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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1950
Page
2
A reporter travels near the Korean front where signs reading Danger Forward mark troop routes and a fighting unit. The day mixes quiet fronts with occasional shelling and casualties while mud, rain, and rugged terrain shape a wary patrol through guerrilla ambush risk and American South Korean forces.
Virginia reported 8 weekend highway fatalities raising the 1950 toll to 604. The total covers crashes across the Old Dominion with tours planned of Williamsburg Jamestown York Town and Stratford. U S Chief Justice Fred M Vinson expected among distinguished guests at the ABA Judicial Administration session.
Richmond will host the opening of the Second Annual Conference of Chief Justices with chief justices or their representatives from 47 states expected. The session runs here Friday and part of Saturday.
A 21 year old white service station attendant was held without bond on a rape charge regarding a 29 year old Black mother of two. Vernon Frith of ville was identified by Sheriff Morton T aman. The alleged rape occurred late Friday on a desolate road off State Route 22 in northern Henry County after the woman left Bassett with her two children and another child, seeking Franklin, when her car stalled. A man offering help steered the car the wrong way and took an isolated route, the sheriff said.
Brig. Gen. L Jomer L. Sanders praised American pilots as unmatched in handling fighters. He credited municipalities for shaping youth with mechanization, daring, patriotism, and win drive during a speech to the League of Virginia Municipalities.
The 1950 Community Chest Campaign aims for 35000 with Henry Covington as general chairman. Voluntary workers will run the drive mirroring last year and budgets for member agencies are announced, including Boy Scouts of America 8150 and Salvation Army 7000.
Winchester citizens will be treated to a 7 p m parade tomorrow to celebrate the Gibson Drum and Bugle Corps anniversary. The local colored musical group will be joined by a drum and bugle corps from Hagerstown as they march through the downtown business section. An anniversary reception at ey's Recreation Center will follow with music by Rusty Mason.
After a 10 week idle period the 2365th Field Artillery Group will meet at 7 30 p m at the Reserve Armory on South Bradford Street Major Leary Baker commanding officer announced Enlisted members headed for physical examinations will be given latest status updates at the meeting All members both commissioned and enlisted are urged to attend.
Funeral services for Miss Ethel Tinsman of near Bluemont were held at 2 30 p m at Providence Chapel in Clarke County. Interment followed in the church yard with pallbearers Earl La Follette Wilmer Carroll Gerald Payne Berkeley Fowler and Marshall and Wilmer Shepherd.
Albert Howard Darlington age 10 carpenter and brother of James M. Darlington of Winchester died at his home in Inwood West Virginia at 10 a m Saturday He was born in Gainesboro son of the late James and Mary Hudson Darlington Survived by his widow Florence E Webber four or three sons and a sister Funeral services set for 2 p m tomorrow from the home with interment in Pine Grove Cemetery Frederick County
Two other men aboard swam to shore after the skiff overturned in rough seas near Chignik Lagoon Alaska. The incident left one crew missing and presumed drowned.
State Trooper H. E. McInturff reported three accidents during the week end in the county. A 1935 Chevrolet driven by Mrs Daisy Mauck of Middletown hit the Cedar Creek bridge on Route 11 after her brakes locked. Damage about 100 dollars. A 1948 Ford truck driven by Harold Taylor of Charleston WV ran off the road into an embankment near the same bridge. 35 dollars in damage. Raines of Gore treated for head bruises. Taylor was discharged while a drunken driving warrant was prepared. The third crash near Route 50 in Gore involved a 1950 Chevrolet truck driven by Marion Lineberg and a 1948 Studebaker driven by Robert Johnson of Washington. Johnson lost control on wet pavement. damage 150 dollars to the Studebaker. No injuries or arrests.
Winchester Virginia Social Security Office manager Harry Albert Nelson says there will be no delay in issuing higher benefits under the amended Social Security Act. Training sessions with field office managers covered overtime processing and mailing notices to beneficiaries as checks rise this September, with payments from a $20 minimum to $150 maximum for family benefits. About 1,532 local residents will qualify for immediate increases, while 15,000 more nationwide will gain coverage January 1.
The President expresses uncertainty over how the new law will enable selective price and wage controls, suggesting general controls may be used if necessary. He notes plans to curb speculation via larger down payments and faster payoff and says rationing could be ordered if shortages arise.
A troop train wreck occurred about 5 a m seven miles east of West Lafayette. Colonel Townsend escaped injury by jumping from the last car as officers organized relief and called for nurses and physicians from Cambridge Coshocton Zanesville and New Philadelphia.
Newly admitted patients at Witney General Hospital include Lesley Campbell Bloomus Betas Jessie Updike Mrs Charles Madson Siler Route Mrs Harry L Hayes Senseney Road Mrs Frank Kiger Jr National Ave Mrs Wilbur Dyke 321 S Brad dock 81 Mrs James L Baker Middle town Mrs Raymond C Lee Stephen son Jacob J Hinkle Dorcas Edgar D Combs Augusta Rene Glendon Ritenour Front by Mrs Ernest R Winstead Front Royal Mr Athell McIntire Cross Junction Mrs Thomas Edward Carter Strasburg Miss Edna M Brumback Middletown Mr Carroll FP Settle Upperville Woodrow Dennis Bruce wn.
Answers to the Page 4 quiz include Leon Keyserling for 1, Nes as 000 times Earth, New York City for 4, be spared for 5, Somervell for 6, a quoted line about a guest for 7, does not for 8, no for 9, and Russian wolfhound for 10.
A Sept 15 to Sept 27 schedule lists auctions by W R Thompson at White Post. Herbert Larrick Trustee at Front Royal Real Estate. Samuel J Shaver Estate near Maurertown. John W Costello at Frederick County Court House and 315 E Piccadilly St Winchester. Mrs Clint Foley Berryville. O M Lloyd near Summit Point. Items include livestock farm machinery antiques real estate and household goods.
Dr A T Hawthorne will be guest speaker at the Winchester Club luncheon tomorrow at the George Washington Hotel. He discusses his European trip. J T Massie Jr will report on the National Convention held in Washington recently.
Sudan game warden A. Forbes reports that females outnumber males five to one on a recent trip through Equatoria Province near the Belgian Congo. He observed herds consisting mainly of females with only a few small bulls.
Applications are being accepted for positions including chemists physicists meteorologists and clerical staff. Pay scales vary and details are available from Mr. Simpson at the Winchester Post Office who will provide forms and information.
The approximate weight of a flea found on a cat or dog is about .0012 of a gram. One grain equals 0.035 avoirdupois ounce.
A cryptic set of clues giving numbers and hints for a crossword like list. Includes Hebrew measure seven and Italian actress who died in 1924 along with references to artist stands time past and serf term.
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