Thanksgiving Football Day in Winchester Martinsburg Area
Thanksgiving events center on Handley Martinsburg football clash at 2 p.m. with large predicted turnout and extra bleachers. The day includes a morning Stonewall-Stephens City game, a community Thanksgiving service at Christ Episcopal Church, and turkey dinners at hospitals and homes.
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Winchester Martinsburg
Winchester
Martinsburg
O'Sullivan and
Virginia Woolen Co
Alsn
Christ Episcopal Church
James Roe
James Hadden
Cork St. Christian Church
L. F. Havermale
Winchester Hospital
Robert DeHaven
W. C
Hale
Bettev
Handley-Martinsburg
Reuss Park
Stonewall
Stephens City
J. Thomas Boyd
Race Track Owner Gets Five Years For Tax Evasion
William G. Lias Wheeling night club figure and Wheeling Downs race track president was sentenced to five years in a Federal penitentiary and fined $10,000 for income tax evasion. Judge Baker recommended Atlanta for incarceration after Lias pleaded guilty to evading $117,000 in taxes.
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Wheeling
W. Va
William G. Lias
William E. Baker
Lias
Atlanta
Wheeling Downs
Neutrals Work On Berlin Currency Tangle In Talks
Six neutral Security Council members reexamine replies from the United States Britain France and Russia on Berlin currency problems to find a path to slow the cold war. A French official warned East-West tensions may rise for two weeks with Western sector elections set for December 5 adding to strain.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Berlin
Russia
Gibson named suffragan bishop of Virginia
The Very Rev. Robert Fisher Gibson Jr., dean of the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee Tennessee, has accepted a call by the Episcopal Diocesan Council to become suffragan bishop of Virginia. He left a business career to enter Virginia theological seminary in 1938 at age 32.
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Robert Fisher Gibson, Jr
University of the South
Sewanee, Tenn
Episcopal Diocesan Council
Virginia
Virginia Theological Seminary
Benefit Bridge Party Nets $1350 for Millwood Church
More than 200 guests from Charles Town Front Royal Upperville White Post Boyce and Winchester attended Mrs Kenneth N Gilpin's home in Boyce for a charity bridge and games event to refurbish Millwood's Christchurch. Activities included 22 tables of bridge rackgammon and setback with dining and an evening auction led by Mrs Kenneth Gilpin Jr. and Mr Gilpin Jr. as auctioneer.
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Millwood
Christchurch
Scaleby
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Boyce
Charles Town
Front Royal
Upperville
White Post
Winchester
Clarke
Frederick
Mother's Day Founder Anna Jarvis Dies at 84
Anna M. Jarvis, who sparked national recognition of Mother's Day, died in Philadelphia after a long illness at age 84. She founded the annual memorial in 1907 with a small gathering, leading to a holiday observed in over 40 countries, while fighting commercialization.
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Philadelphia
Anna M. Jarvis
Miss Jarvis
Philadelphia General Hospital
Winchester Exchang e Club Donates 1250 to Community Chest
Charles Dicks presents a 1250 check to Paul Rosenberger of the Winchester Frederick County Community Chest for proceeds from a National Symphony Orchestra concert sponsored November 5 at Handley Auditorium. Clarke Cooper Lewis Hyde and Richard Cole are observed. The 1949 drive aims to reach 35000 by December 1 and campaign progress is reported by Ed Molden.
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Charles Dicks
Winchester Exchange Club
Paul Rosenberger
Winchester-Frederick County
Lewis Hyde
Richard Cole
Boyce
Clarke County
Ed Molden
Clarke county to get country fire fighting truck
John H Enders Fire Co of Berryville plans a $12000 specially designed fire truck to protect Clarke county. Mayor Leonard H Bell said the truck will supplement the town’s equipment and will require building expansion. A committee led by Fire Chief Robert E Shenk will report on Dec 16.
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Clarke County
John H. Enders Fire Co
Berryville
Leonard H. Bell
Bell
Volunteer Fire Company
John H. Enders Company
Robert E. Shenk
Jack Enders
Frank Tappen
Clifton Price
Homer Knight
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
Stephens City Pupils to See Hamlet Here
High school pupils will attend Barter Theatre's Hamlet at Handley auditorium 8 p m Monday. JET committee invites area schools to the event with special reduced prices. Stephens City high marks first to announce plans to present with fourteen students and one faculty member in the group.
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Handley Auditorium
John Goodwin
JET Committee
Stephens City High School
Elsie Havermale
Charles Anderson
Mary Hollar
Patsy Keckley
Nancy Ewing
Peggy Hoover
Esther Williams
Ruth Grim
Lorraine Marker
Mary Ann Baggerly
Louis Wilson
Patsy Barton
Doris Stone
Alfred Snapp
Linden Vann
Barter Theatre
Robert Porterfield
Nat Karson
New York
Radio City Music Hall
Arthur Kreutz
Jed Mace
Dallas
Robert Breen
Ambassador Koo presses Truman for aid to Nationalist China
Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo urged President Truman for urgent American moral and material support to Chiang Kai-shek’s government. He met Truman after a White House briefing with Secretary of State Marshall, stressing the crisis’ impact on world freedom and the need for a sustained China aid program amid advancing communists.
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Washington
Wellington Koo
Truman
Koo
White House
Marshall
Key West
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
China
United States
Japan
Western
Pacific
Mr. Truman
Franklin college pledges parade around girls dormitory
A Franklin college fraternity faces possible charges after 20 pledges reportedly escorted two deep around the girls dormitory in cold air while spectators watched from windows. Pastor Rev. John Beyer says he will urge the Johnson county prosecutor to file public indecency charges. The pledges disappeared before police arrived.
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Franklin
Ind
Brown County
Franklin College
John Beyer
the Baptist Church
Helmsburg
Johnson County
Purcell Ave
Tojo and Seven Jap Warlords Lost Plea to Escape Gallows
The international war crimes tribunal sentenced Tojo and six other senior Japanese leaders to hang. General MacArthur, reviewing the case, refused to alter the verdicts and urged prayers for world peace. A US Supreme Court appeal was planned by five defendants, none promised a hang.
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Hideki Tojo
International Military Tribunal
Japan
Supreme Court of the United States
MacArthur
Eighth Army
Tojo
Kenji Doihara
Lawrence
Manchuria
Koki Hirota
Seishiro Itagaki
Heitaro Kimura
Iwane Matsui
Nanking
Akira Muto
Philippines
Walton Walker
Oil Interests Block Palestine Plan Argues at U N
Soviet bloc delegate Andrei Galagan told the General Assembly that British and American oil and military interests wrecked the Palestine partition plan. He urged Arab troops to leave Palestine and supported a two state solution with an independent Arab state beside Israel.
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Paris
United Nations
Palestine
Andrei A. Galagan
Ukraine
General Assembly
No. 1
Egypt
Trans-Jordan
Syria
Lebanon
Iraq
Israel
Holy Land
Galagan
Middle East
Deer Hunters Bag 123 in 3-day County Season
A three day deer season in Frederick County ended with 123 total kills, 25 on the final day and 74 on opening day counted for the season, with estimates placing the meat at over seven tons. Bear and buck records were noted in neighboring Shenandoah and Warren counties, while Suel Vance of Star Tannery claimed the largest deer locally at 240 pounds.
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Frederick County
Shenandoah County
John Rutz
Strasburg
Edinburg
R. C. Rambell
Alexandria
Maurertown
Winchester
Four Corners
Star Tannery
Dodson
Hayfield
Gore
Buck Suel Vance
Minimum Wage Law Faces Early Action
Sen. Elbert Thomas of Utah, set to chair the Senate education and labor committee, pushes priority for increasing the minimum wage and education aid next Congress. He notes wage-hour reform and Taft-Hartley Act amendments, with hearings likely after education aid.
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Washington
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Congress
Thomas
Senate
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Poost
House
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Virginia reports 396 million for school building needs
Virginia localities estimate a 396,014,204 dollar ten year need for school buildings. State Superintendent Miller calls the figure a staggering measure for a 28 year period, reflecting past lag, current and future construction needs. Immediate needs total 185,904,093 with 144,940,750 for county work and the rest for cities.
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Richmond
Virginia
G. Tyler Miller
Miller
Ose
General Assembly
State Board of Education
Growers Seek Exemptions from State Sales Tax
Virginia agricultural conference board opposes a state sales tax on farm production items. The 46 farm groups urge that seeds fertilizers baby chicks turkey poults lime spraying materials and farm containers not be taxed to avoid double taxation of raw products and finished foods.
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Richmond
Virginia Agricultural Conference Board
Virginia
Frederick County
Gainesboro
J. P. Arthur
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Teddy Keller
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Donald Bush
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Kenneth Lake
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Richard Haymaker
Jack Weatherholtz
Keith Lee
Tony Lazazzera
Byrd Fugitt
Handley
Garland Quarles
Martinsburg High School
E. W. Miller
Handley Band
Gaylen Strance
Handley Library
Sunnyside
L. F
Buck” McDonald
Fort Loudoun
Bayliss & Patterson
Col. Daugherty
Mother's Day
Berryville Company
J. W. Grove Furniture Co
Deb Sibert
Miller’s Drug Store
RED Wing
N. Loudoun St
E. B. Flickinger
Winchester Gun Club
Carl Renner
Colonial Kitchen
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