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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1950
Page
3
A discussion on phobias notes these fears often affect intelligent and wealthy people and can arise in childhood. It recommends treatment, socialization, structured routines, and gradual exposure to crowds. It also covers tuberculosis as a contagious disease and advises avoiding contact with infected individuals.
Volunteer brigades battled a forest fire that burned over 60 acres of timberland near Charlottesville. District Forester D. G. Wilfong blamed an 11 year old for starting the blaze and estimated timber damage at 600 dollars. Police later used Culpeper bloodhounds to pursue a separate arson report near Buffalo Ridge in Nelson County. that fire was stopped before spreading.
Clarence Decker, 25, a Roanoke veteran, was convicted of first degree murder for the February stamp slaying of his mother. A Hastings Court jury, after deliberating 1 hour 12 minutes, recommended life imprisonment. the state sought the death penalty. Judge Dirk A. Kuyk to sentence Decker today.
Nettie Myrtle Decker, 50, was beaten to death in her home two months ago. The accused son, whose name appears as Decker, did not deny killing his mother but claimed he could not remember the events surrounding the slaying. A court sanity board had ruled him sane before trial.
The court martial trials of two former officers from the battleship Missouri are adjourned until Monday. Cmdr M J Wood testified for Lt Cmdr Frank G Morris Jr, saying Morris recommended course changes that could have avoided the grounding. Millett testimony suggested failure to examine papers on running a secret electronic range.
A man found dead in an abandoned house near South Hill had no immediate identification. An inscription in a New Testament read John J. Walters born Phoebus Virginia January 16 1885, the body showed no signs of violence and had died about a month earlier. Coroner W J Ozlin deemed death natural. the body carried a March 3 1950 newspaper and $8. The discovery was made by Thomas E Hartman of Winston-Salem North Carolina camping nearby with his wife and two children.
Victims of a highway robbery identified three escapees from a Halifax prison farm as the robbers. The trio is wanted in 15 states for the shooting of Patrolman William Roscoe Mutter in Damascus and the theft of $4. Police also linked them to a separate hold up near Abingdon, and they are named as Amos Nuckols Tyler Hodges Jr and George Able. Mutter was wounded in the right shoulder and locked in the car trunk before the bandits fled in the McCourt Cougar vehicle.
Crossword clues listed: 12 Small drinks 14 Serpent lizard 17 Unit of force .G.8. of a pple 29 Pack away 3 Direction taken 31 Instrument of torture 33 Foreigners 34 Grasped a7 87 Web-footed £ 3 Not proton 47 Pronoun.
Police in Myaungmya district arrest four Burma Communist Party members while they are tattooed for invulnerability. Burmese believe ink designs grant protection against injury from animals and weapons. The practice is widespread among bandits.
Clarke County streams Millwood Run Ashbys Branch Morgan's Mill and Fox Branch have trout stocked in preparation for the April 20 season opening. Four of the stocked fish are back for 1950.
Mrs. Douglas Scruggs of 1115 Orchard Ave is admitted along with Miss Hilda F. Vann from Rt. 3. Also listed are Mrs. William Bauserman of Moorefield West Virginia Mrs. Lynwood Sverhart of Boyce and Mrs. Perry Wells of Augusta West Virginia.
The Wo men of the Church Winchester Presbytery Synod of Virginia hold their annual meeting at Romney Presbyterian Church on Tuesday and Wednesday. Guest speakers include University of Virginia’s Robert L Bidwell and Dr S R Beihl of Martinsburg W Va. Registration runs 10 a m to 3 p m with theme Every Woman Enlisted for Christ.
The morning worship service at Macedonia Methodist Church will be held tomorrow morning at 8 45. Sunday School will be held at 9 45.
Easter sunrise service begins at 6 a.m. tomorrow at the First Brethren Church on Berryville Ave. Rev. Paul Dick announced the event with the Young People’s Fellowship in charge of the program.
Tel Aviv facing growth as engineers draft a new water system to support a population surge. City aims to reach about 250000 residents with expected influx of Jewish immigrants worldwide, doubling the size.
Mrs. Mattie Cornelia Owens aged 54 died at 3 o'clock this morning in Winchester Hospital after two months as a patient. She was the widow of Holmes P. Owens and mother of Calvin Kane Owens and Mrs. Herbert Hodgson. Funeral services are at Omps Funeral Home Monday at 2 PM with Rev. Emory Elsmore officiating. Burial at Paynes Chapel, Ridgeway, West Virginia.
British plan ters persist in seeking Malayan and Singapore rubber estates two years after terror campaigns. E C Martin, vice chairman of Sime Darby and Co., says steady supply of young men with the right qualities will form the industry’s backbone.
Funeral services for David P. Wingfield who died yesterday at the Winchester Memorial Hospital will be held Monday at 11 a m from the Jones Funeral Home with Rev W A Wright D D officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hebron Cemetery pallbearers are Albert Spaid Ritter Harry Anderson Cleveland Smedley Almond Powell George Higgs Charles Clark and George Clowser
Funeral services for Mrs. Blanche Pitcock will be conducted Monday with friends and relatives meeting at 1 30 p m at the Jones Funeral Home. The cortege will proceed to Ridings Chapel for final rites at 2 p m with Rev E C Day officiating. Burial will be in adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers are Elwood Ritenour James Kline Harry Kline Thurman Ballenger Austin Conner and Crowell Conner. Also a luncheon note with peach halves cottage cheese watercress and sour cream or French dressing.
Gospel singer and radio commentator H T French of WINC will address a set of questions during Sunday morning broadcasts at 8 05. He will reveal information related to the listed topics including question four.
London reports the death of Vaslav Nijinsky at 60 in a city clinic. The famed dancer, born in Kiev in 1890, had been insane for 31 years after mental collapse in 1919, and his wife Romola cared for him through his long dark period.
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