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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1946
Page
9
Boyce beat Strasburg 39 to 12 to win the Firemin High School district championship. Clarke led 13 to 6 after the first period and 33 to 6 at halftime as Boyce extended its lead, with Weir opening the scoring on a pass.
Brown Bombers wrap up the 1946 season this Sunday with team personnel including William Brown booking agent Scott Brown business manager J D Warren G Cary L Harris V Day J Hogan G Cook J Tibbs W Honesty H Jackson B Smith C Jackson L Honesty G Hogan J Long B Cook and Coach Thurston Clevenger.
Strasburg rallies on a Minter to Griffith pass before Estep breaks free for a score. Boyce adds three touchdowns in the second period to seal the win as Weir Casey Estep and Miller register scores. Final lineups list Boyce Weir Kerkhoff Hawkins Kaplan Cone Griffith Casey Minter Coulson R Miller Estep Jug Miller.
Mrs Emma Lyles Wilgus confirms a Scott Scrap Book item about a “Singing River” in Mississippi. She recalls her foster father Andrew Jackson Elder near Pascagoula hearing music from the river on several occasions as she crossed the water.
An advertisement touts FASTEETH powder as a pleasant alkaline denture aid that secures plates for easier eating and talking. It claims no gummy taste and helps control denture odor and is available at drug stores.
A legend claims the Pasca goula Indians possess a death song that accompanies the music she never heard, describing a mysterious ancient ritual linked to spirits and memory.
The term king's highway denotes principal public roads protected by the crown. War and Navy records show no reliable statistics on soldiers' or sailors' religious affiliations, though available information is incomplete.
In 1943 Army data show 59 percent Protestant 31 percent Catholic and 2 percent Jewish among soldiers. Values aided chaplain allocations. Q A Sansei is the term for third generation Japanese in the United States. A General Omar Bradley earned the nickname Doughboy's General for low losses in Africa.
The Douglas Senior Class presents A. A. Milne comedy The Boy Comes Home on Friday at 2 15 pm. The play, set the day after the war, features Uncle James Edward Bartlett Aunt Emily Audrey Harris Philip Arthur Gaither and others. cast lists honor roll names across grades.
The Winchester Evening Star advertises the Handy Letter Writer a compact guide on letter writing with rules on diction punctuation and style. It includes over 100 sample letters and a coupon for fifteen cents postpaid.
Ss G. Lavers of Bath Somerset England stopped at the Chamber of Commerce office to add his contribution to the Winchester Frederick County Community Chest funds yesterday in the town.
A guest at the George Washington Hotel Mr Lavers and his wife with a young daughter expressed interest in settling locally and urged community support for the Chest drive. Reminders state all active solicitations close tomorrow and contributions may be sent to the Chamber of Commerce.
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