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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1948
Page
9
An announcement reports a speaker from Washington Virginia who was warmly acclaimed at the last meeting. The note adds a final statement from a Washington D C member and invites a public attendance tomorrow at 7 30 with a guest.
In Lynchburg on Monday night a Thurmond rally drew about 1600 people at City Armory, with cheers as Governor Thurmond condemned Dewey and Truman. Publisher Carter Glass Jr. and State Senator Mosby Perrow Jr. noted Thurmond could win in Lynchburg and surrounding counties. The crowd represented a cross section of the community including workers, professionals, and students.
Frederick county supervisors approved a five dollar bounty to Raymond W. Baker for a Mountain Falls bobcat shot while squirrel hunting. Baker said the 50 pound tan female was the largest he has killed and that cats raid chicken farms in Mountain Falls while dogs won’t tackle them.
Florence Ley president of the Handley Student body and James Clark a Handley monitor commission member will speak at the Rotary luncheon about the Boy's and Girl's State camps held last summer. Two new Rotary members Howard A. Holland and J T Lehmann will be inducted. Dr Ronald Wilson conducts. W W Hunt Frank Armstrong Jr and C E Hofer attended the Strasburg Rotary meeting yesterday.
delegates from Norway the Netherlands and Colombia praise American aid to Europe while Czechoslovakia attacks ERP as Soviet satellites back Moscow Trucco notes world economic cooperation hinges on broad participation and warns against letting one group block recovery Western Powers resist bargaining as a UN Security Council resolution to address the Berlin blockade moves forward urging lifting the blockade to enable a Big Four meeting and Germany talks
Veterans Foreign Wars post 2123 in Winchester announces a free temporary loan program for wheel chairs and crutches for Winchester and county residents. Equipment on display at Kurtz Furniture and J C Penney Co. is funded by commissions from subscriptions solicited in Frederick County.
Official sources say the resolution uses duress language to justify Western refusal to negotiate while not excluding a future settlement.
Commonwealth leaders at the London talks focused on reviving Europe’s economy and increasing German Ruhr production. Sir Stafford Cripps presented data on ERP effects on inter empire trade while Paul Hoffman pressed for curbing dismantling of German industry to speed recovery.
Cleveland post office employees who took royalty oaths will face hearings on charges they belong to the communist party. Postmaster Guy R. Lucas said about 15 to 39 workers are to be interrogated out of roughly 4200 city postal employees.
Paris October 13 French government moves to prosecute profiteers amid widespread strikes led by communist unions. Public prosecutors were urged to act while a 24 hour dockworkers walkout threatened port closures as coal mine workers press a 114 day strike seen as part of the Cominform tactic to derail Europe’s recovery program.
The council approved most commuter recommendations while Four dissenters opposed restricting Rouss Ave to one way east. Brumback Glaize McGuire Steck argued it would confuse traffic. Glaize Rowe opposed two hour meters and favored one hour parking signs. The street angle parking ban required readings to rescind prior allowance on Cameron St.
Murray D. Van Wagoner, military governor of Bavaria, says communism has suffered the greatest licking of its life due to the air lift against the Russian blockade in Germany. He warns war is not imminent and that Russia seeks a cold war without direct fighting.
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