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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1949
Page
9
Dr Glenn Clark spoke to a crowded audience at First Baptist Church last night. He announced a School of Prayer event tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist lecture room and will have breakfast with a group at George Washington Hotel.
Newport News along with Hampton Phoebus Elizabeth City and Warwick counties may consolidate under a council manager plan in the Lower Peninsula.
Mrs Meredith Anderson of 915 E Cork St wins a $289 electric dishwasher after finding the right key in a public contest staged by Molden Electric Co Ed Molden presents the prize in a display involving a store mannequin Hannah and a crowd of about 2500 on the final day Approximately 100 or more people attended the event with other successful participants named including Margaret DeSchon Robert Wiley Margaret Rinard Mary Wingfield Ralph Moores Beale Humphreys J H Brill Paul Moore Dorothy Donald Omer T Webb Claude Grove Charlie Anderson Annie Reed and Mrs Kathleen Maloney Valley Photo Center Pictures
Services for the late W Frank Plank were conducted yesterday at Kurtz funeral home with Rev. William A Wright presiding. Interment followed at Mt Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers named J H Yost W W Glass C R Grubbs Herman Hable Stewart Forney and Amos Shryock.
Local buyers quoted broilers 2 cents lower with Rock Cross priced at 26 cents per pound for 3 lb and up and 25 cents for under 3 lb. Red broilers follow the same 26/25 cent structure.
About 220 truck drivers stage a stoppage along the Pennsylvania Turnpike protesting the State legislature's failure to pass a bill raising allowable load weights.
Government witness Nicodemus testified that Albert Lannon urged communists at a Cumberland Maryland meeting in 1945 to sabotage industry and demoralize the population if the United States and Russia went to war. He said the plan included extensive nationwide recruiting and war effort disruption.
Senator Brewster of Maine challenged Vice President Barkley who said the GOP must aid enactment of President Truman's program. Brewster, head of the GOP senatorial campaign committee, argued Barkley overreached in asserting broad majority backing from last November.
Virginia Tech announces a $250 scholarship for the 1949 50 school year funded by the Virginia State Horticultural Society and its women's auxiliary. The award to a freshman will consider high school record financial need and demonstrated interest in horticulture. Applications must be filed through high school principals or county farm and home agents and mailed to the horticulture department by July 1.
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