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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1952
Page
2
Frederick County growers are asked to cooperate with the 1982 Virginia Apple and Peach Tree Survey directed by Henry M. Taylor. The notice promises county totals only and secrecy, collecting figures on trees by variety, including numbers pulled abandoned planted and present in each orchard.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals denied Joseph Robinson known as The Raven or Cocky Joe the last chance of appeal in his death sentence for the nine year old murder of Marc A. Terrell Portsmouth theater manager. Robinson was extradited from New York where he was serving 15 to 40 years for armed robbery and tried in Portsmouth Hastings Court in 1951 without a jury. He argued due process violation claiming no guilty finding before referral to a probation officer prior to sentencing. The case record lists multiple felonies including robberies narcotics offenses and assault.
E. H. Mears of The Union Life Insurance Company announces Robert Meredith Leonard, formerly assistant manager in Newport News, as Field Training Supervisor in Richmond. Leonard succeeds Harry Harris, elevated to manager of the Danville district office, to direct all training programs across life insurance operations.
Albert Einstein first presented relativity in 1905 and expanded it in 1915. He showed matter and energy are interchangeable and predicted their conversion, laying the groundwork for atomic energy and transforming views of time and space.
A list of scheduled auctions across Virginia and West Virginia with dates June 21 through July 5. Items include real estate farm estate furniture electrical appliances and household goods along with auctioneers Chas Duvall W F Artrip J R Knighting and others. Locations include Inwood Berkeley Springs Front Royal Frederick County Winchester and rural Shenandoah areas.
Sacred Heart Holy Name Society held its final meeting before fall with State Senator Donovan of Falls Church as guest. A nominating committee was named to organize an August yard party to aid parish funding for a parochial school. NCCW members attended. plans included a Knights of Columbus charter and an usher’s club with retreats at Berryville and Mount St. Mary's.
The Swedish Cabinet met to study Moscow s denial of the Swedish version of a Baltic Sea shooting down of a Catalina rescue aircraft with seven crew. The incident triggered anti Russian sentiment in Sweden and calls for an end to alleged frontier violations.
Mrs H F Minter of Warren County Garden Club won the Sweepstakes for most first prize points and top score at the 10th Annual Lily Show in Front Royal. The event drew hundreds from across Virginia with 72 horticultural and 52 arrangement exhibits. Awards included the Matheson Cup and silver Medal of the American Horticultural Society, while Warren County clubs swept several cups and ribbons.
The most common fracture classifications are simple without skin wound and compound with a wound. Fractures are also categorized by bone lesion type as transverse spiral comminuted or tree-stick.
Rep. Hugh Scott denounces Virginia's Republican Central Committee for recognizing two "old guard" delegates over pro Eisenhower supporters in the Third District. He calls the action immoral and says it defies the voters and the party credentials panel. James R. Moore remains undecided while Richard Poage backs Taft.
Answers to Page four questions include France for question one an island off the Massachusetts coast for two James K Polk for three Paris for four the Skaggerak for five the Twentieth Amendment for six General Sherman for seven Herbert Hoover for eight and aromatic herb for nine with Kentucky rounding out ten
An ostrich egg weighs about 3 pounds and holds roughly the equivalent of 18 hen eggs. This comparison highlights the large size difference between the two birds’ eggs.
Attorney General McGranery says the dismissal of U S district attorney Lester Luther in Kansas is part of a broader departmental cleanup. A special grand jury will review evidence Luther shared about fees paid to Nicholas Lopes in a Toledo tax case.
Virginia railroads ask the State Supreme Court of Appeals to compel the State Corporation Commission to end exemptions for out-of-state motor carriers from the gross receipts tax. The court granted oral arguments for the October term. attorney Thomas B Gay argued the petition.
The article notes continued heavy use of nearly all steel types. Large orders for structural steel are placed for the Savannah River and Paducah AEC plants, plus other smaller projects. Stainless steel tonnages support processing of materials for atomic bombs and nuclear power plants such as those for submarines.
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