No Additional Negroes Apply In Warren
A Warren County committee headed by Jack Crouse reports no new Black applicants for Warren County schools after a prior push to close Warren County High School as surplus property for a white private school.
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Front Royal
Warren County
Jack Crouse
George B. Baggarly
County Board of Supervisors
Q. D. Gasque
Warren County High School
Virginia Gentleman Club
Baggarly
Bessie Jeffries
Frank Barnett
Warren County Educational Foundation
Gasque
Warren County School Board
Fire damages Buick front seat from cigarette ash
A hot cigarette ash caused a fire that burned a six inch hole in the front seat of a 1955 Buick owned by Miss Doris Cunningham. The car was at her home on Kgil S Stewart Street when alarm at 1 55 p m answered by Reuss and uth End. Firemen said damage stayed to a small spot on the upholstery.
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Doris Cunningham
Kgil
O'Brien, 91, Ex-Michigan A G and Probate Judge, Dies
Detroit AP reports Patrick H. O'Brien 91 a retired probate judge and former Michigan attorney general died Monday. His son D Arcy W. O'Brien Michigan state public administrator died 36 hours earlier. O'Brien was a long active Democrat born in Houghton Michigan.
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Detroit
Patrick H. O’brien
Michigan
D'Arcy W. O’brien
O’brien
Houghton
Mich
Pattern preview Misses play-suit bolero featured
Printed Pattern 4780 offers a double feature neckline with a button bolero and midriff slimming princess lines. Includes half sizes 1412 1642 1842 22 222 with bolero 133 yards and printed directions. Send 35 cents plus 10 cents per pattern for first class mail to Anne Adams Winchester Evening Star Pattern Dept New York.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
U S Steel to Report Earnings For First Half
U S Steel Corp will report first half operating results in New York. The giant’s six month earnings are expected to set a record, with unions and industry critics eyeing the numbers as a gauge for wage demands and plant modernization. Steel production hit 64,278,569 tons, a new half year high, led by Jones & Laughlin Inland Crucible and Youngstown Sheet.
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Big Steel
United Steelworkers Union
Jones & Laughlin
Inland
Crucible
Youngstown Sheet
Whitacre Leads 461 At Bow Hunter Championship
Kermit Whitacre tops 98 shooters at Isaac Walton Lea Park as 19 976 arrows fly. Whitacre shoots 461 500 to win the men s class while Ralph DuBrueler Bill Boden and Jake Sheetz claim top three in class B. The meet also names winners in C D E F intermediate junior and women divisions with the Little Brown Jug Shoot set for August 23 offering individual and team trophies.
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Virginia
Issac Walton League
Kermit Whitacre
Winchester
Ralph DuBrueler
Bill Boden
Jake Sheetz
Dave Butts
Kermit Rhoden
Carroll Rhoden
Ralph Mullins
George Ketchner
John Harris
Ronnie Thomas
Charles Custer
Norman Tavener
John Ferrell
William Bolt
J. W. Knavy
Bobby Boden
Charles Comer
Allen Painter
David Shickles
Ronnie Rice
Charles Catlett
Russell Hawes
Joe Selby
Bill Ayres
Susan Karzenewski
Betty Keckley
Pat Knight
Anna Belles
Evelyn Ford
Ruth Orth
Gov Earl K Long Car Ride With Memphis Divorcee
Gov Earl K Long of Louisiana left reporters and police after hours for a private automobile ride with Ann Billings a 35 year old Memphis divorcee. He planned to visit a thermal bath and the Jot Em Down store in Pine Ridge Ark. Billings called the talk delightful and praised his brilliant mind noting it was about politics.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Pine Ridge
Lum
Abner
Ann Billings
Memphis
Tenn
Oil leads mild stock upturn in early trading
Market summary shows oil shares advancing with Gulf Oil gaining the most among rails and major oils like Standard Oil affiliates lifting around a point. Vehicles, chemicals, and metals also rose while a few rubbers slipped. by noon the AP average was up 70 cents with industrials and rails higher.
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New York
Gulf Oil
Ohio Oil
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Texaco
Royal Dutch
California
Richfield Oil
Lukens
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Dupont
Allied Chemical Moe
Union Carbide
American Tobacco
Lorillard
Associated Press
U.S
Grain futures steady to lower at Chicago open
On the Board of Trade openings wheat eased slight, corn slipped, oats unchanged, and soybeans held firm with small losses. Sept wheat at about 1.90 a bushel, Sept soybeans around 2.18 a bushel, with futures showing limited movement.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Beauty Contest To Highlight Clarke County Fair
Clarke County Fair runs Aug 24–29 with a Harvest Queen contest Aug 27. Sponsorship by Clarke County Raritan Club on Rt 7 west of Berryville. Firemen parade Aug 28 by John H Enders Fire Co. carnival and pony show schedule. events include cutting horse demonstration by Sam Paylor and animal exhibits setup Aug 26–27.
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Berryville
Clarke County
The
Clarke County Raritan Club
Rt. 7
John H. Enders Fire Co
Sam Paylor
Arthur Godfrey
Baltimore Livestock Prices Reported By USDA
Baltimore cattle and calves sold steady with 150 250 lb dealers at 30.00 to 34.50 and standard at 28.00. Hogs 250 head mixed No 1 3 100 25 lb at 2.00 per hundredweight, steady. Sheep 50 head, 77 lb utility and good spring slaughter lambs at 20.00.
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Baltimore
USDA
Chicago livestock bids mixed as hogs steady to higher
USDA Chicago hogs were steady to mostly 35 higher for butchers and mixed grades across weights 200 to 400 pounds. Cattle and calves saw slaughter steers mostly steady to 25 lower with high to prime lots at 29.25 for 1,200-1,375 pounds. yearlings at 28.85. cows 14.50 to 18.00 with bulls up to 23.00. Sheep slaughter lambs steady to strong with 80-107 pound ranges 18.75 to 24.00 and light pelts noted.
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Chicago
USDA
Louisa Bank Faces $11000 Loss From Market Closure
Louisa branch of People’s National Bank of Charlottesville may lose 11000 due to the Louisa livestock market closure. President W Wright Harrison said about 92000 in bad checks tied to the market, covered by bonding company insurance. The market’s 76000 loan is insured and not listed as a loss.
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Charlottesville
Louisa
The
People's National Bank of
W. Wright Harrison
Harrison
Dr Flora Rose Pioneer of Home Economics Dies at 84
Dr Flora Rose, 84, a pioneer in home economics, died Sunday from complications of a lung infection. She helped found Cornell Universitys College of Home Economics in 1907 and led as dean until retiring in 1940. Born in Denver.
Salvation Army Chief in Warren Transferred
Salvation Army chief envoy Paul R Messenger and his wife are transferred from Front Royal by the Baltimore office. No replacement has been named and they do not know where they will be stationed. Messenger arrived in February 1955 from Grafton West Virginia after 10 years as a policeman. Their transfer takes effect August 23.
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Front Royal
Paul R. Messenger
Salvation Army
Baltimore
Nolacement
Envoy
Strasburg
Virginia Ave
E. Main St
Messenger
Sonny
Joyce
Frederick Hubbard Roanoke Garden Columnist Dies
Frederick Charles Hubbard 84 longtime Roanoke Times garden columnist died Monday. He retired ten years ago after thirty seven years as a linotype operator for the Times.
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Roanoke
Frederick Charles Hubbard
Roanoke Times
The
Times
Professor Francis M. Cody Dies of Heart Attack
Francis M. Cody 57 an associate professor of marketing at Rutgers University School of Business Administration died Monday of a heart attack. He previously served as merchandise counselor and account executive for the New York Journal American 1930 to 1937 and for the Seattle Post 1941-1942. He was born in Ovoteville Ohio. The Taj Mahal mausoleum in India was built by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.
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Newfoundland
N.J
Francis M. Cody
Rutgers University School of Business Administration
New York Journal-American
Seattle Post
Oveville
Ohio
Taj Mahal
India
Shah Jahan
Mumtaz-i-Mahal
Missing Child Found Asleep Under Porch
Two hundred searchers combed woods and drained a pond in a missing child case in Jordanville New York. No further details are provided about the child or discovery.
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Jordanville
N.Y
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Gov. Long
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Clarke Fair
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
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FBI
DR. Flora Rose
Ledgells
St. Floor
Wash & Wear
Tern
Robel
Archdale
Children’s Dept
All Children’s
Reg. Price
Fashion Lane
Sweetbriar
Winchester’s
Frederick Hubbard
South Africa
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
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