Council Re-Elects Officials Names Mrs Allen Again
Four city officials were re elected and four fire wardens were named for one year terms by the Common Council at its September meeting last night. The council also voted to ask the corporation court judge to appoint the city planning commission as a zoning commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Corporation Court
Dorothy G. Allen
William P. McGuire
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
Lee Grant
Citiy
Rouss
Bernard Groves
Sarah Zane
R. B. Brown
Friendship
Wade Guard
South End
Norman Pope
Planning Commission
F. L. Largent
Airport, Armory and Recreation Committee
SPCA
Literary Fund
State Board of Education
Winchester School Board
Virginia Avenue
Quarles
J. M Steck, Jr
American Brakeblok Division
American Brake Shoe Company
Abrams Creek
Charles M. Zuckerman
Hoye L. Riley
Whitlock Ave
Handley Avenue
F.W. Danley
Chas. Murnan
Headley
Valley Ave
Virginia Apple Crop Down 19 Percent in September
The Virginia Department of Agriculture estimates the September 1 apple crop at 7.3 million bushels, a 19 percent drop from the August 1 forecast of nine million. Drought hits the Valley and northern regions. Southside Virginia benefits from August rains. Other crops show declines or gains, with corn, peaches, hay, tobacco, peanuts, soybeans, cotton, and sweet potatoes detailed alongside local city government notes and council actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
State Department of Agriculture
Burley
Potomac Shenandoah Navigation Lottery Promoted in 1811
Local history notes the Maryland State Lottery aimed at improving Shenandoah and Potomac navigation. First class offered 20 000 tickets with prizes up to 25 000 and 15 000, directors included Charles Simms and others, tickets sold in Frederick Berkeley Jefferson counties and Winchester and surrounding towns.
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Winchester Gazette
Shenandoah
Maryland
Adventurers
Charles Simms
Johah Thompson
John Mason
Henry Foxall
William Stewart
Frederick
Berkeley
Jefferson
Winchester
John Bell
Isaac Baker
Wiliam Davis
Millwood
Bacon Burwell
White Post
Oliver Funston
Front Royal
Thomas Buck
Thomas Mullen
Stephensburg
David Wilson
Berryville
George S. Lane
Martinsburg
Elisha Boyd
David Hunter
No Proven Asian Flu Cases Reported, Says Dr. Lindall
Dr A L Lindall of the Winchester Frederick County Health Department announced no proven Asiatic flu cases. Bahamians at the Winchester Fruit Growers Labor Camp faced respiratory infections, with some hospitalized but not confirmed as Asiatic flu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Lindall
A. L. Lindall
Winchester - Frederick County
Winchester Fruit Growers Labor
Fairmont Ave
George Troxell
J. B. Moore
Moore
Lindall
Virginia Medical Society
State Health Department
Judge Denies Delay in Virginia Pupil Placement Test Case
Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan refused to delay arguments on the NAACP motion to admit seven Negro students to Arlington County white schools. The hearing tests Virginia's Pupil Placement Act as Edwin C. Brown urged immediate enforcement of Bryan's July order while state and county attorneys pressed for delays or dismissal.
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Virginia
Alexandria
Arlington County
Albert V. Bryan
Federal District Court
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
James Simmonds
Arlington
Atty
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Bryan
Richmond
Edwin C. Brown
National Assn, For the Advancement of Colored People
Steps to Ease Racial Tensions in Nashville and Little Rock
A reader asks for locations of the oldest graves in Frederick County not in Mt. Hebron cemetery or churchyards and for private, often unmarked, graves of long deceased residents. The Star invites tips with location and name on the oldest grave to its managing editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Little Rock
Frederck County
Mt. Hebron
Frederick County
The
Star
Faubus Cancels Engagements Amid School Crisis
Integrated classes resume in Nashville as police curb disorders following the Nashville grammar school bombing. John Kasper and 10 Negroes are arrested. Faubus in Little Rock accepts summons for federal court over Central High School protests. Violence and bomb threats accompany integration efforts in Birmingham and other cities.
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Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn
John Kasper
Little Rock
Ark
Orval Faubus
Central High School
National Guardsmen
Faubus
New Jersey
Kasper
Nashville
Ben West
Birmingham
Ala
National Guard
Central High
North Little Rock High
North Little Rock
North Littl Rock
Hattie Cotton Grammar School
Newport
R. I
White House
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
Hagerty
Frank Clement
Clement
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement
Uncertain Path For Hurricane Carrie In Atlantic
The Weather Bureau reported Carrie near 20.5 N 52.4 W, stationary and weakening briefly. Wind speeds stayed around 110 mph with gales to 120 miles north and 75 miles south as forecasters warned no land threat yet and future movement remained uncertain.
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Miami
Fla
Carrie
U. S
Weather Bureau
H. W. Davis
National Fruit Apple Prices Are Revealed
The National Fruit Pro duct Co Inc announced day to day apple prices with federal-state inspection noted. Prices per hundredweight include No 1 2 1/4 inch up 2.25 2.00 For 2 1/4 inch up 1.35 1.20 Ni 2 2 1/4 inch up 0.75 0.75 and cider prices listed at 0.50. The firm said straight loads of apple juice or butter sales are 0.80 per hundred weight and plants at Winchester and Martinsburg opened for the 1957 season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Fruit Product Co., Inc
Winchester
Martinsburg
Faubus Faces Backlash Over Little Rock Integration
News analyst James Marlow outlines consequences if Gov. Faubus defies a federal order to admit Black students to Little Rock High School. The piece weighs political risks for Faubus and possible federal or public reactions, with page 4 reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
Faubus
Arkansas
Little Rock
Berryville Council Re Names Officials and Sets Up Committees
Berryville Town Council re appointed officials for the year and established committees including police streets and trash sidewalks and lights sewer and water budget buildings and personnel names. The council also authorized Mr LaVelle to negotiate land settlement for a four foot Lincoln Ave widening and noted holes on Page Street and a pedestrian crosswalk request at Main and Church Streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
J. O. Cainane
Lonnie Levi
Andrew LaVelle
Lewis E. Hart
Levi
Hart
H. J. Maxwell
Leland W. Broadstater
LaVelle
Broadsta
Page Street
Main
Church Sts
Wilkins Must Present Building Plans in Writing
Local businessman James R. Wilkins seeks to build a supermarket on the south side of Amherst Street between the Cumberland Valley Railroad and the old Shenandoah Valley Academy. The Common Council approved a resolution 11 to 1 requiring a written plan for council consideration before zoning action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Wilkins
W. Amherst St
Wilkins
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
Planning Commission
Public and
Amherst St
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Thomas G. Scully
Old Academy
Glass
Dians J
Scully
Counc
Dry Sawdust Sold by Henkel Harris in Winchester
Advertisement notes clean dry sawdust available at Henkel Harris with 1 to 3 truck loads weekly near 660 North Loudoun Street. Contact Mr Louks. Also lists Mutual of Omaha New Circle Security Hospital and Income Plan with renewal safeguard and a Winchester address for inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henkel-Harris
Loudoun
Louks
Mutual OF Omaha
New Circle Security
C. J. Fischer
Winchester Va
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Barr
Gochenour
Capitol Theatre
Thurs
Winchester Seed Co
Everard K. Meade
Winchester Armory
Charles Adams
Ernest W. Adams
Charlies
Ernest
James Wood High School
Mately
Star Photo
Carl Napps
Memorial Hospital
Pharmaceutical Houses
Syria
Beirut
Lebanon
Damascus
Syran
U.S
Abdul Hamid Serraj
Turkey
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Frank E. Taylor
Old County
Berryville Council
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