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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1950
Page
2
Lucy Baxter Kiwanians ready for a festival next week with an Arrangements Committee including Charles A. Pine F. Amos Shryock and Gordon Baxter. Festivities feature a merry-go-round octopus chair-a-plane kiddy rides and various attractions.
A school survey shows over 40 percent of students would rather watch TV programs than play. The star of the school conducted the findings, highlighting students' leisure choices.
A blaze in a kindling storeroom on the Kavanaugh Hotel’s basement level forced more than 100 guests to flee their rooms in night attire. Fire Chief Kenton Long estimated damage at 6000 dollars. night clerk Marvin Showalter was partly overcome as he helped awaken guests. The text also notes the Farallon Islands near San Francisco with a population of 30.
Lewis Whittaker 30 of Caro line County is charged with murder in the February 1947 slaying of Scott Roosevelt Beazley. He will be turned over to Caroline authorities on a warrant. State Trooper Frank Slater uncovered the case with jealousy cited as a possible motive. Beazley was found on State Route 41. originally blamed on a hit-and-run, later ruled a blunt instrument death.
Browder compared the annexation issue to the near liquidation of New England textile jobs. He warned the move could influence Dan River Mills' choice of site for a four million dollar rayon dyeing and finishing plant.
Harrisonburg report notes Timberville uncontested annexation petition for 6107 acres in Rockingham County approved yesterday by a special three judge court. County and 104 area residents did not attend. several Town Council members and one local resident testified in favor.
Abe Lawson aged 7 is improbably cited as found innocent in the crowbar slaying of Raymond, in Alexandria.
A sequence of auction and estate sale notices for the Winchester Virginia region. Listings include dates May 12 to June 10 detailing items from purebred cattle to furniture household goods real estate and antiques with estates at Lockhart Estate Berryville Stephens City and Rt 50 West front of Court House Winchester.
The Danville Pittsylvania County annexation dispute winds down as final witnesses testify. Richmond accountant T Coleman Andrews and Roanoke consulting engineer Edwin K Mattern appear as Dan River Mills witnesses opposing Danville's petition to annex 16 square miles including part of the Dan River plant. Basil D Browder, Dan River vice president, testified yesterday that annexing School field would raise costs.
New admissions include William Schenck son of Dr William Bchenck 1710 8 Washington St Virginia Sturm daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Sturm 1462 Grey Stone Terrace George E Pulley son of Mr and Mrs George Pulsy 1463 Grey Bennie G Strosnider daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Strosnid er Route 1 Mrs Cecil Bayliss 204 B Baker Sally Loving and Philip Loving children of Mr and Mrs Marvin Loving Strasburg G David Neeley son of Mr and Mrs George E Neeley Front Royal Phyllis M Friddle son of Mr and Mrs Charles Friddle Moorefield W Va David W Vance son of Mr and Mrs William Vance Moore Janet Faye Welch daughter of Mr and Mrs George Welch Up Perrville Mrs Alva O Everhart Opequon Mr Jack P Allder Bluemont Miss Mae Bowman Edinburg Mrs Mary Jackson Millville Neas
A jury of 11 white men and one Negro acquits Lawson, a 20 year Mutual Ice Plant worker, of killing Bryant Dodson, the plant engineer and boss, on November 29, 1949. Lawson testified he lied to police under fatigue and hunger. Browley, another Negro, testified of plans to slug Dodson for pay envelopes, and Browley pleaded guilty to robbery with murder charge dropped.
A. S. Hewitt sold a group of thoroughbreds in a major blood stock deal to Ernst Farm of Lexington Kentucky. The consignment included Phalanx Belmont Stakes winner and Jacob, a half-sister to Johnstown, with over 75 horses in the sale. price not disclosed. Phalanx earned 409235 across 13 wins and was a Whitney farm stud.
The quiz solution lists Havana as Q1 and Baltimore Md as Q2. It notes many 5 to 4 decisions are rendered, names Gereth Burgess, and marks true for Q5. It deciphers a quote about she not saying she would go, cites British auto manufacturers, defines salt as a compound of sodium and chlorine, identifies Bulls, and notes "Tommies" as Q10.
The Post Office Department records a former Iowa post office named Hohenzollern established January 6, 1891. It changed to Schleswig on November 16, 1899 and remains in operation under Schleswig.
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