House Budget Cut Proposed for Federal Agencies
The House Appropriations Committee recommended a 10 percent cut in the seven billion dollar federal budget for the new fiscal year starting July 1. It rejected new job proposals, reduced travel and related funds, halted new leave accumulation, and capped new public housing units at 25,000 while sending a 6.27 billion dollar bill to the House for debate.
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House Appropriations Committee
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Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans Administration
Rep
Thomas
D-Tex
Maritime Administration
Quarles Announces Harvest of the Years Pageant
Garland R. Quarles announces the twenty-fifth Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival pageant The Harvest of the Years to be staged May 1 and 2 in keeping with the city Bicentennial Quarles will again direct the Department of Pageant Presentation and is noted as author and reader of the pageant since 1930 The Handley School presentation has drawn hundreds of thousands from across the United States for years
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Shenandoah
Garland R. Quarles
Quarles
Handley School
United States
GM Reports 39 Per Cent Drop In Net Profits
General Motors reports a 39 percent drop in net profits for 1951 to 506,199,580 from 834,044,029 in 1950. Factors cited include higher taxes, lower civilian production, higher costs, price controls, and more defense business with thinner margins. Sales total 7.466 billion, defense share 761 million, earnings 5.83 a share, dividend 12.93. The tax bill in 1951 runs to 1.141 billion, with profits per share and tax details compared to 1950.
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New York
General Motors Corp
General Motors
United States
Connally Challenges U S Foreign Aid Spending Speech
Sen. Connally told a Senate committee the United States cannot go on forever appropriating large sums to Britain, France and others as W. Averell Harriman defended the 7.9 billion dollar foreign aid program. Harriman said Russia spends widely and urged aid to build allied military strength.
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Sen
Connally
D-Tex
United States
Britain
France
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Mutual Security
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Russia
U. S
United Kingdom
Senate probes 47 surplus ships sale profits
Senators pressed the Justice Department as it investigates whether 47 surplus vessels can be recovered. Witnesses cited a prior illegal three-ship deal and a wealth of high profile figures including Joseph Casey Edward Stettinius and William Halsey in profitable stock sales to United Tanker Corp.
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Washington
Justice Department
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Thomas E. Stake
Maritime Administration
Raymond
McKeough
U.S. Maritime Commission
Newbold Morris
S. S. Meacham
United Tanker Corp
Morris
Stakem
Old Maritime Commission
Joseph E. Casey
Edward Stettinius
William F. (Bull) Halsey
Casey Group
Norway
Denmark
Senate
International Claims Commission
Enemy Casualties in Korea Reach 1.6 Million Mark
The Army’s March 6 estimate puts total enemy casualties in Korea at 1,614,710. The figure includes 153,865 battle deaths, 328,494 nonbattle losses, and 132,251 prisoners. UN losses through Dec 31 were about 306,000, with unofficial totals around 100,000 higher.
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Washington
Korea
United Nations
U. N
White Recommends Capt. White for Virginia Selective Service
Gov Battle has recommended Capt. Thomas W. White USNR as Virginia director of Selective Service. For sale listing notes a large assortment of patented rose bushes from Winchester Seed Co. and a help-wanted notice seeking an experienced ladies ready-to-wear saleslady with Box 88 reply details.
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Richmond
Battle
Thomas W. White
USNR
Virginia
Selective Service
Winchester Seed Company
Phorie
Winchester Star
Taft Urged to Quit GOP Race and Back Eisenhower
Manchester Taft for President Committee chair Richard G. Jordan urged Sen. Robert A. Taft to withdraw from the GOP presidential race and publicly back General Eisenhower. He cited New Hampshire voters and warned that continuing contests could weaken the party ahead of November.
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Eisenhower
Manchester N. H
Manchester
Taft For
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Richard G. Jordan
Ohioan
New Hampshire
Jordan
Eisenhower's growing GOP bid gains momentum after New Hampshire win
In the wake of a clean New Hampshire primary sweep over Taft, Gen. Eisenhower signals rising interest in the Republican nomination. A letter to a close friend hints he will not forget party workers, while Minnesota supporters push a write‑in campaign for the coming state primary.
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Eisenhower
Sen
Taft
New Hampshire
Washington
Minnesota
New Jersey
Walter E Edee
Harold E. Stassen
Wisconsin
Chicago
Southwest
Truman
Warren
Earl Warren
California
Internal Revenue Agent Refuses To Answer Questions
A New York City IRS agent refused to answer questions from House Ways and Means about bribery or the accuracy of his net worth sworn statement. Charles Vesce, 41, resigned as zone deputy collector for the Third New York District amid the probe into unusual incomes of Metropolitan New York agents. The panel reviewed another case, Robert W. Selden, who amid a three year stock market spree earned $41,600 while earning about $3,900 annually, with $22,800 in cash. Selden’s net worth rose by over $23,000 from 1935 to 1945. His wife reported he collapsed and is under psychiatric care. he has been absent without leave and subpoenaed.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
New York City
House
Ways and Means
Charles Vesce
New York
George Kleinman
Brooklyn
Rep. King
D-Calif
Vesce
Robert Mitchell
Robert W. Selden
Upper Manhattan
Internal Revenue Bureau
Selden
Russia May Have New MIG Plane Hint In Stalin Prizes
Moscow reports Stalin prizes awarded to Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich and 16 others of the Mikoyan Airplane Engineering Bureau. Mikoyan’s group won 150000 rubles while Andrei Tupolev also took 150000 rubles and Sergei Tlyushin 100000 rubles for bomber and attack aircraft work. Dyushin earned wartime fame for the Stormovik.
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Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Artem Mikoyan
Mikhail Gurevich
Mikoyan
Andrei Tupolev
Sergei Tlyushin
Dyushin
Federal grand jury indicts 19 on tax evasion scheme
A special federal grand jury in New York indicted 19 individuals on charges of tax evasion totaling nearly 1.7 million dollars. The case involves alleged government corruption and racketeering linked to the scheme.
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New York
Bicentennial Postal Markings Draw 2800+ Philatelists
More than 2,800 men women and children wrote to Winchester for the Bicentennial cachet postoffice cancellation and four color covers in the past month. The drive drew 1,614 applicants from 48 states Puerto Rico Alaska Hawaii Canal Zone Cuba Canada and England.
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Ray A. Garrabrandt
Bicentennial Philatelic
Garrabrandt
Bhoex
Carl Campbell
Philatelic Department
Secret plan to overhaul Internal Revenue Service approved
Secretary Snyder announced New York and Chicago will be pilot districts for a major IRS reorganization after the Senate backed the plan 53 to 37. The changes abolish 64 political collectors, create 21 district commissioners, and shift appointments to Civil Service with no patronage.
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the Treasury
Snyder
New York
Chicago
Internal Revenue Bureau
Thority
Senate
Truman
John B. Dunlap
Internal Revenue
Civil Service
George
Plan
D-Ga
Secretary of the Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Revenue Bureau
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Robert L. Johnson
Citizens’ Com
Panel Analysis Of Steel Labor Case Announced
The Wage Stabilization Board released a panel analysis showing WSB rule applications could yield pay boosts from nine to 23 cents per hour or more. Led by Yale professor Harry Shulman, the panel did not prescribe a solution. CIO Steelworkers, led by Philip Murray, may strike after March 23. the union seeks about 18 cents an hour, with current average wages below $2. The report omits union shop and guaranteed annual wage issues per WSB instructions.
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Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Steel Labor
Harry Shulman
Yale University
CIO Steelworkers Union
Philip Murray
Murray
Shells Burst Close to Four U.S. Warships
In a quieting of the Korean War, Red artillery fired near four U S warships off Wonsan as storms limited air operations. Navy officials reported no damage to the Manchester or Fox, while Eyes and McGinty suffered near misses. Allied forces pressed the attack with carrier planes and ground fire along the eastern front.
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Korea
Manchuria
U. S
Wonsan
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Eyes
McGinty
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U. S&s. Eighth Army
U. S. 25Th Infantry Division
Eighth Army
M.ouns
Yonchon
Virginia Weather Outlook for March 15 to 19
The outlook shows temperatures 4 to 6 degrees above normal. Rain is expected Saturday night and Sunday and again around Tuesday, totaling about half to three-quarters of an inch.
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Virginia
Jones Photography Opens Tomorrow Morning
Local studio Jones Photography at 124 S Loudoun announces opening hours from 9 a m to 9 p m tomorrow. Services listed include portraits commercial photography photo finishing and custom framing with contact number 7680 for inquiries.
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JONES
S. Loudoun
Cohen Declares Charges Are Unsubstantiated
United States delegate Cohen called Malik's bacteriological warfare charges unwarranted and unsubstantiated at the UN Disarmament Commission session. The exchange followed charges from Soviet and Communist bloc sources accusing U.S. forces in Korea and China of germ warfare.
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United Nations
N.Y
Jacob A. Malik
United States
Korea
China
U. N. Disarmament Commission
Benjamin V. Cohen
Cohen
International
Hed Cross
Malik
Disarmament Commission
U. S
Russia
Sions
Commission
Missing West Virginia barn haunts Maryland buyer
In Cumberland Maryland a farm sale raised a mystery as a 40 by 50 foot metal roofed barn valued at 1500 dollars vanished from the West Virginia estate of Dr. F L Baker. The new owner Dr. Thomas Bess seeks the missing structure, leaving only a stone foundation spotted by buyers and a wary boy who said no barn was there.
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Cumberland
West Virginia
F. L. Baker
Thomas Bess
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