Shenandoah Park Movement Reaches Milestone
Shenandoah Valley Inc leaders celebrate progress toward the Shenandoah National Park plan. The effort began in 1928 with Frank L. Sublett and others, culminating in federal land deeds accepted and squatters moved out. Evictions proceed as park development readies concessions and Skyline Drive rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Shenandoah National Park
the Valley, Inc
Frank L. Sublett
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Ef Howard J. Benchoff
Shenandoah National Park Association
Blue Ridge
Federal Park Cam
Benamed
Congress
Byrd
Virginia General Assembly
The
Conservation Commission
Arson
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah Valley
Staunton
Skyline Drive
Liberty Head and Seated Liberty Coins Through History
The Liberty silver dollars display two main iconographies: a Liberty head with flowing hair on 1794 1795 and a seated Liberty figure used from 1804 and again for several years after 1840.
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Liberty
Negro held in Haverford for slaying Mrs. Ginder
Police say a Black domestic confessed to shooting and killing 70 year old Mrs Mary Louise Ginder a dietitian and housekeeper at Haverford College She was slain while dining with friends in a private room on campus The suspect is jailed in Haverford Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Crittenden
Haverford
Mary Louise Ginder
Haverford College
Fatal Accident Claims Luray Youth Elmer Frazier
In Harrisonburg on December 28 Elmer Frazier 28 of Luray died at Rockingham Memorial Hospital from a fractured skull suffered when he jumped from a skidding car on a Blue Ridge Mountain road nine miles east of Luray. His companion Carl Frazier escaped unharmed. The car was en route from Christmas with Mrs Frazier’s family. The reason for taking the side road was not given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisonburg
Elmer Frazier
Luray
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
Blue Ridge
Frazier
Carl Frazier
Elmer
Rappahannock County
Banking policy warned against renewed over banking
The Economic Policy Commission of the American Bankers Association urges protecting sound rural banks from a return to over-banking caused by past lax chartering. The report links over-chartering to bank failures before the 1933 Bank Holiday and calls for prudent, restrictive policies and public support. A Philadelphia banking conference January 23 24 will discuss managerial legislative and operative issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Economic Policy Commission
American Bankers Association
Robert V. Fleming
Association
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Philadelphia
Police in Britain Avoid Carrying Guns in Normal Duties
The article notes British policemen do not carry firearms during ordinary duties and use nonlethal wooden truncheons about 15 inches long. armed encounters occur only in special cases with criminals.
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Great Britain
Air Corps Chief Westover Promoted to Major General
President Roosevelt elevates Brig. Gen Oscar Westover to full command of the Air Corps with the rank of major general. Westover replaces Maj. Gen Benjamin Foulois who is retiring from service.
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U. S. Army
Roosevelt
Oscar Westover
Air Corps
Westover
Benjamin D. Foulois
How Science of Medicine Progressed in Past Year
A 1985 year-in-review notes no startling shifts in medicine. Key gains include infectious disease control, vitamin research, ductless glands, allergy, diabetes, pernicious anemia, and X-ray radium use. Progress highlighted in diagnosis with the electrocardiograph and in digestive imaging via the gastroscope and X-ray digestibility studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan Clendening
Dochez
New York Academy of Medicine
St. Louis
Japan
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W. C. Armstrong
Front Royal
State Conservation Commis
Shenandoa National Park
United States
National Park Service
Park Service
Rexford G. Tugwell
Roy Crittendon
Rome
Forum
Princess Theater
Hot Springs
Ark
Clendening
Fairmont Avenue
Washington St
N. Cameron St
Loudoun St
M. M. Lynch
S. Braddock St
S. Cameron St
Fairview Ave
S. Market St
L. N. Lafferty Lumber Co
Camp Hill
Care Star
Star Restaurant
S. Cameron Bt
Andrew Nesselrodte
Winchester
John O. Hardesty
N. Kent St
L. A. Lamp
L. G. Smith
Stephenson Depot
B. IV. Unger
L. R. Smith, Inc
haeerGe
Campbell's Chicken
Ropp
Glenwood
ASCO
God Seal
NAVY
Calif
Santa Clara
Clicquot Club Ginger Ale
Sleigh Bell Ginger Ale
Acme Coffee
Marco Dog Food
Crisp Savoy Spinach
Bologna
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