County Tuberculosis Survey Records 56 Cases in 119 Homes
Miss Josephine Russell, Frederick County Health Nurse, reports 56 tuberculosis cases in 119 homes surveyed with 298 direct contacts. Thirty-two suspicious cases were visited for further condition checks and supervision, in a Virginia Emergency Relief funded educational survey across multiple communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Russell
Frederick County
Virginia
Russell
Miss Russel
Miss Russell
Middletown
Stephens City
Kernstown
Opequon
Brucetown
Stephenson
Clearbrook
White Hall
Cross Junction
Whitacre
Gore
Chambersville
Hayfield
Albin
Sunnyside
Brashears Reappointed As Winchester Church Pastor
Rev Wallace M Brashears pastor of Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church was reappointed at the Baltimore Conference session closing in Baltimore. He had been serving Winchester for three years, coming from Fort Avenue Church Baltimore. Also Rev C S Luce was reappointed to the Bunker Hill circuit including White Hall and Little Mountain Churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace M. Brashears
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Baltimore
Mr. Brashears
Winchester
Fort Avenue
C. S. Luce
Bunker Hill
White Hall
Little Mountain
Soft Water Used Winchester Steam Laundry Ad
An old classified ad notes soft water used by Winchester Steam Laundry and provides a phone contact 28 with a March 26 date. The fragment mentions steam laundry services and a local business listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Strawberry Festival Benefit at Bryarly Schoolhouse
A Strawberry Festival is scheduled for Wednesday June 13 at Bryarly Schoolhouse to benefit Burnt Church. The event runs from early evening into night with proceeds supporting church needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryarly
Burnt Church
Sale of Ba ker residence at Washington and Boscawen corners
The property formerly owned by the late William H. Baker at the southwest corner of South Washington and Boscawen streets will be sold this Saturday June 16 in front of the Court House. The lot fronts 149 feet on Washington and 185 feet on Boscawen and is improved by a large brick residence.
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William H. Baker
Washington
Boscawen Streets
Boscawen
Court House
Ladies Day at Park Diamond Sets Saturdays for Free Admission
The Winchester Park Association held its June meeting and voted to establish Free Ladies Day every Saturday afternoon. No child under 14 will be charged to see games, with free admission to the field edge. The children's playgrounds open Friday June 15 with new equipment and an attendant on site. Park officials urge ads on the fence to support the park and announce a June 24 double header against Majestic Radios, plus upcoming weekend games featuring Williamsport and Moorefield Giants.
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Winchester Park Association
H. Russell Potts
Fred W. Forney
Majestic
Williamsport
Moorefield Giants
Flag Day Observed By Winchester Lodge of Elks
Winchester Lodge of Elks will observe Flag Day at its regular meeting tomorrow at 8 PM with a special altar ceremony and a Flag Day address by Edwin T. Snider. S. L. Farmer will preside, the program includes patriotic songs and a national flag display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodge of Elks
Winchester Lodge of Elks
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
S. L. Farmer
Edwin T. Snider
Ellis
U.S. A
Ball Hawks Face Esso All-Stars In Twilight League Clash
The Ball Hawk Giants meet the Esso All-Stars in the twilight league opener tonight at six. If rain interrupts, the game moves to Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball Hawks
Esso
Ball Hawk Giants
Esso All-Stars
Apple Outlook in Virginia Not So Good Just Now
A special apple crop report from Richmond notes Virginia prospects are below earlier hopes with only 32 percent of a full crop by June 1, down from 62 percent a year ago. Unfavorable April weather, including late freezes, damaged orchards though fruit quality remains excellent. Production may still reach last year’s 1,800,000 barrels if favorable weather continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Henry M. Taylor
North Valley
South Valley
North Piedmont
Piedmont
Roanoke
Patrick
Southwest
Elks Plan Barbecue on Capon River in June
Winchester Lodge No. 867 sponsors a barbecue at Ralph Pifer's cabin Cold Stream Capon River on June 14. Cars depart the club building in Winchester at 1 PM. members without transport should call the steward. Amusements and ample food and refreshments promised for all. Guests may bring one prospective member.
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Winchester Lodge
Ralph Pifer
Cold Stream
Capon River
Winchester
Byrd Opposes Tugwell Nomination in Senate Debate
Senator Byrd sets out reasons for opposing Dr. Tugwell's confirmation as Under Secretary of Agriculture. He argues a farmer should hold the post and cites his own belief in presidential discretion, noting Tugwell being a professor without farming soil experience, while pledging to explain his forthcoming vote.
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Byrd
Tugwell
Senate
Dr. Tugwell
Agriculture
Congressional Record
United States
Virginia
Handley High School seniors and juniors host class events
Handley High School students held a joint reception with juniors as hosts. The 94 seniors will receive diplomas Thursday with a class day program on Wednesday featuring salutatory by Miss Margaret Sullivan, class history by William Glaize, poetry by Olivia Dellinger, and a valedictory by Horace Hott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley High School
Soddy Haines
Mollie Glass
Rachel Jennings
Mildred
William Fauver
Alan Peery
W. R. Legge
Marion Laughton
E. P. Browning
Handley Auditorium
Margaret Sullivan
Glaize
William Glaize
Olivia Dellinger
Virginia Butsler
Bennie Davis
William Shafer
Jeanne Sprint
Horace Hott
LeRoy Cahill
Garland Quarles
James Good
Bon Fire
Handley Band
J. L. Jarman
Handley
Frederick County Board Tightens Public Dance Halls and Enacts Dog Law
Frederick county supervisors held a busy monthly session approving strict public dance hall provisions. The new rules ban underage attendance without a guardian, require closing by midnight, and impose penalties for violations. They also passed a compromise dog law tying or penning dogs from sunset to sunrise, with fox hounds debated by Adams Branner and Rosenberger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Frederick County
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
A. B. C. Board
Adams
Branner
Rosenberger
General Assembly
C. I. Brumback
Phil H. Gold
Frederick
Second Darrow Report Attacks NRA Codes Alterations
A Recovery Review Board led by Clarence Darrow released a second report criticizing surreptitious changes to NRA codes. The document highlights a big boot and shoe code alteration by an unnamed agency and argues the discount limits harmed small manufacturers. It covers 13 codes with the lumber and footwear sectors drawing the most criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Recovery Review Board
Clarence Darrow
Wanted Good Clean Cotton Rags Star Office
Help wanted notice seeks clean cotton rags for Star office. Classified ad indicates a standard supply request posted May 28 with contact details likely in 1p-tf section.
Indict Youth In Threat To Bomb Doris Duke Home
Newark youth Thomas Layden, 17, is indicted for attempted extortion tied to threats to bomb Doris Duke’s Somerville estate and to blow up the Newark terminal. He is charged with sending threatening letters and demanding money from Thomas N. McCarter, president of Public Service Corporation of New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Duke
Associated Press
Newark
N. J
Somerville
Thomas Layden
Layden
Thomas N. McCarter
Public Serviceorporation
New Jersey
Mcarter
McCarter
Duke
Camp Committee To Meet Tonight At Grace Lutheran Church
The summer camp committee of Boy Scouts will meet at 8 o clock this evening at Grace Lutheran Church to finalize plans for this summer outings. The lawn party activities committee will join the camp committee for the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Lutheran Church
Opposition Flares in Winchester Council Vote Over City Manager Issue
Voters in Winchester fared an otherwise routine Common Council election amid surprise opposition. C. Douglas Barnett’s name appeared in first ward ballots with support for a local city manager, while three regular nominees faced independent challenger A. Lee Coble in the second ward. Voter turnout was light, with totals at 3 pm showing 202 ballots cast and polls set from 4:30 am to 7:29 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Common Council
C. Douglas Barnett
Barnett
Fred. W. Forney
Lawrence C. Hollis
Peyton J. Marshall
R. Frank Barr
Ralph B. Snapp
James Keffer
A. Lee Coble
Friendship Engine House
Reuss Engine House
Sarah Zane Engine House
Tugwell Vote Holds Interest In Washington
The Senate agriculture committee approved Rex Tugwell as under secretary of agriculture by a 16 to 2 vote. The House worked on unneeded appropriations and a home building aid package while awaiting Senate confirmation. Hope remained for an adjournment by weekend as steel developments drew close scrutiny amid possible strike. Only Senators Mirth and Hatfield opposed Tugwell.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rexford G. Tugwell
Congress
Senate
Tugwell
House
White House
Capitol
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senatormith
South Carolina
Hatfield
West Virginia
Green couple returns from Philadelphia visit to Bryn Mawr
Mr and Mrs Melvin Green came back home after a weekend in Philadelphia with Mrs Green’s sister Miss Cornelia Meigs. Miss Meigs teaches at Bryn Mawr College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Green
Philadelphia
Cornelia Meigs
Bryn, Mawr College
Sunday School Leaders Open Meet in Winchester
The forty second Virginia Sunday School convention begins Wednesday evening at 7 30 in First Baptist Church Winchester with Dr Paul Eddy delivering the convention address on Christ In the Life of the Home. Dr M E Sadler presides and Prof H Augustine Smith conducts worship.
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Dr. Eddy
First Baptist Church
Virginia
Paul Eddy
International Council of Religious Education
M. E. Sadler
H. Augustine Smith
Charles R. Anderson
Winchester
R. B. Campbell
Ministerial Union
E. T. Clark
Snyder Alleman
Frederick County Council of Religious Education
United Choral Forces of
Valuable Naval Papers Salvaged From Plane Crash
LIVINGTON MANOR New York June 12 A giant airplane carrying seven people to their deaths on Mongaut Mountain wreckage held valuable naval papers salvaged by Dr. W. G. Burke Sullivan county coroner. The papers once belonged to William Bader of Buffalo and were in his possession at the time. T. N. Bennett of Semet Solvay Company pressed for return, but the coroner refused pending the inquest due tomorrow.
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Livington Manor
N. Y
Mongaut Mountain
W. G. Burke
Sullivan County
William Bader
Buffalo
Death Summons David F Yost in Sudden Attack
David F. Yost longtime Winchester business and civic figure dies at Cooper Apartments from angina pectoris. Native of Ohio born about 1865, he spent most life in Winchester with Cooper Merchandise and Oil Company where he worked 42 years as traveling salesman. Funeral set for Wednesday. wife Frances Newcome Yost died last April.
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David F. Yost
Winchester
Cooper
Frances Newcome Yost
Mr. Yost
Massilon
Ohio
Saco HE
Rachel Erb ‘Yost
Pennsylvania
Frederick County
Do. R. McCann Realty
Yost
Maurice M. Lynch
Nestor
Bryarly
Cooper Merchandise and Oil Company
Cooper Brothers
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
G O P Bid For Support Of Younger Element
Washington June 12 Henry P Fletcher new party chairman outlined a GOP effort to enlist young Republicans and women voters. He said the issue ahead will be paying the national debt and noted he will push to mobilize youth and women. Congressman Hamilton Fish remarked the party is alive and will go forward to victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Henry P. Fletcher
Capital
Fletcher
Pennsylvania
Everett Sander
Hamilton Fish
New York
General Mitchell to Speak at Local Patriotic Meeting
General William Mitchell former chief of the United States Army Air Corps will headline a patriotic gathering tonight at the George Washington Hotel at 8 o clock. Sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and the Fort Loudoun Chapter DAR Senator T Russell Cather of Winchester will introduce him. A mass flag ceremony with veterans organizations and Boy Scouts will accompany the program.
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William Mitchell
United States Army Air Corps
Middleburg
American Legion Auxiliary
Fort Loudoun
Daughters of the American Revolution
George Washington Hotel
Mitchell
T. Russell Ca
Ther
Winchester
General Mitchell
Veterans Organizations
Boy Scouts
Winchester Post
Pure Food Store Ad Promotes Blue and Gray Inn Offer
An ad from Pure Food Store outlines lodging at Blue and Gray Inn on Valley Ave with rooms and meals. It mentions Sunday dinners, magazine crews, special rates, and a contact phone 808J. The notice is dated June 12 with a 1t marker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue and Gray Inn Valley Ave
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