1949
Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1949:
Contents
January
- January 5 – Fairfax County Police Chief Carl McIntosh announces the promotion of Detective Joseph J. Howard to Detective Sergeant and the transfer of Private William L. Durrer to the Detective Bureau.[1]
- January 27 – Falls Church City Attorney LaRue Van Meter files suit in Fairfax Circuit Court seeking control of the city's schools, which a 1942 act of the Virginia General Assembly assigned to Fairfax County.[2]
March
- March 4 – 22-year-old Julian V. Davidson is arrested by Officer John A. Wahl after Davidson drunkenly crashes the Aeronca trainer he was flying beside Lee Highway, just west of Fairfax Circle. Davidson's passenger, Charles Eakin, was not hurt, and the crash occurred just a few hundred feet from the Circle Motor Court, which was owned by Davidson's father. Davidson's arrest is the first charge of drunken flying brought in Fairfax County.[3]
April
- April 29 – 29-year-old James R. Fincham is sentenced to three years in prison for charges stemming from killing 19-year-old Robert L. Wells in a traffic crash near Centreville on November 14, 1948.[4]
May
- May 4 – The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approves a proposal by supervisor C. B. Runyon to put a paid firefighter in each of the county's 11 volunteer departments, and to establish a central control and dispatch system.[5]
- May 9 – A 3400-pound pipe slips from the crane lifting it, crushing Charles Jones to death in Franconia.[6]
July
- July 10 – 29-year-old Harvey White shoots his 29-year-old brother-in-law Charles O. Garner to death at Garner's Bailey's Crossroads home to settle an argument.[7][8]
- July 21 – 23-year-old James F. Brooks is killed when he crashes his car into the rear of a tractor trailer on Route 211 in Centreville.[9]
August
- August 6 – Fairfax County Police Chief Carl R. McIntosh announces the promotion of 31-year-old Private John A. Wahl to the rank of uniform sergeant.[10]
- August 31 – The successful passage of a $3 million sewer bond issue in Fairfax County's Sanitary District Number 1 causes City of Falls Church officials to announce a temporary halt to their plans to annex 14.32 square miles of the county.[11]
September
- September 16 – Impatient 26-year-old truck driver Chester L. Painter kills himself and 29-year-old John C. Miller when he crashes his truck, loaded with oxygen tanks, head-on into the gasoline tank truck driven by Miller on the Cub Run Bridge on Route 50 in Chantilly. In the inevitable inferno that follows, both Painter and Miller are burned to death.[12]
October
- October 5 – Two-year-old Michael E. Miller is killed at the Oakton home of his grandmother, Ethel Mauck, when an abandoned stove falls over on him, breaking his neck.[13]
- October 10 – 29-year-old Harvey White is sentenced to 15 years in prison by Judge Paul Brown for fatally shooting his brother-in-law Charles Garner in Garner's home in Bailey's Crossroads on July 10.[14]
November
- November 10 – 69-year-old Oscar Detwiler shoots himself in the face with a 12-gauge shotgun at his farm in Clifton. Detwiler is taken to the Arlington Hospital, where he is pronounced dead.[15]
December
- December 23 – Despite making plenty of noise, 30-year-old Max N. Cecil, 24-year-old James Sebastian, 20-year-old Charles Riddle, Jr., and 19-year-old Robert C. Moseley managed to use a smuggled hacksaw blade to cut through one of the bars of their cell, then through two bars of a window of the Fairfax Jail, securing their freedom, albeit only temporarily. Resident jailer and extraordinarily sound sleeper William Low is alerted to the four men's absence several hours later, when the Washington D. C. police call the jail to alert him that they have recaptured Cecil. The other three men are arrested at the Dixie Pig tavern in Bladensburg, Maryland later that afternoon by Maryland state troopers and the Prince George's County police.[16][17]
- December 25 – 42-year-old Alton Via is found shot to death in the bedroom of his home in Tyson's Corner. No note is found, and it is mentioned that Via was scheduled to go hunting the following day.[18]
References
- ↑ "Promotions Announced By Fairfax County Police." Evening Star, 5 Jan. 1949, Two Star, p. 25. NewsBank. Accessed 26 Jan. 2018.
- ↑ "Falls Church Suit Asks Court to Give Control Of Schools to City"Evening Star, 28 Jan. 1949, Two Star, p. 29. NewsBank. Accessed 26 Jan. 2018.
- ↑ "Tipsy Landing on Lee Highway . ." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Mar 05 1949. Web. 11 Jan. 2012.
- ↑ "Hit-Run Driver Who Killed Boy Given Three Years." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Apr 30 1949. ProQuest. Web. 13 Aug. 2016.
- ↑ "Fairfax Board Approves Fire Control Setup." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. May 05 1949. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Web. 26 Oct. 2012.
- ↑ "3400-Pound Pipe Crushes Man to Death in Fairfax." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 16. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). May 10 1949. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
- ↑ "Fellow Lodger Killed After Row At Lacy's Corner." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jul 12 1949. ProQuest. Web. 8 July 2014.
- ↑ "Fairfax Man Gets 15 Years in Slaying." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Oct 11 1949. ProQuest. Web. 8 July 2014.
- ↑ "1 Dead, 9 Injured by Traffic Accidents in Nearby Areas." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jul 23 1949. ProQuest. Web. 29 Aug. 2017 .
- ↑ "Fairfax Police Promote Wahl to Rank of Sergeant." The Washington Post (1923-1954): M12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Aug 07 1949. Web. 11 Jan. 2012/
- ↑ Spivak, Judy. "Falls Church Delays Plan to Annex Fairfax Land." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Sep 01 1949. ProQuest. Web. 3 Sep. 2014 .
- ↑ "2 Drivers are Burned to Death in Tank Truck Crash on Bridge." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Sep 17 1949. ProQuest. Web. 29 Aug. 2017 .
- ↑ "2-Year-Old Oakton Boy Killed when Stove Topples on Him." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Oct 06 1949. Web. 23 Apr. 2012.
- ↑ "Fairfax Man Gets 15 Years in Slaying." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Oct 11 1949. ProQuest. Web. 3 June 2014.
- ↑ "Farmer, 69, Killed By Shotgun Blast Into Side of Face." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 17. Nov 11 1949. ProQuest. Web. 29 Aug. 2017.
- ↑ "Police Capture Three in Maryland Tavern at Gunpoint, Other Caught in District." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 2. Dec 24 1949. ProQuest. Web. 30 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Four Saw Way Out As Warden Sleeps." New York Times (1923-Current file): 26. Dec 24 1949. ProQuest. Web. 30 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Man Fatally Shot in His Home." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Dec 26 1949. ProQuest. Web. 3 June 2014.
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