Winchester Considers City Building Code and Plant Plan
The city weighs appointing a paid fire chief and building inspector with Argenbright promising to stay through December 31. A municipal water and light plant is discussed with Stanley Wright of Fairbanks Morse noting potential savings and a 61 000 cost for equipment and three 180 hp diesels. street lighting gear adds 60 000 more with a 21 year equipment life. The sub division plat for Glaize Developments is approved and contract authorized for curbs gutters and surfacing, electric rate reductions are noted, and a July carnival permit is approved without a 1000 fee.
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Argenbright
J. H. Henry
Light Committee
Stanley Wright
Fairbanks Morse Co
Diesel Manufacturers
New York
Glaize Developments, Inc
Patterson Ave
Glaize Developments
S. L. Grant
Northrn Virginia Power Co
Richard K. Eddy
V. F. W. Post
Robert Evans Wins 3 Awards at Middletown High
Middletown High School graduation exercises honored Robert Evans with three awards. He received the E. Olin Larrick medal for scholastic excellence, the Readers Digest subscription for highest average, and the American Legion award as top senior. Natalie Williams earned the American Legion Auxiliary award. The Winchester Evening Star baseball award went to the school for winning the county high school baseball championship.
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Middletown
Robert Evans
H. Dennis Hoover
E. Olin Larrick
Readers Digest
American Legion
Natalie Williams
American Legion Auxiliary
Winchester Evening Star
Mr. Williams Returns From Baltimore
R. Gray Williams prominent Winchester attorney and Shenandoah Valley National Bank president came home after a medical exam at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He was accompanied by Mrs. Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Gray Williams
Winchester
Shenandoah, Valley National Bank
Baltimore
Union Memorial Hospital
Williams
Fire breaks out at lunchroom on Highland Avenue
Fire yesterday at the Russell H. Potts lunchroom on Highland Avenue confined to the kitchen when a kerosene stove ran wild. Volunteer firefighters prevented the blaze from reaching the building front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell H. Potts
Highland Ave
Rites Friday For A. B. Triplett
Albert B. Triplett longtime Frederick County resident dies in Florida at 85. Funeral services set Friday at Hebron Baptist Church in Gore with pallbearers named and burial in Bethel Cemetery. He is survived by three sons Hattie Thomas and grandchildren.
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Albert B. Triplett
Gore
Hebron Baptist Church
Omps Funeral Home
Jesse J. Pugh
G. Marshall Elliott
Bryant Kerns
Lee Smith
Harrison Foreman
John H. Herrell
Bethel Cemetery
Triplett
Albert F. Triplett
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Frederick County
Florida
The
Baptist Church
Maggie S. Marple
Hattie Thomas
Tampa
Ralph Lee Triplett
North Loudoun Street
North Avenue
Eyewitnesses Describe Fire Escape Rescue On 13th Floor
Eyewitnesses recount the chaotic scene as a blind woman steadies herself on a fire escape and a Detroit jeweler helps seven women down to safety. The panic on the higher floors contrasts with calm exits as a man on the 10th floor is carried to safety amid cries of crippled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyer Goldberg
Detroit
Mich
Prayer Meeting at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
The regular Prayer Meeting will be held tonight at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church at 7:30. In Dr Ronald S Wilsons absence, John E Williams a Union Theological Seminary student and summer pastor of Stones Chapel will bring the message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Ronald S. Wilson
John E. Williams
Union Thelogical Seminary of
Richmond
Stine’s Chapel
Community project gains wide support and donations
Work began with Robert Stewart and Bennett Russell leading efforts joined by Glen Nichols. Donations flow from several locals including Mr Swimley permitting water access at the box factory, Mr Aikens supplying and operating an air compressor and concrete mixer, Homer Webb offering painting and materials, Pred L Glaize Jr donating a siren cupola, Clearbrook Woolen Company providing supervision pipe and a bulldozer, and Charles W Webber and Sons pledging plumbing installation labor.
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Robert Stewart
Bennett Russell
Glen Nichols
Swimley
Fire Department
Box Factory
Aikens
Homer Webb
Brucetown
L. Glaize, Jr
Winchester
Clearbrook Woolen Company
Charles W. Webber and Sons of
Stephenson
Governor Warren Defeated in South Dakota Primary
South Dakota voters rejected Governor Warren as incumbent renominations showed. California primaries reflected split results among Warren Kenny and Knowland supporters while New Mexico and Alabama also reported tight races. In South Dakota George T. Mickelson won the Republican nomination for governor over M. Q. Sharpe, with Richard Haerer to face him. Republican incumbents Case and Mundt were renominated unopposed.
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South Dakota
California
Robert Kenny
Warren
Cio-Pac
Kenny
AFL
Knowland
Rogers
Ellis E. Patterson
Dent Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Jersey
Hoffman
Corneé
Alfred B. Drise@i
Nyemary
Alabama
Folsom
Handy Ellis
M. Q. Sharpe
George T. Mickelson
Mickelson
Richard Haerer
State Rural Electrification Association
Francis Case
Karl Mundt
American Legion Member’s Wartime Training and Service
An American Legion member served as acting sergeant and trained young men in the branch. He transferred to Fort Dix in mid April, sailed to Ireland on April 28, then to Africa with Eisenhower’s forces in October. Born April 3, 1920, he attended John Kerr school and Handley High School, graduating in 1937, with extensive art training at Abbott School of Fine and Commercial Art in Washington and early part time work in a Washington newspaper art department.
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Fort Dix
N. J
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Africa
Eisenhower
John Kerr School
Handley High School
Abbott School of Fine and Commercial Art
Washington
52 747 People Live Within Twenty Miles of Winchester
A population figure shows 52 747 residents live within twenty miles of Winchester while travel times to Northwest Virginia shopping centers indicate a thirty minute slow drive period.
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Winchester
Northwest
Virginia
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Vicki Berle
Milton Berle
Joyce Matthews
Nature
Carter
Mr. Williams
A. B. Triplett
Rome
Italy
International
Presbyterian Church
Financ
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Rayon
White
Red
Brown & White Bakewear
Montgomery Arr
S. Loudqun &T
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
Betty
Stephano
Phila, PA
Ener
Miami
Winchester’s Shopping
Mrs. Brodie
Brodie
Northern Virginia Power CO
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