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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1956
Page
4
Classified display ads list multiple rental offerings including furnished and unfurnished three room apartments in downtown and private homes. Listings show contact numbers MO 2 with dates and notes on amenities such as heat hot water and parking.
Multiple classified ads list items for sale including 250 bushels cider apples with hauling, 12 Hereford cattle plus a bull and heifers, a medium iron safe from Miller & Lewis Fruit Co, a new mattress and linoleum rugs, 15 pigs about 10 weeks old, navy hammocks and various tents tarps and tarpaulins from A and N Store. Contact details and dates included where provided.
Walnut caneer dining room suite in excellent condition with table six chairs buffet and china closet. Phone MO 2 8331.
Help wanted for a Rhode Rt 622 Bloomfield Virginia project six miles south of Round Hill and twenty five miles from Winchester. Positions include two truck drivers and four laborers. 50 hour week five days with 142 time after 40 hours. Apply superintendent at Moyer Construction Co. May 22 1931.
Winchester and Frederick County Chapter of the American Red Cross voted to end its six year swimming program. The decision followed a 1956 drive that reached $13,992 of a $16,500 goal. Only 1,574 of 32,000 residents gave $1 or more to the Red Cross. The pool, instructors, and teaching costs led to the curtailment despite the program's relatively small cost.
Radford Virginia labor and management plus a federal mediator met again to end a six day old strike at the Radford Arsenal. About 2,300 production workers walked out after the old contract expired and the plant remains shut down. The union seeks a seniority clause and a wage boost that would keep the arsenal aligned with Hercules plants elsewhere.
Promotion materials and awards could not be carried at the expense of compulsory services such as services to the Armed Forces Disaster and Blood programs. Last year over 800 children were taught swimming by Red Cross Instructors within the Chapter jurisdiction and the members of the Board realize that a decision to discontinue this instruction is grave and made only as an absolute necessity.
In Mexico City Judge Jimenez Sierra ruled that unguarded food left in the streets may be deemed abandoned to the public domain. Two men from a poor area were charged with robbing government food supplies after admitting to taking several handfuls of beans spilled from a railway car.
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