Winchester observes Halloween with parade and mischief
Recreation Department reports a successful city Halloween observance with a parade through Cameron Piccadilly and Loudoun streets. Hundreds of spectators saw a band concert and magic show while pranks included soap and chalk on walls. Police logged a broader incident at West Clifford street where youths paddled a resident, and other small disturbances occurred. Items stolen include windshield wiper arms and a radio aerial.
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Cameron, Piccadilly
Loudoun Streets
Loudoun Street
Winchester Municipal Band
Great Rome
West Clifford Street
Otcers
Handley High School
Lee-Jackson
Handley
Covington
Hallowe'en
Russell Newcome
N. Stewart Street
H. C. Sheetz
S. Washington
Coleman Gore Farm Sells for 160000 in Leesburg Area
The Coleman Gore Dairy Farm four miles east of Leesburg sold to D A Richardson of New York City for about 160000. J G Holsinger and Son of Winchester arranged the closing. The 667 acre property includes a 102 cow dairy barn, herd of 135 Holstein and Guernsey cows, equipment, feed, four tenant houses, and a main dwelling. The new owner plans to keep it a dairy farm and may build new brick houses nearby.
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Virginia
Coleman Gore Damiry
Leesburg
D. A. Richardson
New York City
J. G. Holsinger
Coleman Gore
Loudoun County
Resigns Over Flowers Sparking City Hall Friction
Long Beach California November 1 Herman H Sherer city park superintendent resigns after friction with City Auditor Myrtle Gunsul over floral colors proposing yellow pansies while Gunsul preferred geraniums. Sherer, a nursery man of 50 years, cites tiredness of conflict.
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Long Beach
Calif
Herman H. Sherer
Myrtle Gunsul
Sherer
President Stops 19 Minutes At St. Louis Union Station
President Truman arrived by train at Union Station St Louis on schedule at 11 a m EST and appeared on the rear platform to greet a crowd. In a steady rain he shook hands with about 30 or 40 including Senator Frank P Bridges D Mo before his train departed for Kansas City 19 minutes later.
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ST Louis
Truman
Union Station
Frank P. Briges
D.-Mo
Kansas City
Shenandoah Valley Manufacturers Join Town Meeting Effort
The Shenandoah Valley Manufacturers Association partners with the Town Meeting Committee to sponsor Winchester and Frederick County’s first seasonal Town Meeting at Sarah Zane Hall. F. Grove White will moderate a discussion on juvenile welfare and delinquency with local officials present to share facts and views. The association, formed earlier this year with 25 members, aims to inform citizens and promote welfare issues at the session set for Friday, November 8 at 3:00 PM.
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Shenandoah Valley Manufacturer's Association, Inc
Winchester
Fredrick County
Sarah Zane Hall
Frank Armstrong, Jr
L. G. Sjostrom
See Eee
Jonsis Tian
Lions Club
Sam
Sarah Zane
Winchester Lions Club promotes business area expansion plan
Robert A. Lewis and about 35 assistants will tour Winchester and the Winchester-Fredy Community Center to discuss allowing tourist homes, restaurants and other business establishments outside the downtown district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Lewis
Lions Club
Will
Canyor
Winchester
Winchester - Fredy
Child Steals Show At Lions Fun Festival
Little David Henderson son of Mr and Mrs Croswell Henderson 319 W Cecil St stole the show as assistant to the Great Rome the magician at the Lions Club Fun Festival crowds cheered as the rabbit vanished. Douglas Brown 303 Jefferson St won a Frigidaire electric stove door prize last night and an electric refrigerator is to be given away tonight. Lions Festival chairman Ralph G Hengeveld reported turnout higher than previous years with a Packard Clipper prize on Saturday.
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David Henderson
Croswell Henderson
W. Cecil Sr
Lions Club
Rome
David
Douglas Brown
Jefferson Sr
Ralph G. Hengeveld
Boss Lewis Presses Government for New Demands
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers presented a demand for a new contract and higher pay to government officials in Washington. About four thousand Williamson West Virginia miners abstained from work as negotiations began, while mine owners criticized the government for meeting with Lewis, calling it politically motivated.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
Williamson
W. Va
UMW
Lewis
Received Shipment of Black Gabardine Suits Modern Age Shoppe
Notice lists a shipment of black gabardine suits and schedules events at Rainbow Inn with dance nights by Sonny Frye and His Playboys. It notes a new location for service at Room 2, a Bidg., 139 N. Loudoun and mentions personnel changes at local shops.
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Rainbow Inn
Sonny Frye
Playboys
N. Loudoun
Crack Communist Force Of 100000 Cut Off By Shek
government forces around Chefoo in North China trap an estimated 100000 Communist troops. The battle rages in the port city while strikes and bombardments continue along Shantung and Liaotung Peninsulas as authorities push to seal off routes from Manchuria.
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Shek
North China
Chefoo
Peiping
Shantung Peninsula
Weihaiwei
Pengali
Lunghow
Manchuria
Liaotung Peninsula
Bairen
Korea Bay
Shantung Province
Chwangho
Dairen
Tsingtunze
Antung
Five Fire Calls Hit Winchester Firemen in 24 Hours
Over the last 24 hours Winchester firemen answered five alarms two this morning and three yesterday none of the blazes was serious two were Halloween related A smoke house fire at 313 N Kent Street gutted a small frame storage building A leaf blaze on Handley Blvd was put out with a booster tank An old tenant house fire near Welltown Pike north of Winchester was reported around 2 am and caused unknown damage A chimney fire at Jacksons Grocery 321 8 S Kent Street required no assistance leaves burned in a yard at 125 W Piccadilly Street brief reports.
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Winchester
N. Kent Street
Earl R. Kerns
Handley Blvd
Lupton Orchard Service
Welltown Pike
John Ebert
Robert White
Jackson's Grocery
S. Kent Street
Howard L.james Rsidence
W. Piccadilly Street
Bandits Loot Bank Then Wound Two Farmers in Virginia
Police hunted two armed robbers after a $6,000 bank robbery at Gretna Virginia. A white man and a Black man fled with cash in a North Carolina plated pickup. Two Black farmers Robert Davis and Freddie Hodnett were wounded and hospitalized after a hijack attempt nearby. Investigators believe the attackers may be the bank robbers.
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Gretna
Virginia
Robert Davis
Freddie Hodnett
Chatham
Highway 40
Danville
Danville Hospital
J. G. Ayler
People’s Bank of
Archer Overbey
Pittsylvania County
FBI Called In On Baltimore Mystery Bombing
Investigators and police sweep the Baltimore waterfront after a Molotov cocktail bombing at a rooming house kills four seamen and injures five. FBI reviews two warning notes. Mayor McKeldin calls it mass murder. Four victims identified at Johns Hopkins Hospital. tensions over a maritime strike blamed.
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Baltimore
Hamilton R. al
Eastern District
FBI
Theodore R. McKeldin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jesse Rodriguez
Ruming House
Bethlehem Steel
Thomas Heagerty
Fire Department
Atkinson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Manuel Barbero
Marco Tilio Espinoza
Paul Satanas
Ra Mon Romero
Wanted cider apples Heinz ad notice
The notice cites H J Heinz Co seeking cider apples with a dated reference and an internal meeting notice for Charlie Rouss Fire Co. meeting Friday evening November 1st at an unspecified hour. Refreshments will be served. DETTRA, Pres.
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H. J. Heinz CO
Rouss Fire CO
Charlie Rouss Pire Co
Local price controls lifted as OPA trims program
Washington reports decontrol of nearly 100 items and closure of 1642 local price boards Monday as OPA shrinks staff to about 24000. Agencies say moves save $10 million in expenses and return pricing duties to citizens while wholesale food prices drop 3.2 percent for the week. New items freed include textiles notions such as collars cuffs and neckbands.
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Washington
OPA
Paul Porter
Bureau of Labor Statistics
GPA Centrale
October Ends With Warmth and Cloudy Outlook For November
October bowed out with a record high of 85 and unusually warm days 19 times, including readings in the 80s on October 6 7 9 30 and 31. The month saw a low maximum of 55 and a low of 35 on nights of 13 14 and 15, with rainfall totaling 3.25 inches. November arrived with overcast skies signaling cooler weather ahead.
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Chester
Wilson Hospital Visits by State Education Inspectors
A 9 member State Department of Education panel will inspect Woodrow Wilson General Hospital between Staunton and Waynesboro. They will assess its status as a proposed rehabilitation center for disabled citizens and a regional vocational school, plus explore uses for the $6,500,000 plant by Augusta County schools.
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Richmond
State Department of Education
Woodrow Wilson General Hospital
Staunton
Waynesboro
G. Tyler Miller
Dowell J. Howard
R. C. Haden
R. N. Anderson
B. H. van Oot
Arthur Chapman
Kuhn Barnett
Augusta County
Delegate Moore Backs Marshall For Judgeship
Delegate E. Blackburn Moore of Berryville endorses Elliott Marshall Front Royal attorney for interim appointment to the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit judgeship. Governor Tuck announced the vacancy after Judge Burry Harrison of Winchester was nominated for the House seat. Clarke county officials also backed Richard S. Wright Jr. for the post as the circuit includes Clarke Frederick Warren Shenandoah counties.
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Richmond
E. Blackburn Moore
Berryville
Elliott Marshall
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit
Tuck
Seventeenth Circuit
Burry Harrison
Winchester
House of Representatives
A. Willis Robertson
Robertson
Carter Glass
Clarke County
Richard S. Wright, Jr
Woodsatock
Clarke
Frederick
Warren
Shenandoah
Corporation Court
Senator Vandenberg Opposes U.N. Budget With 25 Percent Cap
United States Senator Arthur Vandenberg challenged the proposed United Nations budget arguing for a 25 percent cap on any single government's share and criticizing the idea that the U.S. should finance 50 percent of administrative costs. He urged Congress to approve 39 percent temporarily and warned that a half share could undermine authority while the U.N. budget debate continues before the General Assembly.
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Lake Success
Arthur H. Vanberg
R-Mich
United Nations
United States
Vandenberg
United
U. N
General Assembly
Enberg
Financial Committee
Unite Nations
Congress
Ee Vandenberg
Hoe
International Religg Organization
Five Day Weather Report By Bureau District Five
Precipitation ranges from one half to three fourths inch in the north portion and one fourth inch or less in the south portion. Temperatures run two to four degrees above normal in the north and up to six degrees above in the south. Warm Saturday through Monday with cooler conditions by midweek. District Five covers Ohio Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia with rain in the east Saturday and late Sunday or Monday. Total precipitation around one half inch in the north and one fourth inch or less in the south with a three to five degree warmer period, then heat easing by Monday or Tuesday.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Feathers and Theatre Tickets Drop in Winchester Campaign
Red feathers and community chest leaflets will rain over downtown Winchester Saturday noon as seven planes drop 40 000 red feathers and campaign materials. Theatre tickets from Capitol and Palace Theatres add a prize element for downtown shoppers.
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Chest
Winchester
George J. Schecter
Valley Airways Inc
Winchester- Prederick County Community Chest
W. M. Battaile
Lamar Keen
Capitol Theatre
Herman H. Hable
Palace Theatre
Schecter
repex-Navy Me
Bill
Paul Ensogna
Russell Dunlap
Donnald Patton
John W. Hushees
Lewis F. Dodson
Charles & Vaught
Raymond Career
Aite
Battaile
Wendell R. Beveney
Winchester Chameber of
Commerce
A. Frank Naddeo
Community Chest Publicity
Baco
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Winchester Realtors
New York Purchase
St. Louis Union Station
Shenandoah Valley Manufacturers’ Association
New Frigidaire
Rabbit
Boss Lewis
J. G. Hollinger & Son Real Estate Insurance
Freda Sowers
D. C
Beauty Shop
du Four Shop
South End
Sun Company
Monping
Tsingtao
Byrd
Harrison
S. Braddock St
Headley's
Centenary Reformed Church
Cameron and
Cork Streets
Mayor McKeldin
Madeline Beauty Shop
Loudoun
Dia
Madeline Vance
Sarah Zane Fire CO
Loryn M. Crabill
Dettra
U.S
Wilson Hospital
Moore
Marshall
Winchesett
Sally Rand
Triangle Patch
Los Angeles
Yey Heights
Beate Abo
Madden
Glendora
San Francisco
Sally
Howard R. Williams
Winchesterick County
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