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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1951
Page
2
In Richmond the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co and American Communications Workers failed to reach a new contract yesterday. The old agreement expired at midnight, leaving about 6,000 employees on the job under the terms of the expired pact.
May 23 to June 23 sales posted for Herbert 8 Trustee Sunnyside subdivision real estate. Estates of Edmonia Grim Minnie H Dellinger Jennie L Dwyer and others listed with dates times and locations near Winchester Stephens City Mt Falls and national avenues. Items include livestock farm equipment furniture and household goods.
Dr. Edgar Coley Garrard 43 of Salem Virginia a tuberculosis patient at Duke Hospital killed himself by slashing his wrists with a razor in Durham North Carolina He left a note to his wife Mary Elizabeth Slater Garrard saying he was incurable and wished to spare his family lingering illness and expense.
The sea plane tender Valcour collided with the collier Thomas Tracy five miles off Cape Henry killing five Navy men. Captain Valcour testified as investigators paused for the week.
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Two Republican Senators welcomed the reopening of loyalty investigations for hundreds of federal employees. They called it a necessary step to cleanse government workers and authorized heads, noting a policy change allows dismissal when loyalty doubts exist. Senator Ferguson urged the reinterpretation as a chance to purge disloyal employees.
Detroit report details a Cass Technical High School aviation club initiation turning 17 year old Douglas Brisbee into a human torch. Aluminum airplane dope painted on his upper body ignited from a spark from an electric shocking device. Instructors Arthur Elges and Carl Turnquist smothered the flames and rushed him to a hospital.
Lemuel Brown SPCA president announces Be Kind to Animals Week starting Monday as the 37th annual observance. Events include a mass meeting May 23 at the George Washington Hotel and a May 25 pet show at Virginia Avenue School with school talks and a membership booth on Loudoun Street.
Funeral services were held today for Moses Allen Robbins 56 mayor of Bodgesville and longtime town council member. Robbins died in a two truck crash late Thursday near Paw Paw and Cumberland Maryland.
More than 50 United States Army chaplains have received medals for heroism since the start of the Korean War. The recipients include chaplains from various units who performed courageous duties under fire, helping wounded soldiers and providing spiritual support amid combat conditions.
Britain offered to send a high ranking diplomat to Iran to negotiate an oil settlement over the nationalized Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Iranian leaders rebuffed the bid with Premier Mossadegh barricaded in parliament and feverish, as Britain pressed talks to amend the 1933 treaty while denying seizure.
About 120 boys and girls wearing belts and badges travel to Washington D C to join the annual School Patrol parade. They will attend a Washington Senators baseball game as part of a larger gathering of thousands from the mid Eastern States organized by the Washington baseball club and the American Automobile Association.
A 19 year old was sentenced to three months for false pretenses after a Vancouver store owner recognized his voice. The accused had previously tried to pass a counterfeit $1 bill as payment, aided by a blind proprietor who remembered the voice.
The Second Division repelled advancing Reds after rapid fire and heavy fire. Tanks rolled forward delivering withering fire and knocked out enemy positions within close machinegun range.
Miss Anna Elzabeth Snapp died minutes after the collision in Strasburg. She was born August 18 1908 and served Strasburg town employees for 26 years as clerk. Surviving siblings include Mrs Rickard Mrs Homan Frank and Elmer Snapp Mrs Staples and Mrs Hockman.
Louise Smoot Copp of Maurertown and Mrs. Louise Copp Snapp of Woodstock are named in separate notices. Copp’s funeral is planned at Strasburg Methodist Church with Rev. J. C. Murphy officiating, burial at Riverview Cemetery. Snapp, brother Ted William Snapp, died in 1918, with services at Delinger Funeral Home pending arrangements in Woodstock.
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