Virginia Travel Council to Host Florida Leaders This Summer
The Virginia Travel Council announced 50 Florida civic leaders and tourism reps will visit Virginia this summer. President George Summerson of Bristol chairs a 15 member committee to arrange the itinerary and entertainment, with Robert C. Harnsberger of Luray as committee chair. The group will convene in Hot Springs to plan the visit.
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Richmond
Virginia Travel Council
Florida
George Summerson
Bristol
Hamed
Virginia
Robert C. Harnsberger
Luray
Hot Springs
Virginia Travel Council invites 7500 organizations to state conventions
The Virginia Travel Council launched a campaign to extend invitations to about 7,500 national convention organizers to meet in Virginia. A special publication outlines the state's location climate transit facilities conventions and resorts. The folder includes an invitation from Governor Battle to convention secretaries.
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Richmond
Virginia Travel Council
Virginia
Governor Battle
Sales Directory entries for June auctions and estates
Listings detail multiple June auctions near Winchester and nearby towns. Items include cattle, farm machinery, real estate, household goods, furniture, bank stock, and antiques. Dates range June 2 to June 16 with locations in Maryland West Virginia and Virginia.
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Stuart M Perry
Winchester
C. Hulver
Mt Falls
H. T. Netherton
G. W. Porney
Sulphur Spring Road
Rt. 50
G. W. Wagner
Elizabethtown
Lee White
Middleway
W. Va
Madison H. Rosenberger
Frederick County Court House
Hayfield
R. McKay
Errard &J
Adams
White Hall
Maggie McKee
Gerrard St
Attitude on Civil Defense Fluctuates with Headlines
Colonel H B Battley, director of the Richmond regional office, told 40 civil defense delegates from Virginia North Carolina West Virginia and Maryland that public attitude shifts with headlines and that little time remains to organize home front defense against possible A bomb attacks. He called it a big job but essential because the moment of attack is unknown.
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Richmond
H. B. Battley
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Virginia
North Carolina
West Virginia
Maryland
Battley
Ashland Randolph Macon College 119th commencement plans
Randolph Macon College will award 104 bachelor degrees and 4 honorary degrees at its 119th commencement on Monday. Bishop Iva Lee Holt of St. Louis will deliver the baccalaureate sermon Sunday at Duncan Memorial Methodist Church.
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Ashland
Randolph Macon College
Iva Lee Holt
St. Louis
Duncan Memorial Methodist Church
Union Must Pay 1587 Damages For Picketing Store
A Richmond furniture store, Rounwee Corporation, was awarded 1587 in damages by a jury after union painters picketed the store delaying its reopening for ten days following a fire. Union electricians refused to cross the lines.
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Richmond
Richmond Furniture
Rounwee Corporation
213 to Get Degrees at Mary Washington College
Frederickburg notes 213 candidates will receive degrees at Mary Washington College commencement Monday. Principal speaker is Dr Harwell G Davis president of Birmingham College.
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Fredericksburg
Mary Washington College
Harwell G. Davis
Ye College
Birmingham
Senators May Hear Ousted Navy Man
Former Navy Lt. William H. Evans, stripped of his commission for calling the administration pro Soviet and criticizing Congress, may be summoned to testify by Senate committees probing the MacArthur firing. Senator Cain noted committees could hear Evans about his claim that a large majority of U S fighters in the Far East share his views.
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Senate
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Senate Report Details RFC Loan to B and O Railroad
A four year old Senate committee report accusing the RFC and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad of collusive dealings was released. It concerns an 80 million dollar RFC loan to the B&O and says arrangements violated the RFC act and exposed the railroad to greater risk. The report, never adopted, advocates sending the subcommittee record to the Justice Department for possible prosecutions.
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Clock to Decide Handley Winners Of Wrist Watches
An eight day clock in Hodgson and Brow window will reveal the Handley High School top male and female graduates. Names are printed on the clock face and the timepiece will pick the winners next week with presentation at the school. The firm has run the drawing for over 30 years.
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Gray Pollard
Smithfield Avenue
Winchester
Frederick County
Virginia
Gordon-Johnson
Civil and Police Justice Court
J. W. Arthur
Theodore Morris
Frederick
Prize Acres
Bon Homme
Marjorie
Ordered Overseas G I Who Couldn't Bear To Leave Girl Kills Self
A 19 year old Grundy girl says her soldier sweetheart shot himself rather than leave her to go overseas. Pfc. Dewey Edward Fletcher 20 of Camp Pickett died in a local hospital four hours after being shot in the head. His girl Frances Hess told Sheriff Ishmael Fletcher that she her mother and Ernie Hicks found the injured man. The sheriff said the death was not yet ruled a suicide but there is no evidence of another verdict.
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Pfc
Dewey Edward Fletcher
Camp Pickett
Frances Hess
Ishmael Fletcher
Ernie Hicks
Young Fletcher
M. 8. Fletcher
Fletcher
Royal rank in England: who qualifies as royal
The king and queen are joined by the sovereign s children and the grandchildren of the sovereign as royal. The title His/Her Royal Highness was limited by George V in 1917 to the king and queen and their direct offspring.
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England
Negro Student Files Suit Against Pitt
Vaughn from Bluefield W Va files $30,000 suit against Juliette King Pitt secretary to the dean and seeks a federal injunction. University officials say Vaughn lacked enough points for graduate entry without an exam and refused the 1945 exam when applying.
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Pittsburgh
Juliette King
Pitt
John Lloyd Vaughn
Bluefield
W. Va
State Teachers College
Federal District Court
Vaughn
Postwar Memorial Day Sees Record Low 77 Traffic Deaths
The 30 hour survey from 6 p.m. Tuesday to midnight Wednesday recorded 77 traffic deaths, 29 drownings, and 17 other accidental fatalities nationwide, the smallest one day holiday toll since World War II. Ned H. Dearborn of the National Safety Council called it an amazing showing with 14.5 million more vehicles on the road.
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Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Cost per hour to run wartime Air Force bombers and fighters
The estimates vary widely. A B-36 cost about $1,024.17 per hour to operate, a B-50 about $421 per hour, while an L model was found to cost only $6.48 per hour.
More U S combat troops due from Korea arrive in San Francisco
A military transport carrying 1,942 Army combat veterans from Korea docks in San Francisco at 12:30 tomorrow. The Gen. A. W. Brewster marks the sixth ship home in two weeks, with 1,796 enlisted men and 146 officers aboard from nearly every state and every fighting division in Korea.
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San Francisco
Korea
Gen
A. W. Brewster
Brewster
Quiz answers from page four prompt readers with clues
The page lists responses to questions including the Spanish name for Lower California and a note about a doubtful writer. It mentions Sir John Moore and a scene in the parlor with bread and honey, plus St. Peter, fox hunting, and a ship scuttled by its crew.
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Lower California
Sir John Moore
St. Peter
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