Democrats To Elect New Officers In Clarke County
Ralph N. Dorsey will step down after 40 years leading Clarke County Democrats. He chaired the County Democratic Committee for 25 years and called for a new chairman and secretary treasurer. Edward McC Williams has held the treasurer post. The committee meets at Berryville Court House tomorrow at 7 30 p m to elect new officers and welcome newly elected district members.
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Berryville
Ralph N. Dorsey
Democratic Party
Clarke County
Dorsey
Democratic Committee
Edward McC. Williams
Berryville Court House
1966 Wheat Price Program Outlined For Farmers
Berryville reports ASC State Committee Chair James E. Warren outlines the 1966 voluntary wheat program options for farmers. Participants can choose allotment use, divert to conservation, or store excess grain, with 45 percent of production eligible for marketing certificates and price support loans. Sign up at the county office between January 17 and April 1, 1966.
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Berryville
James E. Warren
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASC
Mr. Warren
Warren
Fire Alarm System Ready At Annual Cost Of 13650
Clarke County supervisors learned the Central Alarm System would be ready when dial telephoning begins. annual cost to serve Berryville and Boyce Fire Companies is 13650 with 10400 for round the clock operators and 1550 for maintenance. Federal help expected for a Civil Defense Center underground at Berryville Horse Show Grounds.
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Berryville
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
C & P Telephone Co
Civil Defense
Hugh Everett
Berryville and
Boyce
John
Clarke County
Berryville Exchange
Board of Supervisors
Dial Exchange
S. Buckmarsh St
Clarke Farm Management School Opens in Berryville
More than 25 Clarke County farmers enrolled as the Clarke Farm Management School began at the Episcopal Parish House in Berryville. Instructors from the Agricultural Extension Service led sessions on the Maxi mum Profit Point, partial budgets, machinery costs, debt carrying capacity, income capitalization, and feeding programs for beef and dairy cattle. Sessions continue on January 12 and 19 from 9 30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Agricultural Extension Service
W. E. Dunlap
Second Deputy Sheriff Named O H Lewis
Sheriff John Slater announced the selection of O H Lewis of Longmarsh District as the second of two additional deputy sheriffs authorized by the Board of Supervisors. Milburn has served as deputy for a year and a fourth will be named soon. uniforms for the sheriff and deputies were authorized and will be available soon.
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Berryville
John Slater
Board of Supervisors
O. H. Lewis
Longmarsh
Clarke County
Robert L. Milburn
Bloodmobile to Visit Berryville February 2
Red Cross Bloodmobile will stop at Berryville Community Building from noon to 6 PM on February 2. Blood Chairman David Cammack asks for at least 150 donors to help replenish national blood supplies.
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Berryville
Red Cross
David Cammack
Clarke County Top 1965 News Bets Retirements and Elections
Clarke County's top stories of 1965 include the resignation and succession of U S Senator Byrd and the quick campaign that followed yielding Republican J Kenneth Robinson as state senator winner. Also noted are a daylight bank robbery in Boyce, the dial telephones project and Route 7 by pass debates with public hearings and landowner protests, plus a spate of damaging barn fires.
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Berryville
Virginia
U.S
Harry F. Byrd
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Byrd, Jr
Senate
Clarke County
United States
Byrd
Albertis S. Harrison, Jr
J. Kenneth Robinson
Ralph N. Dorsey
E. Blackburn Moore
Democratic County Committee
New Blood
Boyce
Bank of
Millwood
Philip Cunningham
Kenneth Presgraves
James Powell
Stephens City
Buford Shupe
Washington, D.C
Shupe
Mary Shupe
R. L. Bruce
Rt. 50
Freemason Lodges in Clarke County Reach Milestones
Clarke County history notes three early Masonic lodges started a century ago. The 57th Virginia charter dated December 17 1840 lists Master S B T Caldwell and wardens James Seevers W P Wiggenton. Chandler Lodge No 148 chartered December 11 1855 with S S Neill John Reynolds and B C Reynolds. Treadwell Lodge No 213 now 100 years old December 12 1966 led by Neill Moore and Lippett. Also mentioned are Seminole Tribe No 35Improved Order of Red Men chartered May 4 1871 and the Independent Order of Good Templars begun August 25 1885 with W S Kerfoot and Kate Taylor.
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Clarke County
Virginia
S.B.T. Caldwell
James Seevers
W. P. Wiggenton
Chandler Lodge
N. 148
S. S. Neill
John Reynolds
B. C. Reynolds
Treadwell Lodge No
S. J. C. Moore
CG. E. Lippett
Order of Red Men
George M. Gordon
Order of Good Templars
W. S. Kerfoot
Kate Taylor
Clarke County Top News of 1965 Highlights
The Star lists five key 1965 stories: Byrd resignation from the U S Senate and its fallout, a daylight robbery with swift suspect capture and sentencing, Clarke County dial telephone plans ending fire alarm operator use, debates over four laneing and improving State Highway No 7, and a series of costly barn fires. Additional tales cover real estate reassessment, tax revenue changes, growth in construction and population, education and culture expansion, drought effects, water table decline, and a proposed county soil survey.
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Clarke County
Star
Harry F. Byrd, Sr
United States Senate
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