Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft-spoken stranger turned up in Winchester, Va. (pop. 13,600) one day last week, and paid a solemn call on Oscar Harry, superintendent of the Mt. Hebron Cemetery. His name, said the stranger, was J. G. Floyd; he was a South Carolina undertaker, and he had come to remove a body from Mr. Harry's keeping...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...
Southern Hospitality. In Pennington Gap, Va., at the dedication of the new Lee County jail, Carpenter Lee Maness, the first workman on the building, over-celebrated, became its first inmate...
...believe that the people of Kamela know so little about trees. As for your correspondent: Didn't he ever see a fence stapled to a sapling? And did it grow skyward with the tree? . . . WILBUR O'BYRNE Blacksburg, Va...
...Around Richmond, Va., health workers sprayed DDT, poured oil on ponds and waterholes to stem a mosquito-borne outbreak of eastern encephalitis (brain inflammation) which started a scare. Two encephalitis deaths were proved, four more suspected. ¶ New U.S. polio cases reported last week totaled 773, up 30% over the week before-and not far behind the 802 tallied in the same week last year. ¶ The German-founded Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor...