Stephens City to Hear State Highway Improvement Plan
Town residents and council meet at the fire hall at 6:45 p m to hear State Highway Department engineers explain a plan to widen U S 11 through Stephens City to 41 feet with concrete gutters and six inch curbing at an estimated cost of 75 000 dollars. Mayor W Lomax Parker says the state already has a 40 foot right of way and warns that without the additional one foot the project may be halted.
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Highway Department
Parker
Staunton
Stephens City
Reserved Seat Sale Heavy for Beauty Pageant
A block of 500 reserved seats faced sale for the beauty pageant to raise funds for a local teenage center. Officials reported near sell-out as sponsors were announced for nine more contestants and a reception would follow the 7:45 p.m. event at the armory.
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Winchester
Ralph Grubbs
Virginia Massey
Davis Dry Cleaners
Bonnie Seal
Campbell
Patrica Adams
Barr’s
Orchard and Supply
Mary Cole
Joyce Campbell
E. Earl Shade
Wanda Sutler
Polly's Cab
June Earman
Deb Sibert
Margaret Ann Haines
Sids Grill
Peggy Himelright
Winchester Vfw Post
Armory
Work Shirkers Draw $1000 Fines in Tax Scheme
Newark court fines two young married women Arline Greenspan 21 and Yetta Tolvin Greenstein 19 for flushing 400 income tax withholding certificates down a toilet basin. Federal Judge Guy L. Fake sentences them to 1000 dollars each for evading tax procedures.
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Newark
N. J
Inter- Revenue Department
Guy L. Fake
S. Arline Greenspan
S. Yetta Tolvin Greenstein
Merrick Club Faces Garber's In 8 PM Game
Local basketball action tonight at Handley Gym as Garber's meets Merrick Club at 8 p.m. Also notes a public auction by Coleman Dunn for 25 shares of Potomac Edison preferred stock at the courthouse, noon January 24, and a Bell Clothes sale offering topcoats from 19.75.
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Handley Gym
Garber’s
Merrick Club
Potomac Edison
Coleman Dunn
Bell Clothes
Treasury Chief Hints U S May Aid Currency Stabilization
Secretary of the Treasury says Congress may be asked for funds beyond the Marshall Plan as Europe works to steady currencies. Hearings continue with American Legion and VFW leaders warning that delay could let Communism gain in Europe and threaten Middle East and Africa resources.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Legion
VFW
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
James F. O’neil
Europe
Ray H. Brannaman
Kremlin
Middle East
Africa
Quiz of Pauley Centers on His Recent Trading
Washington January 21 a senate inquiry focused on Ed Pauley who earned 932703 during a three year commodity speculation period. Records show Pauley filed more than 40 commodity transactions since he became a special assistant to the Army secretary Royall in September.
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Washington
Edwin W
Army
Royall
Pauley
Army Department
Ice Cream Market Doubled Since War
ROANOKE January 20 P Americans known worldwide as an ice cream eating people are consuming twice as much ice cream now as during World War II. The text notes US consumption tripled between World War I and II and has doubled since the last war. Dr A C Dahl bert Cornell University dairy professor addressed the Virginia Dairy Products Assn members.
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Roanoke
United States
A.C. Dahlbert
Cornell University
Virginia Dairy Products Assn
Royal pair financed by Commons grant
The House of Commons voted to grant Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip $200,000 a year. The tally was 294 for and 17 against.
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London
House of Commons
Pricess Elzabeth
Prince Philip
Lawmaker Questions Toll Legality on Shenandoah Park Roads
Rep Burr Harrison of Winchester challenges the legality of tolls on Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. In letters to Director Newton Drury and Virginia Highway Commissioner James Anderson, he argues pay-as-you-go is Virginia policy and tolls lack federal authorization. A Front Royal chamber meeting will push for toll removal, with Skyline Drive tolls tied to road upkeep and seasonal exemptions noted.
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Burr P. Harrison
Winchester
Shenandoah National Park
Blue Ridge Parkway
Newton B. Drury
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
Virginia
Drury
James Anderson
Harrison
West
Cong
Interior) Department
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Staunton
Front Royal
Rep
Skyline Drive
Afton
Asheville
N.C
Escape Burned Plane Crashes at Boston Logan Airport
At least 11 injured when an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation skidded on a snow filled runway at Logan. The craft, en route from Miami via Newark, burst into flames after passengers and crew leapt to snowbanks. Captain N. E. Thayer of Miami praised for safe evacuation.
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Boston
Eastern Airlines
Ames
Logan International Airport
Newark
N. J
Miami
J. D. Johnson
Forest Hills
N. E. Thayer
Governor Tuck seeks power to seize Virginia fuel stocks
Governor Tuck says he will ask the General Assembly to grant authority to seize all fuel oil stocks in Virginia if oil companies fail to distribute fuel to keep residents warm. He notes he will use existing powers and pursue extra authority if cooperation is not forthcoming.
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Richmond
Tuck
General Assembly
Virginia
Federalist on Air State Employes Now Number 25 311
Cord Myer Jr president of the United World Federalists will receive an award from the national Junior Chamber of Commerce at 8 30 p m today on Vox Pop He is author of Peace or Anarchy and has been invited to speak in Winchester soon.
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Cord Myer Jr
United World Federalists
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
Vox Pop
Myer
Winchester
Slogan contest winner from Shen Valley Meat Packers
Mary Thelma Triplett 20, president of Friendly Grove 4 H club, won a $50 prize in a slogan contest by Shen Valley Meat Packers. She submitted three slogans two days before closing, with the winning line Me attempting and tender A taste to remember.
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Mary Thelma Triplett
Friendly Grove 4-H Club
Shen Valley Meat Packers Inc
Timberville
D. W. Rogers
New Market
John T. Wolfe
I. Fred Stine
Miss Triplett
Roy C. Triplett
Montain Falls
Winchester
Alfred L. Snapp Jr
Harold Whetzel
Earl Bailey Jr
Stephens City
FFA
4-H
Frederick County
Halifax rape case yields two death sentences
In Halifax Virginia on January 21 Herman Whitt a 15 year old Negro was convicted of raping a white girl and sentenced to death. John Major Brooks 27 was found guilty of the rape charge and sentenced to die in the electric chair March 5. George Brooks 20 to be tried next day for armed robbery.
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Halifax
Here
Herman Whitt
Halifax County
Whitt
John Major Brooks
G. E. Mitchell, Jr
George Brooks
Talk of Rationing Sparks Meat Hoarding Warns Senator
Mrs Annie Stein of the National Women's Trade Union League told the Senate banking committee that rationing may be needed to curb inflation or wealthy buyers could hoard meat in freezer storage. Senator Thye objected saying talk of rationing fuels private stockpiling and undermines policy aims.
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Washington
National Women’s Trade Union League
Annie Stein
League
Sen
Thye
R-Minn
Apple Blossom Festival Workers Group to Meet
A group of Apple Blossom Festival workers will meet tonight at the home of President H Del mer Robinson to discuss general festival plans and formulate the 1948 festival policy. Attendees include Mrs E W Barr H B McCromac Frank Armstrong Jr George T Sanders Edward L Molden Ralph Larson Garland R Quarles Howard Melton L G Sjostrom John A Boyd Walker McC Bond Clarke Cooper Lamar Keen and Ralph G Henge veld.
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H. Delmer Robinson
E. W. Barr
H. B. McCromac
Frank Armstrong Jr
George T. Sanders
Edward L. Molden
Ralph Larson
Garland R. Quarles
Howard Melton
L. G. Sjostrom
John A. Boyd
Walker McC. Bond
Clarke Cooper
Lamar Keen
Ralph G. Hengeveld
Beat Inflation Buy Men's Wear for Less
FOR SALE 9 by 12 rugs listed at 6.98 dollars. Advertises W B Snider and Son as seller with a date note of January 20. The offer promotes affordable men’s wear under a sale heading.
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Bell Clothes
W. B. Snider_ _& Son
Atomic Bombs Claimed by Tito Report From Zagreb Speech
Trieste reports a Pro-Italian newspaper claims Tito told a Zagreb party executive that Yugoslavia possessed atomic bombs and 150 divisions with jet planes for final annihilation. The source says it held the speech text a month but questions its authenticity after Dumas of Dissidence denies it.
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Trieste
Free Territory
Yugoslavia
Tito
Zagreb
Pirre G. S. Dumas
Dissidence
Sunshine Clears Iced Highways After Warm Day
Sun and rising temperatures melted a thin snow ice film on city streets and highways. Two Novick tractor trailers briefly blocked traffic but were cleared with no damage. No hospital treatments for falls were reported. A cold wave outlook follows a brief thaw.
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Novick
City
Associated Press
Middleway Woolen To Run This Year
The new Varel Mills plant at Middleway Jefferson county West Virginia is expected to begin operations late this year. Varel Mills is a Virginia Woolen Co. subsidiary. Incorporators include W E V Terhune president of Virginia Woolen and Lacy I Rice president of Berkeley Woolen Co. and L G Sjostrom of Winchester vice president and manager of Virginia Woolen Co.
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Varel Mills, Inc
Middleway
Jefferson County
W. Va
Varel
Virginia Woolen Co
Winchester
W. E. V. Terhune
New York
Virginia Woolen
Lacy I. Rice
Berkeley Woolen Co
L. G. Sjostrom
Juvenile actress found in San Francisco hotel after eight days
Police report 14 year old Jacquline Horner missing from Los Angeles for eight days was found at a San Francisco hotel with Wallace Wells 19 a navy sailor charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Horner was held as a runaway at the juvenile home.
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San Francisco
Jacquline Horner
Los Angeles
John Merrill
Miss Horner
Wallace Wells
Cimarron
Hunters Point
Merrill
Horner
Wells
German Workers Strike Over Food Scarcity
About 20 600 workers left their jobs in Nuernberg and Col ogne protesting food shortages. Union speakers addressed 30 000 strikers in the square. Banners read We Want a United Germany Death to Black Marketeers and We Are Hungry.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Nuernberg
Cologne
Nuernberg Square
Adolf Hitlerplatz
Tuck Submits Reorganization Recommendation
Gov William M Tuck unveiled a broad plan to consolidate 72 state departments into 11 executive departments and six staff agencies. The proposal aims to cut costs by about 1.5 million dollars annually and reduce the state payroll, with some job losses expected.
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General Assembly
Richmond
William M. Tuck
Tuck
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