High School Pupils Show Rising College Interest
James Wood and Handley report growing student interest in college after College Day interviews. About 40 colleges and nursing and Armed Services schools attended Handley on Tuesday and James Wood through Wednesday, with Clarke County High School seniors visiting James Wood.
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James Wood College
Strayer Business College
Washington, D. C
Calvin J. McMillion
G. C. Culbertson
Emory and Henry College
Handley
James Wood
Handley Today
Virginia
Nursing
Armed Services
Clarke County High School
al Handley
Garland R. Quarles
Quarles
Henry York
Armed Forces
York
Flexible Rates Proposed for Savings Bonds
The Treasury asked Congress for authority to apply flexible interest rates to savings bonds and to raise the rate from 3 to 3 1 4 percent. If approved, all Series E and H bonds sold after February 1 would carry the higher yield, with earlier redemptions boosted to improve returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Treasury
Congress
Pro
Senate
House
Dollar Day Sale Set Across 35 Winchester Stores
Tomorrow and Saturday the Winchester Retail Merchants Association sponsors Dollar Day with 35 local shops featuring furniture wear jewelry appliances TVs and more. The event replaces Washington's Birthday sale aims to curb observance commercialization and draws shoppers with specials across A N Stores Bayliss & Pattern Co Fleet & Company Abattoir & Locker Plant plus other retailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Winchester Retail Merchants Association
George Washington
Wet Snow Then Cold Weather Tonight Forecast
A wet snow is ending as skies clear and temperatures fall tonight. Highs stay in the 30s with a low around 25 last night, then tonight dip to the low 20s. Strong northwest winds follow the snow and tomorrow brings mostly sunny but cold conditions with highs in the 30s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ike Allocates $300,000 to Virginia Flood Relief
President Eisenhower announced from his vacation headquarters that $300,000 will be provided to Virginia for flood relief. He had already designated Virginia flood damaged regions as a major disaster area eligible for federal aid.
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Ike
Thomasville
Eisenhower
Virginia
George G Snarr Jr Named Cancer Crusade Chairman
Heads Drive George G Snarr Jr has accepted appointment as chairman of the Cancer Crusade for Winchester and Frederick County to be held in April. Announcement by Harry Lovett, chairman of the Winchester Frederick County Chapter Virginia Division, American Cancer Society. Snarr, a local native, is a UVA and UVA Law graduate and former U S Army officer with Japan duty. He will sign the campaign organization soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George G. Snarr, Jr
Cancer Crusade
Winchester
Frederick County
Harry Lovett
Winchester-Frederick County
Virginia
American Cancer Society
Snarr
Augusta Academy
University of Virginia
Law School
U. S. Army
Japan
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Berryville Council Approves $683130 Asset Appraisal
Berryville's town council unanimously adopts a $683,130 appraisal of city assets and plans a sinking fund of about $19,869 yearly to replace items as they wear out. The fund begins next fiscal year September 1 with water, sewer and general property valued at $564,800, $14,669 annual set aside for water assets.
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Berryville
Thomas Bishton
Lee's Springs
Grindstone Hill
Doubleday Berryville Plant Opens Large Book Producing Center
The Berryville plant, biggest of Doubleday & Company three mills, will print and bind tens of thousands of books daily once fully equipped. About 100 workers are employed now from Clarke and Frederick counties with more expected as ultra modern machinery is brought online.
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Berryville
Doubleday & Company, Inc
America
Andover
Smithburg
Winchester Kiwanis Club
George Washington
Wilbur French
Doubleday
Prench
Revised Mideast Resolution Gains Tentative Backing
In a partisan committee vote the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services panels refined Eisenhower's Middle East resolution adding study time. The House has already passed the measure 355-61 with no major changes. The revision limits direct troop use unless the President determines it is necessary to defend against Communist aggression.
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Senate
House
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Thomasville
White House
James C. Hagerty
State Dulles
Ootn
United States
Congress
U. S
Senate Committee
Two Soldiers Hanged Today For Slayings
FT LEAVENWORTH Kan Army hanged two soldiers for separate 1953 murders in Germany and North Carolina. Winfred D Moore 23 Virginia Beach Va and Thomas J Edwards 23 Ardmore Okla wore olive drab uniforms. Moore killed a cab driver during a Robbery at Ft. Bragg Moore Edwards killed a German girl at Kitzingen Germany. Edwards received a delay rejected by President Eisenhower.
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FT. Leavenworth
Kan
Germany
North Carolina
Winfred D. Moore
Virginia Beach
Thomas J. Edwards
Ardmore
Okla
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Moore
Charles Pettit
Pettit
Patricia
Columbus
Robert W. Moore
Edwards
Kitzinen
Henry N. Edwards
James W Davis
Kansas State
Lansing
Kansas
White House
Eisenhower
Wuerzburg
Martha Strowasser
Frederick County Court House
Loudoun St
Fire Envelopes Iowa Rest Home Killing 14 In Blaze
A three story rest home in Council Bluffs Iowa burned rapidly killing 14 patients with 13 more patients and staff hospitalized. Fire officials reported 17 patients 10 employees and three children escaped the flames. Authorities noted licensing issues and a recent fire safety inspection while investigations search for the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Kenneth Patin
Edmund C. Zimmerer
Ivy Lee Gilmore
Zimmerer
Council Bluffs Public Service
Health Department
Waldo Merrill
Violet Hedrick
Rebels Hold Hungarian Town After October Revolt
Nepszabadsag reports anti red rebels still control Toemeny near the Yugoslav border. The paper describes a counterrevolutionary committee in power, with destroyed party HQ and a Soviet war memorial, and notes the reorganized Communist Party now has over 170000 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Hungary
Toemeny
Communist Party
Nepszabadsag
Virginia Forecast Warns of Snow and Rain Mix
The forecast calls for snow over the north and rain with wet snow across the south this afternoon as strong northwest winds continue. Clearing and colder tonight with lows in the 20s to 30s. Friday mainly sunny and cold with highs in the 30s. In Winchester the sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset at 5:48 PM with a full moon rising at 6:14 PM.
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Winchester
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Donald Butchi Jones
Russell Potts
Randolph-Macon Col
Winchester Star
Roddy Jones
Evelyn Lockhart
Eleanor Mason
Mona Nipper
Anna DeHaven
Janie Clayton
Mr. Culbertson
Sally Madden
Carolyn Terretta
Ann Sullivan
Anna Margaret Smalls
Carlotta Wisecarver
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Anne Wisecarver
Ann Maury
Sharon Omps
Peggy McCarty
Juanita Grandstaff
Liliat
the Star
A & N Stores
Bayliss & Patter
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Fleet & Company, Inc
Round Hill Fire Company
Russell Larrick
Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department
Brakeblok
J. W. Green, JR
E. Piccadilly Street
Hebron Baptist Church Building Fund
Heads
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Clarke
Frederick Counties
Naw
Mideast
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