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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1948
Page
5
Miss Myra Payne, superintendent, announces a Christmas program at Round Hill Methodist Church at 8 p m on December 23. A Christmas treat will follow the Sunday school service on the following Sunday.
Police aid sought to locate nine steers missing from Bond Brothers farm on Apple Pie Ridge since November 28. Cattle include three white faced Herefords and six Pulled Black Angus, two years old and valued over two thousand dollars. Ora A. Bailey reported his cattle found nearby but too wild to capture. he threatened to shoot them, while Mrs. Bailey hopes feed will lure them home.
Raymond C. Garber, 56, of Washington, a Southern Railway baggage master and WWI veteran, died Sunday at Mt. Alto hospital. Survived by siblings and half-siblings, services set for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Omps funeral home with Brethren church pastor Rev. Paul Dick officiating. Interment Mt. Hebron cemetery. local Masonic lodge to handle grave honors. Pallbearers are nephews Lee, Julian, Ed, Trenton, and Glenn Garber.
Middletown town council held a special session approving decorative lights for the Christmas tree near Grace Methodist church and extending lights along Main Street. Mayor Charles Leslie Wright announced lighting will begin Saturday and continue nightly through Christmas. The extension of Middletown’s corporate limits was not acted on, remains tabled until January 3 with absent council members hoped to return.
George Haines, recently returned from Korea with the Red Cross, will be guest speaker at the Kiwanis luncheon at 12 30 p m tomorrow. He will discuss native customs life and attitudes and their impact on government and ongoing relief work.
Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Elizabeth's baby will be christened Prince Charles Philip Arthur George of Edinburgh. The announcement confirms the infant's official name and royal lineage within the Windsor line.
The Welltown Program Committee announces a Christmas program at Welltown Methodist Church at 8 p m Sunday. The event features community carols and seasonal reading in the church hall.
Ruth Farnsworth 27 of San Francisco died from shock and injuries after a sexual assault. Naval and FBI investigators searched the jungle near the Oriental curio shop and a local paratroop boot with possible blood stains was found. A sandal and other evidence were sent for study as authorities questioned several men and offered rewards.
Middletown high school launches two student groups sponsored by Principal H D Hoover and science teacher Mrs Carrie Lee Brumback. The Hobby club begins with 25 members under Laura Baker as president and officers including Janet Hammock Jo Altizer and Jean Hadley. The Science Nature Study Club is affiliated with the Science Club of America with Alice Ballone as president and officers Bobby Kline Helen Mauck and James Walter. Health officers observers and subject-area observers are named for science activities.
The Winchester table tennis league schedules a meeting at 8 30 P M tomorrow to discuss organizational plans. Commissioner Joseph Briggs announced the meeting and invites representatives from churches industrial plants and local organizations to participate.
Pittsburgh report notes coal stockpiles and worker layoffs but says supply remains ample. Soft coal above ground totals about 70 million tons with truck and strip mining feeding domestic markets. Anthracite also serves domestic users, especially New York City, as unemployment concerns rise in several states.
The Future Homemakers of America host the first pre-holiday party at Stephens City High in the home economics building at 8 p m on Thursday with refreshments games and dancing. A junior dance follows on Tuesday night December 21 at 7 30 in the agricultural building with games and refreshments. Class parties are set for Wednesday December 22 from 1 to 2 p m in homerooms before the holiday break through January 3.
Grace Methodist in Middletown organizes a Christmas pageant titled The Star in the Sky staged by the Sunday school with Roger A. Kline as superintendent under the direction of Rev. Henley S. Roane and Mrs. Roane. A Relief Methodist church pageant follows on December 23 at 8 with the Roanes directing.
Steph ens City High School elected class officers by grade. Juniors named Randolph Seal president Hansen Lindamood vice president Betty Brill secretary Patsy Barton treasurer Doris Stone reporter Sophomores Harry Stoehr president Carlton Arthur vice president Rosa Showalter secretary Joan Russell treasurer MaryJorie Galladay reporter Freshmen Robert Madigan president John Funk vice president Virginia Bailey secretary Julia Liniz treasurer Wanda La Follette reporter Eighth grade Bobby Layman president Eleanor Franklin vice president Lucille Carpenter secretary Bobby Franklin treasurer.
The Stephens City high school cannery will close next Wednesday after canning meat since December 1. It will not reopen until vegetable canning resumes in spring. those who plan meat canning before December 22 should contact Bertha Stickley, cannery superintendent.
Mrs Marguerite Campbell wife of Postmaster Carl Campbell was admitted to the hospital after falling ill last Thursday. This afternoon her condition was reported improved.
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