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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1948
Page
3
Richmond report says an idle industrial worker’s anxieties rise, and the psychiatrist urges keeping him at his regular job. Dr. Frederick Dershimer of E. I. DuPont Co. cites transferring him as enabling avoidance and worsening performance at the plant.
An old ad touts TEOL as a strong fungicide with 90 percent alcohol that penetrates to reach and kill the athlete's foot germ in one hour and offers a 25 cent back guarantee. It urges readers to buy at any drug store and highlights Boyd Drug Co.
Winchester and Berryville delegates attended the MGM film State of the Union preview at Loew's Capital in Washington with Frank Capra, producer director, and host. Guests included Meade Dorsey, Mrs. Tom Bald ridge, Mrs. Dorsey, and others, alongside President Truman and Margaret Truman.
The Frederick Clarke Baseball League opens with Middletown hosting the Stonewall Rebels and Stephens City also in the title mix. Clarke College holds a win over Harpers Ferry as Stephens City visits Gore while Boyce meets Gainesboro. Berryville has an open date.
A compact sales notice promotes Uncle Sam's Almanac 1948 calling it a handy reference with 52 pages of everyday facts. It urges readers to send twenty cents in coin to The Winchester Star Information Bureau for a copy, providing fields for name address city state.
Miss Mary France Cadwallader 47 of Stephen City died yesterday in Huntington West Virginia. She was daughter of Edgar C. and the late Eulah Young Cadwallader and lived in Stephen City until about 1914. Survived by her father two brothers and two sisters all in West Virginia.
In Front Royal Rufus E. Purdum faces challenge from Dr. Carl B. Miller for the mayoralty on June 8. A council race features two seats with Johnny Marchi challenging incumbents Frank Stoutamyer and Walter Carter.
Oklahoma report describes the ninth annual rattlesnake hunt at Okayene with about 5000 hunters bagging 500 rattlers. Snakes go to zoos, circuses, labs, and as food while anti venom serum and cancer pain-killers are noted as byproducts of the hunt.
Funeral services for Mrs Allive R Lup ton were conducted April 8 at Jones funeral home by Rev W E Eisenberg with burial at Mount Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers included Edwin Marker Robert Snapp Harry Glaize Robert Bywaters Ralph Marker and Thomas Gatewood. A male quartet sang Asleep In Jesus and By Cool Siloam. Out of town attendees included Harry M Lup ton of Little Rock Arkansas Mr and John Nichols of Rockingham county and Miss Lucille Lupton of Monongahela Pennsylvania.
A Census Bureau calculation shows 93 941 000 people eligible to vote in the United States for the coming presidential election. It splits into 46 181 000 men and 47 760 000 women, a figure about one million higher than in the 1940s. A separate record notes the heaviest steer slaughtered in the United States was a Holstein of 4 628 pounds, reported by the Holstein Friesian Association of Brattleboro Vermont from 1910.
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