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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1946
Page
3
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Frank Kerrick, rural mail carrier of Bluemont, is in Winchester Memorial Hospital with a broken leg and nose after a ladder broke while he painted the roof, throwing him forty feet to the ground. His son Marion Kerrick was on the ladder and fell to the porch roof but escaped injury.
Congress moves to probe the sale of the Buena Vista estate to Brig. Gen. Burt. Monseñor Jovellanos offers cancellation if the government pays back lease arrears, while Roxas denounces the deal as undermining land reform. Peasants protest to leaders including Truman and the Pope. Burt claims he represents a syndicate seeking below market sales for peasant tenancy.
Blacksburg July 19 Virginia agricultural economist J L Maxton of the Agricultural Extension Service warns farmers face sharp financial danger if farm product prices stay low. He notes land values up about 80 percent, rising mortgages, and higher costs for feed and inputs. He cites 1940 mortgage debt ratios and recent price declines for cabbage spinach onions and potatoes while government storage and plant shutdowns loom.
Rev. John Teter of the Montague Avenue Charge has returned home after completing a three week course for town and county ministers at Westminster Theological Seminary in Westminster Maryland.
Robert M. Dunn of North Loudoun Street recently returned from three years service including 24 months overseas as part of the Quartermaster Corps in the Pacific. He has joined Union Life Insurance Co in Winchester, a native of the city.
Federal state and local governments account for about 18 billion dollars a year in wages out of 84 billion private industry total. About half of federal civilian pay goes to army navy war agencies and emergency outfits including the Panama Canal and OPA. Civilian workers total about 2.4 million with 3 million in armed forces. Washington employs 300 thousand civilians.
Pursuant to Virginia law the executor proposes to transfer bonds and cash on deposit at Farmers & Merchants National Bank Winchester Va and Commercial & Savings Bank Winchester Va to the credit of the late Laura A Payne to George H Allemony Berkeley Springs Morgan County West Virginia Executor of the Estate of Laura A Payne deceased.
A ten member committee named by Governor Tuck to supervise a program offering college level training to all qualified veterans in Virginia met in Richmond for planning. The group follows a conference with representatives from 26 colleges urging a coordinated system of training centers on campuses or extension sites to ensure access for veterans. Madison College and Farmville College have announced plans to matriculate 100 male day students each, with Sweet Briar and Hollins indicating willingness to admit a limited number of male day students.
New York July 19. Jo Copeland an all American designer dismisses French influence in her fall and winter collection. The New York shows favor clean lines wide shoulders and slim waists over Paris rounded shoulders and padded hiplines. Copeland offers cocktail dresses in slipper satin brocade and crepe with refined detailing and restrained glitter.
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