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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1948
Page
9
Western Berliners circulate two joking stories about Russia one claiming miner Hennicke's death after a five hundred percent production jump and the other a mishap where a salary sack kills him. A Kremlin telephone gag has Molotov repeatedly answering no before saying yes to Stalin.
Snow accumulations varied with two inches at Harrisonburg and six at Front Royal as a storm from the Atlantic seaboard moved north. Buses in Winchester ran on time though some routes faced 5 to 15 minute delays. freight firms reported light trouble near New York. State highway crews cleared snow along Routes 7 and 50 and kept roads largely ice free. Clouds returned by afternoon with melting snow and a few flakes noted, ending with warmer readings despite earlier forecasts. Modern refrigeration was introduced in 1861.
Mrs. Sidney Miller Orndorff of Star Tannery died at 11 45 p m Saturday in Winchester hospital at age 65. She was the widow of Phineas Orndorff who died in 1940 and a Methodist church member at Bemis, Va. Surviving are three daughters, two sons, including Hilda, Carl and Warren at home, plus a sister and two brothers and three grandchildren.
Dutch forces drive through Central Java to capture the Indonesian capital Jogjakarta and seize top Republic leaders. Paratroopers advance toward Tjepoe and Teran while troops reach Solok and Singakarak in Sumatra as the campaign proceeds with few reported casualties.
Two merging snowstorms plagued the Northeast, killing at least 22 people and dumping 19.6 inches on New York as transit slowed. The storm moved offshore, leaving crews to clear roads while New York sees its third heaviest snowfall on record.
In Denver on December 20 George K. Smith hunted but Mrs. Smith shot the family’s pheasant. A low flying bird crashed through a living room window, creating an expensive dinner at $9.85 for a new pane.
Mayor John OConnell raises funds to flood a skating rink for 15 high school students in a deal that swapped a town hall roof for local community use. The project completed in Columbia Falls Montana with the youth benefiting from the new rink.
Austerity measures continue as personnel slashes target administrative sections of the government. Year end wages, crucial to the Japanese people, will be delayed for some time while new plans are devised.
Mrs. Orville Wine called the stage setting perfectly beautiful as Silent Night impressed all. Marie Garber of Madison College praised Handley for living up to its high traditions and Miss Haynes with the choir delivering another much anticipated Christmas program. The a cappella choir impressed with tone quality and precise attacks while Sadie Finkelstein and Charlotte DeHart supplied skilled accompaniment.
Martinsburg West Virginia December 20 Purchase of three metal portable buildings for the Berkeley County school system was approved by the school board They are 20 by 100 feet each and cost 75 dollars apiece plus dismantling shipping and reassembling fees Similar to buildings already erected at Hedgesville
From Oct 8 to Dec 15 Berryville received 105 carloads of 50 000 pound potatoes in 100 ton bags. Potato flour production reaches 250 bags daily with 525 tons shipped, mainly to Baltimore, then Germany, using rail and motor trailers.
Hutteman notes Germans prefer potato flour and products such as biscuits pancakes and balls, with strong demand for flour not as wheat substitute. He recalls a Dutch extraction Pennsylvania farmer praising potato flour biscuits and pancakes. US market absence due to demand. Battletown Fruit Co. shifts from apples to potatoes this season. Contract with government may be ended at any time.
The article notes plans to keep potato flour production year round by shipping potatoes from Florida, Georgia, and other southern states after winter crops end in the East and New England. It mentions a current surplus in Eastern states sustaining output temporarily.
The government continues flour shipments to Germany and other parts of Europe, keeping flour-making plants in the country busy for a long time.
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