Much Expected From Couple Guys Named Charlie and Trippe in New Year Bowls
A New Year’s Day bowl preview highlights star players Charlie Trippi and friends. Trippi led major bowl offense with 1366 yards in rushing and passing for Georgia, while Justice and Wedemeyer also posted strong yardage and return totals. The piece notes passers like Rauck and Tittle with top completion counts, and Ernie Case’s 868 receiving yards for UCLA in the Rose Bowl context.
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Trippe
Justice
New York
National Collegiate Athletic Bureau
Trippi
Georgia
Bulldogs
North Carolina
New Orleans
Herman Wedemeyer
St. Mary’s
Georgia Tech
Houston
Texas
Wedemeyer
Jushce
John Rauck
Y. A. Tittle
White Hall Grange Social Tuesday Night
The White Hall Grange invites all to a Tuesday night meeting at 8 o clock in the Grange hall. A box supper and a special program featuring waving pictures will be followed by a 1 watch service. Attendees are encouraged to bring a box and join in the fellowship.
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Scout Meeting Announced at Mt. Carmel Church
All members of Troop 34 and seuters are urged to assemble tonight at Mt. Carmel Baptist church at 7 p m. Samuel N Files, scout committee chairman, issued the notice.
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Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
Samuel N. Files
Scout Com
Poultry Conference Aims to Boost Frederick County Producers
Walter Grant and T B Rosen berger and others will discuss diseases and training at a one day conference on poultry production. The Frederick county Board of Agriculture has organized a conference to aid turkey and chicken growers with a marketing plan and a new Rockingham Poultry Marketing Cooperative processing plant expected to be in full operation by February first. Lunch will be served to save attendee time.
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T. B. Rosenberger
M. J. Pease
W. S. Shaffer
W.R. Legge
G. I
Dr. Mullins
Harrisonburg
Frederick County Board of Agriculture
Frederick
Rockingham Poultry Marketing Cooperative, Inc
Republicans Gain House Seats in 12 States Amid Narrow National Victory
GOP won 111 House memberships to 20 for Democrats and picked up 17 seats in 12 states versus 1944. They captured 57.5 percent of the total vote to Democrats 41.7 and held 157 electoral votes. In the 11 Western states Republicans took 32 seats, up 13 from 1944 and nine from 1942, with 52.8 percent of votes and a 279,747 plurality across 71 electoral votes. Democrats held strength only in the South.
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Cans
Arizona
Montana
New Mexico
South
Clarke County News Featured Daily In The Star
Clarke County items gain prominence as the Star highlights local updates daily. Readers see Clarke County stories and notices featured in the newspaper’s regular daily page.
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Clarke County
STAR
First Grant Of Airport Funds Due January
The Civil Aeronautics Administration will announce on January 7 a partial list of sponsors approved for airport funds this fiscal year under a seven year program. A nationwide needs survey draft will follow, guiding eventual $500 million in seven year expenditures.
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Revercomb warns GOP on immigration policy
Senator Revercomb of West Virginia told Republican colleagues to avoid admitting displaced war refugees at the risk of economic and political turmoil. He cited unemployment and market strain, warning the political risk of welcoming those with Communist ideals. He offered no concrete policy but urged caution amid President Truman's push to expand displaced person admissions.
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Washington rejects kingship proposal in 1782
In 1782 Continental Army officers urged him to be king. Washington replied with abhorrence, saying he could not find a more disagreeable proposal and urging them to banish such thoughts and never communicate them again.
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Continental Army
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NAM Economist Denounces Nathan Report as Nonsense
Washington December 30 NAM chief economist Dr Ralph Robey dismissed the CIO study for higher wage demands as pure guesswork and statistical nonsense He criticized Robert Nathan the CIO report author noting Nathan’s 1946 unemployment forecast and his profit projections as unfounded.
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National Association of Manufacturers Today
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Answers to the Daily Quiz items listed
A compact list reveals the quiz answers: Christmas and New Year. Wisconsin. The 80th Congress. Edward Everett Hale. China. Burma. Bulwer Lytton. Eastern. Four. About three million.
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Edward Everett Hale
China
Burma
Bulwer Lytton
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Best Biography of Charles Dickens Author
John Foster wrote a life of Dickens regarded by many as the finest biography of a man of letters in English, following Buswell’s John son. He lived from 1812 to 1876.
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John Foster
Dickens
Buswell
Johnson
Vandenberg and GOP Leaders Face Bid for Power in 1948
Members of the House and Senate party caucuses plan meetings to pick leaders for the new Congress. In the House, a four way contest for majority floor leader aims at Rep. Martin of Massachusetts as expected speaker. Presidential aspirants and Taft forces figure into Hallick, Brown, Jenkins, and Dirksen battles. Senate Democrats weigh granting real power to the new policy committee or leaving control to Sen. Barkley.
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Rep
Martin
Massachusetts
Hallick
Indiana
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Clarence Brown
Ohio
Taft
Jenkins
Dirksen
Illinois
McCormack
Senate Democrats
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Social Security Office Relocation Discussed
The article notes a plan to relocate a Social Security branch to a more central location to better serve an expanded service area. Officials weighed benefits of a central site against practical considerations for accessibility and staffing.
Social Security office expands with itinerant Martinsburg unit
The Martinsburg office becomes itinerant with a representative on hand each Tuesday after 10. Winchester and daily office hours are 8 30 to 5 with public access. A five year lease is signed for offices in Winchester. The branch handles about eight claims weekly and pays roughly 18 000 monthly to over 1 000 claimants in the area. By June 30 the district paid 4 200 monthly Old Age and Survivors Insurance in Winchester Frederick and 800 in Clarke County. In Winchester and Frederick County wage earners benefits number 135. wives 32. children 74. aged widows 14. widows with children 19.
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Herman Hable
Nelson
Winchester
Frederick County
Clarke County
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