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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1947
Page
9
MOSCOW April 30 Soviet scientist Fesenkov says a minor planet may have struck Earth on February 12 1947 when a meteorite fell in eastern Siberia. Fragments pierced soil to bedrock and formed craters up to 15 feet wide, an exceedingly rare event. A Soviet expedition is examining the impact site.
Patricia Minor of Powhatan High School won the Group II poetry reading title at the state championship literary and forensic meet, duplicating her mother Mrs. C. R. Minor who won the same contest in 1924 for Orange High School. Her father is superintendent of the Boy's Industrial School at Beaumont, Virginia.
Winchester Community Concert Association announces a three concert season headlined by Rise Stevens with Rosario and Antonio Spanish dancers and Sascha Gorodnitski pianist. Dates to be announced in June as artist schedules are finalized. membership cards grant attendance.
The Berryville-Millwood baseball team defeated Hamilton 10 to 9 in the Blue Ridge League opener Sunday afternoon. Gray and Brumback pitched for Berryville, two home runs highlighted the game with Bill Lee homering in the fifth and Brumback sending a four-bagger into left field. Sunday Clarke faced Paris, Va, with game time listed as P.M.
The Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia is undergoing a thorough postwar beauty treatment. The Chesapeake and Ohio railway insists no revolutionary or theatrical effects will be incorporated and the plan respects the Greenbrier’s classic Southern enchantment.
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