190. Winchester Short Notes.

1940. Kosher Pickle Hamburgers 10 Cents - Coney Island 5 Cents - Don't Forget The SCOOTER TRACK  At The North Side Gulf Station - 2 And 3 Wheel Scooters - Rollie M. REYMAN, (This would later be Johnny FLATTER's Shell station.)
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1968. Anchor On Strike.  The Winchester Anchor Hocking Glass plant's operations were shut down and pickets patrolled the plant after a strike was called by negotiating officials of the Glass Bottle Blowers AFL-CIO unions.
  Roy WYNN, president of GBBA AFL-CIO local 14, was scheduled to return to Winchester from two weeks of negotiations with industry and union heads at Miami. Fla.
  Striking at Winchester are Wynn's local and the women's local 204, comprising around 500 in all. However, the strike affects approximately 1,200 Anchor employees at Winchester.
  Salaried foremen and office personnel continued at work and were not challenged by pickets.
  Plans were underway for a trailer to be set up near the plant gates for the use of pickets on duty in the damp, foggy weather.
  Although the strike was not yet officially called at midnight Wednesday, a token number of pickets were already on duty at that hour. However, operators did not shut down their machines until 1 a.m.

51 Days Later.   The 51-day strike of GBBA AFL-CIO unions against the glass industry ended when union conferees at Philadelphia voted to accept a contract.
   However, Winchester's Anchor Hocking plant did not reopen immediately, pending settlement of some local grievances.
  The new union contract provides a 20 cent hourly increase the first year for unskilled workers and 30 cents for skilled workers. Four per cent increases are called for in the second and third years of the contracts duration. Retirement age is reduced from 65 to 62 without reduction in benefits, and pensions are increased produce .
  Value of the entire package is estimated at 95 cents.
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1956. Tastee Freez Grand Opening - Under New Management  Keith and Mary Elizabeth AKARD  Malts & Milk Shakes  2 for price of 1   845 North Main St.
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1949. Kroger Store Reopens.   The Kroger store at 215 West Franklin St., closed for the past week for extensive renovation, was reopened today.
  The self-service market has been completely modernized, according to Rodgers N. BROWN, branch manager of the Kroger company in this area. Refrigerated produce racks have been installed and open-top refrigerated dairy cases will speed up shopping in that department. A new type frozen foods case which displays many varieties of frozen foods is another feature.
  Another unique improvement in the self-serve method of shopping has been the installation of self-serve smoked and luncheon meats. Pre-packaged cuts of all sizes are kept in this case.
  Scientific illumination is provided through all-fluorescent lighting. The checkout system has been rearranged to provide faster service in that department.
  Glenn SNYDER, 125 East Franklin street, is manager of the store. Having spent several years with the Kroger company, he is a veteran of the grocery business. Head meat cutter Ralph KIRCHER, 421 Thompson, is also a long time Kroger employee, his service with the company dating back to 1939.
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1963. Winchester Young Man Killed.   James Lee ("Bo") PIGG, age 20, was killed, probably instantly, when the car in which he was riding crashed into two cement posts, hit a telephone pole, flipped over and landed on its wheels against a fence, around 2 a.m. Sunday.
  The accident, which happened on Ohio 502 a half mile east of the Indiana-Ohio line, also
 injured the driver of the car, Bob ADDINGTON, 17, Winchester, route 1.
  After it crashed, the auto caught on fire and the Palestine fire department was called to put out the blaze.
  Pigg was a Driver high school graduate with the class of 1962, and at the time of his death was employed by Maul Brothers at Winchester.
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1949. "The Salt Creek Desperadoes"   Winchester broke into print again this week all over America when the December edition of Laugh Book magazine went on sale on the news stands throughout the country. In the foreword of this issue, Charley JONES, its editor and publisher, describes an old fashioned Thanksgiving and the setting of his description is Winchester and Randolph county.
  Every month between fifty and a hundred local citizens buy the Laugh Book on local news stands but there are very few of them who know that it is written by a local resident who grew up in and around Winchester and who still has many local friends.
  It is probable that most of them fail to catch the connection because Mr. Jones no longer goes by the given name under which he was known while attending local schools. Ask any local "youngster" of fifty who grew up here and the story will be entirely different.
  The change came when Mr. Jones was in the army. The army recognizes first name and middle initial only, so the former Everett Jones became Charles E. Jones to the utter confusion of his old-time friends and acquaintances. And the Charles was of course "shortened" to Charley.
  Under the caption "Letter From Charley," Mr. Jones very accurately tells what life was like around Winchester along about 1910 when he lived at 630 South Richmond street. The Charles ALBRIGHTs then lived next door north; Francis SIMPSON lived in the middle of the same block; and Louis and William MENDENHALL lived down on the corner of Carl street.
  The Orange street bridge was known as "Second" bridge and the gang that frequented Nichols' Pasture was known as "The Salt Creek Desperadoes."  Local friends who have known Mr. Jones all his life remember the mischievous escapades of his youth and are not at all surprised that he would turn out a jokesmith.
  In the latest edition of Laugh Book magazine he tells about going to Grandma's house in the country, there to spend the Thanksgiving holiday. Travel was, of course, by horse and buggy, with him seated on a board down in front. His grandmother, the visit with whom he describes, was Mary Ann GRUBBS, for years a resident of Huntsville. The uncles whom he mentions as Jackson and Jefferson are in reality Denver GRUBBS, of the Ford garage and Russell Grubbs, of the Sinclair station on West Washington.
  This is not the first time Mr. Jones has written about Winchester and its citizens. In his June edition of this year he wrote quite at length about the days when Francis Simpson was a Western Union messenger, earning 50 cents a week, and Merrill NICHOLS was harboring in his father's barn a huge collection of live snakes of all kinds and colors.
  Also mentioned was the time the Desperadoes "borrowed" a pile of fence posts to make a raft, with which they floated down Salt Creek on a spring flood - at the eventual expense of Mr. Simpson.
  Mr. Jones' Laugh Book magazine is now on sale at the news stand.
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1945. Lost My Wife.   Will the man who stole her and my Grape-Nuts please bring back the Grape-Nuts? I can run a farm without a wife - but not without the energy in those malty-rich, sweet-as-a-nut Grape-Nuts!
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1949. Courtesy Café.  The Courtesy Café, 102 North Main St., formerly the Main Café, will be open for business this week. Redecorated and remodeled, it will be under the new ownership and management of Mrs. James (Ann) NANCE, who was in charge of the Beeson club house dining room for two years and manager of the Rainbow café three.
  Mrs. Nance will cater to parties, banquets and club meetings after the weekday 7 p.m. closing hour. There is glycol vapor spray for health. Employees are Ruth HITCHENS, cook, Lucille KELLY, Janie (SANDIFAR) HUTCHENS, Mary Alice Nance, Patty Helms and Maxine SOULE.  (This was during the Polio scare and glycol vapor spray was thought to purify the air.  mh)
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1963. Excitement For The Golfers!  Get your Christmas gifts for the Golfers in your family by calling:  Terry ROBERTS 47854  or  David ROOSA 24831   We Have Everything From Top Name Balls To Bags.

Also:  1961.  Golfers this season will have no excuse if they complain about their driving game. J. Cody LONGNECKER announced this week that his Sample Lake Driving Range is now in operation west of Winchester. Several years in the planning, this will be the only range in operation in Randolph county.
  Jay reports he has a complete line of supplies and golf balls and the yardage markers start at 100 and run out to 250 yards. At the present the range has five tees or driving mats, one of them constructed for players to use irons from. Jay says he also is planning to install two grass tees and possibly a bunkered sand trap to really give golfers a workout.
  The Sample Lake range is located west of Winchester on Ind. 32. Signs will tell you where to turn north off the highway. Like all the rest of us, Jay is hoping for some decent weather this weekend.

Also.  1968.  Golf Pro Alan WHITE Resigns.  Alan White, Beeson golf course professional, has resigned his position to accept a job as professional instructor at the Yule Golf Club at Alexandria, Ind., Winchester Mayor Ralph WEST said.
  White attended Winchester schools and later moved to California. He returned to Winchester to accept the Beeson position January 1, 1963. He is married to the former Jean Wickersham, daughter of Duane Wickersham of Winchester.
  The Yule club includes an 18 hole course and is located south of Alexandria on highway 9, and seven miles north of Anderson.
  White will be succeeded by Sebron REYENGA, Mayor West said. Reyenga, 40, retired from the U.S. Army in May, 1967 and since that time has worked at the Hope country club at Hope, Ark. He is married to the former Wanda JONES, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Jones, former Winchester residents now living at Hunting Park, Calif.
  The Reyengas plan to arrive in Winchester at the end of February and will live at 128 East Franklin St.
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1949. ANNOUNCING our NEW AIR CONDITIONING  Dine Where It Is Cool   Lunches - Sandwiches - Short Orders - Home Made Ice Cream, Sundaes, Milk Shakes, Malts   Ice Cream To Take Out   24 Hour Service    RAINBOW RESTAURANT
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