Opening Day Antics Return at Cold Stream Run
A West Virginia trout opener at Duncan's cabin on Cold Stream Run features Red Royston attempting a home made floating contraption while Bill Duncan, Tom Polhamus and others fish the 12 foot wide stream. The piece notes this will be the last year of a seasonal opening as West Virginia moves to year round fishing and recalls the pre dawn camaraderie and trout harvest amid rain, wildlife and stories from the camp.
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Capon
W. Va
Bill Duncan
Tom Polhamus
Hamp Flowers
Glenn Weldon
Jack Davis
Charlie Hofer
Red Royston
Duncan
Red
Edward’s Run
West Virginia
Bill
Europe
Tom
Charlie
Dillon
Winchester
Capon Bridge
Rifle Talk by Harry Stebbins
After a three week shutdown the junior rifle club schedules a Friday 7 p.m. meeting at the armory range. The ladies club fires today at 7 30 p.m. Membership remains open for the ladies but the junior club has a waiting list. Four or five senior marksmen plan to go to Quantico for trials for the State 30 caliber outdoor rifle team. Bert Rollins likely to captain the team, last year among six top civilian military riflemen in the nation.
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Armory
Quantico
Manassas
Bert Rollins
United States
Game Groups To Decide on Hunting Rules
The Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries meets in Richmond Friday at 9 30 a m to review proposed hunting season changes and bag limits for fall led by Executive Director Chester F Phelps A major change would impose a buck only bag limit for most Piedmont and Central Tidewater counties with four eastern counties closed to fall turkey hunting Additional seasonal limits and closures vary by county and the public may attend the session in the Game Commission Office Conference Room.
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Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Richmond
Chester F. Phelps
Piedmont
Tidewater
Chester F. Phalps
Inland Fisheries Sets Fall Bag Limit Discussion
Inland Fisheries will meet to consider proposed bag limits for this fall. Executive Director Chester F. Phalps outlined the plan and emphasized reviewing season rules and harvest quotas with panel input.
California seeks workers to harvest strawberry crop crisis
California steps up recruitment across classrooms kitchens and Army sites as a labor shortage threatens a million-dollar strawberry harvest in Salinas Valley. Growers blame Wirtz federal policy while officials consider foreign workers and student and soldier volunteers to ease the shortage.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
O. W. Fillerup
Council of California Growers
Fillerup
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
U. S
Thomas L. Pitts
Afl-Cio
Albert Tieburg
Alan Pattee
Salinas
Tieburg
Ft. Ord
Congress
Development of Science Held Hazard
Dr. T Marshall Hahn Jr president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute warned at the Edison Electric Institute convention that rapid science and technology growth threatens safety unless education keeps pace. He said tomorrow’s workers must be grounded in fundamentals and capable in yet unseen areas as knowledge doubles roughly every ten years. He urged immediate investment in education at all levels to meet future demands.
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Miami Beach
Fla
T. Marshall Hahn Jr
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Hahn
Edison Electric Institute
Earthquake Damage Now Estimated at 15 Million
State officials raised the Puget Sound quake damage estimate from 12.5 million to 15 million based on further input from local officials and the Army Corps of Engineers. The report notes ongoing assessments and regional impact.
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Olympia
Wash
Puget Sound
Department of Civil Defense
Army Corps of Engineers
Tobacco Growers Vote Today On New Control Plan
Washington AP reports flue-cured tobacco growers in six states Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama vote on a tighter Agriculture Department plan to curb surpluses. A two thirds vote is required for approval with a system of poundage sales limits and acreage allotments to replace free market marketing. The aim is to restrain this year’s crop to 1 126 000 000 pounds versus last year’s 1 382 000 000.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tobacco Industry
Attorneys Plan Appeal in NAACP Official's Case
West Virginia State NAACP President C An derson Davis will appeal to the Mercer County Circuit Court after a new trial request was denied by Judge Howard M Jarrett. Davis was convicted last month of fathering the illegitimate child with his former part time secretary Helen Carol Allen 24 of Bluerfield.
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Princeton
W. Va
West Virginia
NAACP
C. Anderson Davis
Mercer County
Davis
Howard M. Jarrett
Helen Carol Allen
Bluerfield
Russian Fort Ross Founded Near San Francisco in 1812
A group of Russian fur traders established Fort Ross less than 100 miles north of San Francisco in 1812 and later sold the land in 1841 before leaving the area.
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Fort Ross
San Francisco
Calif
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Winchester Evening Star
Edward
Aeolus
God of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Perry Engineering
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