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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1952
Page
9
Field rep W Haynes of Davey Tree Expert Co notes trees thrive on a balanced diet of water and nitrogen rich fertilizer. In wet spring, trees need ample watering to prevent top wilt and foliage overload, while deep watering acts as first aid to maintain vigor.
A reader asks how many ingredients typically go into a good perfume. The query notes a wide variety of perfumes and implies some scents use many components.
In Carbondale Illinois an English teacher recalls Robert Lewis Taylor, once one of her poorest students. She recalls his request to write a story and notes a sum now held by publishers as proof of his success.
Fragmentary text references a fivefold executive role and a superstition tied to the number thirteen. No coherent details or clear entities are present in readable lines.
Public notice for road projects involving multiple routes across Caroline Accomack Pittsylvania and other counties. Details include contract numbers, project lengths measured in miles, paving types, and areas such as City of Richmond and Portsmouth. Dates indicate work scheduling through August 19, 1963.
A summary of a pamphlet by Science Research Associates warns that children 8 to 13 read comics widely and spend hours daily with screens. It urges moderation, balanced schedules, and parental guidance to mitigate horror, violence, and negative value signals while leveraging media as educational tools.
The telephone company and its union resumed bargaining after a period of stalemate. Company officials and union leaders reported progress on key issues including wages health benefits and work rules as talks continued.
Beckwith, a Pacific War veteran, was hanged at Fort Madison State Prison after being convicted of the June 22 1949 murder of Irma Jean Stahi at a Morrison beer tavern. He spent 27 months on death row and faced Iowa's 40th execution. The case involved a mutilated body found in the tavern walk‑in cooler.
Readers are advised to keep cool during hot weather and avoid overexertion as the season brings high temperatures and heat risks.
In Tazewell Virginia a 93 year old J H Hall of Mercer County West Virginia married Roxie Bailey Rutherford 63 of Bristol Virginia. The unusual union creates a web of in law ties as Hall becomes father in law to his own daughter and to his own son in law. The couples intermarry and form a circle where Mrs Hall becomes mother in law to her own father and the two wives become each other’s step daughters and step mothers.
In Canberra the Australian government says Communist Party membership today is about half of 1949 levels, with 12,000 members then. Labor Minister Harold Holt credits a government plan since 1949 for penetrating communist ranks and notes some unions are now led by noncommunist executives under court supervision.
Jerome C Bowman 62 died at his residence 1642 Robert St after two years of declining health and ten days of serious illness. Born June 26 1890 in Hardy County West Virginia he moved to Frederick County Virginia and later Winchester. He worked 21 years for Shenandoah Silica Co at Gore and belonged to the Methodist Church and Modern Woodmen of America Camp 13553 Gore. Surviving wife Edith L Hott Bowman a daughter Hilda Head and two sons Ralph L Bowman and David M Bowman. a brother G W Bowman. eight grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 10 at Omps Funeral Home and Moorefield Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs Lola Unger Baker wife of Watler E Baker of Whitacre were held at Omps Funeral Home Saturday afternoon at 4 o clock. Sherman Farrar and John Deniker conducted the service with pallbearers Holmes Poole Lynwood Pools Thomas Hammack John Hammack E A Kelsoe Everett Beck Robert Kelsoe and Lynne. Interment followed at Woodlawn cemetery Whitacre.
An emissary delivered seven unpublished compositions of the King of Siam to the U.S. Copyright Office for registration. The works include March of the Royal and Life s Destiny so egy.
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