Destruction After Editorial Sparks Window Damage
A witness recalls an editorial leading to vandalism at a first floor business office and composing room. Damage is estimated at about $2,000.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1952
Page
2
A witness recalls an editorial leading to vandalism at a first floor business office and composing room. Damage is estimated at about $2,000.
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A series of livestock and auction notices from October to November list events at Verona Staunton Rippon Winchester Warrenton Orange and Kernstown with registered Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cattle, real estate auctions, antiques and furniture sales, with names of auctioneers and trustees and event times.
At the United Nations Vishinsky is expected to rebut Dean Acheson’s charges of Soviet complicity in Korea. The Political Committee paused awaiting the Soviet line as delegates anticipate a lengthy reply to Acheson's claim that prisoners may stay in their captor countries if they choose. The issue centers on whether prisoners should be repatriated or allowed to remain.
Berryville Presbyterian Church women sponsor a turkey dinner and bazaar on Friday November 7 at Clarke County High School cafeteria. Meal starts 5 30 p m with many bazaar items for sale and a new country store selling potatoes jelly jam pickles relish and candy plus white elephants children's benches hand painted baskets gourds and dried herbs. Wisecarver's Gents Shop Berryville will display bazaar articles in a window next week. Chinese in the United States have about 60 family names Chan Wong and Lee are most common.
Fires rage across more than twenty states in the East and Midwest with thousands fighting blazes. Snow and rain bring limited relief in parts of the region as 450 fires scorch 150000 acres in West Virginia and nearly 200 fires affect 77500 acres in Kentucky.
Oregon Senator Ben Wayne Morse, now campaigning for Adlai Stevenson, labels yellow journalism and communism as America’s greatest internal dangers. He criticizes the press’s political alignment while praising the Times and Post-Dispatch and condemning the Chicago Tribune as a prime example.
John David Provoo a 36 year old former Army sergeant on wartime treason charges testifies through his counsel he was forced under threat of death to broadcast for the Japanese captors in Corregidor era. The defense contends Provoo acted under orders and during mistreatment as a prisoner. The case, heard in Federal Court, could carry a death sentence if convicted.
Reports from Macau say 15 Chinese Nationalist gunboats and three Communist craft fought for 12 hours in the Pearl River Estuary between here and the Portuguese colony Monday night into Tuesday morning. Outcome not known.
Virginia Attorney General Lindsay Almond states the war clause in the 1952 act allows servicemen to vote without registration or poll tax while in Korea. He notes no formal war declaration is needed and that genuine residence in Virginia must be proven beyond military postings.
Sen John J Sparkman of Alabama, despite laryngitis, delivered six speeches in Oregon and Washington as part of the final week of campaigning. He attacked Republican nominees Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon in Oregon before heading to Montana for two more stops.
GOP and Democrats scramble for Texas 24 electoral votes with nonpartisan groups, churches, and civic clubs mounting activism. Militant Eisenhower and Stevenson factions push turnout while Dallas Ballot Battalion, Jaycees, League of Women Voters, and churches advertise rides and prayers. Brownsville merchants close for voting access. Houston backers target absentee voting for expectant mothers. Notary services offered to hospital patients to swear absentee ballots.
Net sales for the first nine months of 1952 by the O Sullivan Rubber Corporation were 4 652 000 compared with 4 917 600 for the same period in 1981. Nine month net income this year was 114 222 or 23 cents per common share versus 172 686 or 38 cents last year. Figures released by Vincent A Catorella, president and chairman.
Mrs Sallie Lupton Pallhon of Virginia Beach widow of Charles Pallhon died Monday in a Norfolk hospital after a brief illness. Born September 30 1873 in Capon Bridge WV she was the daughter of the late Jessie and Rachel Lupton. Survived by daughter Alfretta Owens and son Lee Pallhon both of Virginia Beach sister Rebecca Whitacre and brother James Pallon of Capon Bridge plus nieces and nephews. Funeral Thursday at 11 at Omps Funeral Home Capon Bridge led by Rev John Hottie with interment in Fairview cemetery Gore. Pallbearers will be nephews. Body arrives Thursday morning.
In the Amazon region Marajo at the river mouth cowboys guide cattle by dugout canoes during the rainy season. The practice shows how locals adapt transport and farming to seasonal flooding and waterways.
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