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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1949
Page
2
In the orchard of W. B. McIntire and son near Ungers Store workers uncovered exceptionally large peaches. The fruit measured about 19 ounces and drew attention for its unusual size and weight in the harvest reports.
Funeral services for Harry Edward Ransom 69 will be held tomorrow at 1 p m at the local funeral home with Rev C M Comer officiating. Interment will be in Orrick cemetery. He died Thursday in Winchester hospital. He owned the Square grocery store on N Kent. Survivors include four daughters Mrs Treoa Greene Sewickley Pa Evelyn Ardela and Frances Ransom all of Winchester two sisters Mrs Lucy Marion Harrisburg Pa and Mrs Mary Buth Petersburg three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Aug 22 11 a m Louis Merry man West York Pa 110 dead cattle Aug 24 10 a m Lew Mce implements household goods Aug 25 10 a m B F Lang ham 12 Longwood Farm live stock and implements 3 1 p m W L Tav enner Clarke County Serrestock inpigieni Pie bates ods Sale of household and en furn f rom L E Harris 446 National ve Sept 10 1 p m Mrs W A bei god frat end iss 0 furniture and lack
Governor Thomas E. Dewey refused to deploy police or militia to Bell Aircraft Corp plant amid a strike. Lawrence D. Bell and Niagara County Sheriff Henry F. Becker urged state forces, while UAW leader Edward F. Gray called for a state investigation into the alleged lawlessness. Strikers staged a march at the plant.
A World Bank special commission led by A. S. G. Hoar arrived by train in Belgrade to study Yugoslavia's loan request aimed at countering the Cominform blockade. The inquiry will last weeks to assess needs, with estimates around 280 million dollars long term and about 53 million immediate, for rebuilding the economy. Premier Tito said the loan would fund machinery, not weapons, and the study could shape Yugoslavia’s economic stance amid regional pressure.
Mrs Jessie Maude Hawkins 31 wife of Glen Hawkins of Star Tannery died 1 45 am at Winchester hospital from cancer. She was daughter of Mrs Romanus Orndorff Star Tannery and the late Ernest J Weis of St Louis. Survivors include husband mother two children Betty Ann and Carol Joyce Hawkins, siblings Mrs Paul Burch Mrs Harold Hirst Miss Rosie Marie Weis Ern est Weis Woodrow Weis and Miss Gloria Weis. Services Tuesday at Stover funeral home then St James Lutheran Church Star Tannery with Rev E B Smith. Interment nearby cemetery.
In Beverly Hills California Duffy a five year old cocker spaniel died hours after his owner Charles Chuck Heyler rushed home from Europe to see his pets. Duffy’s tail thumped as Heyler arrived and the dog licked his hand then ate a morsel of ground meat before dying from injuries suffered when crushed under a car wheel.
Chicago health leaders warn against drastic changes in daily life during polio outbreaks. Do not close public or private schools unless specific reasons exist, and avoid overzealous quarantines. Recreational places may stay open but with limited attendance, as reliable infection vectors remain unproven. A Columbus student, Mary Lou Barnes, recovers after one injection, though doctors say no proven cure exists.
About 700 Virginia National Guardsmen move through Winchester en route to Indian Town Gap Pennsylvania for a 15 day encampment. Local police escort them to the armory while 320 troops are fed breakfast and 4:42 a.m. escort completed. A second group of 280 bivouac at Tokes Inn with meals provided by M. K. Shirkey and Golden Glow restaurant. Two busloads of Canadian visitors also pass through town.
Firemen extinguished a trash fire at the Berryville new elementary school under construction. Guests at a nearby tourist home alerted the fire, but damage was confined to paper boards and celotex along the runway to the basement. no injuries or major damage reported.
Streamlined reforms place Labor and Commerce under updated structures. The Labor Department gains the Bureau of Employment Security and U S Employment Service while the Commerce Department receives the Bureau of Public Roads. The Civil Service and Maritime Commissions shift to single chairmen. White House planning mirrors Dublin palace design.
Archibald R. McLellan, 44, of Washington, died last night at his sister’s home. Born in New York City, he was son of Mrs. J. E. Simpson McLellan and the late H. B. McLellan. Survivors include mother, three brothers James, Robert, and Hubert, and three sisters Jeanne, Conay, and Mrs. Sjostrom. Body at Jones Funeral Home until Monday morning then to New York funeral home.
Four year old Peggy Ann Best in Lubbock received a convalescent polio serum from Chicago after her sister Sandra Jean died of bulbar polio. Grandfather Dr. J. Molander ordered the serum. Braniff Airways diverted a Dallas to Amarillo flight to deliver it. The serum aims to lessen polio severity, not prevent it, though many doctors doubt its efficacy.
Air Force officials distance themselves from prototypes theory after investigations of reports from Maryland and across the coast. Weather balloons and natural phenomena account for many sightings while two Maryland objects resembled a crude helicopter and a large wooden tub with an engine and cockpit.
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Washington August 20. Senatorial investigators hear Maj. Gen. Harry H Vaughan President Truman's Army aide directed harshly at Agriculture Department officials over a grain rationing order after alcohol producers complained. Vaughan allegedly intervened in a 1946 case to aid a New Jersey molasses company charged with sugar ration violations. Two unidentified officials corroborate the account of Vaughan’s intervention.
Rep. Hoffman charges the NLRB with rank discrimination after a bulletin and a clinic for grooming women employees are issued at taxpayers expense. He notes no similar program for congressmen and quips that his own staff do not need such a service.
Wallace told the Senate foreign relations and armed services committees that foreign arms aid would undermine the U S and Europe economies and security. He criticized statements supporting the program as inciting war or masking weakness and warned the policy has failed in Greece Turkey and China.
The U S White Paper on China sparks sharp propaganda from the official Hsinhua agency accusing the United States of backing Nationalist agents and sabotage behind red lines as peasant unrest spreads in north central and east China with pro communist sentiment in Shanghai.
Reports say Col. Wang Sing-pan, ally of the late Tai Li, led a Nationalist underground faction and was arrested along with four officers. Communist sources claim more than 25,000 underground members were wiped out in east China from May to July and over 50 battles occurred in central China on July, with 16,000 underground fighters killed.
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