Unemployed Ranks Swell At Christmas In Winchester
In Winchester and surrounding counties 1500 unemployed last week, with 700 more to lose work for two weeks as three local plants pause production. Workers include a Front Royal painter and a Stephens City carpenter who fears long-term layoffs despite holiday preparations. Peterson predicts a spring surge and hints at a looming war as a remedy.
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Star
Virginia Employment Commission
W. Piccadilly St
Winchester
Frederick
Clarke County
Pennsylvania
National Fruit
Richmond
Ie Coast
Chesapeake
Front Royal
Brooks
Metro
Washington
John Peterson
Stephens City
Peterson
Conservationists Endorse Tree-Chopping Plan Near Zion
In Zion Illinois area conservationists back cutting pines to protect a 900 acre Illinois Beach State Park nature preserve. Officials say Austrian and Scotch pines crowd rolling prairie and dunes while the Dunesland Preservation Society and Illinois Nature Preserve Commission support the program amid mixed local sentiment.
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Illinois Beach State Park
Douglass
Conservation Department
John Schwegman
Conservation Club
College of Lake County
Dunesland Preservation Society
Illinois Nature Preserve Commission
State of
Illinois
Schwegman
Furloughs Canceled At N&W Roanoke Shops
About 300 Norfolk & Western workers at Roanoke production shops receive a reprieve from planned furloughs. President John Fishwick says those furloughs are off and workers will return January 6 after suppliers assure steel deliveries to restart hopper car production.
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Roanoke
Norfolk & Western Railway Co
N&w
John Fishwick
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Gore
FMC
Larry Brooks
Virginia Beach
Helleva
Uly Williams
Virginia
National Association of Security Dealers
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Eliz Riv TD
Toll
Insurance Central Corp
Dom Bakshrs
Fid Corp
NB Corp
Ll Consumer
Crad-Ter S Daniel Int
Dibrell Bros
Doughtie Fds
Envir
Exotech Inc
Fed Inc & PP Fnd
Food Ind
Heilig & Meyers
Herit Sav & Ln
James Air Corp
Lane Co
Lowes Co NC
West Boscawen St
Natural Mercantile
Indian Alley
Our
Bryarly & Louthank
Rouss Ave
Anderson’s Sheet Metal
Paper Mill
Pamee
Ser
Boscawen & Washington
Weems Lane
Main & 21St
St., Purcellville
West Spring Street
Woodstock
South Main Street
Harrisonburg
Beverly
Augusta Streets
Staunton
Old Dominion Savings & Loan Association
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