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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Apr 20, 1948

Page

6

Short Round Girls Sought by Artists

New York April 20. Industry insider Hall Conover says the model scene favors shorter, heavier women with bigger waists as cover girls. Teen models drive demand while top photos earn up to 25 dollars an hour. few reach that tier, many make 350 dollars weekly at best.

New York Harry Conover Conover Choo Choo Johnson Jinx Falkenberg Candy Jones Miss Jones Jones Conover New York City

Kernstown Cabin Camp Partnership Dissolved in Virginia

The partnership between Joseph F. Wallace and Herbert D. Seay, known as Kernstown Cabin Camp in Kernstown Frederick County Virginia, is dissolved. Herbert D. Seay takes over all assets and obligations and continues the business under Kernstown Cabin Camp as an individual. Dated April 13 1948.

Joseph F. Wallace Herbert D. Seay Kernstown Cabin Camp Kernstown Frederick County Virginia

New Proprietors To Reopen Hershey Drive In Restaurant

Hershey's Drive In, closed since December, will reopen under new management Thursday. Owners Timothy R and Nancy Byrne of Pittsburgh and Walter L Green of Hyattsville Maryland will run Hershey's Drive In ice cream bar and cafe at the attached storeroom by the Hershey Bulk plant on Route 11 south of Winchester. Curb service will be offered. Equipment from the former operation has been remodeled for the new venture.

Hershey

Government began grave marking with marble headstones in 1867 act

The government started marking veterans' graves under a February 22 1867 act directing the War Department to establish national cemeteries enclose them and mark each grave with a durable stone headstone or marker. It notes the Bureau of Reclamation later built over 100 dams.

P.C. A Department of the Army Congress Secretary of War

Rainfall figures from Winchester Research Lab data

The report lists 24 hour rainfall ending 7 am as none and April totals 3.25 inches. Year to date rainfall shows 9.40 inches with an average annual rainfall of 36.20 inches over a five year span. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1946 are given with values for each month.

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