Winchester Strasburg and Shenandoah Scouts at White Rock Camp
Scouts from Winchester Strasburg and Shenandoah Virginia pitch camp at White Rock on Thursday. The outing features many new facilities including hot and cold showers a hospital tent a hand washer and incinerator and lessons in rowing canoeing and handling a 10 foot skiff under Scout executive Dan O Henry and staff.
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Winchester
Strasburg
Shenandoah
Camp White Rock
White Rock
Dan O. Henry
Robert Banks
Martinsburg
John Wilson
David Hurley
Emory Train
John Ridley
Paul Willis
Bernard Harris
E. B. Cooper
Richard Crisman
Hector Ritter
Ben Dutton
William Pifer
Richard Grove
Victor Arthur
Wilkie Hunt
Boyd Hammond
Emory Tinsman
Robert ‘Underwood
Presbyterian Church
Phil Hunter
Harold Wingert
Mike Collins
Bobby Connor
Wade Guard
Jack O’roark
Raymond Hook
Baptist Church
Maurice Grim
Roy Unger
Clifford Nicholson
Richard Stine
Daniel Stickley
Kenneth Wheeler
Bryan Min
Campin
National Council
Hunter
Winches Junior Board of Trade
Wallace meets Roosevelt at White House for first time as Democratic VP nominee
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, visits Roosevelt in the White House and shows a Rally Round Roosevelt button. Wallace says he will stay nonpolitical for another month. Visitors are welcomed on Sunday and Wednesday evenings, while camp entertainment is limited at other times. Half the Scouts will break camp Thursday as units from New Market, Stephens City, Winchester Troops 3 and 9 begin their camp.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Roosevelt
Button
White House
Wallace
New Market
Stephens City
Winchester
U S Chamber Official backs Willkie in Roanoke
Clem D. Johnston of Roanoke a vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce says he will vote for Wendell Willkie. The statement released to Republican leaders notes Johnston’s Democratic background and argues Willkie shares Democratic principles while criticizing New Deal aims.
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Roanoke
Clem D. Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Business
Wendell Willkie
T. X. Parsons
Democratic Party
New Deal
Librarian Faces Big Move to New State Library
State Librarian Wilmer L. Hall plans a September 1 transfer of about 2,335,000 items to the new state library building near Capitol Square. The move includes 2,000,000 manuscripts, 325,000 books and 10,000 maps, with the relocation to begin once the building is formally turned over and the staff to supervise is assigned.
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Richmond
Wilmer L. Hall
State Library
Capitol Square
Virginia
State
Law
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Hall
Slemp Demands Wise Resign From Virginia GOP Post
In Bristol and Kiptopeke Virginia, C Bascom Slemp urges Henry Wise to quit as Republican national committeeman claiming Wise failed at key issues and harmed Willkie campaign prospects. Wise retorts he should resign only if he is a worse failure than Slemp and cites voting anomalies in Wise county.
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Bristol
Caxcom Slemp
Big Stone
Henry Wise
Kiptokee
Virginia
Slemp
Wise
Philadelphia
Willkie
Kingsport
Tenn
Kiptopeke
Ma- Kiptopeke
Henry A. Wise
C. Bascom Slemp
Ninth
U. S. Senate
Wise County
Current Book Popularity at Handley Library
A listed snapshot ranks popular fiction and non fiction at Handley Library. Notable titles include Night in Bombay Broken Pledges Ember Lane When the Whip-poor-Will Grassleyes Mystery Their Own Country and Kitty Foyle. Non fiction features How to Read a Book Ghost of London and Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties among others.
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Handley Library
Bombay
Louis Bromfield
Philip Gibbs
Shelia Kaye- Smith
M. K. Rawlings
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Pearl Buck
Kitty Foyle
Christopher Morley
A. T. Hobart
Richard Halliburton
Osa Johnson
Edward O’brien
Mortimer Adler
H. H. Arnold
Canada
America
John MacCormac
London
H. V. Morn
Oscar Wilde
Frances Winwar
A. N. Keith
Simple Funeral Service For Miss Kern
A plain service was held this afternoon for Miss Lona A. Kern who died yesterday morning at ninety one. The rites took place at her nieces residence on Amherst street, led by Rev. Herman McKay of Market Street Methodist Church. Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers included Fred S. Boyd and others. floral tributes came from many friends, with out of town attendees Mrs. Marvin Ormond of Durham and Conrad Welsley of Washington.
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Lona A. Kern
Elizabeth
Katherine Kern
Amherst
Herman McKay
Market Street Methodist Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Fred S. Boyd
Wilbur Johnson
B. M. Knight
John S. Scully
William P. Massey, Jr
Julian Steele
Marvin Ormond
Durham
N. C
Conrad Welsley
Washington, D. C
Construction Industry Speeds Toward Record Activity
The giant construction sector presses ahead in the greatest postwar spurt of activity, led by residential work rebounding toward 1929 levels. Private contracts rose to 177 million in June, with defense and private industrial projects expanding, while ship-building docks and powder plants loom as the defense drive accelerates.
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New York
F. W. Dodge Corp
Defense
Engineering News Record
Navy
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Navy Yards
Louisville
War Department
Roosevelt
Associated Press Weekly
State hospital board assures pay and jobs for military-joined staff
Richmond July 26 The state hospital board voted to guarantee current salaries to employees connected with military organizations during service and to preserve their positions on return. Five physicians and eight attendants are National Guard or officers reserve corps members. The board also approved annual inspections of all state hospitals under new legislation.
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Richmond
State Hospital Board
Price
R. Finley Gasle
H. Minor Davis
Lynchburg
F. W. Gwaltney
Virginia National Guard
Hugh H. Henry
Gwaltney
General Assembly
Shenandoah Valley Directors To Meet
The Board of Directors of Shenandoah Valley Inc will meet in Front Royal Virginia at 2 30 pm August 2. C G Gran executive secretary Staunton announced the gathering and a tour of local points of interest will follow the meeting.
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Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Front Royal
C. G. Gran
Staunton
Police Court fined for drunkenness
Andrew Dick was charged in police court with being drunk and fined $10.25 by Justice Donald Weems.
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Andrew Dick
Donald Weems
Tony
July Steel Output Surges to Postwar High
The industry rebounded after Independence Day shutdowns and ran at over 86 percent of capacity in July, the fastest pace since 1929, while stock market activity remained sluggish in a slow trading spell compared with a year ago as defense spending winds down.
Plan for Medical Preparedness Across Virginia
Virginia physicians receive A M A questionnaires to detail training availability for war or national emergencies. Sent at the request of Army Navy and Public Health surgeons general the forms cover age education training family status specialties languages and willingness to volunteer for military service.
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Virginia
American Medical Association
Surgeons General
United States Army
Navy
Public Health
Medical Preparedness Committee
John Powell Williams
Richmond Academy of Medicines
United States
Oil Slick Seen but No Sign of Wreck Near Cape Hatteras
Coast Guard cutters Bibb Mendota Champlain and planes from Cape May searched off Cape Hatteras after the Dutch tanker Tibia relayed a torpedo SOS. An oil slick was sighted but no wreckage or survivors were found, Tibia declined further contact.
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Norfolk
Coast Guard
Cape Hatteras
Bibb
Mendota
Champlain
New York
Cape May
N. J
Tibia
Treasury Receipts and Debt Figures Reported
Treasury daily update shows July receipts 11 354 448 11 and expenditures 26 619 165 21. Gross debt stands at 43 719 543 451 41 with a decrease from prior day of 7 989 981 02.
Jap Beetles On Increase In Maryland
Maryland entomologist Dr. Ernest N. Cory says large increases in Japanese beetles are likely in Prince Georges and Montgomery counties, with spread from the District of Columbia. He notes retardation efforts may give permanent relief in four to six years in infested areas, while heavily infested zones need long term measures including parasites and beetle disease. To date 463 Tipha wasp colonies released and about 10,000 properties treated with milky white beetle disease.
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Prince Georges
Montgomery
Maryland
Ernest N. Cory
Cory
College Park
District of Columbia
WPA Projects Expand In Page County
Six new Virginia WPA projects totaling 88,277 were announced. Page county road and bridge improvements are sponsored by the state highway department with 2,686 contributed and WPA adding 1,129 of the 3,815 total project cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
WPA
Virginia
Page County
State Highway Department
Journalist Dean Ackerman urges journalism as a profession
Washington July 27 Dean Carl W Ackerman of Columbia University School of Journalism told a Wage and Hour hearing to classify journalism as a profession He argued journalism meets professional standards citing educational training and its link to good government in redefining the term executive under the wage hour act
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Washington
Carl W. Ackerman
Columbia University School of Journalism
Ackerman
Answers to Today's Quiz Listed by Page
Answers to test questions printed on page 4. Items include Vegetable Augusta Wide edge Telegraph No 1919 He does Socrates Less Dewey.
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Augusta
Telegraph
Socrates
Less
Dewey
Defense Money To Be Used For War Relief Work
New York reports that about $7,500 of the defense fund for Herschel Grynzspan, the Polish Jew charged in Paris in 1938, would be diverted to war relief work if Nazi reports are confirmed. The fund had raised over $35,000 with $5,000 for initial lawyers' fees. much was used for relief after the trial was postponed.
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New York
Herschel Grynzspan
Ernst Vom Rath
Paris
Journalists’ Defense Fund
Grynzspan
Grynz
Mrs Dyke Narrowly Escapes Lightning Strike Near Round Hill
Luther Dyke of near Round Hill had a narrow escape during an electrical storm early this week. He stepped out to close a door when a bolt hit a pear tree about three feet from his position. He was uninjured.
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Luther Dyke
Near Round Hill
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Henry Hlas
Bruce
John W. Rosenberger & CO
E. Piccadilly St
U. S. Chamber
Kern
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry, W. Va
Motorola
Goodrich
Silvertown Stores
Cor
Braddock & Boscawents
Britain
Frank Macmillen
Shenandoah Valley
The
Treasury
Mrs. Dyke
Pioetis
Padres
Glaize & Bro
Pittsburgh
Pocahontas
Stoker
O’connell
Braddock
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