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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1950
Page
2
The state commission approves Commonwealth Natural Corp to issue 200 additional shares of stock with par value 1 dollar. The offering targets current holders under the authority granted by the commission to serve Virginia cities.
A jury fixed punish ment at 15 years in the penitentiary for Carl D. after a two day trial stemming from a shooting last month that killed Ralph Wade 27 in a shack tied to Premier brothers. The circuit judge postponed sentencing pending defense motion to set aside the verdict.
James Bishop Jr of the Bank of Greensboro urged banks to act on their duty to agriculture saying many good farmers have left banks for short term credit from subsidized government bodies. He spoke at the Virginia Bankers Farm Credit Conference noting negligence in opportunity and responsibility toward agriculture.
A Wallace Bowley 69 died yesterday at 3 30 p m at his home 324 Smithfield Avenue after an eight month illness. Born March 17 1880 in Frederick County he was a cabinet maker for 35 years and a member of Market Street Methodist Church Woodmen of the World and Friendship Fire Company. Surviving are widow Mrs Mary Patton Bowley two sons T C Bowley Winchester and A L Bowley ween and two others. Burial in Mount Hebron. Remains to Jones Funeral Home then to Bowley residence and back for services Friday at 2 pm.
Mrs. Nannie May Mills, 59, died at 11 p.m. at her Nineveh residence. Survived by husband Mart Mills, son Marvin Mills, daughters Ida May Price Hattie Burke Frances Smith, brothers Jesse and Ernest Sealock, sister Lena Rutherford, stepsons William Mack Warren Mills and four others, stepdaughters Lacy Welch Hattie Madigan Martha Bendall Nelly Renner, and three grandchildren. Funeral at 2 p.m. Friday at Nineveh Presbyterian Church. interment Prospect Hill Cemetery Front Royal. pallbearers Hammon Johns Gene McCauley Miller Jett Harry Hudson Hubert McKay Phil Stickley.
Members of the Winchester White Sox meet at 7 30 tonight in Moose Hall to discuss plans for joining the Northern Virginia League. Anyone interested in playing with the club is invited to attend.
South of town notices list auctions from March 8 to March 22 in Winchester and nearby towns. Items include livestock farm machinery household goods furniture tractors trucks and real estate with sale times and nearby locations such as Grimes Victor Williams Shepherdstown Martinsburg Leetown and Kline's Mill.
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered items including a reference to Senator Clin t Anderson of New Mexico, a Frankfort mention, and a steel industry cue. The content lacks coherent narrative or identifiable events suitable for a full news card.
A set of 11 enlarged facsimiles from the American Heritage Documents will be shown at Handley School for two weeks, then travel to other Winchester area schools. The display includes the Treaty of Paris, Washington’s Valley Forge description, Common Sense, Washington’s letters, Lincoln’s abolition plans and Emancipation Proclamation, and Jefferson notes praising the United States.
Final rites for Presley Calvin Combs were held Sunday at the Lost River M E Church in West Virginia. He died Thursday and was born June 2, 1873, largely spent in Lost River with a brief period in Frederick County. Survivors include his widow Mary E Cadwell four sons Stanley McVene Calvin and Mrs Robert See and eleven grandchildren.
The Washington and Lee Chapter of Hat Chi Alpha hosted its first Colonial Conclave from Friday to Sunday with visiting chapters from Duke University North Carolina State College North Carolina University Wake Forest William and Mary Randolph Macon Hampden Sydney and Richmond. The meeting aimed to strengthen fraternal ties through a general discussion on mutual aims and cooperation.
The committee will meet tomorrow at 10 a.m. to consider the study resolution reported last week. Members declined to predict whether the subcommittee would agree on a poll tax repealer or the study proposal recommitted.
Senate leaders discussed local assessments and new methods for tax values while a compromise halts annexation cases until July 1 1962. A two of three judge rule on annexation was proposed. de annexation and Hampton Roads bills were killed. The consolidation referendum for Newport News Hampton Phoebus Warwick and Elizabeth City Counties was set for March 21. House committees killed bills on auto dealer disclosures and school board electing methods while education advocates urged funding for teachers salaries.
In Sydney a timberman and father of five described the birth of conjoined twins joined at the tops of their heads as a frightful shock. Dr John Starr, who delivered them, said the babies are perfectly healthy aside from the shared skull, and separation would be practically impossible.
Mrs Emma G Nail aged 82 died at 2 a m at her residence near Hayfield after several months illness. Widow of Albert Nail she was born June 28 1867 in Frederick County and mother of four sons and two daughters. Survived by sister Virginia Taylor and fifteen grandchildren twenty five great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 4 p m from Jones Funeral Home with burial in Mount Olive Cemetery.
Funeral services for Samuel M Totty were conducted at 2 p.m. yesterday at Jones Funeral Home with Rev J B Duckwall officiating. Burial followed at National Cemetery. Pallbearers were veterans of the Spanish American War and military rites were conducted at the grave by the Spanish American War veterans.
Lola B. Heltzel receives bed and board divorce from William R. Heltzel for desertion. couple wed in Virginia in 1946. Paul Bailey Adams obtains absolute divorce from Beryle Marie Adams for desertion. marriage date listed as November 19 1930 at Gainesboro.
An effort to raise teacher salaries beyond the $2,000 minimum won in House passage as part of a $599 million bill led by Del. Robert Whitehead of Nelson. The victory stood as the bloc's sole success in the chamber.
Governor M kford Jr of Franktown renames Lankford to the Virginia Commission of Fisheries and reappoints W Collin Chilton of Kilmarnock and James Hoge Tyler II of Norfolk. Tyler succeeds George W Layman of Newcastle. Appointments subject to General Assembly confirmation. The remaining two members.
A fragment notes the existence of a five member commission set for fixed terms. No names, dates, or locations are provided in the readable text.
Approval was given for the appointment of a reception committee to receive touring members of the International Apple Assn. who will meet in Washington in August and visit orchards in the area. Mr. Harrison urged that welfare state progress can be measured by comparing the 1951 budget total of 9.144 billion dollars with the 1941 peacetime year under FDR.
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