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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1950
Page
3
The line comes from the chorus of Swinburne’s Atlanta in Calydon. The corrected quotation reads When hounds of spring are on winter's traces, illustrating Swinburne’s classical allusion.
The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore sues John W. Rees and others to foreclose a 1923 mortgage. Defendants Margaret Hancher and Helen Walker Hancher and the heirs of M. T. Haley are ordered to appear within ten days of publication. Publication slated in Winchester Evening Star for four weeks with notices posted at the courthouse and mailed to defendants.
Three more Winchester women seek honorary fire chief crowns for the Apple Blossom Festival parade on April 27. Judges will pick tomorrow night at the Capital Theater with Jack Fretwell as master of ceremonies. County fire company reps also vie for similar titles as torchlight parade leads open day festivities. Heatwole, 23, Handley faculty member from Mt. Clinton, represents South End Fire Co. Pratt, 18, Handley junior from Yorkshire, represents Charley Rouss Fire Co. Dolan, 16, Handley junior nicknamed Pat, represents Friendship Fire Co. Photo credits noted for Heatwole Pratt and Dolan.
The first highway fatality of the year in Berkeley County West Virginia was Joseph Benton VanMetre Marker 35 of Martinsburg killed late Saturday afternoon on the Kelley Island Road between State Route 9 and the Municipal Airport. He suffered a crushed chest and may have died from drowning after his truck plunged through a bridge guard rail and turned over 30 feet below in Cold Spring Run, pinning his head underwater.
Senator Connally of Texas urged increased U S aid to Far Eastern countries to resist Communist influence. Secretary Acheson and Ambassador Jessup pressed the case before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stressing aid to China Formosa and Southeast Asia to bolster democratic governments and economies.
The Front Royal Theater Guild presented The Betrayal at Handley auditorium with a cast of 35 and strong sets and lighting. Douglas T. Smith, George Duncan, Ida Steele, John E. Davis Jr., Carolyn Cadden, and Judas role by Judge Elliott Marshall received standout notices while critics blamed concurrent public and church meetings for the small audience.
Thomas F. Murray of New York testified before the Senate House atomic committee on his fitness for the Atomic Energy Commission. He would join Sumner T. Pike as acting chair, with terms expiring next June 30 and a Strauss retirement due April 15. Murray, 58, is a Metro politan Engineering Co. president with over 200 patents and directorships at Chrysler and two New York banks.
Mrs Obelia M Lockhart 68 of 626 S Loudoun St died this morning after a nine week illness at Maplewood Nursing Home Born in Frederick County she was widow of Patrick W Lockhart daughter of Theodore F and Anna Te valt Gough She leaves brother Clifton C Gough and sister Mrs H A Orndorff of Winchester Funeral services set for Friday at 2 pm from Jones Funeral Home
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower travels to Washington to address the Senate Appropriations Committee about military budget needs for the coming fiscal year. He warned last week that the United States has disarmed too much and urged stronger defenses without detailing specifics.
Local Post Office staff Ryland Conner John Seal Eugene Goss and Clay Manuel attended a joint Alexandria Arlington Post Offices meeting in Alexandria Monday evening with about 300 attendees. Speakers included Congressman Miller of California and postal service veterans credits advocate William Doherty and association leaders D F Cullivan J J Keating and R B Kremer. The Northern Virginia District Association of Letter Carriers will meet in Harrisonburg at 7 p m Saturday with Kremer as speaker. local attendees listed.
Funeral service for Paul Bailey Adams 42 will be at 11 a m Friday at Omps Funeral Home with Rev C B Larrick officiating Interment follows at Oldne Church Cemetery White Hall Survivors include father J E Adams of White Hall two aunts Minnie Fries Washington DC and Jessie Shenholtz Springfield Ohio pallbearers Walter Anderson Wilmer Anderson Bruce Lodge Carlton Dyke Charles Brown Tom Brown
Upstate New York streams swollen by spring rains and melting snow flooded homes and farmland. A six year old boy drowned and an 11 year old was missing as the Genesee River flooded areas south of Rochester. Evacuations occurred in Wellsville and Geneva, with rivers like the Susquehanna and Chenango receding later in the day.
Committees from Pire Co. No. 1 and Hose Co. No. 4 of Harrisonburg fire companies met to plan the Northern Virginia Firemen’s Association convention set for June 21 22 and 23 in Harrisonburg. Lieut. C. W. Fuller of the Virginia State Police is invited as guest speaker for the June 22 business session. A band contest is planned for June 22 with entries via Lawrence Oliver Box 645 Harrisonburg. The grand parade will start at 7 p m Friday June 23 featuring many fire companies from Northern Virginia and elsewhere.
A man attacked a mother and her daughter at a large Barrow family home on a 500 acre farm near Lanett. Officers say robbery is likely the motive and there was no sign of rape. The younger woman, beaten and bleeding, crawled to a neighbor for help after encountering the assailant who stood over them with a pistol.
State Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. will headline the Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon at 12 15 Friday in the George Washington Hotel. Campbell Jr. will introduce him and the Virginia Legislature will be the subject. Wildlife officials estimate Oregon deer elk antelope and bear at 654000.
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