City Council Considers Kern Street Widening and Airport Lease
City Manager S Lee Grant reports progress on widening Kern Street with consent from Massie and Hardy estates. one heir in New Jersey pending. Council approves using 1000 from airport fund to buy eight acres adjacent to the site for future expansion. A revised Fire Prevention Ordinance passes. Valley Airways lease for the Municipal Airport is approved with insurance by the carrier and space for two hangars to be removed within 60 days.
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S. Lee Grant
Kern Street
Massie and Hardy
Kern Lane
New Jersey
Massie
W. P. Anderson
Henry
Robinson
Ice, Hoase Crossing
Miller
Teorard Sirbaugh
Board of Trade
Beker
Winchester
Valley Airways
Herbert Schutte
Richard D. Crenshaw
Kremer
Able
Fight erupts at Ford Rouge plant over discipline actions
Detroit March reports say a plant protection man was beaten after a worker’s discharge for striking a foreman in the Rouge aircraft building. Earlier two suspensions for smoking sparked a 250 worker confrontation at the labor relations office as 2 000 Rouge foundry workers returned from a one day walkout.
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Detroit
March
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
United Automobile Workers Union
CIO
Lupton Heads Winchester Rotary Meeting Program
Lupton is in charge of the Winchester Rotary Club meeting tomorrow afternoon. Four members Jim Mason Leo Peters John Scully and Abe Leven will give short talks on their vocations. The main business is the election of six directors.
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Winchester Rotary Club
Jim Mason
Leo Peters
John Scully
Abe Leven
Policeman Killed in Hold Up After Gunmen Target Bar
In Emeryville two masked gunmen shot and killed Patrolman George Haas 62 during an attempted bar hold up. A bystander was wounded as the trio fled toward Oakland after Haas died from chest wounds at Highland Alameda County Hospital.
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Emeryville
Calif
Oakland
George Haas
Highland Alameda County
Nazi Pressure Continues On Soviet Fronts In Ukraine And Baltics
The Soviet bulletin reports heavy German infantry and tank actions in western Ukraine south of Shepetovka, with more than 1,000 enemy dead and 60 tanks destroyed or captured. Soviet forces reach near the Odessa Warsaw line and push toward Tarnopol, while Zhukov’s units advance 20 to 30 miles daily. In the Baltic, Govorov widens Narva bridgeheads as 50 German planes are shot down and hundreds of Nazi troops killed.
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Moscow
Red Army
Staro-Konstantinov
Shepetovka
Staraya Sinyava
Staro- Konstantinov
Sharzhintsy
Shepetovkha
Berdichev
Zhukov
Podgolochisk
Volochisk
Odessa-Warsaw
Tarnopol
Froner
Baltic
Narva
Leonid A. Govorov
Narova River
Pressure Bears On King Peter
London reports a looming clash between the Allies and the Yugoslav government in exile as two King Peter cabinet members arrive from Cairo to discuss Tito cooperation. Britain may revoke recognition if Cairo backs Tito and drops anti Tito elements. Churchill had praised Mihailovic, amid calls for a cabinet shakeup unless London resolves the impasse.
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London
Cairo
Peter
Josip Broz
Tito
Yugo- Slav Army of Liberation
Bozhidar Paric
Generaja Mihaitsovic
Churchill
House Commons
Britain
Mihailovic
Park
Skeet Grateful To VFW For Cigarettes
A letter to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2123 from Set G H Baptist thanks the post for sending cigarettes to a serviceman overseas. He mentions his APO in New Guinea and prior time in Northern Australia, photos reunion with comrades, and hopes to join as a member-at-large once HQ returns his application. He closes with a pledge for a drink upon return.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Set
G. H. Baptist
G. I
APO
New Guinea
Australia
Tojo
Cpl
Grant Seabright
Johnny Parsons
Benny Davis
John Scully
National Headquarters
Kansas City
Postal Rates Effective March 26
W. Nelson Page, Postmaster, Bee announces new postal rates for First Class and Air mail domestic. Rates listed by article type range from 8c per ounce to 90c per article with increases around 3 percent and other small adjustments. Additional charges apply for insured mail and cash on delivery services.
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W. Nelson Page
Bee
Cc. O. D
Berryville to hold special election on Town Manager plan
Berryville town council asked Judge B P Harrison to call a special election within 30 days for voters to decide on a Town Manager form of government. If approved, the manager would collect water and sewer rents and oversee town operations. The Chamber of Commerce hopes the manager may also serve as its secretary.
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Berryville
B. P. Harrison
Chamber of Commerce
Council Action Directs Night Policeman Relief
A council last night approved a resolution directing Mayor L. H. to appoint a policeman to serve from 6 p.m. to midnight or designate a relief man to share duties, easing burdens on Sei. M. Carper.
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L. H. al Ee Eee
Sei . M. Carper
Reverend Harris to Speak at Mt. Carmel Church
The Rev. Stanford G. Harris of Washington D C will preach at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church at 3 o clock Sunday March 12 with his choir. The Young People Choir led by Emma Parks Robinson sponsors invite all to attend and hear the speaker while Mr Charles Reed and Mr William Gant provide piano accompaniment.
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Stanford G. Harris
Washington, D. C
Les Town M. E
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
Young People’s Choir
Emma Parks Robinson
Charles Reed
William Gant
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Alabama
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Mners Jforreres
Silco Cut Price Stores, Inc
Ford
Lupton
Rotary
Horse Show Grounds
Virginia
J. W. Olcott
Sale Mer
Abingdon Academy
Stonewall Jackson College
Abingdon
Washington County
Abing
Don, Va
G. K. Patton
Hugh Morrison
Wolf Run
King Peter
VFW
Boyce & Clarke County
Mt. Carmel Church
United States Treasury
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Wards
Montgomery Ward Ptone
Loudoun St
Atlanta
Seven Seas
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola
Ge. E. Harbaugh
Met
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