Handley Gridders Declared Champs Of District 5
The Handley high school football team was declared District 5 Group II champions by Garland Quarles with input from District committee chair B. L. Stanley. Handley earned the league title and will face the District 6 champion in a quarter-state game next Friday or Saturday, with details unsettled as Vinton or Martinsville vies to determine the District 6 winner.
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Handley
Garland Quarles
B. L. Stanley
Handley Eleven
Vinton
Martinsville
Byrd High School
Hunter Maddox
Lexington High School
Quarles
Lexington
Lexington High
Buena Vista
Winchester
Scarlet Hurricane
Mamore
Stanley
Harrisonburg High School
Staunton
Woodrow Wilson
Waynesboro
Convention of 1776 and Virginia constitution draft
The Williamsburg convention met May 6 1776 to draft Virginia's first constitution and organize government. Delegates from Frederick included Col. James Wooded and Issac Zane. On June 12 a Bill of Rights was adopted and on June 29 the constitution was unanimously approved.
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Williamsburg
Commonwealth of Virginia
Frederick
Col
James Wooded
Issac Zane
Virginia
Senate
House of Delegates
Convention
Continental Congress
Engle
Place
Gainesboro
S. Stewart St
E. T. Bean
Ww. Co. Miller Coleman Dunn
Golden Glow
House of Good Food
Orchard
Kernstown
Fred. Co
South End Fire CO
Company Hall
Auto makers target demand for small cars in US
Detroit reports a strong run on 1949 models as Cadillac Oldsmobile Buick begin production shifts. GM divisions including Pontiac and Chevrolet plan faster output with a yearly target near 4.55 million vehicles. Exports rise while imports grow, signaling ongoing shifts in foreign competition and a push toward smaller European style cars.
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Detroit
Cadillac
Oldsmobile
Buick
General Motors
Pontiac
Chevrolet
Harry Rainsberger
U. S
Mountain Falls Boy Faces Johns Hopkins Blue Baby Operation
Claude Line a 13 year old Mountain Falls boy with a congenital heart condition may undergo a Blue Baby operation at Johns Hopkins next week. Doctors Taussig and Blalock will retest him on Monday to decide if surgery is advisable. A fundraising shower is planned in Mountain Falls to cover about 600 dollars.
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Baltimore
Claude Line
Mountain Falls
Claude Sine
Raymond Sine
John Hopkins Hospital
Helen B. Taussig
Alfred Blalock
Johns Hopkins
Claude
J. C. Hortenstine
Winchester
Hortenstine
Taussig
Blalock
Gertrude Cooper
Roy
John
Ernestine
Dorothy
Velma
King George School Case Delayed to Sept 1 Next Year
Federal District Judge Sterling Hutcheson received a request to push back contempt proceedings in a King George school equalization case to Sept 1 of the coming year. Board attorney Horace T. Morrison outlined five agreement points and said counsels for Negro plaintiffs would discuss white and Negro teacher salary equalization. The district has begun curriculum improvements for the King George training school and plans to acquire more land for a new Negro school building funded by a $150000 bond issue.
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King George
Federal
Sterling Hutcheson
King George Training School
Truman Proclaims Thanksgiving Day for November 25
President Truman designated Thursday November 25 as Thanksgiving Day and urged citizens to aid the hungry and homeless in other lands to renew devotion to goodwill among men.
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Washington
Truman
Governors Loom As Presidential Timber in '52
President Truman hints he will not run again opening a field of potential Democratic hopefuls. Adlai Stevenson wins in Illinois and Frank Lausche returns as Ohio governor, with Bowles and Dever named as possible futures. Senate leaders from Illinois and Rhode Island figures loom as rivals for the 1952 nomination.
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Washington
Truman
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ilinois
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Lausche
Stevenson
Bowles
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
Paul Dever
Massachusetts
Lusche
Congress
Scott Lucas
Paul Douglas
Rhode Island
J. Howard McGrath
Planes Hurled Into China's Civil War Battle
News from Suchow and Nanking reports Chinese forces defending the capital amid heavy fighting. The national air force joins the battle as Reds press toward Nanking with claims of town captures and casualties. US embassy to sponsor a ship evacuation from Nanking to Shanghai. Manchurian high command dissolved. Gen Wei Li Huang to be investigated.
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Nanking
Suchow
Communist Radio
Kuomintang
Lunghai
Chiang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Shanghai
Peiping
Hulatao
North China
Chingwangtao
Great Wall
High Command
Wei Li-Huang
Fu Tip-¥i
Manchurian
Manchuria
Virginia Manufacturers Elect E J Robeson Jr as President
The Virginia Manufacturers Association elected E J Robeson Jr of Newport News as president at Hot Springs. The group adopted a tax study resolution and lauded UVA for a graduate business school, announcing new directors from Emporia Buena Vista Petersburg Front Royal Richmond Narrows Bristol Alexandria and more. Earl Bunting urged preserving a free private competitive enterprise atmosphere.
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Hot Springs
Virginia Manufacturers Assn
E. J. Robeson Jr
Newport News
General Assembly
Governor’s Tax Commission
University of Virginia
Front Royal
C. W. Thompson
Richmond
W. J. Tilley
Bristol
P. D. Cooper
Narrows
J. Calvin Helms
Alexandria
Earl Bunting
The
National Assn. of
Manufacturers
Two Stephenson Men Called by Draft Board
Frederick County Selective Service requests two more men from Stephenson for induction this month. Edward L. Willis and William Stuart Hart receive orders to report on November 29, making four county inductees in November. Robert Castleman and Gordon Hildebrand depart November 23 for 21 months of training, the first under the peacetime draft. City and county boards also receive 29 men to report December 3 for pre induction exams in Alexandria.
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Frederick County
Alexandria
City
Hunter wounded in fox encounter at Ont.
In Ont November 13, 26 year old hunter Charles Adam said he swung at a wounded fox after it snapped at him. The rifle discharged and struck him in the chest. The incident followed the hunter shooting the fox.
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Hepworth
Ont
Charles Adam
Hogs and Cattle Prices Slide Sharply in Week
In Chicago on November 13 prices for hogs cattle and sheep fell sharply from a week earlier due to weak demand and heavy supply. Hogs dropped 2 to 3 per hundredweight with top grade at 22.85 while steers lost 50 cents to 2 dollars per hundredweight and lambs fell 1 to 1.25 as farmers sent large numbers to 12 markets. Agriculture Department notes mark the season’s most severe decline so far and cites cattle receipts at 265000 and sheep 192000.
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Chicago
Agriculture Department
Truman unlikely to call Congress back for China aid
A source close to President Truman said he is unlikely to summon 80th Congress back for an emergency China aid session. He would instead submit proposals to the Democratic-led Senate and House meeting in January. The trip also notes Dr. Mudd’s pardon and Fort Jefferson visit aboard the Williamsburg.
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Key West
Truman
80Th Congress
China
Congress
White House
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Senate
House
Mr. Truman
Fort Jefferson
Williamsburg
Samuel A. Mudd
Dr. Mudd
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
B-29 Crew Rescued From Tiny Island
Ten American airmen forced down near Fais island southwest of Guam were rescued by a Navy seaplane from Saipan. All uninjured, they will be flown to Saipan then to Guam. The B 29 went down during a search for another missing aircraft. food was dropped to the crew and the word okay was seen on the plane wing.
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Tokyo
Fais
Guam
Saipan
Okinawa
Marshall Denies Plans to Quit Cabinet Post
Secretary of State George C. Marshall stated no definite plans to resign his cabinet post. He told reporters, via the American delegation to the United Nations, that he would not make such a decision without consulting the President, contradicting a morning press note alleging he planned to resign by January 20.
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Paris
George C. Marshall
United Nations
Marshall
East Coast freight embargo tied to longshoremen strike
A major East Coast longshoremen strike shut 65 000 dock workers from Portland Maine to Hampton Roads Virginia. Railroads imposed an embargo on almost all export freight to Boston Baltimore Philadelphia Hampton Roads and Wilmington to avoid congestion as ships halted and Army cargo moved only for military use.
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New York
Merce
Portland
Hampton Roads
Joseph P. Ryan
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
American Assn
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
U. S
Norfolk
Ryan
West Coast
CIO
Gulf
South Atlantic
Cunard
White Star Line
Liverpool
England
United States
John V. Lyon
New York Shipping Association
Dr. Sara Brown Dies After Bus Striking in Washington
Dr. Sara Winifred Brown age 80 sister of Dr. John W. Brown of Winchester died in Washington yesterday from injuries after being struck by a bus. She was known as a leading Negro educator with ties to Opequon farm, Hampton Institute, Cornell and Howard, and served with the Red Cross in the Mississippi flood region. Her family includes several prominent scholars and educators.
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Sara Winifred Brown
John W. Brown
Hart St
Winchester
Washington
Opequon
Brown
Frederick County
N. Fairfax
John
James Earl Brown
University of Pittsburgh
Mordecai Johnson
Howard University
Howard University Board of Trustees
Mississippi
Red Cross
Europe
Tuskeegee Institute
Alabama
Eleanor, Roosevelt
Hattie Q. Brown
Wilberforce
Ohio
Hampton Institute
Cornell
Paris
U N Officials Urge Big Four to End Berlin Struggle
Paris dispatch reports Dr. Herbert Evatt and Trygve Lie appealing to President Truman Premier Stalin Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Queuille to resolve the Berlin dispute. They cited the Mexican resolution urging settlement of differences and urged urgent consideration.
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Paris
United Nations Assembly
U. N
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Berlin
Herbert V. Evatt
Trygve Lie
U.N
Assembly
Truman
Stalin
Attlee
Queuille
Evatt
Lie
United Nations
Obeekees Secendars
Middletown Annexation Move Stymied
Mayor Charles Leslie Wright calls a special Monday meeting to reconsider the proposed annexation of outlying areas after a contentious public meeting at Woodmen's hall. Over 100 residents voiced objections and the mayor states the town will not proceed under the current ordinance.
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Charles Leslie Wright
Middletown
Woodmen’s Hall
Wright
Vishinsky questions American delegate at UN session
In Paris the Soviet Union pressed the United States during a UN Assembly session. Andrei Vishinsky demanded answers after accusing the U.S. of plans that could lead to war and of preparing Pearl Harbor for the Soviet Union. He challenged Frederick Osborn as the debate over Berlin and Security Council compromises continued.
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United States
Paris
United Nations Trial Committee
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
U.N. Assembly
Vishinsky
Pearl Harbor
Soviet Union
United Nations
Newsweek
Moscow
Sous
Fearen Navicis
Washington
U. S Air Force
Europe
Kis Tk
Frederick Osborn
Osborn
Estern
Security Council
Berlin
South End Co. To Honor Two At Memorial
South End Company to honor two at a memorial service with 8. J. Goode officiating. Ushers listed are Melvin Renner, Winton Pope and Holmes Curl.
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South End Co
J. Goode
Melvin Renner
Winton Pope
Holmes
Deer Checking Stations Set for Frederick County 3 Day Season
Nine deer checking stations announced by game warden Earl Cather for the November 20 22 and 23 deer season in Frederick County. Stations include Four Corners Star Tannery Dodsons Oak Mt Falls Hayfield Gore Winchester Amherst Cross Junction Grimes and more with operators named. Bear and turkey seasons opening next Saturday with bag limits listed and note on hunting in national forests remaining allowed while state forests are closed.
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Frederick County
Earl Cather
Four Corners
Star Tannery
C. L. Knicely
Dodson
Mt. Falls
Elsworth Dodson
Davies
Hayfield
E. E. Davies
Gore
William C. Forney
Veteran's
Stephens City
F. W. Welch
Winchester
Adams
Amherst
Boscawen St
M. M. Adam
George Washington National Forest
George W Forest
Blue Ridge
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Board
BY Jack Bell
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Msgrs. Board
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Draft Board
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Hunter
Tiny Island
Sara Brown
Hodgson & Brown
Miller
Star Office
Bickers Realty Co., Inc
Winchester Motor Service
N. Kent St
Big 5
Evatt and
Bulletin
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