Meet Your Star Carrier and Local Life of Benny Campbell
Benny Campbell a 14 year old highland avenue football hopeful and weekday carrier for the Winchester Evening Star carries his paper with helper Robert Greenwalt on a long route through Berryville Avenue Patterson and Battle Avenues and Virginia Avenue He plans to join the Navy at 17 with his mother s consent following his older brother Paul who is already in second term at Guantanamo Cuba Benny hunts camps and attends Highland Avenue Presbyterian Sunday School He saves his carrier pay for clothes and spends summers camping at White Rock near Capon Bridge West Virginia
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Benny Campbell
Bessie Campbell
Highland Avenue
Virginia Avenue
Benny
House Crowser
Hayfield
White Rock
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Highland Avenue Presbyterian
Navy
Paul
Guantanamo
Cuba
Robert Greenwalt
Piccadilly
Kerr Street
Berryville Avenue
Virginia
Patterson and
Battle Avenues
Ross Street
Conway Avenue
Atwell Street
West Virginia Avenue
Haker Knight
City Sees Eighth Straight Year Without Traffic Fatalities
Swampscott Massachusetts earns place among no death cities for 1950. The record notes the town completed its eighth consecutive year without a traffic fatality, part of a nationwide list listing cities over 10 000 population and their years without deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swampscott
Mass
Annual Sale Listings From Virginia Maryland Area
J Carl Coiner of Woodstock I Fred Stine of Winchester Lemuel Sutphin Jr of Warren and W W Turner of Leeb urg are among the consignors in the annual sale. Stock has been consigned from Virginia West Virginia and Maryland with the Winchester area providing the largest portion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Carl Coiner
Woodstock
I. Fred Stine
Winchester
Lemuel Sutphin, Jr
Warren
W. W. Turner
Leeburg
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
T rail first used by railroads in 1830s design by Stevens
The T rail now used by railroads was designed about 1830 by Robert L Stevens who served as president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Stevens
Camden and Amboy
New Jersey
Market Quotations and notes on Baltimore and Chicago prices
Market reports show dull apples and potatoes with bids up to mid 1.60s for Romes and Paragons, and strong prices for Del. Porto Ricans and Jersey-type sweet potatoes. Livestock trading is slow with cattle and hogs weak to steady, while Broadway is described as lacking legitimate theaters with only movie houses remaining on the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bkts
Usis Md
Porto
N. Bu
Hpr & Bu
Baltimore
USDA
Chicago
Broadway
New York
New York Stocks Dip Slightly Amid Broad Losses
The New York stock market eased overall with leaders trading lower. Oil stocks were down while steels motors and airlines also slipped. rails and chemicals mixed. Notable declines included Pennsylvania Railroad Standard Oil Gulf Oil Republic Steel and American Cyanamid. Nickel Plate and Union Pacific edged higher in thin trading.
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New York
Rock Island Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Standard Oil
Gulf Oil
Republic Steel
American Cyanamid
Union Pac
Chicago grains open with mixed Wheat and softer feed grains
Wheat advances and declines across May July and September contracts while corn and oats retreat modestly. Soybeans show steady Sep and Nov activity with several delivery months quoted. Rye and other grains display muted early mixed movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade
Jly
Local Markets Corrected Daily For Retail Commodities
Local markets update lists flour and corn meal prices by the 1b bag and yellow corn. Butterfat wholesale prices are noted, with a brief note on moisture content and standard quality terms.
Rita Hayworth seeks $3 million trust fund in divorce
New York reports Rita Hayworth intends to divorce Aly Khan after a two year marriage. Attorney Bartley Crum says she seeks no alimony but asks a $3,000,000 trust for daughter Yasmin to be raised as a Moslem, with Aly to fund and keep custody after age seven. Hayworth, who will rear Yasmin as Moslem, resides at Glenbrook Nevada. Rebecca, 6, is from Aly Khan marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Yasmin
Bartley Crum
Crum
Aly
Cru
Miss Hayworth
Brooklyn
Hollywood
Glenbrook
Nev
Lake Tahoe
French Riviera
Lausanne
Switzerland
Rebecca
Orson Welles
Agricultural Dept. Egg Market Prices
Prices paid in the Winchester area for No 1 fowl f.o.b. Show current listings for U S Grade C eggs and various fowl: Leghorn cocks 68k. white broilers turkeys 45c. No 1 breeder hens 32c. No 1 breeder toms 28-32c. young guineas 25c. old wanes 50c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Winchester
House Group Hikes Federal Gas Tax
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to raise the Federal gasoline tax from 112 cents to 2 cents a gallon, generating about 210 million dollars in revenue. The group also increased bowling alley and pool table levies from 20 to 25 per unit, while cutting the telegraph tax rate from 25 to 20 percent and rejecting a penny per bottle soda levy and a 20 percent manufacturers tax on candy and gum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Pocahontas Saves John Smith at Age Claim Questioned
The 1624 account in Generale Historie of Virginia claims Pocahontas, aged 13, saved John Smith by shielding him with her head from execution. Historians question the event’s accuracy and its details.
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Pocahontas
John Smith
J. C
Virginia
Warclub
Police Court Proceedings Show Multiple Drunkenness Cases
Ellis and Mackinan charged with drunkenness at city locations. Dodson, Bageant, and Hurst listed for drunkenness. Koontz and Strosnider face disorderly conduct and fighting at Patton's Dance Hall with terms. Strosnider given eight months suspended jail time and one year probation. Lowery charged with assault and battery on Strosnider with $25 fine.
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Marshall W. Koontz
Fort Myer
Patton
Edsel Hurst
Boyd W. Strosnider
Tence
Emily Anderson Lowery
Loudoun Street
Boyd Strosnider
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winchester Evening Star
John Singer Sarzent
Welch Library
Johns Hopkins Medical School
William Osler
Williams. Halstead
William H. Welch
Howard A. Kelly
Hopkins
Barr
James Campbell
Reed Shoes
Loudoun
Acation Trailways
Trailways
Usis
N. J
Ye & Staymans
Staunton
Waynesboro
Richmond
Norfolk VA. Beach
Lynchburg
Danville
Charl’te, N. C
Raleigh, N. C
N. Braddock St
Rita
Agricultural Dept
House Group
Ellis No
Haddox Row
Alva Mackinan
Roy W. Dodson
Alfred Bageant
N. Kent
Firestone
Firestone Stores
Packard
Packard Thunderbolt
America
Melton Motor Company
Loudoun St
Winchester, VA
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