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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1947
Page
3
A reader submission puzzle fills a page with clues ranging from escape slang to geological terms. Entries include heat possession listen chills and fever and various shorter answers.
A New Year’s football carnival features 20 bowl games from coast to coast drawing 440000 spectators. Georgia Rice Georgia Tech Oklahoma Hawaii and Delaware share the spotlight while UCLA’s Al Hersh returns a kickoff 103 yards in Pasadena. Georgia edges North Carolina 20-10 as Rice blank Tennessee 8-0 and Oklahoma thumps NC State 34-13. Western All-Stars top Eastern 13-9 in the East-West game. Hawaii defeats Utah 19-16 in the Pineapple Bowl.
Virginia feeder calf sales reached a half million dollars as Winchester led with 434 calves sold October 18 averaging 113.64 dollars per head and 23.15 per hundred. An all time high 44 cents per pound was set for a steer with no calf under 20 cents per pound. The Front Royal sale at Pappahannock followed with 369 calves averaging 98.76 per head.
Calf sales across fourteen lots totaled 5,991 head bringing $89.55 per animal and an average of $19.53 per cwt. Prices leveled off after early gains, settling around $18.50 to $19.00 per cwt as sales concluded.
Lt. John Hyde Lewis Jr. of Bunker Hill West Virginia has earned a permanent Air Medal citation for meritorious aerial achievement as pilot of a Liberator Bomber in Patrol Bombing Squadron 44. From June 10 to December 17 1944 he participated in low level bombing and strafing missions destroying enemy buildings supply dumps gun installations and bivouac areas.
The Geneva Convention relating to the treatment of prisoners of war was ratified by the U.S. Senate on January 7, 1932 and proclaimed by the President on August 4, 1932.
Richmond Va January 1947 former State Senator Garland Gray who resigned in 1948 on grounds of private business announced yesterday his candidacy for the State Senate in 1947. Senator Goodwyn who was to succeed Gray as representative of the Sixth District said he would retire from public life.
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