Winchester News Briefs Highlight Local Movements and Planting
Miss Ethel Guest of Winchester visits friends for a day. Kent Fish and Fred Taylor of Frostproof Florida harvest apples for D K Russell. Rodger Shade of Winchester makes a business call. Corn cutting begins and seeding starts. John Stickels transports migrant workers to nearby orchards. Victor and Lee Williams, Winchester, work nearby. Pears roses and honeysuckle bloom locally. Weldon Nicholson builds brick veneer house on old Afleck field and drills two wells. John and Mrs Stickels attend annual Mission Church reunion in Loudoun County.
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Ethel Guest
Winchester
Kent Fish
Fred Taylor
Frostproof
Fla
D.K. Russell
Rodger Shade
John Stickels
Messrs
Victor and
Lee Williams
Weldon Nichollson
Church Groups Convene and Gather for Meetings
A combined meeting of the Official Board and Building Committee is set for Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the church Social Room. The Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet Saturday night at Miss Bertha Kline’s apartment on West Cork Street with Mrs. Garland Snyder leading devotions. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hurst hosted Mr. and Mrs. C. Ridgeway at Rainbo Gardens in Winchester last Thursday evening.
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Galilee Church
Jimmie Taylor
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Bertha Kline
W. Cork St
Garland Snyder
C. E. Ridgeway
Esther Ridgeway
Sam Hurst
Rainbo Gardens
Winchester
William Braith
Virginia Democrats clash over judge nominations in General Assembly
A Virginia General Assembly debate centers on Democratic control of judicial nominations as Kenned Johnson supporters influence the caucus. Speaker Boothe calls to exclude minority voices from appointing Virginia Supreme Court and circuit judges, arguing that judges should be elected by Democrats, not Republicans in Democratic clothes. A northern delegate notes 75 of 140 members are Democrats.
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Fairweather
Virginia
General Assembly
Northern
Boothe
Virginia Supreme Court
Boothe Attacks Republicans in Democratic Clothing
Richmond Virgina AP reports State Sen Armistead L Boothe of Alexandria says some Democrats in the legislature are hypocritical in backing judges while feigning party loyalty. He describes a minority caucus as self serving and aligned with Republican interests.
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Richmond
Armistead L. Boothe
Alexandria
Boothe
Thurber joins Broadway humor sketch as blind performer
Humorist James Thurber appears in a Broadway minute sketch titled A as Carnival. He replaces Eddie Mayehoff who left abruptly, becoming the first blind actor to play a role depicting a sighted person. The scene features Thurber reading a letter from his mother with memorized dialogue.
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New York
Tom Ewell
Eddie Mayehoff
Mayehoff
Thurber
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Loudoun County
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William Hays
Arlington
Edgar Ridgeway
Charles Town
W. Va
John Patton
Legeett
Widow
Orion
Dacron
BAYON
Ivy
Don River
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BM Chevrolet Sales CO
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