Harvest Labor Peak For Virginia Potatoes In June
Virginia State Employment Service says peak labor needs for white potato harvest in Lower Hampton Roads and the eastern shore occur in the last days of June. In West Point the potato peak follows the first tomatoes and both crops develop similarly. About 5,000 out of state workers were used last week to supplement local labor in truck crop harvest.
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Richmond
Hampton Roads
Dor
Virginia State Employment Service
West Point
VSES
Housewife Freed Of Murder Charge
A Giles County circuit court jury acquitted 37 year old Rachel Spicer of murder after three hours of deliberation. She testified she struck her husband Woodrow Huffer only in self defense during a stormy marriage marked by his nightly intoxicated assaults.
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Pearisburg
Giles County
Rachel Spicerer
Woodrow Huffer
Huffer
Virginias 1951 delegates named for youth leadership camp
Dorie Mae Willis of Augusta County and Maxwell Moore of Lunenburg County are Virginia delegates to the American Youth Foundation leadership training camp at Camp Minnewanka Michigan.
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Blacksburg
Dorie Mae Willis
Augusta County
Maxwell Moore
Lunenburg County
Virginia
American Youth Foundation
Camp Minniwanca
Mich
Three Drowned In Hampton Roads Area
Three people died while swimming in the Hampton Roads area. Two brothers from Richmond and Naval Lt. J. William Hirst of Virginia Beach, attached to the USS Macon, perished as bathers watched wrecked rescue efforts.
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Norfolk
Richmond
Hampton Roads
Ocean View Park
Frank Overstreet
Naval
J. G
J. William
Hirst
Macon
Virginia
State All-Star 4-H Members Convene in Blacksburg
All-star members of Virginia 4-H Clubs gather in Blacksburg tomorrow for their annual conference. The meeting continues through the State 4-H Short Course, running from Monday through next Saturday.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
New Club Initiation and State Short Course Leaders Named
Tomorrow night new members will be initiated from outstanding veteran clubbers. Next week about 900 top club members from across the state gather for the Short Course. Highlights include naming state contest winners with trips to the National Club Congress in Chicago. Frank Putney of Cumberland will preside as “Big Chief” and Ronald Meredith of Pulaski is Short Course President.
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National Club Congress
Chicago
Frank Putney
Cumberland
Ronald Meredith
Pulaski
Clarke County FFA Chapter shines at Virginia Rally
Clarke County High School FPA Chapter placed 13th among 217 Virginia FFA groups at the 25th State FFA Rally in Blacksburg, earning honorable mention as Bland County and Drapers Valley High School chapters claimed first and second. They will join principals and instructors at the National FFA Convention in Kansas City in October.
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Clarke County
FPA
Future Farmers of America
Virginia
Blacksburg
Bland
Bland County
Drapers Valley
Insurance rate date moved to August in Virginia
The State Corporation Commission in Richmond shifted the effective date for revised auto mobile insurance rates from July 1 to August 1 at the request of underwriters who had already mailed July 1 bills based on the old rates. The notice aimed to prevent billing differences across insurers.
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Virginia
Commission
Iana
SCC
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Tony Wolfe
Susan Dick
Douglas Fisher, Jr
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J. Thomas Boyd
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Enon
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Uehimore
Gretnmount Ave
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U. S. Armed Services
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Schlitz Brewing CO
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Schlitz
Milwaukee
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Wmal-Tv
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