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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
6
B Beverley Byrd urged Virginia fruit growers to select only high quality apples for fresh markets and ship inferior fruit to by products. He pressed advertising and scientist collaboration to boost promotion and counter competition from citrus and bananas amid a challenging apple season and rising prosperity.
The Romans offered sacrifices to Janus and exchanged greetings with relatives on New Year’s Day to mark the year’s start. They also gave each other presents or strenae, a custom said to have originated in 747 B.C.
Army reports Melhora C. Moffitt of Hominy Oklahoma was AWOL since March 31. He and his German girlfriend and their baby lived in a camouflaged woods tent near Grafenwoehr before his arrest by Army police. The girl and infant were questioned in Nuernburg and released.
Rest WSCS plans a December 10 meeting at 8 p m in the Sunday school room with Miss Wilma Schlack directing the program. The North Frederick charge quarterly meeting is slated for 7 30 p m Sunday at White Hall church with Mr M S Snapp confined to home due to illness.
Northampton Massachusetts December 9. When Northampton High School opens its basketball season tonight one armed Bobby Fin will be on the first team. Bobby has been playing bas
Three fire companies answered an alarm at 1 o'clock in frigid weather. The blaze was in an automobile parked under 200 feet from the South End firehouse and damaged the upholstery of a 1937 Pontiac owned by Calvin Sisk of 2 West Monmouth Street.
A 16-year-old junior, weighing 180 pounds, completed the football season as the first string center despite losing his left arm in an accident at age seven. His history includes holding a basketball since childhood and continuing athletic ambition.
The record shows 24 hour precipitation zero or trace with a note of snow. Cumulative rainfall to date 39.14 inches. Average annual rainfall over 36 years is 3.42 inches. Monthly averages list values from January 2.47 to August 3.82 inches. Data courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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