1948
Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1948:
January
- January 14 – 74-year-old Fred Corum is struck and killed by a car driven by 24-year-old Luther B. Stanley on Route 28 near Centreville.[1]
February
- February 3 – Fairfax County Police Lieutenant Henry T. Magarity is promoted to the newly-created rank of inspector, while Detective Sergeant Grafton L. Wells is promoted to lieutenant and given command of the department's detective bureau.[2]
- February 27 – 65-year-old J. C. Bare is killed and 48-year-old Clate H. Baldwin is fatally injured by a pickup truck driven by 34-year-old Cecil I. Davy as he walks along Route 211 west of Fairfax. Davy is arrested the following day at the farm near Centreville where he works by Fairfax County Police Sergeant Richard F. Utz and Private Julian Burke and taken to the Fairfax Jail. Baldwin dies in the Arlington Hospital late on March 1.[3][4]
March
- Several test wells are dug at the site of Edward Carr's proposed Springfield development, but fail to find sufficient ground water to support the planned population of 25,000.[5]
May
- May 14 – Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Paul E. Brown appoints Robert R. Dye to the Centreville District seat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to serve the unexpired term of Daniel W. Buckley, who himself expired May 9.[6][7]
July
- July 11 – Three men, 35-year-old Henry Johnson, 29-year-old Benjamin H. Turner, and 18-year-old Raymond Nash escape from the Fairfax Jail after tampering with the lock on their cell door. All three men are recaptured by 7:45 p.m.[8][9]
August
- August 4 – Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Paul E. Brown issues an order declaring that the town of Falls Church will become a second-class city on August 16.[10]
- August 12 – 3-year-old Kay Sowers is burned and mortally injured in a fire on her parents' farm in Herndon. The injured child is taken to Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., where she dies the following evening.[11]
- August 16 – Falls Church becomes a second-class city.[10]
November
- November 11 – 3-year-old Linda E. Titcombe is killed when she falls out of a truck driven by her grandfather Aubrey Dailey near his store in Forestville.[12]
- November 14 – After liberating a truck from his employer, Floris dairy farmer Carter Magill, 29-year-old James R. Fincham kills 19-year-old Robert L. Wells when Wells crashes his motorcycle on Lee Highway near Centreville.[13][14] Fincham flees the scene and is arrested on November 21 near Front Royal, Virginia.[15]
- November 25 – 4-year-old Mary M. Proctor is mortally injured when she falls out of a second-floor window of her family's house at 212 N. Cherry street in Falls Church. She dies two days later at the Arlington Hospital.[16][17]
References
- ↑ "Man, 74, Killed by Car on Route 28 in Fairfax" Evening Star, 15 Jan. 1948, Three Star, p. 29. NewsBank. Accessed 22 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Police Promote Magarity to Inspector" Evening Star, 4 Feb. 1948, Three Star, p. 24. NewsBank. Accessed 10 Feb. 2018.
- ↑ "Fairfax Man Seized As Hit-Run Driver In Fatal Accident" Evening Star, 28 Feb. 1948, Two Star, p. 8. NewsBank. Accessed 22 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Countian Held in 2 Highway Deaths." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 12. Mar 03 1948. ProQuest. Web. 22 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Planned Fairfax City to Get Needed Water Supply June." The Washington Post (1923-1954): B1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Mar 30 1949. Web. 6 Dec. 2011.
- ↑ "D. W. Buckley, Supervisor in Fairfax, Dies." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. May 11 1948. ProQuest. Web. 29 Aug. 2017 .
- ↑ "Robert R. Dye Named Fairfax Supervisor." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. May 16 1948. ProQuest. Web. 29 Aug. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Prisoners Flee Cells, Enjoy Freedom Briefly." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jul 12 1948. ProQuest. Web. 30 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Broken Spoon Helped Three Escape Jail." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 2. Jul 13 1948. ProQuest. Web. 30 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Olesen, Donald. "Falls Church Will Become City August 16." The Washington Post (1923-1954): B13. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Aug 05 1948. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ "Girl, 3, Dies of Burns in Farm Blaze." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Aug 15 1948. ProQuest. Web. 9 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ "Fairfax Girl, 3, Killed in Fall from Truck." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Nov 12 1948. ProQuest. Web. 31 July 2016.
- ↑ "Hit-Run Death Truck found but Driver is Still Missing." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Nov 16 1948. ProQuest. Web. 13 Aug. 2016.
- ↑ "Hit-Run Driver Who Killed Boy Given Three Years." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Apr 30 1949. ProQuest. Web. 13 Aug. 2016 .
- ↑ "Auto Kills Pedestrian; Hit-and-Run Arrest made." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Nov 22 1948. ProQuest. Web. 13 Aug. 2016.
- ↑ "Girl Placed in Iron Lung After Fall." The Washington Post (1923-1954): B1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Nov 27 1948. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ "Girl Dies of Injuries from Fall." The Washington Post (1923-1954): M22. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Nov 28 1948. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
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