Mayor Anderson Directs Virginia March of Dimes Drive
Mayor C. R. Anderson of Winchester leads Frederick County as a director in the 1947 March of Dimes campaign for infantile paralysis funds. Virginia chapters report rising polio cases. past three years saw over 200 cases statewide and local funds split between epidemic aid and local care.
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C. R. Anderson
Winchester
Ederick County
David Tennant Bryan
Anderson
National Foundation For
Virginia
National Fruit Announces Juice To Large Line
The National Fruit Product Company of Winchester remodels its Peach Glen Pennsylvania plant juice line with stainless steel contact points and a new sorting trimming table. The system features continuous cooling from filler to labeling and casing with no intermediate handling. Capacity is 10 000 baskets per shift.
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National Fruit Product Company of Winchester
Peach Glen
Navy Planes Loaded on Ship For Byrd Group
Six Navy twin engined Douglas transport planes are being loaded aboard the Carrier Philippine Sea at Norfolk to support the Navy Antarctic Expedition. Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd plans to join the ship as it sails to rendezvous with Task Force 68 in the Ross Sea.
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Norfolk
Philippine Sea
Norfolk Naval Station
Navy Antarctic Expedition
Richard E. Byrd
Washington
Navy Department
Task Force 68
Ross Sea
Richard Cruzen
Little America
Ross Shelf
Byrd
Ice Shelf
Youth 8 Fractures Skull After Bicycle Hit by Truck
Manley Pancoast eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Roy Pancoast Purcellville was knocked down Saturday while riding a Christmas bicycle and suffered a fractured skull and broken leg He remained unconscious in Winchester Memorial Hospital as he was described as confused and wandered into the truck path He was taken 25 miles to the local hospital The father helps run a general store in Purcellville and is brother of Mrs Henry T Goode of this city
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Manley Pancoast
Roy Pancoast
Purcellville
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Toay
Henry T. Goode
United States Opposes German Western Border Revisions
Reliable sources say the United States will oppose German western border changes at the peace talks, accepting only the Saar ceded to France. Washington plans to oppose Rhineland claims and any modest shifts by Holland and Belgium unless there is clear local support. The stance mirrors Secretary Byrnes Stuttgart policy, with Moscow set to hear it in March.
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Berlin
Germany
Saar
France
United States
Rhineland
Holland-and-Belgium
Foreign Ministers Council
Moscow
F. Byrnes
Stuttgart
Byrnes
Greenbrier Hotel Title Delivered To C. & O. R.R.
Colonel Charles J. Blair Jr., deputy regional director of the War Assets Administration, delivered title to the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs to officials of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Richmond. The sale price for about 7000 acres and nearly 100 buildings was announced at 2,950,024 dollars, with part paid in August when the bid was accepted.
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Richmond
Charles J. Blair, Jr
War Assets Administration
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
W. T. Lowmaster
Ashford General Hospital
Railway
Churchill Marriage Set For January Eleventh
Mary Churchill youngest daughter of Britain's wartime prime minister will wed Capt. Christopher Soames of the Coldstream Guards on January 11. The ceremony will be held at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster, near Westminster Abbey.
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London
Mary Churchill
Britain
Christopher Soames
Coldstream Guards
St. Margaret's
Westminister
Fashionable
Westminster Abbey
Knutson Presses 20 Percent Across the Board Tax Cut
Rep. Knutson of Minnesota returns to Washington as chair of the Ways and Means Committee and insists on a 20 percent cut in individual income taxes. He outlines aims for tariff policy review and Social Security liberalization, noting 20 million workers lack coverage. Democratic leaders oppose tax cuts until the budget balances.
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Washington
Dec
Rep. Knutson
Minn
Patent House Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
Congress
Byrd
Virginia
Rep
Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means Group
Adjourned inquiry into Shannon TWA crash deaths
An inquest into the Shannon Island TWA constellation crash deaths of 12 was adjourned to January 28. Testimony described darkness and rain at impact, plane scattered over an acre, and a baby’s cry as fire-laden wreckage burned. Medical officials cited shock from mangling injuries as the cause. The most seriously injured, Gunther Lubynski, a Paris engineer, has multiple fractures and internal injuries.
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Ennis
County Clare
Erie
Shannon
Ssr
John Hickey
Shannon River
Hickey
Michael Donnellan
Edith Deiaby Waterbury
J. B. MacClancy
TWA
Gunther Lubsynski
Paris
City on the equator near Quito monument
The text states no city sits exactly on the equator. Quito in Ecuador lies 18 miles south, and a monument marks the line where a highway crosses the equator.
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Quito
Ecuador
Governor Goodland Attacks Thomas Over Anarchy Claims
Governor Walter Goodland denounces R J Thomas international vice president of the UAW CIO as openly advocating anarchy and violence in labor disputes in a letter to the Milwaukee CIO council. The Wisconsin Employment Relations Board had limited pickets to 20 at the Allis-Chalmers West Allis plant where Local 248 has been on strike since April. The board issued a second order guiding the dispute actions.
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Madison
Wis
Walter
Goodland
R. J. Thomas
Uawcio
Milwaukee Cio. Council
Lawrence Gooding
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Thomas
Wisconsin
State Relations Board
Allis-Chalmers
West Allis
UAW -Cio
Plant election to decide representation by CIO Local 248
A workforce ballot will determine if workers want representation by an independent union CIO Local 248 or none at all. The vote aims to clarify union affiliation at the plant.
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CIO
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Mayor Anderson
March of Dimes Drive
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Fairplay
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Anderson Electrical CO
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