7000th Phone Installed in Winchester Honorees
Mrs. W G Waters of 8 Parkview Ave receives the 7000th telephone connected to the Winchester exchange. Attendants include installer Shumaker service foreman Fauber and manager Marks. The event marks a 100 percent increase since 1940 with Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co expanding from 3500 subscribers a decade ago. Waters and family recently moved from Richmond where he worked as a salesman for National Fruit Product Co.
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W. G. Waters
Park, View Ave
Winchester
Meredith Shumaker
D. W. Fauber
C. P. Marks
Waters
Billy
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Virginia
N. Braddock St
Richmond
National Fruit Product Co
2 000 H Boms Coudn't Do It Says Professor
Professor Max Cosyns of Brussels University calls reports that 2000 hydrogen bombs could destroy the earth absolutely absurd. He estimates obliterating nine tenths of humanity would require vast territory and bombs immensely more powerful than present atomic devices. Cosyns notes practical hydrogen bombs are at least a decade away.
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Brussels
Belgium
Max Cosyns
de Rode Vaan
Cosyns
Brussels University
Ratio of enlisted to commissioned in World War I
The Department of Defense states that during World War I the ratio was 18 enlisted men to 1 officer. During World War I the ratio was 8 enlisted men to 1 officer.
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United States
Department of Defense
Six Die In Virginia Weekend Accidents
The Associated Press reports six fatalities on Virginia highways over the weekend. Victims include Clarence Sam Stelte, 35, of Norfolk. Ran Orley-Abercrombie, 49, of Rumsel. Julia L. Rainey, 51, of Vineland New Jersey. Stanley Burt Harrison, 23, of Brandon Virginia. Anne Regina Taylor, 1, of Buffalo Junction. Fred Lehman, 12, of Arlington.
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Virginia
Clarence Sam Stelte
Norfolk
Stelte
Orley - Abercrombie
Rumsel
New Kent Courthouse
Julia L. Rainey
Vineland
N. J
Monroe
Amherst County
Stanley Burt Harrison
Brandon
Hanover County
State
Anne Regina Taylor
Buffalo Junction
South Boston
Clarksville
Fred Lehman
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Hannibal
Mississippi River
Thomas Woodward Armstrong
Barbara Ann
Thomas Woodward Jr
Pearl
Norma Jean
Harry Armstrong
Playtex
Winchester Furniture Co
South Main St
Bendix
Believin Miller
E. Boscawen St
Anderson
Jane Parker
Associated Press
Old Dominion
A&p
Laker Dots
Ms A Za
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