Fruit Growers Meet Set Tonight in Frederick County
Walker Mc Bond will preside at the seventh annual Frederick County Fruit Growers Association meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the courthouse. Henry Brumback is program chairman. Directors D K Fiesell and J Kenneth Robinette terms expire. Sessions include labor deployment talks, fruit outlook by A H Teske, and a report on the 1952 Fruit Growers Short Course.
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Walker Mc Bond
Frederick County Fruit Growers’ Association
Henry Brumback
D K Fiesell
J. Kenneth Robin
Powell
Virginia Deeployment Service
VPI
Crowers
Ip52
Joseph Butler
J. Robert Russell
Ray Butler
D. K. Russell
Louatha Brown Dies in Lancaster Pa at 38
Louatha Wilson Brown 38, wife of Arthur H. Brown of Lancaster, died March 10 at St Joseph's Hospital. A longtime Clarke County resident, she moved to Lancaster 21 years ago and was active in Ebeneezer Baptist Church and several Eastern Star and American LegionAuxiliary groups. Survived by husband, two brothers Henry and Thomas, and a nephew Thomas A. Wilson. Funeral 1 pm tomorrow at Shiloh Baptist Church Millwood. Burial Chapel Cemetery Millwood. Friends may call tonight 7 9 at the Wilson home Millwood.
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Louatha Wilson Brown
Arthur H. Brown
Lancaster
St Joseph's Hospital
Helena
Mont
MacKenzie and
Lucy Herbert Wilson
Clarke County
Ebenever Baptist Church
Silvery Moon
Eastern Star
Red Rose Auxilary
National Association of Letter Carriers
Original
Eleven
Howard C. Bridgett Auxiliary
The
American Legion
Department of Pennsylvania American Legion
Chester Counties
Henry Wilson
Jamaica
N. Y
Thomas Wilson
Millwood
Thomas A. Wilson
Shiloh Baptist Church
Chapel
Wilson
William J. Neikirk Dies at Winchester Memorial Hospital
William J. Neikirk 81 retired farmer from Relief Frederick County died yesterday at Winchester Memorial Hospital where he had been hospitalized since Friday. Born June 3 1870 in Franklin County Pa he was son of Speam and Jane McKeene He is survived by nieces and nephews. Funeral at Omps Funeral Home Wednesday 3:30 pm with Rev J S Peebles. Interment Green Hill Cemetery Stephens City. Pallbearers named Alfred Snapp Ross Boyd Floyd Ginn Edward Sours Albert Rinker Nelson Nichols.
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William J. Neikirk
Relief
Frederick County
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Franklin County
Speam
Jane McKeenei
Mattie Clark
Relief Methodist Church
Omps Funeral Home
J. 8. Peebles
Green Hill Cemetery
Stephens City
Alfred Snapp
Ross Boyd
Floyd Ginn
Edward Sours
Albert Rinker
Nelson Nichols
Cancer Drive Coin Boxes Are Placed Citywide
Kenneth Robinson, chairman of the American Cancer Society drive for Winchester Frederick County, announces coin containers placed in business and public spots. Miss Agnes Shirley leads county collections, Donald Stewart handles city collections, and Miss Salome Crisman processes incoming donations at headquarters. Letters seeking gifts based on prior drives have been mailed.
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Kenneth Robinson
Winchester-Frederick County
American Cancer Society
Agnes Shirley
Donald Stewart
Miller and Anderson
Robinson
Salome Crisman
Army's 42 Superintendents Since 1802 Noted
Since its founding in 1802 the United States Military Academy has had 42 superintendents, marking a long line of leaders guiding the academy through centuries of military education and tradition.
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United States Military Academy
Winchester to Get Electronics Unit
A Winchester meeting in the post office approved establishing an Electronics Unit at pay status. The unit will train naval Reservists in radar sonar radio and related fields and recruit 17 to 22 year olds in high school or with equivalent training.
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Winchester
8S. Lashman
USN
Norfolk
Navy
Russia Won’t Attack Now Says Gen Gruenther
Gen Alfred M Gruenther deputy to Eisenhower told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he believes the Soviet Union will not attack presently and that proper action could prevent a strike. It was his second day testifying on Truman’s foreign aid program totaling 7.9 billion dollars.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Russia
Alfred M. Gruenther
Eisenhower
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Gruenther
Bus Driver Hands Out 500 Cigars in Chicago
Gus Zukerman a 24 year old bus driver handed out 500 cigars to passengers in Chicago yesterday. He loaded 10 boxes on his bus and the gesture coincided with the birth of his first child a daughter named Robin born March 20 the first day of spring.
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Chicago
Gus Zukerman
Bee Keepers' Meeting At Barr Orchard Supply
Over 100 persons attended the bee keepers meeting last night at Barr Orchard Supply Company offices. Rev. W. G. Pendleton of Washington VA spoke on biblical bee life and a V P I film on honey production and bee training. He noted a sunlit hive before 10 am for early foraging and shade afterward to keep the hive cooler.
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Barr Orchard Supply Company
W. G. Pendleton
Washington
Independent Charlie Richey Files For Congress
Homer G. Richey Jr seeks the Eighth District seat as an independent in the November general election. He announced today his decision to run outside the party slate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Homer G. Richey, Jr
Fire devastates Skid Row hotel killing at least six
In Los Angeles a six floor Skid Row hotel fire killed at least six men and sent about 10 to hospital. Night clerk Leland White said he alerted residents by telephone as fire crews used ladders and nets to rescue remaining occupants. The blaze followed by another large fire and damaged property nearby.
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Los Angeles
St. George
Leland Whitehouse
Bel Air Country Club
Presbyterians Approve Shick Transfer to Potomac Presbytery
At a Winchester Presbytery meeting held in this city the transfer of Rev Kenneth W. Shick from Front Royal to Kenwood Presbyterian Church in Maryland was approved. Shick has pastored Front Royal since 1944 and will move with his wife Missa Mae Duncan and their two children after Easter. He hails from Allentown Pennsylvania and studied at Brown Preparatory School Hampton Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary.
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Winchester
Presbyterian Church
Kenneth W. Shick
Front Royal Presbyterian Church
Potomac Presbytery
Shick
Front Royal Church
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
Kenwood Presbyterian Church
Baltimore
Allentown
Brown Preparatory School
Bible Institute of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Hampton - Sydney College
Seminary
Missa Mae Duncan
Front Roal
French Assembly Moves to Restore Soldiers' Wine Ration
In Paris the National Assembly unanimously urged the government to restore the daily pint of wine for French soldiers. The prewar half-liter ration had been reduced as an economy cut, and the resolution was led by a Gaullist allied supporter from Bordeaux wine country.
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Paris
National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Bordeaux
Trial Justice Dismisses Disturbance Complaint
Trial Justice George Tayior dismissed a disturbance charge against Father Francis Wuest of the Church of the Sacred Heart Appalachia. He was accused of unlawfully disturbing a revival at the Church of the Assembly of God in Big Stone Gap on February 3.
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Appalachia
George Tayior
Francis Wuest
Church of the Sacred Heart
Church of the Assembly of God
Big Stone Gap
House Tax Probers Dig Deeper into Liquor Import Deals
Washington investigators dig into a liquor import operation linked to Hyman Harvey Klein. They focus on possible intercession by Sen. Styles Bridges and Henry Grunewald with the IRS as Klein asserts no involvement beyond his tax lawyers.
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Washington
House
Hyman Harvey Klein
Klein
Ways and Means
Styles Bridges
RNH
Henry
the Dutchman
Grunewald
Internal Revenue Bureau
Winchester Softball League Plans Fourth Annual Minstrel Show
The Winchester Softball League stages its fourth annual Variety Minstrel Show in Handley High School auditorium at 8 15 p m Thursday with Adolph Bornscheuer of Baltimore as director and a 35 member local cast. Proceeds fund improvements to the Senseng Road softball diamonds. Gus Bornscheuer of Winchester leads the production with seven acts in the variety portion and a minstrel segment with Howard Holland as interlocutor. Notable performers include Virginia Hensley Marvin Hutchinson Barbara Tomney Mary Kathryn Hershman Jerry Fogle Virgie Adams Becky Green Teresa Taylor Jack Fretwell and Bugs March. Additional acts feature the Sacred Heart Boys Troupe tumbling and a ballet by Bill Fauver. Tickets are on sale in Winchester and at the door.
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Winchester
Handley High School
Adoph Bornscheuer
Baltimore
Gus Bornscheuer
Senseng
Howard Holland
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Virginia Hensley
Marvin Hutchinson
Barbara Tomney
Mary Kathryn Hershman
Jerry Fogle
Virgie Adams
Becky Green
Teresa Taylor
Jack Fretwell
Slim Hershman
Archie Conner
Adolph Bornscheuer
John Bogt
Young Men's Sport Shop
Winchester News
Snow White’ Grill
Gray and Eddy
Rustic Tavern
Carpenter's Barber Shop
Raymond Patton
Thurman Mason
Move to Remove Taft’s Name In New Jersey Primary
In New Jersey a fight forms over removing Taft from the presidential primary ballot. Bergen County Clerk Alexander Allen says 250,000 sample ballots are printed for April 15 and would cost about 10,000 to print new ones, making timely reprint unlikely.
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Trenton
N. J
Robert A. Taft
New Jersey
Taft
Driscoll
Dwight Fisenhower
Lloyd B. Marsh
Superior Court
Ohio
Hackensack
Bergen County
Alexander Allen
Marsh
Allen
Bergan
Paratroopers Storm Lampasas River in Giant Mock War
In the Lone Horn maneuver at Fort Hood Texas two brigades of the 82nd Airborne stormed the Lampasas River in a massive mock battle designed to mirror Korea. The exercise involves about 118000 troops across 1800 square miles with ground and air forces coordinating under Lt Gen William Hoge and Ma Gen Robert Gay.
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Lampasas River
FT. Hood
Tex
U. S
82Nd Airborne Division
82Nd Agressor
47Th Infantry
31St Infantry
1St Armored
U.S
Korea
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Bryan
Gulf
Whales Seals And Sharks Travel Migratory Voyages
Marine mammals and sharks undertake long migratory journeys rivaling steamships in speed and distance, illustrating impressive natural navigation and endurance.
March 26 to April 12 Auction and Sale Directory Listings
A sequence of auctions and sales across Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia by James A. Conrad Realty Co and others. Items include real estate, antiques, furniture, livestock, farm equipment, and household goods with specific dates, times, and locations such as Harrisonburg Stephens City Kearneysville Waynesboro Winchester and Macedonia Church area.
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James A. Conrad
Kearneysville
W. Va
Leetown
Horst & Bittner
Waynesboro
Herbert Larrick
Frederick County Court House
Stephens City
White Post Road
G. G. Baker
Clowser
Clark St
Winchester
M. S. Vincent
Macedonia Church
Floyd County Lad Waives Hearing On Killing Charge
Jefferson Mitchell Jr., 29, waived a hearing in Floyd County Court on the killing of his father Jefferson Carson Mitchell, 37. Bound for the March 31 grand jury, authorities say the shooting in the back followed a car purchase dispute and the son confessed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd County Lad
Floyd
Jefferson C. Mitchell, Jr
Floyd County Trial Justice Court
Grand
Commonwealth
Curtis Sumpter
Floyd County
Circuit Court
Jefferson Carson Mitchell
O. D. Williams
How's Your Ill. Q Two Quiz Answers
Page four provides the quiz answers: 1 Camel, 2 Paul Revere ride, 3 Magyars, 4 Amerigo Vespucci, 5 New York City, 6 Alexander Dumas the Elder, 7 Light, 8 Perseus slaying the Gorgon, 9 Luzon, 10 The butchery of prisoners condemned.
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Paul Revere
Amerigo Vespucci
New York City
Alexander Dumas, the Elder
Light
Perseus
the Gorgon
Metals With Highest Melting Points Reported
The National Bureau of Standards notes that three metals have melting points above 4000°F. They are tantalum, tungsten, and molybdenum. Each resists heat and requires extreme temperatures before burning or reacting with oxygen to form a blaze.
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National Bureau of Standards
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Henry Bergh
Julian F. Bullock
Sacred Catholic
Ones Funeral Home
Rosenberger
S. Braddock St
Louatha Brown
Lancaster, Pa
Cancer Drive
Chaemben
Our Service
Jones
Tractor and Hand Operated Co
Ll. Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
Gen. Gruenther
Bee Keepers’ Meeting
Dadant
Barr’s Farmers Hardware
Alvin Butts
Arthur M. Massey
Big Tuck
Presbyterians
Bridges Rep. Byrnes
R-Wis
Sen. Bridges
Bridges
Charles Oliplaant
William Power Maloney
Maloney
I. Alfred Levy
New York
Levy
Gunewald
N.J
Wilbur Martin
Methodist Church
Davies & Son
Readley
Luzon
DeSoto Club
Frederick Motors
Martinsburg Pike
Ang
Heatwole Motor CO
BraDdock St
Rusco
Admiral Appliances
Lyle P. Strosnyder
Big Springs
Maryland
Clearspring
Isaac Shank
Chevrolet
Showalter Irvin Showalter
Lewis Renner
Fockler & Horst
Polly
Molly
Charlie
Bill
Chester
Hampshire
Poland
China
Farrow
New Holland
Hammer
McCormick Deering
McCormick-Deering
Samson
International Corn Planter
Oliver
New Idea
York Orchard CO
L. V. Stuckey
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