Pipelayers Race To Fill Last Gap 11 Miles to South
Activity on the natural gas pipeline project between Mouth of Seneca West Virginia and Rockville Maryland centers 11 miles south of Winchester on Route 11 where crews at Woodstock and Winchester race to finish. Ditchers arrived October 16 with rocks and pipe line work advancing with no traffic delay. Finishing by December 1 will allow paid vacations and later machine overhauls. the Winchester crew may stay until April. Photographer Hugh G Peters to film the line from Charleston to Rockville in a three week shoot starting in Buchanan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca
W. Va
Rockville
Winchester
Woodstock
Dan H. Johnson
R. K. Shiver
Potomac
Johnson
Hugh G. Peters
Charleston
Peters
Buchannon
Five Day Weather Outlook From Wednesday Through Sunday
The outlook covers Wednesday to Sunday with temperatures near or slightly below normal. Expect scattered frost Thursday morning. Rain is unlikely, and dry conditions prevail for most days with little or no precipitation.
Building permit issued for dwelling on Valley Pike
To Build on Pike Leslie E. Golliday of 118 E. Monmouth St. has been issued a building permit for a $4000 frame dwelling on Valley Pike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie E. Golliday
Monmouth St
Valley Pike
Wreaths Honor Valley Women and Taylor Kin at Winchester
Local history notes Gen Richard Taylor CSA son of Zachary Taylor and his sister Betty Danridge connected to the White House. A wreath of immortelles honors Valley women who supported Confederate troops. Betty Danridge once owned Braddock sash. Also notices bake sale by Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars and a Winchester Disabled American Veterans meeting details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Taylor
CSA
Zachary Taylor
Louisiana
Jackson
Virginia
Styx
Betty” (Taylor) Danridge
Winchester
Dick” Taylor
White House
Mt. Vernon
Braddock
Maj. W. W. &. Bliss
Mary
Knox Taya
Jefferson
Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Wars
AEC Announces $300 Million Expansion of Bomb Facilities
The Atomic Energy Commission will expand atom bomb making facilities at Oak Ridge and Hanford with a $300 million investment. About $250 million funds the atomic program and $50 million pays for Tennessee Valley power needs. President Truman authorized $30 million from existing funds to start the expansion, with a supplemental appropriations request to Congress planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Tennessee Valley
Washington
Truman
Hanford
AEC
The
Congress
Planes Carry More Gold Hunters To Rumored Yukon Strike
Planes bring dozens more prospectors to Fishwheel Alaska chasing rumors of a Yukon river nugget. Despite 15 below zero, arrivals continue panning as witnesses report a three eighth inch specimen and new airfields open near Discovery Island. Aircraft flow from Fairbanks and Fort Yukon increases the camp population and flight activity.
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Yukon
Fishwheel
Alaska
Fort Yukon
Earl Hurst
Charlie Biederman
Discovery Island
Clifton Carroll
Fairbanks
Arctic
Jim Magoffin
Yukon Ice
Anderson Warns Against Delay in Ordering Coal
Virginia's Emergency Fuel Commission warns of weather disrupting strip mine coal output. Chairman James A. Anderson urges communities low on coal to order supplies for at least six weeks ahead without delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Virginia
Emergency Fuel Commission
Commission
James A. Anderson
Lee
Schafer
United States
Admits Bigamy Gets Suspended Sentence After 3 Months in Jail
Ellsworth Jacob Byers of Wellsburg West Virginia pleaded guilty to bigamy in Winchester corporation court and received a three year suspended pentitentiary sentence. He has been jailed since July and allegedly married Yolanda Kovach in 1948 while still married to Henrietta Sipes Byers of Chambersburg. Randolph Larrick defended him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellsworth Jacob Byers
Wellsburg
W. Va
Winchester Corporation
Byers
Yolanda H. Kovach
Henrietta Sipes Byers
Chambersburg
Randolph Larrick
Council of Churches Opposes Campbell Suffrage Amendments
The Virginia Council of Churches representing 15 Protestant denominations advised an against vote citing vagueness in the proposed constitutional amendments. Bishop F D Goodwin heads the council in Richmond with the decision stressing the literacy test provision as especially objectionable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Council of Churches
Virginia
F. D. Goodwin
Episcopal Diocese of
Council
Department of Social Education and Action
General Assembly
Episcopal
Methodist
Presbyterian U
Attlee Budget Cuts Draw Swift Criticism in London
London observers say Prime Minister Attlee’s plan to trim the budget by about 8 percent is too light to curb inflation and demands an election. Conservative leader Winston Churchill questions adequacy as Labor factions debate the plan before a Thursday confidence vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attlee
Labor Party
London
Britain
Labor
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Churchill
National Health Program
Woman Driver Finds Manhole Cover in Trunk
A woman stopped after a clanging noise under her car and found a large steel manhole cover on the road. She said she tugged and pulled it into her trunk, then her husband suggested returning it to the city works department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbie
City Works Department
Senator Stresses Home Point Four in U.S. investments plan
Senator Millikin leads Republican senators against a domestic Point Four alternative to President Truman’s plan for high priority technical aid and investments abroad. He warns the program could imply imperialism and opposes guarantees against currency conversion and expropriation risks in a pending Senate bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell Washington
Millikin
R-Cole
Truman
U. S
United Nations
New York
Congress
Senate
Blue Ridge Hunt Field Day Honors Farmers at Woodley Estate
The Blue Ridge Hunt sponsors a Field Day on November 11 at Woodley estate near Berryville to honor farmers of Clarke and Warren counties. Events include hunt trial horses, coon and sheep dog exhibitions, horse shoe pitching, husband calling, two work horse races with $100 prizes, hog calling, and greased pig catching. Colonel Dougherty oversees prizes. entries via W. B. Claggett. Gates open at one. lunch on grounds. public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodley Estate
Berryville
Graham Dougherty
Colonel Dougherty
Blue Ridge Hunt
Clarke
Warren
Virginia
W. B. Claggett
Round Hill Plans Dedication For New Community Center
Round Hill residents near Winchester will gather at 7 30 p m Friday to discuss dedicating the near finished recreation center. The building has electricity and a heating plant expected soon.
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Round Hill
Winchester
Pall Mail St
Hit run charges bring 100 dollar fine to Tenn autoist
Hermando Lee Williams of Memphis was fined 100 for hit and run and 10 for reckless driving after his car struck an electric light pole near Allworth. Damages to the 1949 Ford were about 400 for the car and 75 for the pole.
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Tenn
Hermando Lee Williams
Memphis
Noee
Allworth
Williams
Bill Boyd
Loudoun St
Knoxville
Paul Baird
Willow Springs
N. C
Boyd
Baird
Alton E. Johnson
Arlington
L. Shackleford
Stephens City
Johnson
Cameron and
Boscawen
Freddy Patton
Woodland Ave
Kmg Orndorff
Orchard Ve
Evans Home executive group installs officers in Winchester
Clarke T. Cooper elected chairman of the Henry and William Evans Home executive committee. Garland Quarles vice chairman. Miss Charlotte DeHart secretary. Mrs. Joseph Hodgson treasurer. Committees set to assess 310 N Loudoun St repairs, estimate eligible children in Winchester Frederick Clarke counties, and draft by laws for the orphanage with next meeting November 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke T. Cooper
Amherst St
General Oil Co
Henry and William Evans
Garland Quarles
Charlotte DeHart
Virginia Avenue School
Joseph Hodgson
N. Loudoun St
Winchester
Frederick and
Clarke
Loudoun St
J. Lee Miller
Leonard Sirbaugh
George Smith
Earl Clowser
Howard Holland
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Mollie Janney
Langdon Janney
Liliam Sheetz
First Sermon Sunday By Rev York at Stephens City Charge
Rev C A York arrives from Bridgewater to take over the Stephens City Methodist charge and will preach his first sermon at 11 a m Sunday in Stephens City church. He and his wife and son will move into the parsonage Thursday. The Days also move to a Woodbridge parsonage on the same day. York served as morale officer in the army and has four sons, three in college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. York
Bridgewater
Stephens City
Stephens City Church
York
Molden
Atomic blast survival odds mapped by Army physicians
Maj. Albert J. Bauer and Capt. John R. Hogness report at the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy that survival chances vary with distance from an atomic blast. Four miles offers near certainty of escape, while within a half mile to one and a half miles risks rise. inner circle faces near total destruction. They advise public education and city planning for atomic emergencies and basic protective actions.
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Mexico City
Albert J. Bauer
U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office
Bauer
John R. Hogness
U. S. Army Medical Center
International Congress of Military Medicine
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Bikini
Army
Hogness
Bauer and
Bishops Allow Czech Priests State Pay With Reservations
Prague Czechoslovakia October 25 Catholic bishops authorize priests to accept government salaries and swear loyalty to the state while adding a conscience reservation unless it contravenes God church laws. They justify compliance to avoid arrest under the church control law amid prior opposition and widespread jailings of critics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Alexei Cepicka
Jet airliner marks maiden overseas flight at 450 mph
The De Havilland Comet completed its London to Castel Benito Tripoli route and return on a maiden overseas flight. The 1490 mile leg was flown in 3 hours 23 minutes at an average speed around 440 to 450 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
de Havilland Comet
Tripoli
Castel Benito
Ten in Taverns Blasted Down By Crazed Farmer's Shotgun
In Waterford Michigan a 57 year old farmer Joe Runyon opened fire at two taverns, wounding ten people before shooting himself. Two women were critically injured and later hospitalized at Pontiac General. Runyon, described as quiet, left a note for his son and died by suicide after a violent spree lasting about ten to twelve minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterford
Mich
Joe Runyon
Runyon
Pontiac General Hospital
Irene Zurawski
Helen Psciuk
Zurawski
Pontiac
Oakland County
George Taylor
Joe Jr
Etta Picher
Friesner
Reoa
Blaz
Feuding Air Force Navy Army Leaders Draw White House Attention
Congressional airing on inter service feuding prompts hurried talks with the President and top defense officials. General Omar Bradley and other JCS heads attend the Capitol meeting as Army Navy Air Force chiefs assemble amid public dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnees
Navy
Air Force
Matthews
Trebie Tee
Annone Bahr
White House
Matt
Penancy Aulute Senda Wast
Jon Cecelia Gee Cetain
John Crom
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Adm
Louis Denfeld
Capitol
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs
Defense
CITY TREASURER VOTE FOR SCOTT ATKINSON
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Voter guidance for CITY TREASURER election endorses Scott Atkinson amid discussions of machines and multiple affordable options from Kenneth E. Henry Co with an election date noted as Nov. 1p-10-22-T1 and Cp-10-24-38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Atkinson
Kenneth E. Henry CO
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Council of Churches
Marlboro
Martha Boyer
Middletown
George Ross Barr
Washington St
F. M. Trussell
Stephenson
Warren Sealock
Fairview Ave
Coal Retail Assn
Chicago
American Retail Coal Assn
J Atlee Schafer
Land
Armed Services
Services
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