Virginia apple crop trimmed to about ten million bushels
A. H. Teske of Virginia Polytechnic Institute told Frederick County Fruit Growers Association members that the 1949 Virginia apple harvest is now projected at about 10 million bushels, down from an earlier 12 million. He noted conditions in June and discussed labor recruitment and other orchard issues.
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Virginia
A. H. Teske
VPI
Frederick County
A. B. Groves
Winchester Research Laboratory
Wyatt Richard
Carroll Miller
Appalachian Apple Service
Brannan Administration
John Watson
Staunton
R. S. Graves
Virginia State Horticultural Society
Teske
WPI
North Carolina
Florida
WSES
Four-state apple yield may be below average
Four state area faces a smaller than average apple crop this year according to Appalachian Service estimates. Pennsylvania may yield 7.0 to 7.5 million bushels up from 5.5 million last year. Virginia trimmed to 9.0 million from 10.0 million. West Virginia about 3.25 million. Maryland near 1.0 million. Declines blamed on poor fruit set and hail damage across states. Growers adopted last year’s Appalachian Apple Service budget for promotional work.
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Martinsburg
Appalachiana Service
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Appalachian Apple Service
Rita Hayworth Becomes Bride of Prince Aly Khan in France
Rita Hayworth, 31, wed Prince Aly Khan, 38, in a town hall ceremony in Vallauris performed by the local communist mayor. The couple, after a 10 month courtship, left in a grey Cadillac amid 500 villagers. A lavish reception at Chateau De L Horizon followed.
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Vallauris
France
Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Hollywood
Rita
Chateau de L ‘Horizon
Pringy
Aly
Aga Khan
Prince
Orleans-Braganza
Georges Catroux
Moscow
Sadri Aga Khan
the Aga
Garcon d
Shirley Bly Elected JCC President for Year
Shirley O Bly secretary of the Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce was elected president at a George Washington hotel meeting with over twenty attendees. She defeated three candidates including dentist William Schenck and Jack Ireland, and was one of several officers chosen for the coming year. The next JCC gathering is June 10.
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Shirley O. Bly
Winchester
Howard Melton
Ely
William Schenck
Bill Battaile
JCC
Jack Ireland
Malden Electric Co
Joseph Massie
William Sullivan
B. M. Sullivan Real Estate
Dabney Watts
Sargent and Watts Law
Melton
Sullivan
J. Kenneth Robinson
Duke
Massie
Ford Peace Bid Terms Rejected in 23 Day Strike
DETROIT May 27 A company peace bid to settle the Ford strike was rejected by the CIO United Auto Workers. Ford proposed arbitration of work standards on disputed lines in two plants focusing only on health or safety under the Ford UAW contract. The union demanded arbitrator power over excess over 100 percent of normal work standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford
CIIO
United Auto Workers
Ford- Uaw
State Department Overhaul Adds Five Top Officials
Five new assistant secretaries join the State Department under a Truman approved overhaul aimed at easing Acheson’s burden and speeding policy work. The plan creates deputy undersecretary posts for political and administrative affairs with Edward Miller, George Perkins, George McGhee, W. Walton Butterworth, John Hickerson taking key regional roles and George Kennan joining as counsellor.
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Washington
State Department
Acheson
Truman
Congress
Hoover Commission
Paris
United States
Hoover Commission On
James E. Webb
Tru- Man
Dean Rusk
John E. Peurifoy
Edward G. Miller
New York
George W. Perkins
Economic Cooperation Administration
George C. McGhee
Waco
Texas
W. Walton Butterworth
New Orleans
United Nations
John D. Hickerson
Crawford
Tex
Adrian 8. Pisher
Memphis
Tenn
The
Atomic Energy Commission
George F. Kennan
Rusk and Peurifoy
Willard L. Thorp
Zinc Hill zinc ore discovery draws major attention near Timberville
Exploration of a zinc bearing dolomite vein on Weatherholtz farm four miles north of Timberville shows a vein four feet thick at 43 feet depth with ore assays over 60 percent zinc center and 25 percent at edges. New Jersey Zinc Co and the U S Bureau of Mines have sent geologists and engineers to evaluate. caching and concentration plans near Palmerston plant aim to ship ore by truck.
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W Il
Weatherholtz
Timberville
Winchester
Timberville Mining Co
New Jersey Zinc Co
U. S. Bureau of Mines
C. H. Brown
N. J. Zinc Co
Ivanhoe
J. H. Savage
North Mountain
Massnutten Mountain
Mt. Jackson
Shenandoah County
Palmerton
Penna
Allentown
R. L. McCann
Palmerton Refining Plant
Right to Work Suit Docketed in U S Court
Richmond May 27 A case testing Virginia's right to work law was docketed for June in the State Supreme Court. Claude F. Finney and others v Harley A Hawkins stems from a $340 claim over employment loss due to union membership refusal. The Virginia anti closed shop act is challenged after a circuit court overruled a demurrer and awarded Hawkins $330.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Supreme Court of
Claude F. Finney
Harley A. Hawkins
Elizabeth City County
Hawkins
Minnie B. Flint
Newport News Building and Construction Trades
Five Day Weather Outlook May 28 to June 1
Temperature will average three to five degrees below normal with a cool Saturday and warmer Sunday and Monday. Then cooler Tuesday and Wednesday. Showers are possible Saturday and late Monday or Tuesday. Total precipitation about three quarters of an inch.
Miley Appointed Clarke Principal
C. E. Miley Jr. of Boyce is named principal of Clarke County's newly created Berryville high school consolidation serving grades ten through twelve. D. G. Cooley retires as Berryville high school principal. Miley and Cooley will share duties while Miller searches for a site for the new consolidated high school.
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C. E. Miley Jr
Boyce
Clarke County
Berryville
State Board of Education
Clarke Board
Miley
D. G. Cooley
Jefferson County
Charles Town
Boyce High
Fairfax County
Roanoke College
Billye Milnes
Rippon
W. Va
New Consolidated School
A. Garland Williams
Cooley
G. Tyler Miller
Frederick PTA Council Delays Naming Officers
Frederick county PTA council, now forming, spent hours revising by laws at a courthouse meeting and postponed officer elections for one week. By laws go to State PTA executive secretary Dr. Abner Robinson for approval. Courthouse session at 8 p.m. next Thursday will adopt them and elect county council officers.
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Frederick County
PTA Council
PTA
Abner Robinson
R. E. Ayler
O. R. Zigler
Miller School
Anna Baughman
E. F. Smith
Paul Barnett
Henry Brown
Bryarley
Wilbur Tidler
Kernstown
John Coe
J. W. Sumption
A. L. LaFollette
Armel
Virgil L. Hudson
James Sawyer Jr
Frank W. Fogle Jr
R. E. Hollis
Gore
Clarke Historical Group Plans Summer Frederick Tour
Clarke County Historical Association schedules the first summer tour departing Berryville courthouse at 2 PM Monday. The itinerary includes Winchester and Frederick County sites such as Jordan Springs Hollingsworth home and George Washington’s headquarters. A 25 cent adult 10 cent child fee covers transport and the full afternoon visit. transportation can be arranged if requested by tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke County Historical Assn
Court House
Berryville
Winchester
Frederick County
Jordan Springs
Hollingsworth
George Washington
British Court Frees Eisler Extradition Plea Denied
British Bow Street magistrate refused to extradite Gerhart Eisler to the United States, finding no conviction that met extradition grounds. Eisler,称 America’s No 1 communist agent, walked free and said he would go to Germany for a professorship in Leipzig. The case left Eisler free to pursue life in the Soviet zone while Washington vowed to press further on the matter.
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London
Britain
Gerhart Eisler
United States
Bow Street
Eisler
America
Germany
University of Leipzig
Laurence Dunne
House un-American Activities Committee
U. S
Julius Holmes
Home Office
U. S. Washington
Tom Clark
England
West Drafts Plan For German Unity
Western Powers draft a plan to unite East and West Germany. The blueprint seeks German control of political and economic affairs while limiting Soviet involvement to security and demilitarization, and it demands Russia concede reparations and dissolve eastern industrial trusts. Officials expect the plan to be presented to the Russians within days.
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Paris
West
Germany
Dean Acheson
Robert Schuman
Ernest Bevin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
Knights Templar Ascension Day Service Sunday
Knights Templar commandery of Winchester will hold an Ascension Day service at Grace Lutheran church Sunday at 7:30 PM with more than 125 members expected from Martinsburg Shepherdstown Harrisonburg Luray The Plains and Culpeper joining local members The procession forms at city hall at 7 PM in full templar uniform led by a band Reverend William E Eisenberg host church pastor will speak on A Throne for the King after the service refreshments will be served in the Masonic Temple banquet room by Eastern Star Mr and Mrs Eisenberg and the Lutheran choir will attend arranging officials include Ros A Larrick J Scott Atkinson and Laurens P Jones.
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Winchester
Knights Templar
Grace Lutherar Church
Martinsburg
Shepherdstown
Harrisonburg
Luray
the Plains
Culpeper
Jack K. Jenkins
City Hall
Templar
William E Eisenberg
Masonic Temple
Loudoun St
Eastern Star
Eisenberg
Ros A. Larrick
J. Scott Atkinson
Laurens P. Jones
Yost to Build On Tennyson Ave
Jacob H. Yost of 113 Morgan Street, cashier of Farmers and Merchants National Bank, is granted a building permit for a two story brick dwelling at 614 Tennyson Ave costing about 13000 dollars. A permit is also issued to Mrs. John Steck of 312 Fairmont Ave. for a rear double garage valued at 300 dollars.
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Jacob H. Yost
Morgan St
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Tennyson Ave
John Steck
Fairmont Ave
Negro candidates enter Petersburg JP race in two wards
Peters burg in the Third and Sixth wards sees Harold L. Stewart an electrician and James A. Jackson an undertaker become the first Black contenders for justice of the peace in years.
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Petersburg
Justice of the Peace
Petesburg
Harold L. Stewart
James A. Jackson
Butter prices cut by a cent at local creameries
Local creameries reduce butter down one cent bringing retail price to 66 cents and butterfat price to 51 cents. The move tightens margins for sellers and affects household purchases in the region.
Republicans Deny Politics Rules Fight on Lilienthal
President Truman denounces AEC criticism as pre election behavior while Senator Hickenlooper and Senator McMahon insist no politics is involved. McMahon defends the atomic program and questions AEC bomb stockpile disclosure amid ongoing inquiry.
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Lilienthal
Washington
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
AEC
Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Hickenlooper
Ohio
Senate
Iowa
McMahon ‘Dconn
Senate House Atomic Committee
McMahon
Berlin Rail Strike Paralyzes City Food Supply
Berlin faces a severe transport halt as a westerly rail strike stalls all movement. Eastern sectors tap scarce three week stocks while Allied airlift continues to supply the city, with Western Berlin pleading for continued relief amid mounting shortages.
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Berlin
Richmond CWA Elects Atkinson President In Labor Split
Virginia telephone workers reelected Alfred W. Atkinson of Richmond as president. Edwin L. Evanson, VP, to attend a National Labor Relations Board hearing at Baltimore over CWA CIO affiliation and the withdrawal of recognition by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Banks announce holiday closures next week.
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Richmgwny
Virginia Telephone Workers
CWA
Alfred W. Atkinson
Richmond
Edwin L. Evanson
Betimore
National Labor Relations Board
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Sam's Cash Grocery
Kent St
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Middletown
Front Royal
Midletown
Supreme Concrete
J. H. Huff
N. Loudoun
Rita In Blue
Prince Aly
Grubbs Studios
MR. Bly
Margarita Cansino
Brooklyn
Paul Derigon
Derigon
Zinc Hill
New Jersey Co
U.S
Clarke
Boyce Man
Consolidated School
MR. Miley
Clarke Historical Group
Frederick Points
Yost
BY Jack Bell
West Germany
Yar
Ernst Reuter
Ral Union
Reichsbahn
George P. Hays
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