Congressional Leaders Delay Decision on adjournment Until Next Week
Senate Leader Lucas and House leaders postponed choosing when to adjourn Congress after White House talks with President Truman. They expect to decide next week amid pressure from re election campaigns and ongoing debates over fair deal measures and security, tax, and arms programs.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Lucas
White House
Truman
Barkley
House
McCormack
Mass
Rayburn
Texas
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Senator Wherry
Nebraska
Wherry
Teen-Ager Contest Under Way in Winchester Virginia
The Miss Teen-Agers of 1950 contest is underway at the Winchester Fur and Eight Club in Northern Virginia. Thirty-one entrants aged 13 to 19 have been received with hopes for at least 75 contestants by June 23 at Handley High School. Winners will receive three loving cups and a display at Clowe’s Cherry Store. proceeds support teen activities via the Forty and Eight. A post contest buffet and dance follow at the Winchester Armory.
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Winchester Fury
Northrn Virginia
Leroy Cahill
Martinsurge
Handley High School
Clowe
Enerry
Real Veterans
Inchester Armory
Russells
Presbyterians Oppose Catholic Marriage Terms and Euthanasia
The Presbyterian Church U S A adopted a resolution opposing Catholics marrying under Catholic conditions and banning euthanasia. The 162nd General Assembly urged ministers to inform members of the stance and recommended unity with the Protestant Episcopal Church on the issue. A separate resolution clarifies marriage of divorced persons for later assembly action in 1952.
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Cincinnati
Presbyterian Church
Special Commission On
162Nd
General Assembly
Protestant Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
Chester
Presbytery
Lions to Elect Petrie President in Stephens City
Stephens City Lions Club will elect officers at a 7:15 dinner meeting in the Fire House. David C. Petrie is slated for president with no other candidates after nominations closed May 9. New term begins July 1 with a slate led by nominating chair James W. Galladay.
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Stephens City
Stephens City Lions Club
David C. Petrie
H. E. Massie
C. M. Terault
H. T. Green, Jr
A. R. Marks
Alfred L. Snapp
James W. Richard
H. D. Lovett
Julian C. Gregory
Marks
Ralph Bauserman
J. D. Brumback
P. E. Lineburg
James W. Galladay
Robert E. Ayler
Douglas B. Haines
Winchester to raise 500 for cerebral palsy drive
Winchester seeks 500 dollars for the United Cerebral Palsy Association annual campaign with 175 for Frederick County and 140 for Clarke County. District committee members include Vincent Catozella of O Sullivan Rubber Co and Mrs Ronald Wilson of Winchester. local chairman is Robert Grove. Virginia Cerebral Palsy Assn aims 64000 dollars for local use.
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Winchester
United Cerebral Palsy Association
Frederick County
Clarke
Vincent Catozella
O'Sullivan Rubber Co
Ronald Wilson
Robert Grove
O’sullivan Rubber Co
Virginia Cerebral Palsy Assn
Wage meeting held in New York under union contract clause
Representatives of the CIO Textile Workers Union of America and American Viscose Corp met in New York today to discuss a wage reopening clause under their current contract.
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New York
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
American Viscose Corp
Art exhibit at Handley School gallery draws 100 plus visitors
More than a hundred visitors viewed 30 water color paintings loaned from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at Handley School. The show featured works by John Whorf, Richard Lahey, and local students, with prizes by AAUW announced on WINC at 6 30 p.m. Visitors came from Maryland and nearby states, with several out of town guests. Paintings from the museum will return to Richmond Saturday. primary and elementary works come down Wednesday, advance class remains until May 29.
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Handley School
Chevy Chase
Kensington
Cumberland
Ellicott City
St. Denis
Portland
Bridgton
Washington, D. C
Akron
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
John Whorf
Richard Lahey
Harpers Ferry
AAUW
WINC
Richmond
Boy 10 Fatally Struck by Golf Ball in Manchester
Authorities sought the identity of a golfer after a bullet-line golf drive struck 10 year old William McGuire at Derryfield Country Club. He died yesterday from brain laceration and skull fracture after the incident. He leaves parents Edward and the siblings.
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Manchester
N. H
William McGuire
Derryfield Country Club
Rainmakers Spark City Dither Over NYC Weather
New York residents debate who controls rain Dr Wallace E Howell of Harvard or nature. The professor faced questions at a Hudson Valley Institute meeting while resort owners and farmers express concern about floods and weather impacts amid several wet weeks.
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New York
New York City
Harvard
Wallace E. Howell
New Jersey
Hudson River Palisades
Howell
Hudson Valley
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Pennsylvania
Bigamy Suspect Pleads Not Guilty In Court Here
Boyd Elwood Jenkins alias Robert Elwood Jenkins indicted by a Corporation Court grand jury on a bigamy charge and pleads not guilty before Judge Elliott Marshall. Trial set for June 27. Other indictments include Melvin J. Michael for grand larceny and Minor A. Haney alias George Clark for printing fake payroll checks.
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Boyd Elwood Jenkins
Robert Elwood Jenkins
Corporation Court
Elliott Marshall
Fred I. Brumback
Melvin J. Michael
Minor A. Haney
George Clark
Red Line Trucking Co
Baltimore
Pennsylvania
Michael
Joseph Ritter
George Conard
Melvin Whitlock
Highland Ave
John Rice
Jenkins
Dorothy Jeanette Orndoff
Kattie Lee Fleshman
Frederick County
Circuit Court
Katie Lee Fleshman
Route 3
Winchester
Samuel and
Valley Brown Jenkins
Virginia Denies Maryland Distributors Alcohol Permits For Colonial Beach
Virginia Alcohol Board refused permits for two Maryland firms to haul beverages into the state to supply a gambling ship and off shore piers at Colonial Beach. Spokesman says the move aims to block practices seen as distasteful to locals, despite potential legality under Maryland law. Colonial Beach officials plan to press Governor Battle for aid to curb offshore gambling and alcohol sales tied to the Pleasure Island ship.
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Richmond
Virginia
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Maryland
Colonial Beach
Potomac River
Samuel Vacchiano
la Plata
Richmond News
Vacchiano
Cleveland F. Hardesty
Battle
Norman F. Brewington
George F. Mason
Potomac
Pleasure Island
Emergency Civil Defense Plan Begun for Bomb-Worried Cities
Washington civil defense officials announce a summer plan to guide cities on using existing manpower and resources in an emergency. Special surveys in Washington Seattle and Chicago will assume an atom bomb strike and test a fill-in program before a permanent plan by September 1.
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Washington
National Securities Resources Board
NSRB
Seattle
Chicago
Eric Biddle
NLRB
Strangling Victim Buried in Berkeley Springs
Authorities buried the strangled woman found May 10 near Berkeley Springs. A mushroom hunter located a redhead in the West Virginia bank of the Potomac River opposite Manock Maryland. She had rope marks and had been dead at least a day up to four. more than a thousand people viewed the body to help identify her.
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Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Key
West Virginia
Potomac River
Mancock
Detroit GM, UAW Announce New Contract for 260000 Workers
General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers report negotiators reached a new contract for GM workers totaling about 260,000 members. The agreement covers wages benefits and job security with details to be finalized.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers
New Interest in Amerasia Case Stirs Congress Now
Congress debates revived Amerasia Magazine wartime theft case amid McCarthy infiltration charges. Tydings promises full story as Hobbs defies secrecy, revealing past witnesses and alleged cover ups linked to State Department and OSS.
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Amerasia
Congress
Washington
Tydings
D-Md
Amerasia Magazine
Senate
McCarth
State Department
McCarthy
Brooks
Hobbs
Frank Bielaski
Office of Strategic Services
OOS
Brooks-Bielaski
Amergasia Magazine
New York
Philip Jaffe
Roth
Emmanuel Larsen
John S. Service
Jaffe
Larsen
Service
Brown
Robio
Protests Charge Soviet Breach of Postwar Pledges Over East German Police
The United States Britain and France protested Moscow accusing Russia of forming a 50000 strong German force with military training and weapons in Eastern Germany. They urged its immediate dissolution and cited Yalta pledges as broken. Secretary Acheson to brief Congress next week on the decision.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Germany
Yalta
London
State Acheson
Bevin
Schuman
Soviet Zone
Berlin
West Berlin
Ernest Reuter
Free
Acheson
Congress
Library of Congress
State Department
Pacific
Inspekteur
Wilhelm Zaisser
Czechoslovakia demands U S diplomats cut in Prague
Prague officials urged Washington to reduce the U S diplomatic staff in Prague to four or five officers as part of unnamed tensions. The request underscores growing friction between Prague and Washington amid Cold War strain.
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London
Czechoslovakia
United States
Prague
Train Whistles That Play Tunes on B and O Line
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad installed musical chime whistles on one train and added single chime units on eight yard engines to reduce noise for nearby residents. The company plans more. They claim the chimes imitate a traditional whistle while remaining at a constant volume, trading personality for anonymity.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Ghott
Casey Jones
Casey
Tennessee
B &O
New York
Jeay
Fun Festival Buses Aid Edge of City Event
Winchester Kiwanis Club hosts Spring Fun Festival on the Ashby Sprint Property near Willow Lawn Swimming Pool with free parking and frequent bus service. The event runs nightly from 7 to 11 p.m through Saturday with free rides for News Boys tonight from 7 to 7 30. A Saturday matinee starts at 1 30 p.m with reduced child rates. equipment includes a Ferris Wheel and a Merry Go Round. Kiwanis members Roeard Cather Jr. Albert Hillyard Ronald Aire William Rooker and Charles A. Pine are listed.
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Winchester Kiwanis Club
Ashby
Willow Lawn
Valley Pike
Winchester
Kiwanis Club
Sant Roeard Cather Jr
Albert Hillyard
Ronald Aire
Wiliam Rooker
Charles A. Pine
Damaged Trailer Hauled Away After Run Near Kernstown
An Associated Transport trailer, toppled by roofing, was pulled to Baltimore after leaving the highway south of the Associated relay station near Kernstown. Trooper Lawrence Coverstone said it rolled over in a field on a straight stretch of road. A second Mason Dixon truck collided with an oncoming 1940 Plymouth coupe driven by Alma Stoddard of Pittman Center Tennessee, demolishing the car. Mrs. A. J. Edwards of Charleston South Carolina injured with a bruised knee. A Harrisonburg man drove the tractor-trailer involved.
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Kernstown
Baltimore
Bristol
Lawrence Coverstone
James Kincaid
Mason Dixon
Alma Stoddard
Pittman Center
Tenn
A. J. Edewards
Charleston
Harrisonburg
No U S Troops To Be Used In North Atlantic Defense
Washington officials said the administration is reconsidering bolstering NATO defenses with American troops. Vice President Barkley proposed the possibility of American occupation forces in future, while other officials called it speculative and not yet proposed in formal plans.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Britain
Barkley
New Orleans
Five day Virginia outlook shows warmer midweek
The Virginia forecast runs tomorrow through Sunday, May 28, with temperatures averaging two to six degrees above normal. Warm Wednesday and Thursday give way to cooler conditions Friday and Saturday, then a warming trend Sunday. Showers are expected Thursday and Sunday, totaling about half an inch of rain.
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Virginia
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