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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
9
A heating stove caused a small fire at 6038 Eron Street at 1 45 PM today. A resident escaped before firefighters arrived. The scorched wall was the only damage. The article notes homing pigeons were valued for delivery service but states these pigeons are hens and not used for that purpose.
ROANOKE December 9 The University of West Virginia was admitted to membership in the Southern Conference. The Mountaineers, never before in an athletic conference, swell the league to 17 schools.
The greatest open ocean dive depth reached was 4 500 feet in the Santa Cruz Islands area by Barton and Beebe using a 7 000 pound cable attached benthoscope. Beebe performed a bathysphere dive off Bermuda in 1934.
Mixed entries show clues like Metal 4 Pass between two mountains and Not lucky. Several lines read like incomplete down clues with numbers and broken words. The page hints at a partially shown crossword puzzle with scattered definitions and gaps.
Ex tension service agronomist P. H. DeHart awards certificates to nine of ten Frederick County corn growers for producing over 100 bushels per acre this year. Recipients include George Cather 117, Eston Rudolph Jr. 115, Leslie Reed 103, Roland Fisher 105, Grover Teets 101, Wm. Boyd Ramey 101, C. D. Dye 110, Pat Russell 107, and Donald Cole 105. E D. Rowe produced 106 but is not shown.
Adventists from Winchester announce the dedication of the Strasburg church tomorrow. The 28 000 building with parochial school rooms will be debt free. Elder D A Ochs delivers the dedicatory sermon at 3 p.m. with Elder H J Detwiler and Elder R T Vaughan presiding and directing. A 36 voice choir from Washington College will perform The Messiah in the evening.
Frederick county 4 H clubs report 190 members across eleven clubs completed 335 home economics and nine livestock projects totaling 344 entries. Highlights include 15 county home economics medals, Wilda Jean Adams first to National 4 H Camp, Roxanne Rogers and Sidney Rogers grand champs at Richmond Baby Beef show, Adams gold watches in home grounds contest, nine girls at VPI short course, two new clubs at Mt Airy and Miller schools boosting enrollment over 200.
Mrs Ruth Bellnow led 40 Riverside Nursery School youngsters through the Union Railroad station using a long rope. The tots held on and moved as a line, staying together as she guided them through the terminal.
The Curies sourced pitchblende ore from Joachimsthal in Bohemia, a residue from a uranium salt mine used in glass production. The Austrian government donated a ton of ore to the French scientists, forty five months after they began their work.
The policy holder share is based on the face amount of insurance kept in force and the length of time it remained active, plus the proportionate contribution of his age group to the fund’s surplus. This payment is not a bonus and NSLI is mutual insurance, sharing excess funds among policyholders.
Don and Grace Ragsdale in Sarasota started with one goat for Mrs. Ragsdale’s arthritis and built a full goat dairy. They offer a compact dossier on goat habits and philosophy.
Pravda the Soviet party newspaper mocks Chinese Nationalist leaders fleeing to the United States for medical treatment. It claims Li Tsung-jen fled victorious communists and derides Kuomintang generals presidents without people and governors without territory.
The text notes goats have a strong sense of right and wrong in handling, sulk or butt when slighted, possess long memories, and may demand to be addressed by name. It also states they do not eat rags or tin cans.
A Winchester shop promotes a range of varied stock including Como Hop lete now for customers seeking diverse choices.
Mrs Isabelle Cooper Garvin 49 of the Reliance area died at her home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Omps funeral home with interment at Hillsboro. She was the wife of Robert O Garvin and is survived by her husband and four brothers and a sister.
Long pointed toes grew popular in medieval Europe were strapped to the knee to secure their length reflecting the era's footwear trends and social signaling.
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