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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1948
Page
6
The report lists 24 hour rainfall to 7 a m on December 26 1948 and year to date totals. It includes the 35 year average annual rainfall at 36.20 inches and monthly average precipitation for 1913 1946. Monthly figures: January 2.46 February 1.94 March 2.91 April 3.02 May 3.67 June 3.92 July 3.82 August 3.76 September 2.57 October 3.31 November 2.44 December 2.38. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Judge John Rice presided over cases from Marcellus Anderson Kent street fined $9.25 for drunk driving offenses and Roy Cameron 364 N Lou doun street fined $9.25 for drunkenness. Ralph Embrey vagrancy six months suspended and costs. Edmond Solenberger Wood stock reckless driving $14.25. Daisy Miller Winchester drunk and disorderly $14.25. Emmett Whitlock Cedar Creek Grade drunk and disorderly $14.25. Floyd Finley 428 N Kent sr drunk and disorderly $14.25. William M Drummond Stephens City drunk and disorderly $14.25.
Delegate Robert Whitehead argues the 396 million dollar educational need projected for Virginia localities over the next decade can be materially reduced. He says the estimate is based on ideal facilities while Nelson county delegates call school building the top Virginia problem. He supports a special session to raise taxes for construction and urges restoring funds to the State Literary Fund, noting 12.4 million dollars could be transferred from general sources per the comptroller’s revised Sept 16 figures.
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