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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1947
Page
2
The ordinance raises license fees for chairs in beauty shops and similar operations. Coin operated machines incur higher charges with juke boxes and dispensers adjusted. Mortuary services see a tiered tax rise, basing on the first 2000 and excess amounts. Utilities face a new one half of one percent gross receipts tax.
The CIO seeks a third postwar wage increase to offset rising living costs. Business argues higher wages raise costs and prices, risking a price spiral. Non-organized workers suffer most while Congress faces a choice on price or wage controls and tax relief. Altar fires in Aztec cities provided bright night illumination.
Foreign diplomats warned that if communal clashes continue in Palestine the British will impose severe measures as deaths rise to 127 in the Holy Land and 255 in the region since the UN partition vote. Arab leaders spoke of Holy War as the mandate nears its August end.
December 13 auctions include J R Albaugh at 362 Charles St selling real estate and household goods. Robert E Place near Reynolds Store offers farm items and equipment. Chas W Webber on Jordan Spring Road lists beauty shop equipment and office gear. Burch Estate near Swimley/Summit Point includes real estate livestock and farm implements. Robert Kremer near Winchester Route 60 lists livestock farm machinery and household goods with dates through December 19.
Kinney's remodeled Shore store at 167 169 N Loudoun St opens at 9 a m tomorrow. Walter Neiles manager says an all glass modern front and expanded storeroom double showroom space with pastel interior, Herculite glass doors, and larger display areas. Building owned by Herman Hable. G R Kinney Co has run a city shoe store nine years.
Daily corrected market sheet lists grain and feed prices including No. 2 red winter wheat at 2.90 per bushel and new yellow corn at 2.30 per bushel delivered in city. Other items include corn meal bags, soy beans at 2.40 per bushel, oats, barley, egg mash, cracked corn, broiler mash, turkey grower and starter feeds, butter and oleomargarine retail and wholesale ranges.
Correct responses listed include Hoover cabinet 1929 to 1933 and Dr Edward W Barnes bishop of Birmingham. True statements, GE Co, Nebraska, Denmark, foreign stock exchange, sixteen, true, and name the four standard train Pacific.
The 1940 census shows lower meat consumption among city families in the South compared with other regions. It notes that cows were milled on about three fourths of U S farms and compares population density with Switzerland relative to Colorado.
Washington dispatch notes Truman seeks power to revitalize price and wage controls if needed to curb living costs. Republicans in Congress oppose the plan, arguing that wartime controls created a police state risk. The piece analyzes how a partisan fight could shape the 1948 elections and the fate of potential new controls or allocations.
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