Hog Sale Friday At Livestock Mart
A Purebred Hog Sale is set for Friday at the Farmers Livestock Exchange in Winchester starting at p.m. The event features bred sows and boars from breeds including 12 Hampshire 6 Poland China 4 Spotted Poland China 20 Duroc and 4 Berkshires with consignments by Virginia Purebred Swine Breeders Association members. Local consignor Edward Carpenter and Son.
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Farmers Livestock Exchange
Winchester
Poland
China
Virginia
Virginia Redistricting and Tax Reform Debates Highlight Session
The Virginia House debates include a plan for 10th district realignment aimed at constitutional compliance with contiguous counties and populations, amid threats of a Supreme Court challenge. A tax reduction proposal tied to general fund revenues advances, while relief rolls openness and bar exam prep rules spark fights over public access and academic requirements.
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Supreme Court
Robert Whitehead Nelson
Ee Eee
F. Byrd, Jr
Winchester
Whitehead
Virginia
Multiple Warehouses and Estates Auction Listings
Auction notices list numerous sales at Winchester and surrounding areas including livestock farm machinery household goods and estate items. Dates span FEB and MAR with locations at Miller's Store Fredericks Court House Greenspring Bear Double Tollgate Inwood and nearby towns. Names include W E Edwards Carlton Dyke Carlson Dyke and Georgia Fischer among others.
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Is Livestock Exchange
Winchester
W. E. Edwards
Miller's
Fiddletown
Household Goods Minture
Frederick Onty Court House
Stephens City
George Wash- Meton
Carlton Dyke
Greenspring
Whiteall
W. P. Presgraves
Old Salem Road
Migihwest
Boyce
Clarke Coun
Katie C Runkhouser
C. H Madagan
Raymond Balunger
Inwood
E. D. Punkuser
Georgia Icher
Braddock
President Praised Caudle Days Before Firing Him
President Truman wrote Lamar Caudle a letter of praise 28 days before dismissing him as assistant attorney general. White House notes said the letter predated confirmed information about Caudle’s activities. Radio presenter Ned Brooks relayed the tale, noting the Oct 19 timing and a Winston-Salem visit on Oct 15.
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Washington
Truman
T Lamar Caudie
Praie
White House
Caudes
Ned Brooks
Caudle
Brooks
Winston-Salem NC
North Carolina
Jess Larson
General Services Administration
DAR Distributes Motorists Prayer to Virginia Drivers
The Virginia chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sent 10000 copies of a Motorists Prayer to state and local police for distribution to motorists. The card urges caution and protecting lives, urging drivers to use their cars for others and avoid speeding.
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Richmond
Virginia
Daughters of the American Revolution
Governor's Highway Safety Committee
Church Times
London
England
Us's Largest DP Family To Come To U S
New York reports the largest group of displaced persons to arrive in the United States, led by Peregrin Us and his wife Maria with 51 relatives. They came from a DP camp in the British Zone of Austria after five years there and will settle in Bridgeport Connecticut under sponsor Rev Andrew Parkas. The family plans to work and grow, with daughters and extended kin aiming for larger families.
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New York
Peregrin Us
Meeras
Aloizia Us
Austria
Electroom
Bridgeport
Conn
Andrew Parkas
Maria
Slovenia
Yugoslavia
Bfe
Virginia rent ceiling bill faces vote and tax cut shift
The House considers lifting rent ceilings in three Virginia defense center areas this afternoon. Public hearings by the General Laws Committee preceded a Finance Committee move to send the Senate approved wholesaler license tax cut from 20 to 13 cents per hundred to a subcommittee. Retailers urged inclusion if any tax relief emerges.
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Virginia
House
General Laws Committee
Norfolk
Newport News
Quantico
House Finance Committee
Hunt explains U.S. fines payment for four airmen released
Senator Hunt said the United States paid Hungary 120000 for the four American airmen’s release to avoid possible harm. He argued the value of any one airman outweighed the cost and noted the matter was handled orderly as Secretary Acheson testified before the Senate committee.
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Washington
Tunt D-Wvyo
Hungary
Hunt
Flint
State Acheson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Acheson
Russell
D-Ga
British Note Condemns Egypt For Riots
London formally charged the Egyptian Government with responsibility for Cairo riots last month and said Britain will seek compensation for lives and property. The Foreign Office note condemned the killings of 10 Britons and injuries, accusing Egyptian police of indifference and possible government complicity.
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London
Britain
Cairo
Foreign Office
Polish Colonel Links Zarubin to World War II Prison Camp
Col. George Grobicki testified before a House committee that Brig. Gen. Zarubin of the Soviet Secret Police may have commanded Korelski Prison Camp, where Grobicki was held in 1940. He compared Zarubin’s photos to today’s Soviet ambassador in London, though he offered no certainty. The hearing also planned to hear Henry Cassidy of NBC.
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Washington
London
George Grobick
Special House
Zarubin
Korelski
Grobicki
Outranked by Wife Corporal Seeks Divorce
Detroiter Cpl William J Thompson files for divorce after his wife Ruth rises from sergeant to lieutenant and asserts a career in the Army. He says she tossed her rank around and he fears he will be sent to Korea soon. Ruth is stationed at Fort Lee Virginia and has not answered the suit.
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Detroit
William J.thompson
Korea
Fort Lee
Thompson
Germany
Ruth
Blockade Runner's Pay Is Returned To Richmond
Three hundred eighty Confederate dollars paid to a British blockade runner during the War Between the Dates are returned to Richmond. John H B Collings of Loughborough England sent notes valued 10 to 100 dollars to Rev W Leigh Ribble, rector of Grace and Holy Trinity Church, with a note that they were “for luck.” The rector, in a reply, received Confederate notes and returned them to their original home, Richmond, with Collings praising the act. Collings said his grandfather Captain Collings ran the blockade to the southern states. The minister hopes to sell the notes to a collector and forward the proceeds to Collings.
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Richmond
John HB. Collings
Loughborough
England
W Leigh Ribble
Grace
Holy Trinity Church
United States
Church of England
Collings
Coal Operator Fined for Tax Evasion in Newport News
In Newport News federal court Judge Sterling Hutcheson fined Vance L. Bird of Trammell Virginia $20,000 on two counts of income tax evasion. Bird pleaded no contest after claims of potential prison-term impact on his health.
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Newport News
Sterling Hutcheson
Vance L. Bird
Trammell
Bird
Virginia
Victor Strauss
Cincinnati
James J. King
Internal Revenue Department
A. Carter Whitehead
Hutcheson
Paw Paw Man to Head W. Va. Fruit Growers
Clifford L. Gordon of Paw Paw was elected unopposed to lead the West Virginia Horticultural Society succeeding Sam M. Skinner of Shepherdstown. About 400 growers from Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland attended the meeting in Martinsburg where officials urged setting firm prices before delivering fruit to processors amid 1951 price disputes.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Clifford L. Gordon
Paw Paw
West Virginia Horticultural Society
Gordon
Sam M. Skinner
Shepherdstown
Fruit Growers’ Association
Appalachian
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Carroll R. Miller
Society
How's Your LQ Answers Quiz Key
Correct responses listed include The Queen Mary Harmless Sunday Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama Author Buffalo N Bolivia and Paraguay Gainsboroughs Prench Guiana and a large crowd of both adults and children attended.
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Harmless
Balboa
Panama
Author
Buffalo
Bolivia
Paraguay
Gainsborough’s
Prench Guiana
North Hill Estate Sold in Clarke County for 80000
The historic North Hill near Berryville Clarke County changed hands from Mr. and Mrs R W Mitchell to Milton Ritzenberg of Washington for 80000 dollars. Captain Ewart Johnson of Millwood handled the sale. Ritzenberg plans to breed thoroughbreds and take possession of the main dwelling guest house and farm in three to six months.
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Berryville
North Hill
Clarke County
R. W. Mitchell
Milton Ritzenberg
Washington
Ewart Johnson
Millwood
Castleman
Shenandoah River
Castleman's Ferry
Queen Elizabeth Faces Funeral Duties After King's Death
The Queen, pale and strained, left Nairobi by air and will oversee the funeral plans for her father King George VI. The plan calls for lying in state at Sandringham and Windsor, with burial at St George's Chapel and Windsor Castle, amid mourning.
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Sandringham Royal
Sandringham
Elizabeth
London
St. George's Chapel
Windsor Castle
Kenya
East Africa
Elizabeth Tr
Virginia hearing set on superhighways toll roads plan
The House Road Committee scheduled a public hearing for next Tuesday at 9 30 a m on a bill to empower the State Highway Commission to build modern express highways as toll roads funded by toll revenues. The panel also sent a planning study proposal for northern Virginia to a sub committee and discussed funding needs estimated at 100 million dollars for area highways.
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Richmond
House Road
Virginia
Lewis A McMurran, Jr
Newport News
State Highway Commission
Edwin Lynch
Fairfax
Highway Department
Washington, D. C
Madache
Hillyard
New minerals emerge with wartime needs and uses
New minerals are frequently discovered and new industrial uses are found for known minerals. In World War II at least 30 more varieties were used than in the previous war, with some rare minerals vital despite tiny quantities.
King Dies After Coronary Thrombosis Treatment
Reporters say the king died of a heart blood clot. He underwent a vein disease operation three years earlier and doctors removed a cancerous lung on September 23. Charles and Henry VIII are mentioned as rulers in context.
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Cient
Henry VIII
Charles
Fifty Years Continued Local Club Signups and Requests
In the ongoing Fifty Years feature, complete membership forms request name street address telephone number and length of residence to sign up. Members' names will be published weekly in The State. The Winchester memories drive asks readers with stories to contact Attorney Anderson or Walter A Bowman at The Star office.
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Plete Records
Old Winchester
Belchic
Winchester
Anderson
Walter A Bowman
Star Office
Truman nominates George F. Kennan ambassador to Moscow
President Truman names George F. Kennan, author of containment policy, as ambassador to Moscow to succeed Admiral Alan Kirk whose resignation takes effect. Kennan has served in the State Department on Russia and wrote under the pseudonym Mr XX. Kirk thanks the President for the service and notes the two and a half years in Moscow.
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Truman
George F. Kennan
Moscow
Washington
Kennan
State Department
Russia
Adm
Alan Kirk
Kirk
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Braddock St
Egypt
Pole
Jessie M. Huffman
Middletown
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Brumback
Clarke County Historical Society
Queen Elizabeth
Africa
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Buckingham Palace
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Sandringham House
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Norwich
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Hector Anderson
Royal Horse Artillery
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Windsor
Knights of the Garter
George
Commonwealth
Northern Virginia Power Company
C. J. Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
B&h Concrete
Barr’s Orchard & Farm Supply
Barr
Heatwole Motor CO
Frederick Motors Inc
Martinsburg Pike
Hotel China & Glassware
GEO. Washington Hotel
Winchester, VA
Eugene R. Branch
Mgr
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Republic Oil Refining CO
Garland M. Canter
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