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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1952
Page
7
About 220000 guardsmen will train in 15 day encampments this year. Defense department says 210000 officers and men from 3500 ground units and 10000 men from all units will be in training in over 60 states or territories.
Classified display ads in the Star column charge 1.50 per column inch per day with a minimum. Cash accompanies out of town ads. Closing hours are 10 a.m. for same day publication if received at The Star Office.
Various up to date ads listing sales of farm chicks household goods tents sleeping bags and gear furniture stoves and appliances vehicles including a 1947 2 ton Ford pickup and multiple rental notices for apartments houses and rooms in Winchester and surrounding areas with contact details and prices where given
Female help wanted for dishwasher age 19 to 40 at Chanticleer Inn six days a week including Sunday. White Place Restaurant seeks waitresses over 21 apply in person no calls. Six women wanted for local telephone solicitation with details and box 53 Winchester Star. Powder Box Beauty Salon seeks experienced beautician at 6 W. Cork St.
Bath included with stove and refrigerator. heat and softener and hot water furnished. Adults only near school and hospital apply J H Riley phone 3534. Also for rent seven room apartment heat and hot water furnished in nice neighborhood 75 dollars phone 6500 for appointment. Modern three room apartment large living room fireplace heat hot water and laundry facilities furnished 60 dollars phone 4220.
Classified brief listing several wanted ads: nursing staff call 3363. Applewood Dimension stock mill seeks wood prices call Draper Corp Box 806 Winchester VA 6566. requests for newspaper and magazines pickup via phone 4777. home needed for seven puppies call 8616. home for 10 month old Spitz dog call SPCA 8616.
Free cleaning and storage and lining for fur coats converted to capes or toppers for fall. Public addresses by competent speaker with fee or per thousand word rate. Info Box 11 Winchester VA. Free Terminix inspection and termite control by W Armstrong Co. bonded insured. phone listed.
Penguins are native to Antarctic regions and are not found in the Arctic. A single species inhabits the Galapagos Islands, illustrating their limited distribution in the equatorial Pacific.
The Antique Automobile Club of America held its Tri Region Meet in Winchester with a parade and banquet at the George Washington Hotel. Awards in multiple classes honored restorations and unusual models, including a 1903 Holley and a 1925 Doble, with blue red and white ribbons awarded to various owners. About 101 people attended the hotel banquet.
City Softball League schedules four games for Monday May 26. National Fruit faces Toledo Scales on diamond 1 while No vick and O'Sullivan meet on diamond 2. J. W. Arthur plays Republic Oil on diamond 2 and Plumly versus R. C. Cola also on diamond 2.
The Coast Guard suspended the search for Magruder Dobie 39 a writer and State Department employee who vanished Friday night from a Newport News to Norfolk ferry boat. Dragging operations failed to locate the body near the river.
Talford Miller of Woodstock charged with drunkenness. George Crabtree, 53, of Fre mont Street, illegal sale of alcoholic beverages with a 154.25 fine and 12 months suspended sentence plus one year probation to obey ABC laws. Vincent Finnerty 25 Strasburg unnecessary noise for improper muffler fined 9.25. Robert Woltz 33 E Boscawen Street no operator license fined 10.25. Freman Riffey 25 540 N Loudoun Street assault and battery fined 30.25 with 60 day suspended sentence. Brook Jackson 42 Pools ville Md carrying concealed weapon fined 80.75 with 10 days in jail.
In Northern Indochina around Hanoi, Viet Minh forces focus on raiding Red River delta villages to seize rice while both sides pause major combat to harvest. Rice, a key exchange medium, drives optimism that this year’s harvest will exceed last year’s, with export potential noted.
Frank W. Jackson, formerly of Berryville, died at his Philadelphia home early Friday morning. His remains will arrive in Berryville Wednesday morning. He was born in Clarke County to Lewis and Mary Field Jackson. He is survived by a sister Marie Page of Berryville and three brothers Robert Jackson in Philadelphia Frank Lewis Jackson and Ellis Jackson. No arrangements have been made.
A shaft stands in Lorraine near where the first three American soldiers died in World War I on November 3, 1917. The fallen are Corp. J. B. Gresham of Evansville Indiana, Pvt. Thomas F. Enright of Pittsburgh, and Merle D. Hay of Glidden Iowa.
A 60 year old Happy Creek man, Thomas Cameron, sustained a concussion and cuts when he stepped into Millwood Ave and was struck by a 1951 Chevrolet. In a second crash on Kent St at Fairfax Lane, Margar ette Turner’s DeSoto was hit on the left rear fender by a Ford driven by W B Ford of Coldstream, West Virginia, with damage cited at 50 dollars for the DeSoto and 55 dollars for the Ford.
Keystone Tann, 34, Richmond Negro, was found guilty of robbing John and Alice Sibert at Fairmont Creamery on North Cameron Street on April 12. The jury fixed eight years in the penitentiary. Foreman Charles E. Murphy led the felony verdict. Tann and cousin Johnnie Tann, of Margretsville, N C, were indicted April 24. Johnnie pled guilty April 28 and awaits sentence.
The Moscow mouthpiece of East Germany condemns the Bonn governments policy as anti national while praising the pact. Eden first signed the contract followed by Schuman and Acheson with Adenauer last after eight months of negotiations to restore Germanys status in Europe.
The SPCA cannot take Clarke County animals because of numerous Frederick County calls. Contact number 8616 for details.
Western ministers completed a long negotiated contract yesterday after hours of talks to counter last minute French objections. They ignored a Russian demand for a four-power conference to draft a peace treaty for a united sovereign Germany, a move observers say could bolster opponents in Germany France and Britain.
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