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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1950
Page
2
James Boyd and James Silley figures appear in a string of crimes linked to a waterfront redevelopment push. Reports describe a November murder case involving Rochee Browley and a January streetcar killing by Underwood.
Closing arguments were scheduled in the murder trial of Wor ley Dinsmore in Lee Lae Circuit Court. Witnesses described the fatal stabbing of Thomas R. Arnett near Keokee Church of God after an altercation on the road.
The State Board of Education approved 530,170 in literary fund loans to districts and discussed final action on machinery to distribute 45,000,000 from the General Assembly. They authorized applying for 2,156,500 in readiness funds, approved cancellations totaling 1,748,000 on various loans, and set minimum teacher salaries tied to the Assembly's 3,250,000 option for salary equalization. Details include pay scales for teachers with different years of service and education prior to 1950 51.
Leo Teplow of the National Association of Manufacturers told the Virginia Industrial Management Conference at Virginia Military Institute that America ranks among the few nations with true management employee communication. He contrasted it with Communist classless claims and spoke at a Virginia Manufacturers Association sponsored event.
The Alexandria City Council voted four to one to annex seven square miles of Fairfax County territory. City Attorney W Floyd Williams said he would serve notice of the annexation suit within a week. Councilman Marshall J Beverley was the sole dissenter, promising to fight the annexation suit in court.
More than 20 of about 40 returning ships from Operation Urotrex were stalled by a 30 mile per hour southwesterly wind and strong current off Norfolk Naval Base. Navy wives gathered along the piers awaiting husbands unable to come ashore. Battleship Missouri and three aircraft carriers had already docked before the gusts intensified.
The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation launched a Virginia project patterned after Father Flanagan's Boys Town. Trustees turned over a 961 acre site in Charlotte and Campbell counties to Rev. Ralph Bellwood who plans a million dollar plant on Red Hill farm.
Israeli exporters push a big growth plan to make Israel a leading supplier of short day winter flowers. The country has already shipped roses and gladioli by air to Switzerland and the United States in successful trial runs.
A dated list of auction and sale events across Frederick County with times on March 25 and April 1 and 7. Items include real estate parcels, livestock, dairy cows, machinery, furniture, and household goods. Locations cited include Winchester Cedar Creek Grade, Kernstown, Stephens City, Grimes, Greenspring, and the Frederick County Court House.
Market notes show butter eggs and produce quotes in Baltimore with cattle hogs calves and sheep prices. USDA Chicago quotes list hogs cattle and sheep ranges with top and average figures for a trading day.
A brief, intense stock market selloff at the opening pulled prices down with fractional losses. The market then bottomed and turnover slowed as profit-taking spilled over from yesterday. Losers included American Telephone, General Motors, U S Steel, Chrysler, Studebaker, Montgomery Ward, Zenith Radio, Air Reduction, Du Pont, International Paper, Santa Fe, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, Standard Oil NJ, and American Tobacco.
Chicago grain prices opened firm on the board of trade but trading was slow as May and July contracts led corn oats rye soybeans and lard and futures quotes moved modestly with May and July positions shown for each commodity.
The Agriculture Department report notes cracks in live poultry pricing affecting Winchester area producers. It lists heavy breed hens young guineas old hen turkeys rock and cross broilers red broilers and related stock with price cues.
Daily corrected local market list shows prices for flour and corn meal in 5 and 10 lb bags, 25 or 100 lb bags, and grain options. Includes wholesale butter and butterfat prices, eggs, broiler mash, cracked corn, mixed feed, and assorted retail figures.
Bruce Slaven district lay leader of the Methodist Winchester District will speak at Grace Church in Middletown at 11 a.m. Sunday and again at 3 30 p m at Epworth Church. B E Rogers will lead both services. The piece also notes the U S telephone total around 66 000 000.
A fragmentary OCR line references a 1952 show and a biblical phrase. The readable text is incomplete but indicates a past event tied to a show and a commandment quote.
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