Auto Plants Gear Up For Record September Rush
Auto manufacturers begin 1956 model changeovers as Ford Chrysler Desoto Mercury Dodge Hudson Nash Packard and Plymouth move to new lines. Dealers face higher factory prices while absorbing some costs to clear 1955 inventories. Retail sales rise with strong home goods and apparel demand and a looming peak Christmas season.
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New York
Ford
Chrysler
Desoto
Mercury
Dodge
Hudson
Nash
Packard
Plymouth
Winchester and Nearby Collisions Reported In One Day
A sequence of auto crashes across Clarke and Winchester produced injuries and property damage. In Catlettsburg a two car collision left a seriously injured woman. another woman suffered minor cuts, with a child unhurt. Clarke County saw a 1950 Ford leave the road after skidding, damaging posts and a fence. In Winchester three accidents on city streets caused various vehicle damages, including a backing-out collision on a parking lot and a right-turn crash on Cameron Street.
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Pital
Catlettsburg
Stella Childers
Memorial Hospital
Childers
Clarke County
U. S. Rt
White Post
Moore
Henry C. Burchard, Jr
Arlington
Winchester
Margaret Coriine Williams
Stanley Maylon Cooper
Rt. 2
Maurice Lake
Chevrolet
N. Cameron St
Piccadly
Officer Lake
Chrysler
Alexander Basso
Yonkers
N. Y
DeSoto
Brooks L. Hawk
Orchard Ave
Alfred I. Turner
Briggs Co
Washington, D. C
Cameron St
Richard F. Youngblood
Liberty Ave
Braddock St
Multi Estate and Real Estate Auctions Planned Around Winchester
A sequence of auctions is set from SEPT. 9 to SEPT. 24 across Jefferson and Frederick counties. Items include dairy cattle hogs farming equipment furniture real estate horses hay and household goods with multiple auctioneers named such as E T Snider W B Lewis Paul Miller and Charles R Duvall. Public house deeds and lots are listed for sale at Kerns Town and 519 S Braddock St Winchester plus a Ridgeway West Virginia school lot sale.
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Carl R. Lee
Rippon
Summit Point
Withers
W. D. Orndorff
Milton Harris
Joseph Newlin
Kernstown
E. T. Snider
A. Crisman
Frederick County Court House
S. Braddock St
Ezra W. Fiddler
Ridgeway
W. Va
Lewis
Martha N. Bonham
Jefferson County
Paul E. Miller
Sarah Daugherty
Winchester
Harrison Miller
Orchard Ave
Charles R. Duvall
Albert W. Lee
Paper Mill Road
Auto Truck Crash Kills Three Near Suffolk
Police report a fatal auto-truck collision on State Route 32 eight miles south of Suffolk. Isaac Hare Jr. 21 of Carnpeake North Carolina Wilbur Savage Baines 38 of Suffolk and Otha Lee Van Holland Nansemond County died in the crash as Hare was passing a truck in light rain.
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Suffolk
Isaac Hare, Jr
Carnpeake
N. C
Wilbur Savage Baines
RFD
Otha Lee van
Holland
Nansemond County
E. O. Cummings
Hare
Sales Tax Favored as Best Means of Raising Adequate School Funds
The Virginia Conference on Education endorses a state sales tax as the primary method to raise sufficient funds for public schools. Delegates argue current local assessments fall short, urging a survey of practices and greater state support. Recommendations include extended schooling to grade 14, teacher scholarships, and higher literary fund appropriations.
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Richmond
Virginia? Conference On Education
White House
Flood Idled Workers Find New Jobs in Northeast
The Labor Department reports more than half of about 130000 flood idled workers have found jobs, with many returning to regular positions or joining rehabilitation work. States warn some may be idle after mop up ends as area businesses resume. Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island and Pennsylvania report thousands may be unemployed two months or longer and 431000 initial claims filed nationwide in the week ending August 27.
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Washington
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
Mitchell
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Runaway Minued From Page 1 Culet Incident
The girl fled after an alarming telephone call. she asked to return to her real father in West Virginia and not to her stepfather. Rita Mae’s mother and stepfather, Alfred, an insurance adjuster, married five years ago. The Hann family moved to Staten Island about 15 months ago.
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Culet
West Virginia
Rita Mae
Alfred
Suzy Clay
Price H, W. Va
Hann
Staten Island
Three Killers Die In Electric Chair In New Jersey
Three men Alfred Stokes Harry Wise and Albert Wise were executed in the electric chair at a New Jersey prison for the 1954 holdup killing of Union police sergeant Clinton E Bond. Prosecutor H Russell Morss Jr. called them a “team of death and destruction” after Gov Meyner refused clemency and Supreme Court justices declined stays.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Alfred Stokes
Harry
Albert Wise
Harry Wise
Albert
Stokes
Clinton E. Bond
Tuscan Dairy Farm Inc
Union
Union County
H. Russell Morss Jr
Robert B Meyner
Meyner
U. S. Supreme Court
Burton
Justice Frankfurter
Bendix Trophy Race Postponed At Air Show Opening
The Bendix Trophy event was postponed due to poor morning weather as the National Aircraft Show in Philadelphia opened. Officials warned the rest of the day could be canceled if conditions fail to improve. the six F100C Super Sabres race awaited tomorrow to challenge the transcontinental record, with crowds anticipated for the three day display of military aircraft.
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Philadelphia
George Aiir Force Base
Victorville
Calif
Two Detroit Children Die in Ice Box Tragedy
Two Detroit children Marvin Jones aged 4 and Michael Jones aged 3 suffocated after being trapped in an unused ice box in a vacant apartment. Missing for ninety minutes, they were found by older boys hired to clean the unit.
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Detroit
Marvin Jones
Michael
Juanita
How's Your I Q Answers Revealed on Page Four
The quiz answers include Banjo for question one August for two, Twice the area for three, Partly in each for six, Yes for seven, No Congress must enact coinage laws for eight, Pacific coast for nine, and Niccolo Machiavelli with a note on mispronunciation Proviso Pronounce proe vie zoe accent second syllable.
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Banjo
Congress
Pacific Coast
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Piccadilly St
Winchester Star
Lewis F. Sprague
Allentown
U. S. Rt 11
Bartonsville
Harold Bageant
Jones
Dr. Sprague
Sprague
Minor Motor CO
N. Cameron
Agrigo
American Agricultural Chemical Company
Butler
Wyck St
OMEGA
Grant
C. 1. Brumback & Sons
Hampshire
New Hope Road
Llampshires
Earl S. Parrish
Staunton, Va
State Department of Education
Chas. R. Duvall, Auctioneer
I. Q
True
Alexander Hamilton
Glaize & Bro
Winchester, Va
Doll
Star
Prince
McCormick-Deering
W Va
D.S. T
Admiral
Crosley-Shelvador
Guardian-Service
China Service
Eureka
Knox
S. Loudoun St
WM. Hensell
Guernsey
Jersey
Farrow
Poland
China
McCormick- Deering
New Idea
International
G. E. Vickers
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