Merchants License Tax Cut Approved by Virginia House
The Virginia House passed an amended Senate measure cutting both wholesale and retail merchants licenses by about 1.4 million dollars for the biennium, setting rates at 18 cents per hundred dollars of purchases for both, with debate over timing and budget impact led by Delegate Armistead Boothe and supporters arguing tax relief for merchants.
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Richmond
House
Senate
H. H. Adams
S. B. Carter
Mund T. Dejarnette
E Griffith Dodson
Els E
Armistead Boothe
Alexandria
Boothe
Robert Whitehead
Whitehead
Assembly
House Finance Committee
Tax Commissioner's Office
C. W. Cleaton
South Hill
S. B Carter
Botetourt
Virginia
Bids Accepted for NIT Teams Duquesne St John’s St Bonaventure
Chairman Asa Bushnell announced three teams Duquesne St John’s and St Bonaventure had accepted bids to play in the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden next month. Also a home for sale six rooms furnace 1 acre land deep well minor repairs priced for immediate sale one mile west off Rt 50 Bryan Stotler phone 6195.
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New York
Asa Bushnell
Duquesne
St. John's
St. Bonaventure
Madison Square Garden
Bryan Stotler
Negotiators Reach Final Clause on Korean Armistice
In Munsan Korea negotiators agreed on the final armistice clause but two major issues remain. A political conference within 90 days to address withdrawal of foreign forces and Korean settlement was recommended. Disputes linger over POW repatriation and Red airfield rebuilding during a truce.
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Munsan
Korea
Red
United Nations Command
Adm
C. Turner Joy
U. N
U.N
Joy
Nam TI
Flu Absences Hit Four City Schools Hard
A total of 300 students were absent today from Handley Douglas John Kerr and Virginia Avenue due to influenza. Absences rose to 340 yesterday with about 12 percent missing at James Wood High School and wider county impact noted in Alleghany and Dickenson counties as flu spreads.
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Handley
Douglas
John Kerr
Virginia Avenue
Handley School
Paul D. Beable
James Wood High School
Robert E. Ayler
Winchester
Associated Press
Virginia
Alleghany County
Jeter
Covington
Dickenson County
Dickenson
Expert to Use Nitro in Effort To End Gas Fire
Renovation, Pa. report says a Texas fire fighting expert prepared to blast 100 quarts of solid nitroglycerine on each side of a 150-foot gas well fire near the city. The blaze, sparked during a capping operation, reignited after gas at 7000 feet vented and blew a heavy cap high into the air.
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Renovo
Texas
Here
Paul Adair
Dallas
Tex
Truck Driver Killed in Petersburg Crash
Peters burg, W Virginia Jack Heavener aged 20 was killed when his truck veered off the road and crashed into a ditch authorities said today
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Petersburg
W. Va
Jack Heavener
Three Red Jet Planes Shot Down Over Korea
U S Sabre pilots shot down three Red jet fighters in two air battles over northwest Korea. In a separate five minute clash near Sinanju and the Yalu River, 26 Sabres engaged a 50 MIG formation. Allied ground actions near Silver Star Hill and around Pyongyang left 1,518 Communist casualties in seven days.
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Seoul
Korea
U.S
Sinaniu
Yalu River
Manchuria
Pyoneyvane Radio
Kim Ni Sung
Red
Sinanju
U.N
Silver Star Hill
Pyongyang
U. S
Eighth Army
Virginia Weather Outlook February Twenty to Twenty Four
Forecast calls for rain on Wednesday and again on the weekend totaling about one half to one inch. Temperatures average normal to four degrees above normal, with colder conditions Thursday and Friday followed by a warm up Saturday and Sunday.
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Virginia
New England endures blizzard. more snow forecast
New England fights to recover from a historic blizzard with up to 31 inches in parts of New Hampshire and 26 inches in Lewiston. Some 30 lives lost and 1,000 marooned in 350 cars near Biddeford as rescue planes and volunteer crews rush relief duties.
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Boston
New England
Weather Bureau
Chatham
New Hampshire
Lewiston
Biddeford
Dover
N. H
Portland
Army to Call No More Guardsmen or Reservists
The Army plans to call no more National Guardsmen or Reservists to active duty except for a few small units and individual officers. Changes on the international scene could alter this. Since Korea began the Army has called about 50 000 guardsmen and reservists. Most will be released by year end. Drafted and volunteer replacements fill gaps. Congressional authorization remains 837 000, a figure shrouded in secrecy.
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Washington
Army
Congress
Coast Guard Cutter Nears Severed Tanker
Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind moved toward the stern of the severed Tanker Fort Mercer as rough Atlantic seas churn. Fifty survivors aboard Fort Mercer with nine feared lost from Pendleton. Yakatat rescued Captain Frederick C Paetzel and Purser Edward E Turner Jr amid worsening weather.
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Chatham
Mass
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Eastwind
Fort Mercer
Pendleton
Cape Cod
Boston
Yakatat
Mercer
Frederick C. Paetzel
Houston
Tex
Edward E. Turner, Jr
New York City
All Day Short Course for Fruit Growers Planned
A full program for the Fruit Growers Short Course is planned at James Wood High School on Tuesday February 26. The day opens at 9 30 am with a film Your Apple Orchard and sessions on cost cutting labor saving spraying and machinery handling. Experts from VPI Hancock Maryland and local growers will lead discussions and a 1 15 pm afternoon program includes Realm of the Honey Bee and a 3 pm machinery demonstration.
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James Wood High School
Sam Dillion
Hancock
Kenneth Robinson
Fred Dreiling
VPI
A H. Teske
Frederick County
W. P. Judkins
L. H Stockdale
Allied Industries
J. P. Arthur
Teske
Underhill
A. B. Groves
H. Hill
Henry Brumback
I. Fred Stine
Nation's Most Sought Bank Robber Sutton Captured in Brooklyn
Willie Sutton, whom police called the Babe Ruth of bank robbers, was recognized by two young officers on a Brooklyn street and arrested after a five year manhunt. He faced a Queens County judge on a 1950 March bank holdup charge and was found with $9,000 in cash while living under the alias John Mahoney in a tiny room near Brooklyn police headquarters.
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New York
Willie
Sutton
Brooklyn
Queens
William B. Groat
Brink's, Inc
Boston Armored Car Service
FBI
John Mahoney
Winchester Bicentennial opening day events outline
Officials announce a full program for the 200th birthday observance on George Washington's Birthday. Activities include a Town Crier welcome by Boy Scouts, a Bicentennial Assembly at Handley High School, a colonial courier from Williamsburg, a procession to Red Lion Tavern, a noon banquet at the Armory with Morgan Beatty as speaker, and an evening costume ball and ball for local residents at Finley Recreation Center with tickets on sale.
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Winchester
George Washington
Handley High School
Virginia Avenue
John Kerr
Douglas Colored School
Colonial Courier
Williamsburg
House of Burgesses
Valley Pike
Handley School
Handley
Washington St
Braddock
Piccadilly
Rouss
South End
Gibson Drum and Bugle
Meteorite Explodes Over Virginia North Carolina Border
A brilliant meteor lit the daytime sky and exploded high over the Virginia North Carolina border yesterday scattering fragments possibly across Norfolk Portsmouth Suffolk and nearby areas. Officials from the Weather Bureau Navy Air Force and observatories coordinated searches while witnesses described a star like blaze seen up to 200 miles away with estimates of its size varying from basketball to airplane.
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Norfolk
Virginia-North Carolina
Portsmouth
Suffolk
Air Force
Navy
Coast Guard
Whaleyville Arca
North Carolina Line
Sherwood Jones
Whaleyville
Maddox
Roanoke
Lynchburg
J. P. Molen
United States Weather Bureau
Greensboro
N. C
Harold N. Alden
University of Virginia
Leander McCormick Observatory
Cigaret Tax Brings Norfolk City Funds Higher Than Estimate
Norfolk collected 482000 from a two cent per pack cigarette tax last year, far exceeding the 400000 projected, bolstering the city treasury beyond initial expectations.
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Norfolk
Clean Bill for John Carter Vincent Returns to Tangier
Career diplomat John Carter Vincent was given a clean bill of health by the State Department Loyalty and Security Board. He will soon resume duties as a U.S. diplomatic agent at Tangier after clearance.
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Washington
John Carter Vincent
State Department
Loyalty and Security Board
U. 8
Tangier
Winchester Bicentennial plans outlined at Commission meeting
The Bicentennial Commission in Winchester reviewed Opening Day events for Friday and yearlong activities at the George Washington Hotel. officials including Joseph Massie Jr and Dr William McGuire outlined souvenirs philatelic plans costume ball and public programs while others reported on Journals extracts and local historic sites.
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Winchester
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
George Washington
William P. McGuire
Clarke Cooper
Tom W. Baldridge
Ray A. Qarrabrandt
Massie
Dan Leatherman
Harry Cooke
House of Burgesses
Baldridge
Joseph Newlin
Fairfax Lane
National
Fermen Perry
Edwin Snider
BFPF
Arthur
Fred Sturm
Hollingsworth House
Car and Three Trucks Collide Near Gore Injures Driver
Route 0 west near Gore saw a two car crash with two parked vehicles involved. Evie May Slonaker of this city received brush burns and was treated at Memorial Hospital after her Nash hit a Novick Transfer truck driven by Ralph Smith and then struck two parked trucks owned by Lonnie Adkins and Charles Thompson. Damage totaled about 1 002.
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Gore
Pasenger
Evie May Slonaker
Marvin Conley Slonaker
Nash
Memorial Hospital
James Kincaid
Slonaker
Novick Transfer Company
Ralph Leon Smith
Lonnie Adkins
Keyser
W. Va
Charles H. Thompson
Westernport
Adkins
Kincaid
Fire destroys A. C. Oates Lumber office in early morning blaze
A two alarm fire at 612 N. Loudoun Street heavily damages the A. C. Oates Lumber Company building. Owner A. C. Oates estimates losses around 50000 with no insurance. Fire officials suggest wiring as a possible cause while attempting to salvage records and plan immediate rebuilding.
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A. C. Oates Lumber Company
N. Louduon Street
A. C. Oates
Winchester
Clayton Pugh
Oates
Pugh
Glearbrook Pire
Loudoun Street
Cameron Street
April draft call hits new low since last September
The Defense Department announced 19,000 men will be called in April, the third-lowest draft since Korea. The Army needs 15,000 and the Marine Corps 4,000, with higher volunteer enlistments and veteran re enlistments cited as factors. The total draftees since 1950 rises to 817,000 for the Army and 17,430 for the Marines.
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Washington
Defenee Department
Army
Marine Corps
Department
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the Mail
Louis Chapman
Doris Shelley
Weather Outlook
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Nation
Brinks
George P Monaghan
Babe Ruth
Oates Lumber
Call
Commission Group
Building Supply Company
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