Grove Lime Company acts to aid enlistees and draftees
Grove Lime Company adopts a military leave and pay policy through its Board of Directors. Enlistees and draftees receive three months salary for those with over a year of service, one month for six months to a year, with deductions for government pay and other benefits. Leaves of absence are granted, and reinstatement is sought where possible, while priority is given to men entering service. The company employs about 700 workers across all plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FP. Grove White
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Baer Company
Crothers
City safety film preview shown to Winchester Junior Board
The Winchester Junior Board of Trade viewed a preview of the sound slide film Making Your City Safe. The 20 minute National Safety Council release demonstrates how a city of 500000 saved 120 lives in a year and a 250000 city saved 25 lives. It urges collaboration among engineering and police departments city officials safety groups and citizens. The first official showing is Friday night at the board meeting and officers decided to purchase the film for local groups and luncheon clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Junior Board of Trade
Police Department
Regional Defense Group To Meet In Newport News
Newport News officials report Hampton Roads defense council chair Raymond B. Bottom has summoned a 3 p.m. Friday meeting in the city hall chamber. It is the body’s first gathering since its creation by Governor Price after a temporary committee’s recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Yajor Raymond B. Bottom
Hampton Roads
Gas Hailed as Fastest Cooking Method at Winchester
The piece promotes gas as the quickest way to cook, praising open flame efficiency. It notes a sale on gas ranges from Tore, Magic Chef, and Glen at reduced prices for the rest of the month, aimed at busy households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tore
Magic Chef
Glengas
Rites Set for Mrs. Nena Whitacre Baker
Mrs. Nena Whitacre Baker a 55 year old Frederick county native dies in Washington DC from paralysis. Wife of Maynard Baker she leaves a daughter Mrs. Ernest Moshe and siblings Mrs. Annie Johnson J N Whitacre. Funeral at her sister’s home then Woodlawn Cemetery with cousins as pallbearers.
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Nena
Whitacre Baker
Frederick County
Washington, D. C
Maynard Baker
Turner A
Alice Brown Whitacre
Whitacre
This County
Baker
Ernest Moshe
Annie Johnson
Washington
J. N. Whitacre
Johnson
Roy Schmucker
Winchester
Woodlawn Cemetery
Fred Whitacre
Landon Whitacre
John Whitacre
Lee N. Whitacre
Noble D. Whitacre
Martinsburg
W. Va
Harry Stotler
Censorship Push by National Guard Association
The National Guard Association approved a plan urging press and radio self censorship to avoid articles that could hinder rearmament and mobilization efforts. The resolution directs the president to appoint a three member standing committee to implement the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Guard Association
Grain prices edge up amid cash and future quotations
Chicago and Baltimore report mixed grain moves as wheat, corn, and oats gain slightly from prior lows. UK purchases of Canadian wheat and rumors of U S Pacific coast shipments cited alongside cash market quotes and local delivery prices for wheat corn oats and soybeans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Europe
United Kingdom
St. John
Halifax
Russia
U. S. Pacific Coast
Vladivostok
Jane
Chicago Cash Grain
T L Shull Dies at 75 in Clarke County
Thomas Lee Shull 75 a Clarke county farmer died at his home in Marvin Chapel yesterday afternoon around 2. He is survived by his widow Mrs Sarah M Shull and children Lillian K Shull Mary R Shull at home Mrs Harry L Boxwell Berryville Mrs Robert D Lackey Jefferson county W Va Ernest S Shull Berryville Thomas B Shull Jefferson county two brothers William B Shull Jefferson county and Charles L Shull Philadelphia Pa. The funeral was Friday at 2 30 pm at his residence with Rev L A Parker and Rev A Q Lyons officiating. Interment Green Hill Cemetery Berryville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Lee Shull
Clarke County
Marvin Chapel
Stephen
Emma Tumblin Shull
Sarah M. Shull
Lillian K. Shull
Mary R. Shull
Harry L. Boxwell
Berryville
Robert D. Lackey
Jefferson County
W. Va
Ernest S
Green Hill Cemetery
Mechanics End 56th Annual Convention Elected Officers
The State Council of the Jr Order of United American Mechanics closed its 56th annual meeting in Harrisonburg. Officers for 1940 were elected and Lexington chosen as next year’s meeting site. A memorial service and banquet preceded by welcomes from Mayor Ward Swank and R L Stultz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Council of the Jr. Order of United American Mechanics
Lexington
Order
Kavanaugh Hotel
Muhlenberg Lutheran Church
Ward Swank
R. L. Stulsz
Harrisonburg
Roscoe B. Greenway
Richmond
H. W. Elliott
Grafton
Ernest A. Chalkley
West Point
State Council
W. F. Hargrave
Newport News
Frank Pugh
Mathews Court House
E. E. Christie
Inside Sentinel
C. E. King
Outside Sentinel
Kenneth Dove
Lorton
Aaron Luther Sampson
R. L. Stultz
British claim Nazi invasion attempt smashed
London reports a month and a half of day and night bombing of German bases along a 2000 mile front has supposedly crushed a concentrated German effort to invade England. Air ministry accounts from pilots describe initial observations and bombing of invasion preparations by sea and air.
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London
England
Britain
Air Ministry
Blount Indicted For Making Threat
Edward de Roulhac Blount a 30 year old government clerk was indicted for twice threatening to kill Kent Roosevelt He pleaded guilty at preliminary hearings but his attorney said he would plead not guilty at arraignment He is free on five thousand dollars bond
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edward de Roulhac Blount
Kent Roosevelt
Blount
United States
Solidarity In Americas Real Notes Welles
Sumner Welles, under-secretary of state, urged that U S defense requires unity with the Americas. He spoke at the Advertising Club of Baltimore about hemispheric solidarity, expanded trade, diversified production, and cooperation among 21 republics to deter invasion and secure strategic materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Sumner Welles
United States
New World
Welles
Insurance Agents Meet in Winchester for One Day Program
Northern Virginia insurance agents gathered at the George Washington Hotel for a one day educational program titled Full Efficiency For '41. The program featured talks by Courtney W. Harris Ralph W. Bugh Oscar H. West and others with sessions on rates supervision automobile liability and insurance laws followed by a moving picture presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtney W. Harris
Bureau of Insurance
State Corporation Commission
Richmond
Ralph W. Bugh
the London Assurance
New York
J. M. Bugbee
Automobile Departement
Maryland Casualty Company
Baltimore
Oscar H. West
Virginia Association
Milk Marketing Orders Upheld in Washington Case
Justice Daniel W. O Donoghue upheld the Washington milk marketing order as constitutional. He dissolved a temporary injunction by Holbrook Farms Dairy and ordered the dairy to pay about 3800 dollars a month since February, reflecting the price difference between Maryland Virginia Milk Producers contract and the order price. Additional two cents per hundredweight were assessed as administrative expenses. Siebel Dairy and Walnut Hill Dairy were also brought under the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holbrook Farms Dairy
Brentwood
Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers Association
Siebel’s Dairy
Burtonsville
Walnut Hill Dairy
Guilford, Md
Weeps Because He Cannot Serve In Baltimore
Eugene L. Caprarola a former tailor wept when told he had the first draft serial number in Baltimore His tears were tears of disappointment as he cited seven months of illness and believed his chance of service was small He called it a great honor to receive the first draft number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Eugene L. Caprarola
Caprarola
McNary Warns on New Deal Harming U.S. Farmers
In Bloomington Illinois on October 23 Senator Charles L McNary Republican vice presidential nominee warned that continuing New Deal policies threaten farmers. He projected the farmer as an independent unit could fade into a peasant under federal government control or a dole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ill
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
McNary
Burns Fatal To Mrs. Pifer
Mrs. W. D. Pifer about 55 died from burns after an explosion at her home near Boyce yesterday afternoon. Funeral services will be at the Episcopal Church at Boyce Thursday at 11 with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Survivors include her husband and children William Pifer Helen Pifer Evelyn Pifer and Frances Pifer of Philadelphia.
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W. D. Pifer
Memorial Hos
Pifer
Episcopal Church
Boyce
Ernest Williams
Berryville
William Pifer
Helen Pifer
Evelyn Pifer
Frances Pifer
Philadelphia
Trustees' Board of Massanetta Holds Meeting
The Massanetta Springs Conference board of trustees met at First Presbyterian Church for its annual session. Attendees included Rev Parks W Wilson and other ministers from Virginia and surrounding towns. The group reviewed last year’s activities and planned the 1941 season with grounds and building improvements underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trustees’ Board of
Massanetta
Board of Trustees
Massanetta Springs
First Presbyterian Church
The
Presbyterian Church of the Synod of Virginia
Parks W. Wilson
This City
T. C. Bales
Clifton Forge
Wm. E. Hudson
Staunton
James Sprimt
Lynchburg
Dwight M. Chalmers
Charlottesville
J. E. Hemphill
Petersburg
H. D. Brown
H. H. Wood
Richmond
Campbell Pancake
Julian T. Owen
Stephens City
C. V. Smith
Grattan Price
M. Homer Myers
Harrisonburg
Forming Another Carnegie Class for Students
A new class aims to resemble the Carnegie model with students from Winchester Woodstock and nearby towns. Forty students maximum will enroll. The first session is Friday evening November 8 at the George Washington Hotel to organize the class and set the remaining schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Woodstock
George Washington Hotel
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Grove Lime Company
J. B
Angeles
New York City
N. Y
Los Angeles
California
Baltimore Grain
T.L. Shull
Clarke
Mechanics End
Congressman Robertson
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Americas
Maryland-Virginia Association
Daniel W. O'Donoghue
Washington Area
Agriculture
Wallace
America
Ana
Studebaker
C.I.T
el Cot
Eka Ae
South Bend
Dellinger Brothers
E. Piccadilly St
Dare
S. E. Morrison
Harvard Department of History
H. J. Pearce, Jr
Atlanta
Virginia Dare
Pearce
U.S
Burns
Carnegie
Goodrich Truck Tires
Easy Terms
Gobdrich
Silvertown
Braddock & Boscawen
Rua
Miller’s Hardwareh
CY Sok
Wright’s Health
Oxfords
Stee
Oxford
N. Loudoun St
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