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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1948
Page
4
Public notice style item lists mailing details for The Evening Star Publishing Co in Winchester Virginia. Includes second class status, advertising deadlines, transient rate per inch, and subscription price ranges with postage notes for outside Virginia.
Guest editorial by I. T. Quinn, executive director of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, argues for habitat restoration, year round food patches, and state wide cooperation to rebuild deer turkey quail and fish populations and fund enforcement while stressing education and public support.
Current Opinion opposes any new state expenditures for 1948-50 but supports a Senate measure to raise pensions by 10 a month for former Virginia teachers over 70 who retired under the old system. Senator John S. Battle sponsors the bill, with Senator Robert O. Norris Jr. noting its aid to those with little savings.
Miss Georgia Snapp injured when struck by a bus on Valley Pike. Report notes the Bronze Palm award ceremony occurred in the Shawnee district Boy Scout court with recipient Robert Kelias.
Ralph Forster Jr. suffered a serious eye injury during a 1913 contest at the University of Virginia. A fire alarm near Hopewell Meeting House prompted Friendship firemen to control flames threatening the historic Javerly home of George Frederick Washington.
A short essay argues most who claim atheism still worship some thing or someone else and that many unbelievers worship themselves. It notes college students returning home with unbelief and asserts self worship as a common idol before God.
A quick reader quiz tests memory and IQ with ten questions on topics from taxes and history to calendar systems and presidents. Correct answers turn to Page 2. track your score and monthly average as memory improves.
Ten years ago, in 1938, Seibert and Guy Smith, brothers, purchased the historic Wright farm known as Rosedale northwest of the city. Nearby, Robert Lee Hoers, age 70, died at his home near DeHaven.
John C. Holden of Hyattesville Maryland, a Grorcetown university student, set two world records at a track meet held at Harvard. Three local men were sentenced to 18 months to two years for stage theft. The Reuss Fire Co. closed a contract to buy a ladder truck for 9450 dollars.
Fred Grim injured after attack by a game rooster at Edward Conner Stables. Randolph Grim nearly drowns after slipping through ice at Showalter's Pond near Berryville. J Frank Eddy buys half interest in Enterprise Printing Co from J C Wheat.
Present and past rainfall data shows 24 hour precipitation none at 7 a.m. and February total of .39 inches. 1948 year to date records 3.11 inches. Average annual rainfall over 35 years reaches 36.20 inches. Monthly averages for 1913 to 1946 list values from January 2.46 to December 2.38 inches. Statistics courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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