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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1950
Page
3
The article traces a Russian stockpile in Korea formed after occupation forces left North Korea. It notes ammunition and equipment were left and expanded with surplus Russian military stock. Estimates of North Korean strength rose from 150 tanks to about 300 Soviet tanks and troops from 96,000 to about 200,000.
Bombing attacks during the First World War began in December 1914 when the first German projectile hit English soil and continued until May 1918 when the Germans made their maximum effort in this form of attack.
Middletown Firemen with a fire truck and the Women’s Auxiliary will join the Strasburg parade this evening as 17 town companies participate. The Fun Festival committee, led by Vice chairman Charles L. Wright, set August 21 to 26 for the festival at the Middletown School grounds. A Middletown fire truck is also to participate in the Timberville parade next Friday evening, August 10.
Hollywood column explores James L. Saphier a Beverly Hills packager who builds radio and TV programs by assembling writers casts and directors. He represents Gordon Jenkins Don Wilson Ken Carpenter Bob Hope Jay Stewart Herbert Marshall and others while packaging hits like Kiss and Tell and The Saint. He notes sponsors shifting funds back to radio as TV grows.
In Ladakh, Buddhist gompas lose estates over 125 acres under a state order, with lands to pass to workers. Monks may retain 20 acres and must farm remaining holdings. Plan to redistribute smaller holdings under 125 acres is developed, with compensation for forfeited land to small farmers. The reform ends large land ownership in the state.
Historical medical records report multiple cases of two hearts at birth. In 1938 a 57 year old Italian lumber clearer was described with two hearts, one larger than the other, and he lived in Mount Barker Australia.
Harold B. Phillips of Winchester has accepted temporary work at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth after six weeks of ROTC encampment training. One of 35 cadets chosen for his record, he will work in August then return to VPI for the new term.
A percussion instrument is any instrument struck by a mallet or stick or used in paired strikes to produce tones. Common percussion instruments include bells drums piano kettledrum xylophone cymbals gong triangle castanets and celesta.
Charles Thomas McClung infant son of Mr and Mrs William McClung of Waynesboro died at Waynesboro Community Hospital yesterday afternoon. He is survived by a sister Elizabeth a brother Franklin grandmother Mrs Franklin McClung of Waynesboro and grandparents Mr and Mrs E H Dabney of Staunton. Funeral services were to be held in Thorne Rose Cemetery there this afternoon.
The UN statistical office estimates North America at 210,908,000 people or 22.5 per square mile. United States density is about 50 persons per square mile.
The Brucetown and surrounding areas list Sunday worship times for multiple churches including Brucetown Methodist Charge Welltown Crums Stevenson Burnt Presbyterian Nelson Carpenter sup t Salem Congregation J Floyd Wine Cephas Fahnestock W L Riggleman Calvin Wolfe and others. Services span mornings afternoons and evenings with Sunday School and special events for many congregations. Vendors note a lawn supper at Clearbrook and basket dinner at Mt. Pleasant.
Second Opequon Presbyterian Church at Opequon led by Rev Robert Bradford holds worship and communion at 11 am with Sunday School at 10 am Stephens City Methodist led by Rev Chas A York offers worship and Sunday School Fairview hosts worship at 9 45 am and Sunday School at 11 am Stephens City Sunday School at 9 45 am and worship and communion at 11 am Kernstown ends school at 9 45 am and worship follows
The chamber defeated an effort to change the text by a 131 to 91 vote as part of a debate on United Nations support and mutual defense. An amendment to set fair average prices across materials and services was rejected 112 to 46, while an act against hoarding passed 112 to 46.
Fragmentary notes discuss wartime controls and exemptions with references to President Truman and a House amendment by Repr McKinnon. It notes potential presidential authority to regulate selective prices and wages if labor cost indices rise beyond a threshold and compares levels to a date earlier in the year.
Graham flour uses the whole wheat kernel with coarser bran. Whole-wheat flour uses most of the kernel but with coarser bran removed. Both contain about 2 percent more and 4 percent less carbohydrate respectively, showing little difference in content.
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