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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1948
Page
8
Crossword style clues for across and down entries with hints on meanings. Several items mix nautical terms with general words and periodic notes, requiring inference for answers such as ranks, garments, and elemental terms.
Virginia Tuberculosis Assn figures released by the Winchester branch show Winchester physicians report 9 TB deaths in 1947 with a total local income loss of 158 961 and state losses of 21 601 115. Each case averaged 16.6 years of life lost and 1 064 in annual income per person.
Rockingham Harrisonburg Memorial Association Inc president Charles Wampler announces that more than 100000 dollars in donations may be returned if donors wish. He notes costs for an auditorium and civic center memorial have risen from about 300000 dollars and the price could double. The city has built a 655000 dollar memorial stadium with a plaque listing 139 fallen soldiers.
The ambassador from Uruguay, Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco, has been named dean of the diplomatic corps after presenting his credentials on September 3, 1941.
German tanks captured during the war are being junked in Moscow. The Evening Moscow reports that many tanks, including 60 ton Tigers, have been melted down after being displayed in the capital and that all other German tanks and armament on exhibition will share the same fate.
In Pocklington England eight fat steers escaping a local slaughterhouse fence were pursued by residents including housewives. The cattle were chased across the Yorks hire moors, caught after about ten miles and eight hours, with one housewife noting the steers would have been their Sunday dinner.
Kassel Germany December 9 raccoons released by Roland Hermann Goering near Bringhausen have multiplied and damaged crops. Farmers declare war on the pests roaming fields and orchards near the forest rimmed village, causing losses to sugar beets and fruit trees.
In Carthage Illinois on December 9 Dr Erland Nelson president of Carthage College swapped roles with junior John Bickers for a day. Nelson attended classes while Bickers ran the front office describing student life as easy and noting pretty coeds.
Pleasant Valley Sunday school hosts a Christmas program at 7 30 p m on December 21 inviting the public to attend.
The U S Military Academy states that proceeds of the Army Navy football games are split between the two athletic associations to finance the heavy intercollegiate athletic program at both academies.
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