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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1950
Page
9
States tighten resource oversight with new agencies and funds. Wyoming allocates 750000 dollars and forms a five member board to manage results. South Carolina creates a water regulation authority. Wing establishes commissions to oversee oil and gas wells and regulate oyster fishing.
President Syngman Rhee announced that South Koreans would be conscripted under a law adopted ten months ago by the national assembly. He said the move was needed to support United Nations forces fighting in Korea after previously stating no draft would occur.
An 75 year old Calgary garden unearthed a buffalo graveyard where thousands of remains were recovered. Plows exposed bones as land was broken for a suburban garden, revealing a historic slaughter by Indians and white settlers at the base of a cliff.
FOR SALE Peaches Middle Road No 628 M Rogers RF D 1A Call S C 182W13. FOR SALE Canning tomatoes 1 50 by Winchester 8078. FOR SALE Steel cots Army surplus 3 98 in excellent condition repainted 4 98 Adapters for making double deck beds 1 00 per set of 4 New mattresses 6 25 7 95 Used mattresses 5 45 Sheets 1 59 A N Store 12 N Loudoun Phone 7747. FOR SALE Timothy Home grown Recleaned Phone Stevens City 118 1 1 An AM radio Almost new Bargain at 25 Phone 8852 after 6 p m. bee
America previews a new postwar cargo ship the 8. O. Bland named for Vir ginia congressman father of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The prototype aims for 20 knots speed and 10 500 deadweight tons capacity matching a Liberty ship, costing 5 million dollars as a model for mass production to replace wartime designs.
Sealed proposals in duplicate will be received by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Educational Foundation in Blacksburg Virginia until 2 00 PM Monday September 1950 for the construction of two staff residences at the Mellon Pasture Research Station one mile south of Middleburg Virginia Plans and specifications may be obtained from P B Potter Agricultural Engineer at a $10 refundable deposit Bids must be accompanied by a 5 percent certified check or 6 percent bid bond and all bids over 20 000 must be registered Contractors in Virginia. The owner may reject any or all bids and waive informalities.
A building permit was issued to Smith Transfer Corp for a one story 40 by 100 cinder block warehouse to be built one-fourth mile south of Winchester on Route 11 East. Estimated cost is 12 000 dollars. Also permits issued to Mrs Bertie L Snapp Rt 1A to repair a dwelling nine miles from Winchester off Middle Road after a fire for 3000 dollars and to Joseph and Ima Bugarski Winchester Rt 1 to add a 17 by 20 addition and alter entrance to a restaurant three miles south of Winchester on Route 522 for 1500 dollars.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars call for Russia to halt the war and urge UN action. A separate VFw vote is noted with unspecified details.
A report notes a planned cooperative effort by the VFW and labor groups to mobilize against Communism. It mentions a New York City focus for the campaign and references historical context tied to 1512 declarations by Julius II and Adam Pope.
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