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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1948
Page
2
A lively opening night drew a good crowd at Old Airport on Route 50 for the Rouss Fire Co carnival week. The event, similar to last week, offers more than twenty rides and shows with skill games. state troopers checked compliance with gambling laws.
Clarke county price set at $2.21 per bushel with farmers urged to sell through CCC. Farmers should contact the county agricultural conservation office on the second floor of Frederick county courthouse for arrangements.
Answers to the daily quiz questions list ten items with corrected responses. The set includes names such as August A. Thomon M D and mentions the Progressive Party. It notes wartime import cuts and general topics like the critical European situation and New Zealand.
A sequence of auction and sale notices lists items and dates for Winchester area estates and residents. Items include real estate antiques farm equipment livestock dairy cattle household goods and restaurant equipment with locations such as West Pall Mall Street Front Royal Road and Frederick County Court House.
Soviet Consul Lomakin alleges anti Communist White Russians abducted and drugged Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina before she leaped from the Soviet consulate. He also faults American officials for actions triggering a nervous breakdown. The teacher remains in Roosevelt Hospital in critical condition with fractures.
The House Un American Activities Committee faced a clash over a staff leak after Alger Hiss testified in a closed session. A member vowed to demand an investigation into the oath violation as papers published details, while Hiss and Whittaker Chambers were set to be questioned again next week. The dispute involves chairman Thomas Nixon McDowell Hebert and several investigators and clerks.
Reporters say Comerantenn reporter were pres Appell Wheeler and Russell not giving out information. The committee failed to budge Alger Hiss story after three hours behind bolted doors. Hiss denies any part in the elite Communist underground. Mrs Oksana Kosenkina may testify next.
The article reports plane and commercial shutdowns in the Soviet zone due to shortages of coal and steel from the Ruhr, halted as Western Powers blocked rail movement. It ties the action to the Berlin blockade begun late June and notes protests over requisitioned foods.
The first Army post exchange was created in 1895 under General Order 46 dated July 25, 1895. It formed to curb abuses by itinerant traders who preyed on soldiers and introduced organized goods sales to troops.
Funeral services for Mrs R K Reger who died Friday in a Charlottesville hospital were held at 2 30 p m from Dellinger chapel Woodstock. Burial followed at Cedar Wood Cemetery Edinburg. The former Mabel Stoneburner of Edinburg aged 52 had been ill for some time. Surviving are her husband four brothers and four sisters. Friends and relatives from Winchester attended including Mrs Burton C Ritter Mr and Mrs Howard Lamp Clarence Lamp Mrs Grover Lewis Annie Grim and Mrs Courtney Stavles.
Ruth Babe Ruth, raised in a Baltimore Catholic school, retires from big league baseball in 1935 after 16 records set 62 still standing. He totaled 798 home runs in regular games, initially pitching before moving to the outfield to boost batting power. Richmond report notes Gov.
Tuck acting for the people of Virginia sent a telegram to Mrs Ruth expressing sympathy after Babe Ruths wife died last night. The message conveyed condolences and framed the loss in public regard.
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