Bank of Winchester
Beatrice Wakefield Receives Hollywood Screen Test Offer
After starring in a Wellesley amateur production Beatrice Wakefield of Scarsdale NY was offered a Hollywood screen test following a Harvard play. The offer hinges on her ability to be made into pectin, a key jelly preservative, with low pectin selling as stock food.
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Wellesley
Mass
Beatrice Wakefield
Scarsdale
N. Y
Harvard
War Averted In South Africa
STANDERTON TRANSVAAL Dec 20 Premier Jan Christiaan Smuts said war might have broken out in South Africa last April if the government had not acted decisively. He cited the takeover of the Southwest African police where German residents were regimented and drilled.
Eight Cars Take Part In A Crash
William B. Ashley, 59, died from injuries after his car was struck by eight vehicles in a fogbound crash. Ashley was rear ended, pushed into an intersection, then hit by four cars on one side and three on the other. His legs were amputated.
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Los Angeles
William B. Ashley
Ashley
Forest Chief Silcox Dies at 56 in Alexandria Home
F A Silcox, 56, head of the U S Forest Service, died at his Alexandria Virginia home after a weeklong heart illness. He served as chief during a period of expansion and reform, leaving a mark on the agency's policies and public lands management.
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Washington
F. A. Silcox
The
Forest Service
Alexandria
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Sheerest
Lovett Brothers
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Hollywood
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Gosh Reddy
Reddy
Manuel
Northern Virginia Power CO
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