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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1949
Page
7
Classified notices list several items for sale including a 1947 Plymouth four door sedan with radio and heater, a 1945 trailer with 990 x 20 tires and vacuum tank, four large Martinsburg pike lots for 1400 dollars, a portable electric sewing machine, a Honey request, and four U S Royal tires with one new. Contact numbers provided.
The Virginia State highway department spent about 50 million dollars on roads in 1948. Primary and secondary systems saw 48.75 million for construction and maintenance, with 32 million for construction and 16.75 million for maintenance. Progress included 218 miles of new construction on a 9000 mile primary system, 39 miles of four lane highways, and 67 bridges. The secondary system added 500 miles of hard surfacing, 200 new bridges, and resurfacing and materials work on hundreds of miles.
The family thanks friends for kindnesses shown after the death of their husband and father, Mrs. Virgil Brown and Family express gratitude for support.
We thank our many friends for the kindness during the death of our mother and wife and for the beautiful floral offerings. J. H. Hillyard and family.
HAL BOYLE reflects on New Year 1949, urging optimism and looking for blessings. He jokes about Pandora's box, notes modern medicine reduces fear of plagues, and encourages belief that life goes on with hope, plenty, and shared effort. The column mixes humor with a call to positive outlook.
Thousands of deafened readers in Chicago respond to a compact new hearing device by Beltone that eliminates bulky battery packs and wires. The device, palm sized, aids understanding of faint voices and is endorsed by the American Medical Association Council on Physical Medicine. Beltone offers a free descriptive booklet and home testing with no cost or risk.
The speaker insists the year 1949 is significant and urges living in the moment. A line about five million eight hundred thousand automobiles entering Canada from the United States in 1947 is noted as a historical fact.
Notice of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester Virginia annual stockholders meeting to elect directors and conduct business. Meeting set for Tuesday January 11 1949 at 11 oclock in the forenoon in the banking rooms with J H Yost as cashier.
ITHACA New York January 3 The old adage an apple a day will keep the doctor away may be discarded. Prof L E Slater of Cornell University notes population has risen while apple production declined in forty years reducing supply by more than half. About a bushel of apples per person per year remains for the last decade.
A professor notes supply trends show citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit rising faster than population while apples remain comparatively dearer. He explains higher apple prices stem from slower supply growth versus demand.
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