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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1955
Page
5
Sunday School will resume tomorrow at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Hall at 8 a.m. for children. The High School Club also resumes meetings after holidays with Sunday evening discussions on The Life of Christ.
Multiple listings advertise properties cars and livestock with contact numbers and locations. Items include a six room house on Bufflick Road a 25 acre and 35 acre properties near Middletown and Stephens City real estate, a de luxe electric store model, 1952 Pontiac and 1941 Chrysler autos, 20 ton alfalfa hay and 10 ton mixed hay from Seckford Brothers Route 1 Berryville and other entries with phone contacts and dates in early January.
Classified tiny items advertise a young man to work in a store and assist with merchandise delivery. Require age and experience details. Also note farm hand wanted by month with house and furnishings. Include box numbers and contact details from Stephens City and Stephens On Virginia listings.
Classified notices seek furnished 2 or 3 room apartments with bath near town Elms Motel. Multiple calls listed with dates 1-8-21 and 1-7-21 for the listings. Additional ad promotes Pathway of Blessedness lessons by John Ray Hinkle in Dayton Virginia.
Found one boxer puppy left in a car owners must apply in person at 406 S. Cameron. Contact phone 761-1. (1-8-2t)
In Richmond on Friday a News Leader survey finds most Virginia congressmen from both parties skeptical about President Eisenhower's State of the Union message. Senior Sen. Harry Byrd warns against new federal functions and rising costs while opposing more public housing and statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. Junior Sen. A Willis Robertson questions shifting social welfare programs without tax increases or debt, while some support foreign policy goals.
The Distributive Education Service of the Frederick County School Board will open its first adult retailing class for 1955 on January 10. Classes meet Mondays 7 20 to 9 30 p m at James Wood School for five weeks with a follow up program on supervision for managers and supervisors led by Edgar L Robinson.
The Winchester Day Nursery Incorporated calls a special member meeting at 183 Lincoln Street Winchester Virginia on January 12 1955 at 1030 AM to amend Charter Section 6 increasing the board maximum to forty directors from eighteen and provide vacancy filling by a majority vote at any regular or special meeting.
Fire at the three story St. Charles Hotel in Del Rio burned before dawn Friday. Crippled day clerk Emmett Skiles, 30, and Antonio Rodriguez, of San Antonio, were found dead on the third floor. The blaze leveled two other businesses.
The week of January 10 14 lists meetings for Stephens City Gainesboro James Wood North Frederick White Hall Round Hill 4-H Clubs. Activities include meetings by grade at schools and churches with a movie planned January 14 and a Round Hill Community Center gathering January 17.
Holidays brought guests Kenneth Rentch and family from Shepherdstown W VA James Taylor and Miss Jean Taylor from Winchester and Grimes attended at the home of Mr and Mrs Brooke Taylor The White Hall Church Willing Workers Class met at Miss Jean Taylors home Mrs Raymond Fletcher of Winchester visited Sunday Miss Margaret Flickinger of Winchester was a business caller Wednesday Jonah Good has been confined to his home over the past weekend The Nicholsons returned home after visiting their daughter Mrs Talmadge Fultz in Mooreland KY Televisions have become common in the community Butchering ends after several weeks Weather over the Christmas and New Year holidays has been beautiful.
Hollywood notables report Robert Taylor has signed a six year extension with MGM after already holding a long exclusive deal. The star, dubbed by some as MGM’s new king after Clark Gable’s departure, will continue on the Culver City lot for 12 more years. Taylor, who has earned about three million dollars from MGM over 21 years, says he plans to stay put, noting he enjoys the studio and his earnings while contemplating future money matters and potential external deals.
The list shows bid prices and par values for several firms including American Furniture Bank of Clarke County George Washington Hotel Dan River Mills and Potomac Edison. Notable entries include N W Industries Common and preferred shares Commonwealth Natl Gas Shenandoah Valley Apple Cider and Vinegar and Virginia Storage among others with prices ranging from 0 25 to 4 70 for certain preferreds.
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