City Bus Line to Quit This Month in Winchester
Suffolk attorney Thomas L. Woodward, co owner of Winchester Transit Lines, says the operation will end by September 30 unless the city or another buyer steps in. He offers to sell the buses and equipment for 32500, arguing a municipal line could at least break even. Councilman Claude Smalts notes surprise and contemplates options, as bonds and license issues complicate any continuation.
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Winchester
Thomas L. Woodward
Suffolk
Lee Grant
Winchester City
Woodward
Claude Smalts, Jr
Winchester Council Public Safety Committee
Winchester Memorial Hospital gets new front footings and steel
English Construction Company rushes to set front pier footings for Winchester Memorial Hospital with steel workers arriving Oct 9. Project engineer Robert Carpenter notes 18 footings remain and most are shallow. Completion targets include December exterior masonry and December 1-15 kitchen area, with boiler tests underway and about 220 total workers on site.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Robert Carpenter
J. B. Urell Co
Philadelphia
Carpenter
Winchester Contemplates Drug Plant Site
Winchester is a candidate site for a pharmaceutical facility, per a telegram to Mayor M B Clowe Jr from a New York industrial consultant. The inquiry asks the Chamber of Commerce for data on labor supply, rail access, power, water, and taxes, with initial employment around 100 mostly women and about 25 acres with rail siding.
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M. B. Clowe, Jr
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Clowe
Chamber of Commerce
Commerce Secretary Foresees Continued Arms Drive After Korea
Washington reports Secretary Sawyer says no relaxation in military prep is likely after Korea victory. He hints at possible business controls to funnel materials to armaments, including prioritizing military orders and potential requisitions to prevent hoarding. He cites current output near 282 billion dollars and promises safeguards for small businesses.
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United States
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TV Tax Delayed to November as Congress Delays Bill
Washington reports a new television tax will take effect November 1 instead of October 1 due to a brief lag by Congress in passing the tax bill. The delay pushes back start of the levy on set purchases and related devices.
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Receipts Boost Washington Government Finances
Heavy quarterly income tax payments in September, mostly from corporations, push government receipts ahead of spending for the first time this fiscal year begun July 1.
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Washington
Unseasonal Chill Grips Winchester Amid Smoke from Canadian Fires
Residents shivered as a Saturday night cold snap dropped temperatures to 38 degrees with frost possible tonight. Smoky skies from northern Canada forest fires lingered, darkening streets and delaying lighted stadiums in several cities.
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Italy Begins Land Reform Program
Premier Alcide De Gasperi’s government started a nationwide land reform. In COTRONE Italy, 30 peasant families received the first parcels in Santa Severina, with 400 families in the village to get plots of seven to ten acres. The program aims to redistribute about 3.7 million acres to some 400,000 peasants.
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Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Santa Severina
Salvation Army Chief Outlines 1949 Accomplishments
Capt. Walter Wolfe, head of the Winchester Salvation Army, outlined 1949 achievements as the group budgets 7 000 of 35 000 for the Red Feather drive. Locally 139 street services reached thousands, 104 Sunday services served 3 639, and 52 weekly services aided 1 211. The Ladies' Home League offered home nursing, economics and sewing, clothing for Europe, and 708 hours visiting 490 homes. The Youth program served 2 445 in Sunday School with 405 in 81 classes. The Army aided 1 506 homeless and transients, with 68 women seeking food, clothing and lodging, while providing meals to 226, transportation for 20, clothing for 200, and aid to 1 433.
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Frederick County
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Richmond Man Is Stabbed to Death
A confrontation in a Richmond confectionery left Julian Godsey dead and Floyd Tinsley wounded after two U. S. Navy sailors aboard the Marquette allegedly fought several men and women who had made slighting remarks about the sailors. Alfredo Saria faces murder and felonious assault charges. Juan Bernales is tied to suspicion of murder and felonious assault.
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Major Wright
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Bernales
Miss Alpha Ford
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Katie Ford
Kiwanians Plan Play for Needy at Handley School
Kiwanis Club members mapped initial plans for a musical revue and minstrel show titled Ridin High to aid underprivileged children. The two-evening performance at Handley School Auditorium October 11 and 12 starts at 8 o'clock with Ed L. Molden as general chairman and a committee including Howard Cather, George Masters, Charles Pine, Gordon Baxter, Marvin Gore. Richard Seward of Rutland, Vermont, is director.
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George Washington Hotel
Ed L. Molden
Howard Cather
George Masters
Charles Pine
Gordon Baxter
Marvin Gore
Richard Seward
Rutland, Vt
Earthquake Damages Crete Homes Injures Five
An earthquake in eastern Crete Saturday damaged about 400 houses and injured five people, disrupting local areas as dispatches report. Meanwhile Geo Washington Hotel Corp stockholders are urged to attend the annual meeting in person and not by proxy, a notice signed by a fellow stockholder.
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Athens
Greece
Geo. Washington Hotel Corp
Merchants oppose memorial building on parking lot site
Winchester merchants oppose placing the War Memorial on the Kent and Boscawen streets municipal parking lot. At a George Washington Hotel meeting the War Memorial Committee favored the monument but urged a different site to avoid traffic congestion. A resolution to bar the parking lot site passed unanimously.
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Airplane Crashes In Railroad Yard Near Evansville
A Civil Air Patrol plane crashed and burned in a railroad yard near Evansville Indiana killing three officers and injuring golfer Skip Alexander. The dead include Col. James R. Barnett of Sioux Falls and Lt. Oliver A. Singleton and Lt. Duane M. Reeves. Alexander suffered severe burns but was expected to recover. The crash occurred next to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois mainline three miles north of the city as the craft attempted an emergency landing.
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South Dakota
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van Buren
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Barnett
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Charles Thomas
Gardner B. Hillyard & Son Ainting
E. Piccadilly St
Congress returns to big issues of taxes statehood rent control
After a party line override of President Truman's veto on the tax bill, Congress faces vast tasks when it reconvenes. Issues looming include taxes on corporate profits, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, and rent control with a possible new bill by Rep Spee. The tax overhaul will raise withholdings and a new excess profits tax may come.
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Ground-Fighting Paratroopers Move Into Korean Struggle
Washington reports the Army is mobilizing airborne troops for action in Korea with paratroopers arriving at Kimpo airfield and potentially linking with ground forces. Analysts say timing remains uncertain as airmen may perform raider and beachhead roles to disrupt enemy lines and support advance.
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Local Questions Prompt Elks Club Apple Statue
The note asks two reader questions: the age of the large apple statue in front of the Elks Club and the establishment year of Mt. Hebron Cemetery. Answers appear on the Editorial Pages.
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Flag duel as Marines push deeper into Seoul in battle for Duk Soo
Allied columns press into Seoul targeting Duk Soo Palace and government cluster. Marines and soldiers cross the Han River, seize South Mountain heights, storm streets from west and south, and airlift 2,400 airborne troops to Kimpo as Inchon forces land to join the siege.
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Eclipse of Moon Visible Across North America Tonight
New York reports a total lunar eclipse scheduled for tonight if skies are clear. Timetable in EST shows penumbra start at 8:20 pm and totality from 9:31 pm to 11:17 pm with final exit by 2:13 am, moon likely coppery red unless clouded.
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