Winchester Local News Highlights 1950
Winchester items show revenue, estate, and school matters, with council elections, new high school leadership, and a range of incidents. Notable entries include a $175,896 revenue record, contested Charles B Henry estate, a $2 million hospital contract, several council retirements, school consolidations, a fatal school-area death, and Apple Blossom and local election developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. P. McVicar
Winchester
John Kerr School
Charles B. Henry
Retail Merchants Association
Virginia Senate
Richmond
L. B. Resseguie
Clearbrook
Cameron and
Boscawen
Taylor L. Barr
Sale Directory January 1 and 10 Auctions
January 1 at 10 am at Patton's Warehouse Winchester goods include furniture and personal property. January 10 at 1 pm estate of Elmer Peer 42 miles south of Ridings Chapel church features furniture and personal property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. G. Baker
Patton’s
Winchester
Elmer Peer
Ridings Chapel
Kefauver Calls For Tax Hammer On Gamblers Racketeers
Senator Kefauver chairman of the Crime Investigating Committee urged federal laws to tax and record the finances of gamblers and racketeers. He proposed complete financial statements with tax returns and books for illegal operators and urged halting inter state horse race wire services to bookmaker joints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
American Political Science Association
Differences Between Racing and Figure Skating Skates
Racing skates have a flat bottom while figure skates are hollow ground. The hollow grind creates two keen edges enabling sharp turns essential for figure skating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax
Plans Considered To Work for Peace in the Far East
A group of Asian Arab states push a plan to entice Communist China to withdraw from Korea by offering a settlement of Far Eastern problems. India’s Sir Benegal Rau heads talks with 11 other nations in New York aiming for a formula acceptable to both the United States and Peiping, a task seen as virtually impossible. Meanwhile the three man cease fire commission works on its report for the U N political committee due next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Peiping
U. S
U. N
Five Juveniles Arrested In Car Theft Probe
Winchester Police announce the arrest of five juveniles, four from Winchester and one from Frederick County, in a car theft linked spree. A 1949 Ford stolen from Clarence Hill near 447 N Braddock St was recovered. Suspects confessed to breaking and entering at Winchester Golf Club and G M Music Co service department, plus thefts from Anderson's Garage and Glaize Co. Police will send all five to Juvenile Court after ongoing inquiry by Capt. Funk and Sgt. Rudolph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Valley Gas Company of
Winchester
State Corporation Commission
Shenandoah
Frederick
Dowell J. Howard
Clarke County
Battle
T. G. Adams Esso
Valley Pike
Stephens City
Conrad Hoover
American Legion
W. Douglas Williamson
U. S. Army Reserve
New Market
Garland R. Quarles
Akron
Ohio
Frederick County
Clarence Hill
Winchester Research Laboratory
J. Thomas Boyd
Winchester Golf Club
G&m Music Co
Anderson
Berryville Ave
Francis Funk
Warren Rudolph
Winchester Police Dept
Miners Rescued From Smuggler Mine Fire in Silver Plume
Six gold miners were rescued after three hours trapped by smoke and flames at the Smuggler mine in Silver Plume Colorado. Rescue teams from nearby communities bulkheaded the shaft and ferried water to fight the blaze as the men climbed 400 feet to safety. Leonard Otten, 23, voiced relief at reaching sunlight and said he did not want more mining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colo
Leonard Otten
Bus Crash Injures 38 in New Haven Ambulance Rush
A Greyhound bus traveling from Boston to New York struck a truck on an icy street in New Haven. Thirty eight passengers and the bus driver were injured but not critically. The crash involved a chain of evasive moves by trucks and a parked car before the bus collided with the final truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Greyhound
Fire Department
Robert Hayes
Brooklyn
Shark Plane Crashes on Australian Beach Killing Three
An Australian air force shark patrol plane crashed into a crowded beach at Maroochydore north of Brisbane. Three children died and 12 sunbathers were injured, with the pilot and passenger also hurt. One 11 year old boy was cut in two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Maroochydore Beach
Brisbane
Actress June Haver Faces Suspension at Twentieth Century Fox
Hollywood reports say actress June Haver is on the suspension list after refusing a sea island film role at Twentieth Century Fox. She said she could not put her heart into the part and doubted audiences would accept her in the picture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
June Haver
Twentieth Century-Fox
Fragmented Puzzle of Obscure Clues and Terms
A garbled OCR style list presents numbered clues and partial phrases covering topics from ancient Egypt to poetry, botany and heraldry. It intermingles definitions, abbreviations, and historical references, yielding an incoherent, puzzle-like collage.
Fonda Ties Knot With Susan Blanchard in Private Ceremony
Actor Henry Fonda, 43, wed Susan Blanchard, 22, at Oscar Hammerstein's home in New York. The ceremony was private with only close family present and the couple left for an undisclosed wedding trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Fonda
Susan Blanchard
Oscar Hammerstein
Hammerstein
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Eastern Air Defense Force
John Jones
W. Bond St
Anne Carleton Hadley
Alben Barkley
van Johnson
Thomas G. Scully
Marvin Weaver
Shenandoah XXIII
Anne Hadley
Albin Barkley
Handley Bowl
Mately
Connie Line
Page Michael
Betty Jane Alger
Winchester Evening Star
John I. Sloat
John Hoover
W. B. Garton
Farmers Livestock Exchange
Northern Livestock Producers Association
Senate
Carl Campbell
W. Nelson Page
Leelon Ray McNealy, Jr
Middletown
Homer A. Alberti
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Council On Medical
Boyd McDonald
Thomas L. Woodward
Suffolk
James Wood High School
J. William Hollis
W. Leicester St
Sandy” Baker
Medical College of Virginia
Clarence W. Whitlock
Fort Belvoir
Burr P. Harrison
Clarke Counties
Republi
J. A. Garber
Loudoun
Frank S. Tavenner
Virginia Bar
State General Assembly
Woodstock
Winchester Common Council
Associated Transport, Inc
Sergeant’s Sale
Patton
N. Cameron St
Corporation Court
Virginia
M. E. Pifer
James W. Hardin
Coleman Dunn
E. T. Snider
M. Patton
Currier Ives
General Electric
John W. Rosenberger & Co., Inc
Chevrolet
B&m
W. VA
Far East
Davies
Missouri
River
Chin
Price
Tally
Argos
Fez
Fonda
Wain
Brumback & Sons
IHC - McCormick Deering
Shade Equipment CO
Mervel W. Adams
Tommy D. Lockhart
Hill’s
N. Leudoun St
the Food Center
N. Loudoun St
I. Q
Ebenezer Scrooge
Big Foot
Anna M. Rosenberg
the Lark
Glaize & Bro
North Cameron St
J. R. Alexander, Jr
Valley Ave
Sanitary
Omps’ Funeral Home
Buncutter Tire CO
Braddock
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