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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1947
Page
10
King George VI will observe his 52nd birthday tomorrow and spend the day quietly at the royal lodge in Windsor with Queen Elizabeth Princess Margaret and Queen Mother Mary.
Carnegie Institution report highlights experiments in fruit flies supporting a somatic gene change as a potential cancer origin. The finding suggests a different cell type may arise within an individual without passing changes to offspring. Separate note compares Tunisia and Oklahoma population sizes.
By order of a 1947 decree in the Corportation Court of Winchester the H B Dunlap special commissioner offers at public auction a six room frame dwelling with bath at 507 South Street East City of Winchester Virginia. Sale is at noon on Saturday December 27 1947 at the county court house steps. Terms require one third cash, balance in one and two equal installments with 5 percent interest, secured by Deed of Trust and insurance policy.
Virginia may buy the Natural Bridge site as discussed in a meeting in Richmond next week, announced by William A. Wright chairman of the Virginia Conservation Commission. The story notes tonnage carved by U.S. railroads nearly doubled from 1940 to 1944.
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