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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1949
Page
6
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The 1948 titanium industry showed record ilmenite output and rising rutile shipments with plant capacity expanded for Saintium pigments. Demand outpaced supply, prompting planned plant extensions for 1949. DuPont planned titanium metal production in Florida. Kennecott Copper and New Jersey Zinc eyed Quebec ilmenite deposits. Domestic mines produced about 372000 tons of ilmenite. National was the leading producer.
Lead Co located at Tahawas New York and others operated near Jacksonville and Vero Beach Florida Finley North Carolina Piney River Roseland and Los Angeles County with scattered site references.
State Senator W. H. Abington urged the Arkansas Senate to empower the state welfare commission to govern the welfare director. He called for a law to place the director under commission authority and referenced Mrs. Henry Bethel as the welfare director.
In 1889 Nellie Bly, the newspaper writer, circled the world in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes. Her feat set a famous time record for solo travel around the globe.
Residents in Virginia and Tennessee described the Tennessee Valley Authority blast at South Holston dam as the largest commercial explosion in history. The event, 9 miles southeast of Bristol, used 1 360 000 pounds of nitramen equal to 680 tons, surpassing July blast by 400 000 pounds and removing 2 550 000 tons of rock.
Eva Lee Kindig a national field worker for Sunday School teachers and church leaders will speak at the Jubilee Church of the Brethren on Front Royal Road at 2 and 7 p m Wednesday February 9 A demonstration class will be held in the junior department She is a Rockingham County native Bridgewater College alum and has years of teaching experience Her visit is under the Southeastern Regional Council of Boards and leaders of children are urged to attend
Reports show no precipitation in the 24 hours ending 7 am. February rainfall to date is .31 inches with 1949 to date at 3.99 inches. The 36 year average monthly rainfall from 1913 to 1948 lists Jan 2.47, Feb 1.92, Mar 2.91, Apr 3.07, May 3.68, Jun 3.88, Jul 3.81, Aug 3.82, Sep 2.58, Oct 3.34, Nov 2.50, Dec 2.43 inches, courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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