Early Apple Harvest Brings Satisfactory Prices In Area
Area growers move into the 1955 harvest as prices for early apples look very satisfactory. Lodi and Transparent varieties lead with shipments to Baltimore and Washington, D C at about 10 cents per pound, roughly $5 per bushel. Packing by H W Butler & Bro and E W Barr notes strong demand and a peak next week for Transparent with Dutchess and Williams Red to follow.
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Associated Press
Martinsburg
W. Va
Robert Pierre
Pierre
Baltimore
Washington, D. C
Woodstock
Charles Town
Hancock
H. W. Butler & Bro
Butler
E. W. Barr
Ilinois
Arkansas
Tennessee
Chanticleer Inn to Close for Weekend Reopening July 5
Local Notice lists a weekend closure from Saturday night June 25 with a noon reopening Tuesday July 5. Community events include Friendship Yard Party at John Kerr School Yard with eats and fire truck rides, and a United Commercial Travellers meeting at Lions Shelter City Park.
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Chanticleer Inn
Friendship Yard
John Kerr School Yard
Treasury Secretary outlines improved 1955 56 fiscal outlook
Secretary Humphrey presented an improved government fiscal outlook before the House Ways and Means Committee. He forecast a sharp cut in the 2.4 billion dollar deficit for the coming year and suggested a temporary one year extension of the public debt limit at 281 billion dollars. He urged restraint in the use of credit by government, business, and individuals amid prosperity and rising employment. Byrd indicated no debt limit increase next year.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Congress
Treasury
Cooper
D-Tenn
Ways and Means Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
Virginia Rules Segregated Schools Policy for Next Year
Virginia officials announced a policy to operate segregated public schools for the coming year after a three hour meeting between Gov. Stanley and Blake T. Newton. Reactions varied with local boards in Sussex and Nottoway considering existing plans, while critics urged a special legislative session to pursue constitutional changes.
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Virginia
Richmond
Stanley
Blake T. Newton
State Board of Education
Sussex County
Board of Supervisors
W. T. Hunnicutt
W. S. Kincheloe
Nottoway
Edward A. Carter
Prince Edward
Board of Education
Public Health Service Endorses Salk Polio Vaccine
The Public Health Service reaffirms its endorsement of the Salk polio vaccine after two days of House hearings. Experts urged continued manufacture and use while seeking safer virus strains and improved potency tests. Surgeon General Scheele echoed the approval and called for ongoing research.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Health Service Statement
House Commerce Committee
Health Service
Priest
D-Tenn
Springer
R-Ill
U. S
Leonard A. Scheele
House Democrats Weigh Social Security Tax Hike
House Democrats consider a future 1 percent rise in Social Security tax to fund proposed benefits for older women and disabled workers. Ways and Means aides cite a projected annual cost near 2.2 billion, with equal 0.5 percent increases on workers and employers.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Richmond Virginia Weather Outlook for June 24 to 29
Extended forecast for Richmond Virginia through June 24 to 29 calls for temperatures near normal with a weekend warmup and a cooler spell Monday. Scattered thunderstorms are expected, mainly Sunday and Saturday in the southeast, with total rainfall generally 0.14 to 0.34 inches and locally heavier in spots.
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Richmond
Virginia
British Jet Flies Across North Pole
Three British Royal Air Force officers piloted a Canberra bomber from Bardufoss Norway to Ladd Air Force Base Alaska crossing the North Pole. The 3200 mile flight averaged 500 mph taking 6 hours 23 minutes after departure with Wing Cmdr M D Lyne and navigators D Bower and R A Seymour reporting a fine flight and clear polar views at 50 000 feet.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Royal Air Force
North Pole
Norway
Europe
Pole
Ladd Air Force Base
Bardufoss
European
Equator
M. D. Lyne
D. Bower
R. A. Seymour
Temperatures Dip After Showers Across Area
A cooler day followed yesterday's showers with a high near 80 degrees and a 60 degree low. Forecasters predict partly cloudy skies and low to mid 80s for today, matching last year’s 60 degree low.
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Associated Press
Peron Shapes New Cabinet After Revolt
President Juan Peron works on a new 16 member cabinet after a mass resignation amid last week’s revolt. He says he remains in office for the nation and blames marine and naval officers and some opposition groups for the crisis.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Peron
Peron
Montevideo
Uruguay
Angel Borlenghi
Borlenghi
Democratic Union
Auto Trucker Crash in Indiana Kills Six
Six burned bodies lie in a Rockville mortuary after a collision and fire on U S 41 north of Rockville. Auto driver Carl E. Barnett 34 Hammond and truck driver Wayne Cain 27 Crawfordsville identified. children Darlene Barnett 6 and Larry Barnett 5 killed. One adult victim identified Ira Barnett 62 Fordsville Kentucky. others unnamed. Mrs Barnett and another brother not in collision.
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U. S 41
Rockville
Omer M. Smith
Parke County
Carl E. Barnett
Hammond
Ind
Wayne Cain
Crawfordsville
Darlene Kay Barnett
Larry Edward Barnett
Barnett
Betty
Ira Barnett
Fordsville
Reds Hold Cards in Big Four Talks on Germany
Sen Mans field says the Soviet Union holds all real cards for the Big Four talks on Germany, warning that Western leaders have overemphasized ties with West Germany. He cites Molotov and Adenauer as potential leverage, while Knowland presses to free Americans held by China before any Far East talks.
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Reds
Germany
Mansfield
Washington
Sen
D-Mont
Soviet Union
West Germany
Western Europe
Russia
Konrad Adenauer
East Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia Sudetenland
Molotov
San Francisco
United States
Europe
Africa
Geneva
Senate
Knowland
California
Far East
China
U.N
Pacific
Eisenhower urges strength to support world peace in New Hampshire
President Eisenhower told about 2,500 at Franconia Notch that lasting peace comes from American strength and understanding among nations. He said weakness harms cooperation and hinted at 1956 plans while in Granite State after addressing Lincoln supporters and noting Sherman Adams’ ties to New Hampshire.
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Eisenhower
New Hampshire
America
Franconia Notch
Frar
Lincoln
Sherman Adams
Concord
No Evidence of Soviet Atomic Tests in Two Years
The AEC said today there is no evidence of a major Soviet nuclear test in almost two years. Dr. Ralph E. Lapp claimed Life magazine that Soviets conducted at least two tests in spring with April and May shots detected by fallout and U S researchers.
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AEC
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Ralph E. Lapp
Life Magazine
Lapp
United States
Commission
Free Nations
Hamilton Heads Newly Formed Berryville JCC
Oscar P. Hamilton Jr was elected president of the Berryville Clarke County Junior Chamber of Commerce at a dinner meeting. Officers named include Charles Edward Renner Jr internal vice president Charles Triplett Hardesty III external vice president H P Pierce secretary Howard R Hart treasurer John R Friant state director Hobson McGehee Jr Harry Jones and William Hooker on the board. Charter night planned near August 6 with state officers to present the charter and officers to be installed. Work underway for charter and by laws.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Battletown Inn
Winchester Jaycees
Dean Levi
Charles Edward Renner, Jr
Charles Triplett
U S Steel Wage Offer Rejected Sparks Next Move
U S Steel rejected a 10 cent an hour wage rise from CIO United Steel Workers as talks resume behind the scenes. NSW President David J McDonald said the company offer was inadequate and would not justify settlement this year. Union seeks about 25 cents and a strike deadline looms at midnight June 30.
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U.5
Pittsbrght
Steel Corp
CIO
United Steel Workers
David J. McDonald
Nsw
Big ‘Steel
McDonald
USWA
Rouss Pools Open Tomorrow
Repairs finished on the swimming and wading pools at Rouss Park and both will open to the public tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 5 o clock. A yard party at Relief Methodist Church Lat. is scheduled for June 25 at 6 PM.
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Rouss Park
Dulles Calls for End to Cold War Urging Peace Over Force
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles bluntly urged Moscow to end subversion and force as he addressed the U N on its 10th anniversary. He warned that seven points are not needed to end the Cold War, listing five key issues for Geneva talks including German unification and disarmament.
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San Francisco
John Foster Dulles
Russia
Dulles
U. N
V. M. Molotov
Ike
Eisenhower
Molotov
Geneva
Germany
China
Korea
Indochina
Formosa
Winchester Skies and Local Notices for June
The notice lists Friday June 24 sky conditions for Winchester with sunrise and sunset times and positions of Saturn Spica Antares and the summer triangle. It also announces a Mt. Carmel Cemetery Association meeting at Midletown Fire Hall Monday night June 27 at 8.00. Additional items include a Black Oak Bark wanted contact and a Old Bethel Church benefit with country ham sandwiches starting 5 p.m. on Saturday June 25.
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Saturn
Spica
Antares
Vega
Deneb
Altair
Winchester
Bailey_R. Frank
Mt. Carmel
Old Bethel Methodist Church
Benefit Building Fund
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City Park
Jas
Brandon
Lecy
Clarke County Wildlife Association
the Willows
Shenadoah Realty
Valley Pike
Gene Russell
Duff's
County
Dead City
Hunnicutt
Collins Denny Jr
Liberaties
Denny
W. Lester Banks
The
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Banks
Atlantic City
NAACP
Newton
U.S. Health Service
Demos
Women of Moose
George Washington Hotel
Virginia Fruit Market
N. Loudoun St
Kern Motor CO
Weather Outlook
Indiana
V. M
Hamilton
JCC
Rouss
Relief Methodist Church
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United Nations
Winchester Skies
A. C. Slonaker & Son
W. Amherst
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