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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1946
Page
10
Anchorage reports four for one dollar fruit deal due to air freight delays. Prices on other fresh produce brought by air are similar. In Des Moines Pearl Price testifies a 44 year old husband John Price is using illness as reason for staying in bed. doctor finds no health problems. divorce granted.
Coroner reports four children aged six months to five years died in a late yesterday blaze at a Duffields, West Virginia, home. Parents Charles and Mrs Naokes had left the children on the second floor and extinguished a ground floor fireplace before leaving for work. Local authorities will forward the report to state police and prosecutors.
The Frederick County Board of Education held its Tuesday regular monthly session to transact routine business as stated by Superintendent Leslie Kline.
The Frederick County Teachers Association meeting scheduled for Saturday was postponed indefinitely due to a breakdown in the county courthouse heating plant.
To settle the estate of E L Stine deceased the under signed offers for sale at 11 o’clock A M in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia on Thursday December 12 1946 multiple parcels of Frederick County Virginia land fronting on Winchester Gainesboro Highway No 522 including a 27 8 acre tract a 10 27 acre tract and a 26 acre tract with accompanying houses orchard and outbuildings. Terms require one third cash with balance in two annual payments or cash option. Possession given day of sale except two houses which transfer March 1 1947. Attorney Harry R Kern represents the devisees. Plat available at Kern & Kern Winchester.
A public meeting is set at the Gorge Washington Hotel at 8 p m Friday to plan the Winchester and Frederick County Community Safety Council. A B Babb, chair of the Junior Board of Trade safety committee, urged broad attendance and noted national safety council guest John Cuthbert will speak. The effort follows years of planning to curb accidents and involve business leaders, civic groups, schools, and officials. Wendell Barney of the Winchester Chamber of Commerce will preside. other JBT members include Dick Petrie George Jones and Paul L Ayers.
The Augusta County School Board asked the Board of Supervisors for permission to apply for Woodrow Wilson General Hospital near Staunton and for $100,000 in county funds to create a consolidated high school and trade school. The plan would convert wards for 40 classrooms and establish a trade school. the state would cover two thirds of operating costs for the trade school.
Rural electrification in Virginia could be finished in four to five years with adequate support and no adverse regulations. REA Deputy Administrator William J. Neal estimated the program is 41 percent advanced and hinges on local backing. Virginia has 36,000 consumers on REA lines. The Appomattox Electric Cooperative received a 302000 loan for 250 miles of line to serve about 1200 rural consumers in Appomattox and nearby counties, awaiting line material.
Colored veterans are invited and urged to attend the preparatory meeting at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the Elks Home on North Cameron Street.
Services honored the Rev. Ballengee a former city pastor who died December 1 in Strasburg after cataract surgery. Ministers R Kern and W A Lyons led the rites with several colleagues from Winchester Woodstock and Bridgewater present. Burial followed at Edinburg Cemetery. In Britain telephone service is part of the postal system operated by the government.
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