Piper Laurie Quits Films For New York Stage Career
Actress Piper Laurie leaves Hollywood to pursue Broadway and acting study in New York. She signs an eight month lease, plans to work on stage and TV, accepting lower pay to gain artistic growth and future film opportunities. She previously at Universal spent seven years and multiple films without creative satisfaction.
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New York
Piper Laurie
Universal
Piper
Kelly
van Johnson
Five Captains Named For Farm Bureau Drive
Five captains have been appointed to head up the county Farm Bureau membership drive in their respective county magistrial districts. The captains are Allan Niebuhr Back Creek E W Adams Jr Gainesboro L H Messall Opequon James Brumback Shawnee Ira Campbell Stonewall These men will enlist aid of other workers and contact every farmer not a member during the drive in 79 Virginia counties this week. The county Farm Bureau quota for 1957 is 350 members. The present family membership is 300.
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Farm Bureau
Back Creek
Allan Niebuhr
Gainesboro
E. W. Adams, Jr
Opequon
L. H. Messall
Shawnee
James Brumback
Stonewall
Ira Campbell
Virginia
Farm shifts raise Frederick County lead in peaches and beef
Frederick County tops Virginia for peach trees in 1956, edging Albemarle, while Clarke trails in apples. Fruit processing plants in Winchester and Berryville expand to absorb crops. The era shifts labor from fruit to beef and dairy, with cattle, turkey, and poultry growing alongside declining farm counts and rising farm sizes.
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Frederick County
Clarke County
Shenandoah Valley
Winchester
Byrd Canning
Berryville
Virginia’s Death Toll Reaches 60 in Weekend Crashes
The 1957 traffic death toll rose to 60 as state police logged three fatalities across highways. Robert W. Turner, 45, of Warrenton died after a car struck him on Route 211 west of Warrenton, with Jacob Shroeder of Silver Spring, Maryland identified as the driver. John Henry Martin, 32, of Beazley, Beazley, Caroline County, perished when his car left U S 17 and overturned near Port Royal. Richard Thurman Morris, 25, of Dyke, Greene County, died in a farm tractor trailer wreck on Route 810 north of Dyke.
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Virginia
Robert W. Turner
Warrenton
Jacob Shroeder
Silver Spring
John Henry Martin
Beazley
Caroline County
U.S. 17
Port Royal
Richard Thurman Morris
Greene County
Morris
Clarke County Dairying Grows Though Wheat Declines In 1950s
Clarke County shows growing Grade A dairy interest with large commercial herds and a shift from wheat to pasture and hay. Apple output rose from 769,218 bushels in 1949 to 1,578,311 in 1954, with 1955 crop around 1,180,000. Corn and cattle drive farm income. 1954 census notes farm counts, tract sizes, and land value averages.
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Frederick County
Clarke County
Clarke
Frederick
McQuilkin to Retire as B&O Purchasing Agent
H P McQuilkin will retire February 1 as general purchasing agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He is succeeded by H A Lockhart. President Howard E Simpson announced today after nearly 50 years with the B and O, including wartime service as Chief of Procurement in the U S Army Transportation Corps.
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H. P. McQuilkin
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
H. A. Lockhart
Howard E. Simpson
McQuilkin
Baltimore and Ohio
Martinsburg
W. Va
Cumberland
N & G Taylor Company
Connellsville
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Transportation Corps
U. S. Army
Washington
W. S. Galloway
Baltimore and Ohio Names General Purchasing Agent
On January 1, 1955 H. A. Lockhart became general purchasing agent for the 13 state B and O system. Lockhart started his career with the Baltimore and Ohio in 1917.
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Uary
H. A. Lockhart
The
Baltimore and Ohio
Barber Finkler Leaves Chairs Occupied by Deer Heads
Muskegon barber Charles Finkler and two assistants go hunting after placing three mounted deer heads in his chairs, each wrapped in a barber sheet to indicate their absence.
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Muskegon, Mich
Charles Finkler
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