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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1946
Page
9
The Bowman Apple Products Company Inc with offices in Mont Jackson has been granted a charter by the State Corporation Commission. Gordon D. Bowman is listed as president and general manager. The firm is chartered to grow manufacture store and sell fruits and fruit products.
An Edinburg blaze in a large brooder house owned by Galen Wakeman yesterday morning killed about 900 two week old chicks. Firefighters saved some feed stored in the building which was completely razed.
A 1946 Middletown ordinance calls for a bond issue not exceeding 25000 to fund a town water supply and distribution system. The order sets election timing, ballot wording, and publication steps, with an October 1 1946 date later voided and rescheduled to November 5 1946.
Washington report says Russia’s request for a $1 billion American loan could be blocked unless Soviet leaders ease attacks on U.S. economic policy. Czechoslovakia and Poland face hurdles for $850 million loans from the World Bank. Secretary Byrnes signals aid will favor friends who do not condemn dollar credits as economic enslavement.
Roosevelt Homes in Jersey City area number 200 and were offered by the Federal Housing Authority at prices from 2800 to 4600 dollars. Occupants may buy with 25 percent down and 20 year contracts. if not, outside buyers after December 15 gain priority for veterans. Sewer and water systems also to be sold by December.
Mercer County New Jersey homesteads once named Roosevelt were created by the Resettlement Administration as a self supporting cooperative of needle workers from New York and Philadelphia. The community centered on a large cooperative garment factory that flourished briefly before running deficits and now the 800 residents face private ownership as the homes go to auction, leaving only memories of the cooperative era.
John Boyd announced four Handley and Douglas school students as prizewinners for essays on Fire Prevention during Fire Prevention Week sponsored by the Winchester Volunteer Fire Department. Betty Jewell Argenbright and Ann Boyd won first and second from Handley, while Faye Johnson and Colleen Jackson won first and second from Douglas.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to take on $7,620,000 in equipment trust certificates. The funds would finance the purchase of 2,000 steel hopper cars and 500 steel box cars.
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