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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
7
Detroit reports more postwar autos will reach used car lots early in 1950 as dealers push trade ins to sustain sales. With prewar cars losing value, many owners will keep old models, while inventories near half a million units could rise toward 900,000 by year end, signaling tougher competition and potential price adjustments.
Winchester JCC will hold a general membership meeting at 7 30 p m tomorrow at the George Washington hotel. It will follow a board of directors session at 7 o'clock. Wear something white if you walk on highways at night and be careful.
Osceola Wisconsin August 25 a 650 pound pet heifer Snoopy belonging to 13 year old Crerine Lampman escaped into a partly filled silo through a 3 by 30 inch opening. Everett Lampman trapped her in, neighbors urged filling the silo to release her. Lampman plans to start cutting corn this weekend and feed Snoopy until freedom.
Saline County grand jury indicts Mrs. Fanny Goodman superintendent of the Arkansas Girls Training School and Mrs. Carrie Toland former head matron on 17 counts each for assault with whips and a yardstick and for cruel punishment. Inmates allegedly whipped nude and placed in solitary confinement. Bond set at 100 each. investigation ordered after a drunken brawl by inmates.
The article notes the highest average annual wind velocities reside in the Great Plains, with probable centers in Oklahoma or Kansas, suggesting these states are the windiest.
In Washington on August 25 David Luria aged 50 sought medical help for chest pains. An ambulance rushed him to a hospital but the driver Samuel V. Hurdle aged 58 collapsed and died. A second ambulance carried Luria. both deaths were attributed to heart attacks.
Rev. R. K. McDonald pastor of Berryville Presbyterian church will take the pulpit of 2nd Presbyterian church in Norfolk about Oct 1 he said today. The call was extended him last Sunday.
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