Annual Essay Contests Announced By Virginia U D C
The Virginia Division United Daughters of the Confederacy announces its annual essay contest with multiple prizes. Top awards include 20 for best Confederate history of a Virginia county and 10 for an essay on Mosby’s Rangers.
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Historical Department
Virginia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
B. C. Baldwin
Lynchburg
William A. Coleman
Alexandria
Ferguson Cary
Mosby
Virginia Division
U. D. Co
Lee Chapter
Richmond
Stratford
Lees
Center of Balkan Move for Best Essay Topic
Prize notices offer rewards for essays from high school students. Senior class winner $10 on an essay about The Influence of the Lives of Lee Jackson and Maury on America Seventy Years After the War Between the States. Second place $5. Junior class winner $10 for Major John Pelham essay. Second place $5. Suggested references The Gallant Pelham and Confederate Leaders.
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Lee, Jackson and Maury
America
States
Sidney Lanier
John Pelham
Major Pelham
Pelham
Philip Mercer
Sallie Bruce Dickenson
Legislature Studies Old and New Work
The article summarizes a slate of proposed reforms from various commissions and groups. It discusses labor mediation services, a basic merit system for state employment, game law revisions, local government advisory bodies, and broader state government reorganizations. Also covered are school law revisions, mine safety, pollution control, redistricting, motor vehicle division funding, and education funding plans tied to the budget.
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Department of Labor
Cary Labor Relations Committee
State Labor Commission
Advisory Legislative Council
Game Commission
Bustard Game Study Commission
County Government Commission
Price
State Chamber of Commerce
Hampton Roads
Advisory Council
John B. Spiers
Radford
Division of Correction
Legislature Considers Sheriff Pay Reforms and Jail Farms
A proposed act would compensate sheriffs and city sergeants and allow installment fines, ending the constable office and adding jail farms. A 5-4 split on an anti-diversion amendment stalled in the Senate, with House approval pending.
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Aubrey G. Weaver
Front Royal
State Department of Public Welfare
Price
Hunsdon Cary
Henrico
Virginia
Hampton Roads
Soviet Army Officers Reported Orders With Guns In Battle
An eyewitness account from January 7 near the Finnish border describes Finnish forces pursuing a shattered Soviet division. Thousands dead, 17 000 still alive but trapped, with 2 000 trudging through deep snow. Prisoners claim officers fired on troops to drive them forward.
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Thomas F. Hawkins
Lake Kianta
Finland
Lake Road
Arctic
Warden Reports Ducks Starving in Maryland
United States Deputy Game Warden H. E. Terry reports hundreds of wild ducks starving in southern Anne Arundel county. He appeals to sportsmen groups to provide food now to save thousands of waterfowl, noting many ducks dead on ice and others too weak to move. In a separate scene, Elinore Herrick, NLRB regional director, testifies in Washington about protracted delays in case disposal in 1937.
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Annapolis
United States
H. E. Terry
Anne Arundel County
Terry
National Labor Board
New York
Elinore Herrick
House Committee
Washington
NLRB
Slaying of Woman Still Mysterious in Aberdeen
Aberdeen Washington January investigation focuses on blood stained ice pick and heavy bludgeon as detectives search for killer of 24 year old Mrs Dick Law wife of CIC official. Police question Law who claims union threats and guards were requested. autopsy cites blows from iron pipe as cause.
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O. B Swinehart
J. Watskins
Law
Nestor Luoma
Oregon State Penitentiary
Lew
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Hitler
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Food’ Stores
N. Loudoun St
KOTEX
Silco Cut Price Store, Inc
Granite Railway Company of
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A. Re
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Bunker Hill Association
Quincy
Neponset River
Bunker Hil Monument
Pennsylvania
Carbor County
Lehigh River
Mauch Chunk
Inion Bank
Mrs. Elinore Herrick
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Phonephoto
Seattle
Luke
Stanley Krause
Jie
BIG
Food Guardian
Supreme
ROCK
Montgooy
South Loudoun ST
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