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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1952
Page
15
Virginia's 888,900 nonfarm workers averaged $55.62 weekly and $1.35 an hour in November, up from 1951. Transportation equipment jobs paid $79.52 weekly and $1.93 hourly, while clothing workers earned $35.97 weekly and 98 cents an hour. Nonmanufacturing jobs fell slightly but manufacturing gained 300 workers.
The Fish and Wildlife Service notes Kansas has no large populations of big game aside from a few elk, deer, and bison. A recent count shows Kansas with 2 elk 50 white tailed deer and 97 bison. Rhode Island 400 and Delaware 500 white tailed deer. California and Michigan lead with over one million specimens each.
A series of patents this week includes a push button auto window system by Peter F. Rossmann assigned to Hupp Corporation. The design combines an electric motor and hand crank via a planetary gear assembly for manual or powered operation.
Architect Benjamin H. Latrobe, famed for the Church of the Presidents at Lafayette Square opposite the White House, designed St. John's E cores Church on Lafayette Care. Built in 1816, Latrobe declined pay and took a plate as a memento.
Historical note traces Yellow Spring Road to Romney in West Virginia. It recalls Capon River, Capon Lake Inn, early German settlers Rudolph family, Hebron Church founded 1786, and Rudolph reunion attendees. It covers Millbrook mail routes, postmasters, and property sales linked to Spencer Gray and Newton Smalts.
The narrative traces travel from Millbrook through Capon Mountain to Egypt and Tuckaho Pinch, noting Egypt’s abandonment and vanished road. It describes Sedan, Augusta, Ebe nezer Church, Romney as the Mountain City, and Lord Fairfax’s town plan with George Washington’s survey, plus the Indian Mound Cemetery name origin.
The passage notes Romney as the home of Dr. William Henry Foote who contributed history volumes on Virginia and North Carolina. It mentions the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylums of West Virginia being part of Romney's history for years and gives local geography including distances to Winchester Capon Bridge Millbrook and Wardensville along Route 50 and Route 259.
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