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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1950
Page
2
Virginia Norfolk area gains a charter for Princess Anne County Speedway Inc to sponsor trotting and running horse events and amusements on a site near the water works Virginia Beach boulevard. Officers include W Earl Johnson president and Charles Stevens secretary treasurer.
June 24 at 11 am sale of household goods and personal belongings in the Annie J. Rees estate 531 North Braddock Street. July 8 at 11 am sale of real estate on Peyton Street Winchester in the Florence Myers Barr estate. July 14 at noon sale of Gainesboro real estate in Winchester in the S Larrick Trustee estate.
O K LaRoque of Washington told the Virginia Savings Building and Loan League that the Federal Home Loan Bank system started in 1932 with a 125 million dollar capital and more than three and a half billion dollars government investment. He said the government stake will be repaid and urged consistency with private enterprise.
Virginia adds an extra hunting day from October 15 to January 31 for mink, ratoon, and opossum except Grayson County which opens November 20. The State Game and Fisheries Commission enacted the change yesterday after a split season last year, which included a no hunting day on November 1.
The Marion Kiwanis Club proposed free admission for under 18 on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays but the State Conservation Department rejected the plan. Commissioner Sidney Kellam cited nominal charges and concession agreements that provide 20 percent of gross receipts to the state at Huntly Mother.
The Virginia Federation of Postal Clerks urged raising rates on all mail forms to close the post office deficit and asked Congress to grant credit for free mail for other government departments. They cited the deficit as an obstacle to pay adjustments for department employees.
A Princess Anne County jury found 37 year old Tolakis Tolakis Tolakis Tolakis Tolakis Tolakis innocent of murdering Frank A. Filek, manager of the Checkerboard Club, who was shot in the club parking lot on January 11. The two day trial at Princess Anne Court House ended after a one hour five minute verdict. Federal and local police had investigated the case. Tolakis operated the Alex Grill in East Ocean View nearby.
The Business and Professional Women's Club heard Mrs. Ronald Wilson outline a new approach for cerebral palsy children once confined to institutions. She announced a $67 000 Virginia quota funding research at University of Virginia School of Medicine, public education, and local classes, plus $500 for Winchester.
David Taylor notes Dr. Freda Kehm and Dr. Rehm advocate letting handicapped children vent anger at home without fear of judgment. They stress normal emotional needs, the harm of over protective care, and that family life education helps parents understand how feelings influence children.
In Homs Red Cross delivered gifts to Syrian children prompting Al Ayyam to praise the innocent sympathy behind American aid while Al Suri Al Jadid in Homs condemns the effort as a front for forcing friendship and warns public instruction officials to reject such gifts.
The page lists quiz answers: 1 True 2 Battle of Bunker Hill 3 Twelve 4 False plant 5 quote We have lost the first engagement but we will win the next. Brazil New York Yankees No Texas.
A near full Handley School auditorium watched Miss Dorothy Ewing of The Ewing Studio of Dance Art present Dance Fantasie. The nearly three hour program featured costumes and scenery, with soloists Chester Hobart and David Robertson, and numbers including Mother Goose Rhymes My A B C s Magazines Pierrot His Loves Les Sylphides and Peasants Holiday.
A stream of property transfers records deeds in Shawnee Heights Winchester Greenwall Addition and Shenandoah Valley. Transfers include Woodrow Artrip to Robert Carter and Marvin Fleet to the Fletchers with multiple Liberty Ave lots. Other deeds cover Euclid and Grove Aves Har ris Addition 214 S Kent and Watson Ave areas with buyers including Chapman Wilson Brown Harman plus shared interests and bank estate provisions.
Henkel Henry and Emmett L. Henry transfer land to Walter M. Shade on Bellview Ave south of Winchester. Henry Grim to Garland Mada gan and wife deed 2 miles south of Winchester in Hill Crest Sub division Shawnee District. Virgil B. Sager transfers parcel on Greenwood Road south of Senseney Road to Worase C. Sager. Burton Hoover to Eleanor Parsons and others two lots in Burton Hoover Sub division Stonewall District Frederick County. John Gale Braithwaite to Harvey R. Hawkins and wife five acres and improvements on U S Route 522 near Gainesboro Gainesboro District. Dickson Golightly and others to John R. Keplinger tract in Shawnee District six miles southeast of Winchester on U S Route 50. Robert Jackson Timbrook and wife to Raymond A. Arnold lot and improvements on Pingley St west of Winchester Stonewall District.
Bethlehem Franklin plant in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, shares 21 hearth furnaces shut as CIO United Steel Workers Local 2635 members walk out. About 200 workers left on the afternoon shift and 200 more quit at midnight, protesting discipline measures not disclosed by the company or union.
The Associated Press and the Commercial Telegraphers Union AFL signed a two year wage agreement providing a $1.25 weekly general pay raise and a $2 minimums increase plus minor adjustments in severance pay and holiday payments. The contract will not reopen for the full term.
Governor Battle will join Democratic governors for a White House lunch with President Truman. Two Southern governors, J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Fielding Wright of Mississippi, were not invited. Battle said he accepted and then traveled with his secretary to attend the National Governors Conference at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
A secret Communist center was found in Rangoon during a police raid on a house. The underground movement appears unaffiliated with the Red Flag or White Flag factions now at war with the Burmese government. Five independent groups exist in Burma: Red Flags, Upper Burma Communist Association, Lower Burma Communist Party, and Democratic Communist Party.
Police reported two year old Orio Dipiano Jr. became wedged between fence wickets, lifting himself three feet to the top before losing grip. His neck snagged on the iron fencing and he died. He was one of six children of Mr and Mrs Orio Dipiano of Devon suburb.
James A. Payne is elected managing secretary of the Front Royal Warren County Chamber of Commerce. The chamber closed its fiscal year May 31 with 393 members and approved a budget of 11 435 dollars.
Norman Ochs of Front Royal was elected president of the Northern Virginia Alumni Chapter of VPI. He succeeds John O. Hardesty of Berryville. John Jones of this city was named treasurer.
The National Geographic Society states that many varieties of truffles occur across Europe. The report highlights regional diversity and potential culinary and ecological significance of European truffles.
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