Court finds man not sorry, but arson claim sparked by fire
In Newport News Virginia a man testifies he severed his home in flames after his wife rushed inside to save belongings. He is charged with breach of peace as fire crews kept him back at the lines. A Richmond ruling confirms a school bond referendum may share the November 7 general election ballot. The attorney general says no law prevents the referendum from being held with the general election and notes savings in cost and voter time.
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Newport News
Vhis Castlie
S. Baskarvallie
Ballie
Richmond
J. Lindsay Almona, Jr
Stanley A. Owens
Prince William County
Owens
Almond
Sales Directory Sept. 97 Estate Listings
January 12 noon referencing auction items including livestock machinery and household goods at multiple locations in Winchester areas and Noon sale on Sept 30. Listings show trustees and addresses with dates and times for estate sales in Virginia towns.
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O. M
Charlies Town Pike
Summit Point
Bessie M. R
North Win
Georgia White Post
Jesse Dix
Fairview Ave
Winchester
James Poct
Ck County Court House
Loudoun St
Marines and Mascot Rabbits Aid Battlefront After Landing
A Marine amtrac unit breaches river defenses near Seoul as combat opens. Sergeant Kent carries a cardboard box with three white rabbits that become a morale mascot for frightened civilians, easing fear as artillery and mortars join the assault.
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M/Set
Anthony Kent
Salina
Kas
Kent
Mike
Seoul
Transport contract gains and new driver pay terms
The operator offers 5 1 4 and 5.4 cents per mile increases but drivers now receive 4.9 cents. Over the road Northern runs at 1600 miles yield a $4 weekly raise in year one and $2.40 in year two. Overtime shifts reduce from 14 hours to 10 after one-day runs, with increased compensation.
Bride-To-Be Under Guard As Night Whistler Menaces New Orleans
An 18 year old bride to be Jacquelyn Catlow, engaged to State Trooper Herbert Belsom, 36, is under police protection after a prowler whistles funeral marches and issues threats. The caller warned of harming her and her five year old brother Mickey. Police guard her relatives’ home as she plans to wed October first.
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New Orleans
Jacquelyn Catlow
Jacquelyn
Clifford Catlow
Paradise
Herbert Belsom
Herbert
Jackie
Whistler
Rotary luncheon features two student speakers
Miss Mary Eisenberg and Ronald Wilson Jr will discuss Girls State and Boys State at the weekly Rotary luncheon. Next week the club meets at 6 p.m. in the George Washington Hotel for Professor Otto F Frederickson of Madison College on Russia's intentions.
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Mary Eisenberg
Ronald Wilson, Jr
Rotary
Rotary Club
George Washington Hotel
Otto F. Frederickson
Madison College
Russia
Partnership Taxes Stall Committee On Increase Bill
A Senate House Conference Committee hit an unexpected snag delaying final action on a 5 billion dollar tax boosting bill. Chairman George of the Senate Finance Committee warned an agreement seemed unlikely, though a later session was planned. The panel had agreed on major items but stalled over tax treatment of family business partnerships.
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Washington
Senate House Conference Committee
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Warren County Man Killed in Korea
Warren County's Pvt. Robert Lee Henry 21 is confirmed as the first local casualty in Korea. His father Luther F. Henry was notified by the U S Department of Defense that he was killed in action on Sept 1. The Great Frederick Fair opens in Frederick Maryland on October 3 for five days featuring livestock agriculture poultry and household exhibits with sulky races and a livestock cavalcade.
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Robert Lee Henry
Warren County
Luther F. Henry
US Department of Defense
Henry
Frederick
Mapmakers Label Kansas Part of Great American Desert
Historical maps dated before 1860 placed Kansas within the Great American Desert, deeming the region unsuitable for cultivation and settlement.
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Kansas
Great American Desert
Martinsburg Man Plans Bazooka Style Rock Blaster
Martinsburg resident Laud Byers plans to adapt the bazooka principle to mining and quarrying. He and associates formed Shaped Explosive Manufacturers Inc to produce the new shaped charge explosive. The firm reopened Byers’s plant north of Martinsburg and will start production around the new year with 26 more acres acquired.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Byers
Pockeyers
A of
West Virginia
Korea
Virginia
Winchester council acts on traffic and fountain plan
The city approves a 1600 refund to Mr Himelright and backs traffic control efforts. A 54 name petition asks two hour parking on Amherst street be rescinded. The safety committee and Chief J T Boyd take up the issue. A WOW gift fountain for Loudoun street is discussed for the 1951 encampment. decision awaits Burkeville meeting with invitations to hold the encampment in Winchester.
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Himelright
Little Garden Club
Mem
Amherst Street
Safety Committee
J. T. Boyd
Dabney Watts
Carl Strickler
Corporation Court
Dorsey Hottle
The
Woodwen of the World
Wow
Loudoun Street
Court House
Winchester
Woodmen of the World
Hottle
Burkeville
Fountain Plans Await Council Approval
WOW has no opposition in the matter but must submit final fountain plans for council approval.
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WOW
Polls in early elections the year 1824
Straw polls date back to 1824 with the Harrisburg Pennsylvania paper sending reporters to ask who readers would vote for among Henry Clay Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams and William H Crawford for president.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvanian
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
William H. Crawford
Answers to the Page Four Quiz Questions
A reader supplied the quiz answers listing items about music swings strings eye for an eye and a tooth, Spot No 5, true statements, Maj Gen Walter C, Rear Adm Husband EB, The Press, 1864 to 1873, London, and a suggested line about Mr Jones.
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True
Short
Walter C
Kimmel
Husband EB
the Press
London
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Order of the Golden Rule
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Pwerini Gofa S
Bert
Massey-Harris
Grubbs
C. A. Rson
W. Clifford St
William 8. Sargent
National Ave
H. William Butler, Jr
245
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N. Washington &I
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E. E. Baker
Leonard Sirbaugh
Fred Glaize, Jr
J. M. Steck, Jr
W. P. McGuire
Dirge Whistler Theaters
Francis M. Lemay
H. J. Heinz CO
M-M
McCulloch Chain Saw
U. S. 11
Sergeant’s Sale
H. W. Ebert
N. Loudoun Street
Whiting
G. G. Baker
Coleman Dunn
Glaize & Brother
N. Cameron St
C. I. Brumback & Son
Henkel M. Lamp
Heatwolk Motor CO
N. Braddeck
Stephens City
Sanitary "Heating CO
Omp
N. Cameron
Food Center
Plymouth
Chapman Motor CO
W. Boscawen St
South Main St
Columbia Broadcasting System
Power Co
Osu Gg Ag
Said Farm
Old Charles Townpike
Route 274
Stephenson, Va
Clarke County
Bam
Prince
Nivenea
Guernsey
Jersey
Chester
McCormick
Chas. R. Duvall
G. E. Vickers
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