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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1952
Page
2
In Middlesbrough a church group led by Rev. Cyril Kettle plans 50 young churchgoing women to tempt sailors as a counter to painted waterfront girls. The scheme aims to redirect sailors to a seamen’s mission where dancing, meals, and conversation follow the enticement. Joan Tweed, 23, says the plan has been tested and works.
Truce negotiators plan a decisive session tomorrow to hear the Communist reply to the UN package for a Korean armistice. Reds request a full-dress session after reviewing the Allied plan. key sticking points include prisoner exchange and Soviet participation. The delay marks the longest break since October 25.
In the 1860s the federation then called the Kingdom of Canada faced objections. Leonard Ley, reading Psalm 72, noted dominion from sea to sea. The next morning he proposed Dominion of Canada and the name was accepted.
On the Korean front large artillery and naval guns clashed with Communist positions as the Western Front saw heavy fire near Munsan. The battleship Iowa shelled inland targets while the destroyer Fox exchanged fire with shore batteries. The Fifth Air Force reported 41 MiG-15s shot down in the month, with 38 Allied planes lost overall.
A late night non collision crash on Route 11 near the Redwood Tourist Camp sent three men to Memorial Hospital. J. D. Gordon of this city drove a 1939 Plymouth that rolled several times, were treated for cuts and bruises, and released. The car was a total loss.
About a million. Half of all animals known are insects, and entomologists agree that we probably know only 10 per cent of all kinds that exist on earth.
Chief J Thomas Boyd announces no parking on Clifford Cecil Piccadilly Loudoun Cork Braddock Piccadilly Washington Germain Stewart Handley Germain Gerard and related streets for the Grand Feature Parade. No double parking on Cork Kent Stewart and Monmouth for emergency access. A temporary by pass routes Route 11 from Valley Ave Hart to Cameron Bond Kent Wyck Cameron to town and Route 522 50 from east to Kent Gerrard Angerona Morgan Amherst to exit.
Six more Western Union outlets resume service in Virginia as the company states all state offices operated by Western Union personnel are now 100 percent open. The Tazewell office reopening makes Virginia the first Southern division state to reach full company staffing, though union leaders question the interpretation.
As early as 1660 George Fox and fellow Quakers declared they deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons for any end. The Society of Friends has reaffirmed this stance over time.
Sales Directory lists auctions for Hamp shire County West Virginia with real estate two miles east of Pleasant Dale May 3 11 a m Jacob H Pepper Estate front of Courthouse Edith Fries May 10 10 30 am six miles north of Winchester Rt 522 household goods May 9 1 p m Sporting Field Farm Capon Bridge Shorthorn cattle May 10 1 p m Shen Valley Shorthorn Breeders Assn Farmers Livestock Exchange Winchester Registered polled shorthorns May 24 1 p m Estate of William Lawrence Lindamood Stephens City Va furniture and household goods Byron Brumback auctioneer.
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Whiting of Clifton Forge travel to Winchester for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. This marks the 24th festival Mr Whiting has attended, missing only the first. Mrs. Whiting has missed two of the 25. They always reserve the George Washington Hotel room year after year. Mr. Whiting serves as vice president of Shenandoah Valley, Inc.
A Hobson survivor Lt(jg) B E Cummings was junior deck officer when the minesweeper collided with the carrier Wasp. Hobson sank Saturday in mid Atlantic. Lt Comdr W J Tierney disappeared with 175 crew lost. A naval court of inquiry in New York will examine orders and signals before the collision to explain the wreck.
Miss Janette Kelley of the Betty Crocker Department at General Mills Minneapolis will appear at the Square Dance tonight. She is joined by Mrs Mavis Gibbs homemaking editor of The Southern Planter and TV host on Adventures in Cooking. The event at Lup ton's Orchard Service Auditorium 560 N Loudoun St offers tickets at the door.
Tickets for all festival events are now sold at the gate or door. Jack Ireland, chairman of ticket sales, reports the advance office closed at 10 a.m. Dance tickets tonight and tomorrow night may be bought at the door, pageant tickets at the gate, and bleacher seats at the parade are sold at the bleachers if available.
Newspaper page lists quiz answers for readers including May flowers September Mississippi Moscow Switzerland Christopher Columbus a man s formal evening dress vitamin found in certain foods peace by extermination from the destruction of Carthage by the Romans and Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. The question asks why the Colosseum is...
The great amphitheatre was originally the Flavian Amphi theatre but became known as the Colosseum due to a colossal gilded bronze statue of Emperor Nero nearby. The statue stood about 117 feet tall.
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