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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1950
Page
3
Nine persons joined Braddock Methodist Church. New members include Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Stone and W Arthur Stone of 525 Battle Ave. Also listed are Mrs. Elizabeth Kercheval of 115 Purcell Ave and Mrs. William W. Bryant of 70168 Stewart St.
Mrs. Vetters describes a Grove Winchester Visiting Teacher program to pool resources and cut duplication of effort. Welfare committee chairmen from local civic groups will be invited as associate members. Semin
Miss Earline Norwood 21 of Ben s Va joins Winchester welfare department under superintendent Mrs Anna Hill Vetters. Norwood is a graduate of the Richmond Professional Institute School of Social Work. She succeeds Miss Phyllis Drinkard who resigned.
TheBerryville team competes against a squad led by captain H. G. Potts with Grayson Sponseller Francis Logan Dr J M Casey and Jack Russell. The losing side must cover the winning team supper.
William G Ferguson about 57 died at 12 45 p m of a heart attack while picking apples in the William Teets orchard on the Welltown Pike near here. He had resided near Winchester for years and was believed to be a World War I veteran. Sheriff Robert DeHaven seeks any known relatives as Ferguson’s origins remain unclear.
The notice urges all veterans to see one of the listed men and join the Legion before the October 31 closing date. It notes Lake Geneva in Switzerland with steep rock faces as a geographic mention.
President Truman issued an executive order creating draft classifications for physicians dentists and veterinarians. Initial registrations begin October 16 with completion by January 16. Physicians dentists and allied specialists expected to report for the 5 000 initial registrations.
French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche arrived in Washington to join Defense Minister Jules Moch in pressing about 750 million dollars in outside aid. He said the aim is to speed France's 1951 rearmament and to discuss redistributing Atlantic Pact funds to strengthen Western European defenses.
William Pryor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will address the weekly Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon at 12 15 p m in the George Washington Hotel. Reports on Fire Prevention Week in Winchester and the Trade at Home Thrift Books sale will be heard, with Ed Molden noting coupon booklets worth 145 in services are popular at 50 local businesses. Albert Hillyard will discuss efforts to curb fires.
Paris reports that France urgently seeks increased American military aid for Indochina but has no plans to request ground troops. Officials in Paris indicate a focus on equipment and support rather than deployment.
Virginia state law requires drivers to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights no matter the direction of travel. The rule emphasizes safety near bus pick up and drop off zones and applies to all lanes unless divided by a physical barrier.
Kenneth D. Younger charged that Russia s latest peace proposal relies on old collective security machinery the Soviet Union has paralyzed for five years. He pressed Andrei Vishinsky for proof of genuine intent to reconcile with major powers and rejected the notion of an international army under the Security Council as a substitute for the seven power anti veto system.
Alfred Philpott a 48 year old welder at a Birmingham radiator plant and his son John 20 were fined by the Birmingham and Midlands Sheet Metal Workers Society for earning more work and were suspended from work until Alfred faces the union executive. He says his son was fined two pounds for earning three shillings sixpence an hour and plans to challenge the ruling in high court with a lawyer’s help.
William Riley Sherman 12 of Nain and former National Products employee died at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a three month illness. Born November 7 1877 in Woodstock he was the son of William and Mary Alice Sherman. Funeral 2 p.m. tomorrow at Omps Funeral Home with Rev J S Shade officiating burial in Grange Hall Cemetery near Albin. Pallbearers listed.
The University of Virginia Anti-Convulsive Clinic will hold a free clinic for all ages and races suffering from epilepsy at the District Nurse Association office 228 Loudoun Street on Tuesday October 24. Dr Randolph Leigh Jr will conduct the clinic sponsored by the Virginia Society for Crippled Children and Adults.
Harold W. Roller of Broadway is among seven Virginia boys awarded the American Farmer Degree at the National FFA Convention in Kansas City. The honor is the top FFA award, limited to one candidate per thousand vocational agriculture students. Roller’s dairy enterprise was among Virginia’s best, and he now enters dairy husbandry as a Virginia Tech freshman.
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