Saturday Projects Raise Over $500 For Dimes Drive
Local volunteers from the Elks BPO and teen groups plus Boy Scouts raised more than 500 dollars for the March of Dimes polio drive. Elks collected 166.60 at N Loudoun Street in front of the county courthouse as firemen climbed an 85 foot ladder for donations.
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BPO
Elks
N. Loudoun St
Rouss Fire Co
Rouss
Fred Baker
Lester Mason, Jr
Bobby Anderson
Peanuts” Keyser
Buster Frye
Robert Newlin
Taylor Barr
Elk
E. T. Snider
R. E. Worlsey
Henry Lowery
Albert Seal
George Brammer
John Hughes
Skeets Baptist
Arthur Guilkey
Turner Sencindiver
Richard K. Eddy
Charles Ebert
Lee Ebert
Carl Lewis
Lee Fisher
Virginia Officials Pay Final Tribute to State Senator Combs
Virginia officials mourned E. R. Combs a 50 year senate clerk who died of a coronary thrombosis in Richmond at 80. Gov. Stanley Sen. Byrd Lt. Gov Stephens and others praised his public service and character. Services were held in Richmond and Russell County with burial in Lebanon.
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Richmond
Virginia
Senate
E. R. Combs
First Baptist Church
Lebanon Baptist Church
Combs
Russell County
Lebanon
Harrison
D-Va
A. E.S. Stephens
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Winchester
Ted Dalton
Radford
Tuck
Longtime Virginia official Combs Dies at 79
Frederick County born official Williams Combs shaped state politics from 1911 to 1950 as county clerk state comptroller and Senate clerk. He helped Byrd era campaigns chaired the State Compensation Board and served on the National Democratic Committee. Survived by five daughters two sons and three sisters.
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Byrd Machine
Compensation Board
Pure and Simple
Combs
George C. Peery
C. Bascom Slemp
Byrd
Rich
Virginia
National Democratic Committee
Rassa Candler
Stephens
Richmond
Television Listings for Channel 6 17 and 6 BACK TO BACK DAYS
A detailed schedule lists programs across channels with start times from 6:00 PM to 5:30 AM including City Detective Footlight Theater Sam Fnd Arnold and news updates on Channel 6 and 17 featuring foreign legionnaire Nat King Cole Burns Allen I Love Lucy and late night Talk and variety shows with stars such as Genevieve John Gregson Randolph Scott and Rex Harrison among others.
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City Detective
Footlight Theater
Sam
Fnd
Arnold
Foreign Legionnaire
Nat (King) Cole
NBC News
Burns & Allen
Arthur Godfrey
Lucille Ball
Spring Byington
Studio One
Giselle M’kenzie
the Desperadoes
Randolph Scott
Glenn Ford
Claire Trevor
Edgar Buchanan
VFW Placing Polio Coin Boxes in Winchester Area
Richard K. Eddy, VFW coin drive chairman, announces boxes are distributed in Winchester and Frederick County. Boxes on counters in stores, offices and businesses will be collected the first week in February. Only VFW members with proper identification may collect.
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Richard K. Eddy
Winchester
Frederick County
Eddy
VFW
Richmond funeral arrangements for Combs abroad area senators
Area senators will attend the Richmond funeral for Combs, with four delegates from Southwest Virginia joining Lebanon services.
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Richmond
Combs
Southwest
Virginia
Lebanon
Trains collide near London injuring many and killing one
A express train rammed the rear of a local train near Welwyn Garden City England. One person was killed and 24 injured as wreckage blocked six tracks. Soldiers returning from Christmas leave were among the passengers in the over night express from Aberdeen.
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London
First great Texas oil field Spindletop near Beaumont
L F A Spindletop brought in near Beaumont in 1901 and marked the first of Texas great oil fields, signaling a new era in the industry.
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Texas
Fire Destroys 65 Homes in Izu hara Tsushima Island
A large early morning fire in Izu hara on Tsushima Island in the Korean Straits destroyed 65 homes, leaving about 420 people homeless. The report notes police statements on the extent of the loss and the displacement.
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Nagasaki
Japan
Izuhara
Tsushima Island
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