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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
2
A New Year tale by Hal Boyle follows a man drafting resolutions in a quiet office. A messenger in white appears, revealing the man’s ten year pattern of unkept promises and prompting him to choose genuine action for the year ahead.
Time magazine selects President Truman as Man of the Year for 1948 marking his second such honor. The Jan 3 issue cites his election as a personal victory of fighting spirit and notes his earlier 1945 recognition for his role in the atomic bomb and its use.
Cleveland led the American League in night games with a strong performance while daylight saw them third. Pitcher Gene Bearden topped the circuit with nine wins and two losses at night, and Lou Boudreau outpaced Ted Williams in batting after dark with a .368 average compared to Williams’ .361.
January 5 sale at Welltown Pike 4 miles from Winchester by B Taylor includes dairy cattle farm equipment and household goods. February 25 sale at Grimes Virginia by H O Light features livestock farm machinery and household goods.
In the A League the Lions Club 14 leads against O Sullivan Plant 33 while B & S Poultry 33 best Home Benis. Life Is. 32 with Buncutter Tire Co. 29 and No. Va. Power Co. 26. Independent Woody Glaize 135 and 124 pace individual games, team O Sullivan Plant 569 and Home Benif Life Ins. 550 in team games. Va. Woolen No. 1, Elks Club and others post close sets.
Cleaners in tie for first place face fifth place Palace Keglers at Hagerstown this Saturday as Blue Ridge league returns for the second half. American Legion of Frederick and Winchester lead with 38 points, three clear of Colisem Hagerstown. Rhea ranks third in individual averages at 123 over 29 games with Clevenger and Larrick fifth and sixth.
Mrs Hollis Braithwaite and son Norwood and daughter Mrs Ed ith Hannum visited the former's son and daughter in Harrisonburg. Kenneth Phillips of Salamanca N Y spent Christmas with his parents and other relatives joined by Harold and Wendell Phillips. Several relatives from Baltimore Martinsburg Indiana and Winchester joined for meals and gatherings at the Whitacre home. Pvt Philip Braithwaite of Camp Pickett also spent Christmas with his parents. Mrs Leonard Fl gh er and Mrs George Whitacre hosted a family dinner.
Grover and Daniel Dunlap spend a holiday furlough at the Gore home of Mr and Mrs Jerry Dunlap. The brothers have enlisted in the Army for three years and are attached to the Clearing company 17th Airborne Medical battalion at Camp Pickett.
The John Mann Methodist church will hold an annual watch meeting service at 10 30 p m tonight.
Sugar Bowl tourney at New Orleans Kentucky 87 Tulane 47 St Louis 611 Holy Cross 52 All-College tourney at Oklahoma City Oklahoma Aggies 39 Baylor 36 Colorado Aggies 59 Texas Tech 58 Texas 60 Alabama 39 Southern Methodist 59 Auburn 41 Big Seven tourney at Kansas City Oklahoma 55 Iowa State 45 Kansas 60 Kansas State 46 Colorado 81 Harvard 48 Missouri 52 Nebraska 50 Invitation tourney at Los Angeles Montana 76 Brigham Young 74 Los Angeles Loyola 61 North Carolina State 59 Doubleheader at Miami Pitt 45 Florida 39 Princeton 62 Miami 55 Doubleheader at Philadelphia San Francisco 51 La Salle 45 Temple 70 Rice 59 Tourney at Vincennes Evansville 79 Georgetown Ky 42 Eastern Illinois 72 Southern Illinois 55 East Duquesne 72 Louisville 66 Seton Hall 69 Texas A&M 55 St Bonaventure 47 Lafayette 41 Midwest Eastern Kentucky 42 Toledo 40 Cincinnati 70 Colorado State 43 Akron 52 Colby 44
After a week's layoff in the City basketball league Winchester Business College meets Royal Crown at 7:15 tonight. At 8:30 Plumly Lumber Co. faces the Elks Club with Royal Crown leading the standings and WBC in last place. Plumly-Elks expected to be close.
Mr and Mrs William Austin of near Roanoke spent the weekend in Middletown with Mr and Mrs William Wood. Families from Washington Winchester Warrenton and Stephens City joined Christmas observances at local homes. Bennie Rogers recovers from pneumonia.
Drivers caught speeding at 75 mph in North Carolina must forfeit their license for six months as a penalty. The rule targets excessive speeds and aims to curb dangerous driving on state roads.
New Orleans December 30 The Sugar Bowl four team tournament concludes with Kentucky meeting St Louis in the final. The Billikens beat Holy Cross 61 52 in the opening game and Kentucky routed Tulane 18 47 to reach the title game. Kentucky and St Louis have never met in basketball.
SMU with its versatile backfield faces Oregon as 67,000 fans pack the Cotton Bowl. Doak Walker, Gil Johnson, and Kyle Rote spark a late surge while Page and Dick add big plays, continuing SMU’s two-season run with only one loss and conference crown memories. Johnson anchors offense with 1,026 yards and nine TDs.
Chancie McDonald of Riverton received six months on the state convict road force for unauthorized use of an automobile involved in three accidents on December 27. Trial Justice W LeRoy Corron also fined $250 and ordered 60 days in jail for DUI and $50 plus costs for driving a car without a permit. he awaits grand jury action on a fourth charge.
J Raymond Mims the Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital Assn. architect says final approved plans will be ready by May 1. A recommendation to cut the board of directors from 36 to 12 will be discussed at the Woodstock annual meeting January 12.
Harry Earl Fleming of New Musiet receives a .30 calibre Winchester rifle as the Shenandoah County Deer Slayers Club honors him for bagging the season’s biggest buck. He dropped a 220 pound, 10 point deer.
Arcadia California December 30 The Rev John Norris Hall aged 92 one of Northwestern's oldest graduates plans to attend the Rose Bowl game Saturday He graduated from Northwestern in 1883 His wife Mary seven months younger than he is also a Northwestern graduate from 1887
A veteran clergyman who spent 63 years serving in the Chicago area retired in 1946 and settled there. Nearby health context noted: Massachusetts tuberculous death rate historically ran about 450 per 100000 population a century ago.
The list includes dry snow and high winds with extreme cold, British Broadcasting Company, First Army, January 20, 1945, Posthumous, Venezuela, Irish ancestry, 2 Moella wee 9, the defeat caused by temperament, and the Erie Canal.
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