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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1947
Page
7
E R Walls of the Strade Garage reports only about half of parked cars on Loudoun Street Saturday night carried official stickers. Pred Ritter of Shenandoah Motor Co says local garages lack space and cannot complete inspections by September 1 due to necessary repairs.
A landfill of sale notices and small ads lists items from 1930s Virginia including a 1939 Plymouth, electric range, piano and heater, buffet table, baby carriage, a male collie pup, a 1937 Packard, a lime spreader and storage equipment. Ads note locations Berryville and Cove Creek area, with contact numbers and dates. Also contains a public notice about a banquet and a short political column referencing Hoover commission.
President Hoover argues that top officials would flood him with 30 minute talks, delaying work. He contrasts this with General Eisenhower who received reports from three officers who led the invasion, with orders cascading through ranks. Congressional members ponder reforms.
A Rocky Mountain cold front slides toward the hot parched Midwest promising possible crop reviving rains. The Chicago weather bureau cautions it is too early to say how much rain or how the cold push will act.
A. G. Howell, director of the bureau of hospital survey and construction, said about ten percent of 7 719 general hospital beds in the state are usable but do not meet long range planning and construction standards.
The government announced that a fleet of rebel ships which carried insurgents along the Paraguay river to assault the capital had surrendered unconditionally. California reports more than 350 000 acres of vineyards.
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