Whitacre Heads CROP Organization
At a Frederick County CROP meeting in the county courthouse about 30 people attended Whitacre was named county chairman of the Christian Rural Overseas Program for the 1952 Harvest Appeal. Other officers were elected and the group planned a railroad car load of canned fruit for overseas relief and district canvassing.
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Frederick County Crop Organization
London
Whitacre
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Harvest Appeal
Ebeneizer Church
Federick County Board of Supervisors
Virginia
Carl Martin
Stephens City
Edgard. Hill
Market Street
Korea
India
Holy Land
Frederick County
Pravda Reads U S Presidential Campaign as Warmongering
Pravda in Moscow prints a half page summary accusing both Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson of serving monopolies. It brands both campaigns as leaders in imperialist aggressive policy and inflaming anti Communist hysteria.
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Moscow
Pravda
U. S
Dwicht D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Communist Party
Fort Morgan Alabama a Civil War and habitat site
Fort Morgan Alabama began in 1833 on a War of 1812 fort site. It fell to Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay during the Civil War and was later garrisoned in the Spanish American War and World War I. The casemented brick fortress is part of Fort Morgan State Monument and a popular picnic spot.
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Fort Morgan
Alabama
Admiral Farragut
Mobile Bay
Fort Morgan State Monument
Dennis Day TV Persona Shift Seeks Maturity In New Show
Hollywood notes Dennis Day abandons juvenile radio image for a grown up NBC TV persona in a Harold Loveman styled character. He will feature girl friends including Lois Butler and guest Connie Caivet with light romantic scenes while Alan Young and Red Skelton expand their TV projects and radio work.
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Hollywood
Dennis Day
Simdays
Jack Benny
Dennis
Harold Liev
Lois 3Utier
Corinne Caivet
Benny
Verna Felton
Mary McNulty
Verna
Red Skelton
M-G-M
British industrial students begin London University nuclear course
New York report notes ten young men from British firms start a nuclear engineering course at London University. They will research atomic energy and its medical and chemical uses, with practical work 40 feet underground under Britain's atomic energy staff at Harwell.
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New York
London University
British Information Service
Britain
Atomic Energy
Harwell
64 Year Old State Jurist Succumbs in Salem Virginia
Judge Whurston Lantz Keister dies at 64 after decade long illness. He led the Twentieth Virginia Circuit covering Roanoke city and Roanoke Montgomery and Floyd counties for 26 years. Survived by wife Marion and three sisters.
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Salem
Whurston Lantz Keister
Twentieth Virginia
Twentieth Circuit
Roanoke City
Roanoke
Montgomery
Floyd
Shenandoah County
Keisier
Roanoke College
Washington and Lee University
Harry Byrd
Herbert Gregory
State Supreme Court
Marion Keister
Sowers Rites Held Saturday Afternoon
Funeral services for Charles William Sowers who died Wednesday at Heskett Farm in Jefferson County were held Saturday at 2 p m from John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville. The Rev Clarence Lloyd officiated. He is survived by his wife Mrs Lelia Stickles Sowers his mother Mrs Clara Lee Huff Sowers seven sisters and five brothers. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery Berryville with pallbearers Paul Chapman Harry Heskett Dick Bell Ed Vickers Herman Swartz and Ed Allen.
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Charles William Sowers
Heskett Farm
Jefferson County
John H. Enders
Berryville
Clarence Lloyd
Lelia Stickles Sowers
Clara Lee Huff Sowers
Green Hill Cemetery
Paul Chapman
Leesburg Bar Backs Bain for 26th Circuit Judgeship
The Lou doun County Bar Association endorsed Attorney E. L. Bain Jr. of Warrenton for the twenty sixth circuit judgeship. The current judge J. R. Alexander will retire January 1.
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Leesburg
Loudoun County Bar Association
E. L. Bain Jr
Warrenton
Twenty-Sixth Circuit
J. R. Alexander
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J. C. Penney CO
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Congo Wall
Navy & Wine
Basen
White
E. Boscawen St
Marlin Perkins
Anderson
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