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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1947
Page
9
George Grove a graduate of William and Mary has been appointed principal of McKinny high school in Strasburg by the Shenandoah county school board succeeding J M Garber who resigned to join the State department of education.
President Truman spoke to over a hundred youths at a American Legion forum on government. Edmund Gong, 16, of Miami Florida, led the delegation and was elected president by 103 delegates. He urged a future of world peace as Truman praised the youngsters for their age and promise.
D W King a Great Northern railway fireman, during an off day drive backed his car onto a raised crossing and stalled it in the path of a soon due Great Northern mail train. He ran up the tracks and signaled the engineer who eased the locomotive up to nudge the car free. The train was delayed only five minutes by the incident.
Johnny Mize belted two home runs to boost the New York Giants 5-2 over the Philadelphia Phillies. The blasts moved him to 34 homers, two behind Babe Ruth's 60 season, as Giants stay in contention and widen the gap to seven games behind the Dodgers.
National League results include St. Louis 8 over Chicago 2 and Pittsburgh 12 over Cincinnati 4. Boston 4 losses to Brooklyn 2 as New York defeated Philadelphia 5 to 2. American League games saw New York 8 over Philadelphia 5 and Washington 3 over Boston 1, while Chicago beat St. Louis 5 to 1 and Cleveland won 8 to 4 against Detroit.
W. R. Legge district supervisor of agricultural education in northern Virginia will speak at a Rotary luncheon about a veterans training program on the farm. The Rotary picnic is set for August 26 at McSherry Lupton's.
On April 13, 1638 at Quinnipiac Connecticut a meeting held in a barn adopted the Bible as a constitution according to the record.
Elmer Warren Smallwood died at his Clarke County home on a Milton Valley farm near Berryville yesterday. He was born in Clarke County, survived by wife Annie Stickels Smallwood a son Earl Smallwood a brother Eddie Smallwood of White Post and a sister Ella Tinsman of Winchester.
A musical program will be held at Zion Baptist Church in Boyce from 3 to 8 p m Sunday. New Zealand hosts the largest dairy factory in the world and is noted in a separate item.
A club notes that Captain James Cook completed his circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769. The meeting discussed the voyage's routes, dates, and notable discoveries during the historic voyage.
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