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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1949
Page
3
Nelson was shot and killed in Maryland waters at the junction of Pocomoke and Tangier sounds on Chesapeake Bay. The scene lies near the Maryland Virginia line where watermen from the two states clash amid rival conservation laws governing crabbing in their own waters.
Legion post leaders including Zuckerman Scully Dearing Patton and Spaid endorsed a 25 cent national dues rise for rehabilitation work and a proposal to extend rehabilitation allowances to veterans through 1945. Conrad Hoover is reported as second in the state with 834 members. The gathering closed with a fried chicken lunch at the post home. next meeting set for August 2.
Frederick county school board reelected Charles Bass of Stephens City as chairman at the annual organization meeting. Harry Richard was named vice chairman and Elizabeth Sheetz clerk. Other members include Claeran Pingley Fred A. Whitacre and T. Newton Cather. Regular meetings set for the first Tuesday monthly. The group approved renting the Wisecarver cottage as a supplementary room and agreed to extend sewer drain fields to Gore and Stephens City schools. Progress on western sewer extension was continued due to incomplete property owner cooperation.
Robert Milburn was appointed to full time Berryville police duty joining part time officer John Massey. A World War 2 veteran and former Winchester police member, Milburn’s promotion was approved by the town council. The council halted action against property owners with uncut weeds for now while Health Officer A. P. Osborn will decide when police action will begin.
The Virginia division of the Communications Workers of America will strike at 6 a.m. August 10 in Clifton Forge Waynesboro if wage dispute arbitration fails. Members would work for the state if a seizure occurs.
James Marlow reports on a new public housing program. The plan targets slum clearance and low rent housing for low income families and needy farmers, with 7 to 12 billion dollars in grants over 40 years and about 3 billion in loans.
It is not known when the weather tradition connected with St Swithin originated. The oldness is shown by Ben Johnson referencing it in Every Man Out of His Humour (1599) as though well known then.
The question answers that six places in the United States display the flag day and night. They include the Capitol fronts in Washington D C and Fort McHenry in Baltimore Maryland. Also cited are the grave of Francis Scott Key in Mount Olivet Cemetery near Frederick Maryland the World War Memorial in Worcester Massachusetts Taos New Mexico Mt Slover Colton California and the national anthem birth place.
Friendship Fire Co reviews medical equipment demonstration by Southern Oxygen Co at 8 p.m. tomorrow, votes on taking their truck to the CVVFA parade in Mechanicsburg, and discusses a new truck due July 15 to Aug 1. Yard party Friday and Saturday follows the meeting with transport from the engine house.
The country faces a brutal heat wave with drought and storms. New York area reports fatalities and missing persons after a violent squall. Crop losses exceed 50 million dollars across the Midwest and Northeast. Cooler air from Canada offers relief in some states as Chicago endures five days above 90.
The Berryville Chamber of Commerce named seven men to three committees. It voted to raise dues from 3 to 5 dollars and, in a board meeting, adopted a resolution.
Proposal to present before the general membership for endorsement in July aims to change the current meeting schedule from 12 to four times yearly. Named to committees are William J. Cameron and W. D. Burtner for membership, Ralph Dorsey and J. G. Burch for rodds, and John Friant Garland C. Canter and George Greenhalgh for small business.
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