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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1949
Page
3
The reader asks about Alaska mail delivery. It is stated that no city or rural delivery exists yet. A rural route will be established about October 1, 1949 from Ketchikan.
Winchester group of the Valley Officials Assn will officiate at grid games for about a dozen area schools this fall. Agreements cover Shepherd College MMA Handley and high schools in Hagerstown Lincoln Leesburg Marshall Warrenton Luray Elkton Charles Town and Berkeley Springs with others pending.
The Virginia Council of Churches will continue its released time program allowing pupils to attend nonsectarian religious instruction during school hours. Dr C Minor Miller said 85 teachers served 52 178 pupils last year. teachers are supplied by the council.
The Winchester church league post season softball tournament begins tonight with two and a half weeks of play revealing one of four teams as 1949 champion. About 2000 seats are set for the event as playoff races finish with Highland Avenue Presbyterian leading the flag race by a single game.
Wal ter Johnson the Republican nominee for governor urges a state constitutional convention to review the 1901 1902 constitution. He says it rewrote Virginia’s charter under hysteria and now cedes powers to state agencies. Johnson also opposes the poll tax amendment calling it a trap to suppress votes.
New York August 29 Backers of Paul Robeson demand a Dewey probe into the riot that halted his concert in Peekskill. Veterans say the clash was spontaneous and that officials failed to protect attendees. Robeson decries the disturbance as an attack on civil rights and calls for state investigations.
Two men face murder charges in the slaying of 17 year old Muriel Baldridge near Floyd County. Leo Justice denies involvement claiming he struck Baldridge with a tire tool while William Gamble initially signed a confession but later repudiated it. Olen Collins is held as a material witness.
Governors of Pennsylvania Virginia and Maryland observed a two week encampment of the 29th division at Indiantown Gap with 6500 troops. Maj. Gen. Norman D. Cota received Maryland Virginia Distinguished Service Medal for leadership during the Omaha Beach landing.
In Virginia 13 outpatient clinics treated 3119 new cases, said Dr. Joseph E. Barrett director of mental hygiene and hospitals. A new outpatient clinic will open at Williamsburg next month to serve residents of the city and 11 surrounding counties.
Charlottesville reports the Rt Rev Wiley Roy Mason suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Church of Virginia submitted his resignation effective in November 1950 He will be 72 years old that month The notice announces his retirement from the church hierarchy in the near term
Instructions issued to theater commanders allowed awarding service ribbons to war correspondents who endured the hardships of war with combat troops. Ribbons were limited to United States citizens and the criteria were strictly applied.
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