City Council Approves 1952 Fiscal Budget Amid Tax Increase
The 1952 budget outline, approved Thursday night, reflects a 25 cent tax rate rise from $1.65 to $1.90. The itemized figures cover entire departments and omit odd cents for simplicity.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1951
Page
3
The 1952 budget outline, approved Thursday night, reflects a 25 cent tax rate rise from $1.65 to $1.90. The itemized figures cover entire departments and omit odd cents for simplicity.
Across clues hint at scientific box terms and title divisions. Down clues cover dry Hebrew measures eggs rodents and choice groups with a mix of terms and wordplay.
Cattle and hogs show varied week-to-week changes with steers and heifers mostly steady to higher in New York while Chicago buyers report mixed gains and losses across weights. Spring lambs and sheep trend lower with strong wholesale bids for select shorn lambs and ewes moderating. New York stocks drift lower as farm implement shares slip after a production-rule decision.
Carl J. Renner, 50, of Route 3 died Monday. Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home by Rev. Robert Bradford. Interment followed at Mount Hebron. Pallbearers included Earl Cuthbert, Arthur Seabright, Hugh Bill, Harry Anderson, Willis Anderson, and Tony Francis.
Lot summaries show wooled ewes at 19.00 per head and bucks at 22.50 and 19.00, reflecting a seasonally curtailed supply and reduced bidding.
Braddock Street Methodist Church marks Mother's Day with three services. At 11:00 mothers receive roses and solos by a 90-voice combined choir. Infant baptism to be performed at 2:30 by Dr. Wm. Archer Wright. Evening service at 7:30 features the Intermediates and Crusaders Choirs with主题 Mothers Are People and My Mother's Old Bible Is True.
Funeral services for Edgar B. Smoke 78 who died Tuesday at his home Opequon were held Friday at 11 at Jones Funeral home by Rev. E. B. Smith and Rev. Robert Bradford. Interment followed in St. Paul Cemetery at Opequon with pallbearers Howard Lamp Burton Ritter Ray Ebersole Newton Snapp John Smoke and Paul Smoke Jr.
Chicago board of trade opening shows mixed moves with May wheat at 2.40 3-4, July 2.43 1-2-3-4, September 2.46-45 7-8, December 2.48 34-49. May corn 1.77 7-8, July 1.80 3cne, September 1.78 3-8-1-4, December 1.66. May soybeans 2.02, July 1.97, September 3.18 1-4, November 2.94 1-2, January 2.96 1-2. Lard September 17.82, October 17.20-26, November 16.80.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln occurred at Ford’s Theatre on April 14 1865 marking one of the most pivotal events in American history as the nation grappled with loss and national tragedy.
The Blue Ridge Shrine Club met at Hotel Strasburg with 57 nobles present. After a chicken dinner President M. B. Clowe, Sr. opened the meeting as Dr. Allen Hawthorne spoke on Socialized Medicine referencing his Europe trip. A Ladies Night is planned for Hotel Mimslyn in Luray. A. B. Honts urged the upcoming ceremonial on June 9 in Richmond.
Former Vice President Wallace denied during Senate hearings that he urged Communists be taken into Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. He cited a 1949 White Paper noting a possible suggestion as early as 1944, mentioned during discussions about General MacArthur.
Funeral services for Louella Joyce Grove age 36 who died in Washington were held Friday at 4 o clock at Jones Funeral Home led by Rev Robert A Whit ten and Rev Paul Dick Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery Pallbearers named Milton Lut trell Paul Stultz Walter Samp son W E Guthridge Hugh Brill and Wilton Chapman
The line “The better the day, the better the deed” is attributed to William Shakespeare? No, it was first used by the English dramatist Thomas Middleton (1570 1627) in his play The Phoenix, though prevalence varies.
Rogge denied claims of inexcus able neglect of a client's defense to perjury charges. Harold Christoffel, former head of the CIO United Auto Workers local, faced a two to six year sentence after falsely swearing to the House Labor Committee that he had never been a Communist. The court action was labeled wrong by Christoffel.
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