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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1949
Page
6
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Harrisburg reports a half billion dollar public works program reshaping the Keystone State. New hospitals rise at many sites and roads, schools, and airports are funded by state borrowing without tax increases, aside from a penny gas tax increase to raise 40 million. The plan, revived by Gov. James H. Duff, creates jobs and sustains demand for steel and cement while housing and infrastructure expand across Pennsylvania.
The Duff administration advances a 100 mile eastern turnpike extension with over 35 million in contracts and a 75 million project slated to finish by 1951. Negotiations begin for a 60 mile western extension toward the Pennsylvania Ohio boundary near New Castle with cost estimates between 60 and 80 million.
August notes from Reliance list Mrs Anna Derr hosting the WMA meeting with Mrs William Stickley leading. Residents and visitors include Mr and Mrs Lee Little and Camden grandchild in town, and Mr and Mrs Floyd Ridings visiting D N Grover. Laura Stickley returns from surgery in Front Royal Hospital. Ray Deirich hospitalized. Janice Lakely joins Fredericksburg trip with her parents. Charles Bray recuperating after minor operation.
Back home in jail in Flensburg Germany a man who crossed the Danish German border illegally for the 25th time appeared in court for the tenth time. Burde received a five month jail term. Upon entering his cell he found garlands decorating it from fellow prisoners.
Present and past rainfall data show a year to date total of 28.22 inches through 1949, with August rainfall to date not specified. The average annual rainfall over 36 years from 1913 to 1948 is 36.42 inches, and monthly averages range from 1.92 inches in February to 3.91 inches in March. Data courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
In Frankfurt the oldest German modern pharmacy celebrates six centuries since 1349 when plague spurred change. Before 1349 pharmacies sold only herbs and simple ointments, with physicians preparing prescriptions. The Black Death killed many doctors, leading to a single pharmacy being authorized to prepare medicines, inspiring Prague and four German cities to imitate the model.
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