Local News Briefs from Winchester Area Items
Reports detail improving condition of Mr. W. Lee Fisher a Winchester Memorial Hospital patient. Families share letters from son Ray Allen Carper now in the Navy stationed abroad. A shower honors Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Dan Adams, daughter Madge Ritter of Euclid Ave. Guests visit relatives in Edinburg. A fatal auto crash claims life near Ardson prompting prayers for Mrs. Dick Sager and Mrs. Cecil Whitlock. A birth at Winchester Memorial Hospital announces James Benedict son of the Peacemaker Zeiler couple from Scottsdale Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carper
Elwood Carper
East Piccadilly Street
Ray Allen Carper
Navy
Nor- Friends
Stephenson
James Benedict
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Peacemaker
Josephine Zeiler
Scottsdale, Pa
Miscellaneous showers and notices from Winchester area
Mrs Godfrey Zirkle entertained a miscellaneous shower for Miss Olivia Dellinger, engaged to Mr John Leather man, at her South Washington street home. A surprise party honored Mrs Fannie Pugh for her 63rd birthday at Fort Loudoun Restaurant with many relatives from Winchester Falls Church Washington Hagerstown and Stephens City attending. The Stephens City Daughters of Wesley Sunday School class held a regular meeting at Genevieve Massie home with Rev C E Day in charge of social hour. Miss Mary Lou Steele returned from two weeks in St Petersburg Florida staying at the Ames Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godfrey Zirkle
South Washington Street
Olivia Dellinger
John Leatherman
L. K. Dellinger
J. E. Sutphin
Christie” Fansler
Winston Wallace
Muril Browne
Doris Cunningham
C. B. Harlee
Douglas Grimm
Cornelia Koons
Lucille Sencindiver
Fannie Pugh
Fort Loudoun
Ernest Pugh
Ralph
Wilson Pugh
Nancy
Winchester
Wayne Pugh
Falls Church
Robert Wilt
Hagerstown
Stuart Pugh
Washington, D. C
Clayton Pugh
Iris
Delbert Pugh
Arthur
Hershel Omps
Martha Horner
Essie Keller
A. L. Omps
Stephenson
A. C. Oates
Chester Luttrell
Clarence Brill
Harry Nelson
Abe Mason
Virginia Mason
Minnie Cather
Hag Bennett Onal
Charlene
Kernstown
Ritha Hunter
Maud Racey
S and
Kenneth Curtis
Hilda Rees
Wayne
Stephens City
Daughters of Wesley
Mary Lou Steele
St. Petersburg
Fla
Florida
Aevara
Ames Hotel
Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q A
A Q A section on theater party invitations favors telephoned invites. Luncheons announcing engagements are seldom for men. typically women only. Ill recipients should open gifts in donor presence and at once unless too ill to do so.
Sumption Recovers After Major Operation At Winchester Memorial
Mrs. G. I. Sumption of East Piccadilly street is reported to be recuperating nicely at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a major operation performed last Saturday.
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G. I. Sumption
East Piccadilly Street
Winchester Memorial Hospital
CIO Meat Workers Strike Action Tracks National Labor Turmoil
The CIO plans a government takeover of 124 plants to end a 10 day walkout by 75 percent of 250000 workers in packing houses while AFL urges a temporary truce. The move augments postwar labor disputes affecting 1.71 million idle workers across steel oil and auto sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Gayle G. Armstrong
New Mexico
Production and Marketing Administration
AFL
Lesson In English by W. L. Gordon
W L Gordon discusses common English usage errors and pronunciation. It covers misused phrases such as isn t this rotten weather and suggests replacements. The piece explains Aeolian pronunciation and common misspellings like shel lac shellacked and shellacking. It also contrasts synonymous verbs and offers a word study on vocabulary growth.
Government Seizes Meat Industry Amid Wage Controls
Negotiations collapsed in Columbus Ohio over a threatened 3500 CIO utility workers strike that could cut power to 2.5 million residents. Governor Lausche averted action with an impasse while a St Louis wage deal ended an 18 day trucker strike affecting 80 000 in four states with weekly pay hikes and vacation benefits. A coastwise tieup loomed as CIO Longshoremen warned of retroactive pay delays from the War Labor Board cancelling a 1946 contract talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Ford Motor Company
Allied Industries
Truman
GM Cio
General Motors
Uaw-Cio
Chrysler
Ford
New York
CIO
General Electric
Westinghouse
Arthur S. Meyer
Chicago
Wage Stabilization Board
Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
St. Louis
AFL Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Union
CIO International
Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
War Labor Board
Few Days Left to File for Winchester City Elections
Under a new law, municipal primaries are set for April 2 and candidates must file by February 1. Winchester faces six council seats with no filings yet. incumbents hesitate on running. Dr. W. P. McGuire Jr. says he will seek a seat. The emergency act restores a 60 day filing window prior to the primaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Democratic City Committee
Winchester
W. P. McGuire, Jr
Tuck
Flight crew deaths near Clark Field described in posthumous medal note
The article details a World War II air crew incident where a pilot named Kelly earned the congressional medal posthumously after his plane faced heavy antiaircraft fire over Lingayen Gulf. The crew ordered to bail out, two bodies recovered in Fort Stotzenberg, one crewman buried with Kelly. A second crew member died in the crash, and dog tags were removed at the crash scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelly
Fort Stotzenberg
Franks and Army Benefits Clarified in Q A Format
A series of Q A items answers questions on currency value between French franc and US cent, discharge eligibility for three children, draft age exemptions for college programs, veteran reimbursements for unauthorized civilian hospital care, Army Nurse Corps pay parity, the number of Baptist bodies in the US, and the meaning of the initials D F C after a filer’s name.
Identify Body of Colin Kelly
Manila reports a body reburied in a local cemetery is tentatively identified by Western Pacific Army headquarters as Captain Colin Kelly, regarded as America’s first air hero of World War II. Identifications await dental work checks and data comparisons, including a crude map of Fort Stotzenberg where the first interment occurred.
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Manila
Western Pacific Army Headquarters
Colin Kelly
America
Fort Stotzenberg
Kelly
Har
Bronze arrowhead position on theater ribbon explained
The small bronze arrowhead is worn on the right side of the oversea operations theater ribbon. The Purple Heart has existed continuously since the Revolutionary War, without abolition and re establishment.
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J. S
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Judy Light
Harry . Light
Woodside
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Mrs. Adams
Bobby Dan Adams
Ritter
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F. L. Tomson
Cecil Whitlock
John Rush, Sr
Leesburg
Dick Sager
Acorn Heights
East Pall Mall Street
Ardson
Valentine
DeRay
Boston
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Mr. Garland F. Seabright
Men’s Department
Cere
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Chambersburg, Pa
Miss Dellinger
Miss Massie
Wesley
Henry Ritenour
Clarence Lemley
Garland Strickler
Roy Wisecarver
Irene Booth
Paul Shifflett
O. J. Dorsey
Miller Barley
Gladys Pitcock
Phyllis Clowser
Norman Carbaugh
Norman Bean
Joann Bean
Ben Massie Retrahamenkeers
C. E. Day
Miss Steele
Roberta Lee
Els
W. L. Gordon
N. Y
Henry Urshal
Nema Ee
United States
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J.A.C. A
Veterans’ Administration
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Regular Army
Army Narese Corps
Distinguished Flying Cross
the Commercial & Savings Bank
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
T. G. Adams Esso
Haldeman
Geo
Washington
Chapman Motor CO
Cather & Moling
Timberlake
Ladies’ Store
Florist
Ao Flower Shope
Piccadilly
Winchester Furniture CO
Loudoun Street
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Ete
Tetenem
Celery, Pascal
Vevxeger
Tbs
Wells
Ghere Tecerer
Briggs
Scrapple
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