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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1949
Page
2
Readable fragments describe cloudy and partly cloudy conditions across Ohio Virginia and New York with periods of light snow in the interior and mountains. Some areas show milder temperatures then colder changes by Friday night. interior Pennsylvania expects moderate to light snow and a colder north portion Friday night.
Relatives of the United States Naval Reserve will not be at the naval recruiting sub-station in the local post office tonight due to a date conflict. Lt. Cassie Norvell USNR announced the reserve officers for ent commissions are progressing slowly, urging reservists to visit Thursday evenings to take oaths for permanent commissions. A naturalist notes swifts clocked at speeds up to 200 miles per hour.
Listings show multiple estate sales and auctions with dates in January and February. Items include furniture household goods farm equipment livestock machinery and related auction locations near Winchester Ellwood Berryville and White Hall, with addresses and times noted.
Dr Wright, pastor of Braddock Street Methodist Church, will begin a Sunday 7 30 p m series focusing on the life of Jesus with the film Child of Bethlehem. The program runs for several weeks with church youth assisting. At 11 a m service he continues his discussion The Church Its Nature and Its Mission.
Richmond City Council in a special meeting plans a resolution on discontinuing transportation service amid a looming February 3 transit workers strike. Mayor King, City Manager Sherwood Reeder and officials aim to avoid service interruption while requests to Virginia Transit Co fare hikes are referred to a council committee.
Moving pictures will be shown free of charge in Braddock Street Methodist church school assembly room at 10 a m Saturday. This will be a regular feature every other week. Title for this week includes Sky Pirates Sunshine Makers Bird Scouts and Polonaise. All children of the church and community are invited.
Singapore officials report 55 percent of 1811 cases showed signs of tuberculosis in x rays at the new Anti Tuberculosis Clinic. The results exceed expectations and the clinic plans mass chest x rays for local school children.
Funeral services were held at 2 30 yesterday at Guest funeral home Culpeper for Harry Lee Tuel 54 who died January 9 of pneumonia Rev Warren Corbin of Woodville officiated Interment was in Fairview cemetery He is survived by his widow Annie Mildred Spicer seven children including Mrs Jack Corbin of Winchester one brother and a sister
In a high pressure Senate confirmation session for Acheson the nominee faced questions about Alger and Donald Hiss. He asserted long friendship with Alger Hiss and testified he had complete confidence in him despite perjury indictments and earlier accusations. Acheson detailed discussions with Berle over the Hiss brothers and noted he resigned from his law firm when entering government service. Claude Monet’s Impression painting history is also noted in the session context.
Hagerstown January 13 Fruit growers from five states attended the 15th annual meeting of East Central Fruit Growers Production Credit. Members from Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia. The cooperative headquarters is in Hagerstown and the treasurer reported about 24 million dollars in loans over 15 years.
A source lists five conditions for peace talks including Chaing Kai-shek and Li Tsung-jen removal, constitution scrap, a mutual cease-fire, war crimes trials, and a multi party government. Fighting continued near Tientsin as Fu Tso-yi reports communist attacks. Washington considers mediation with Britain and France while Moscow’s stance is sought.
Nineteen persons died on highways in Berkeley Jefferson and Morgan counties West Virginia in 1948. Jefferson countys deaths rose from one to ten while Berkeley fell from nine to eight. Morgan had one. In Berkeley four of 1048 fatalities occurred on Route 11 between Martinsburg and the Virginia line. Police investigated 86 accidents in the county.
Judge Elliott Marshall appoints Joseph Burke Earl Fristoe Rayburn Griffith Reginald Stickley and Keene Updike to conduct a 1949 reassessment of Front Royal and Warren County real estate. last general assessment occurred in 1938.
The State Corporation Commission will hold a 10 a.m. hearing on February 8 to review a petition by railroads operating interstate in Virginia seeking freight rate increases. The action mirrors a 6 percent boost recently granted by the ICC.
Sir Oliver Franks delivered Britain's Palestine position to President Truman in a half hour White House briefing. The UN conciliation commission aims to liquidate the conflict and end the current truce, setting the stage for a possible final peace settlement.
A 45 member CIO delegation from the United Electrical Workers began a door to door drive on Capitol Hill to press for immediate repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the Wagner Act. They visited Rep. Lesinski who will chair the House labor committee, who declined a meeting but said he would talk later. Russ G. Nixon led the delegation and said they would seek meetings with as many lawmakers as possible.
Shawnee district scoutleader roundtable at the Presbyterian church discussed local Boy Scout Week activities February 6 to 12. Participants included T. M. Hooker J A Sherman C M Casey Gene Dick Halsey Green and Winchester scouters Sam McCarty Ryland Conner Hott John Taylor Douglas Cather C S Hartman Paul Chamberlin Frank Crim Charles Johnston Fred Bamne Robert Sutton F H Newman and Acting Executive Jack Moore. Next Court of Honor February 10 and next roundtable March 17 in Clarke county. Council Commissioner Hartman outlined national goals for membership leadership and program aligned with district plans. A new film Patrol and Troop Meetings was shown.
Smiftlets, tiny swifts, construct nests from a mucous secretion produced by glands opening into their mouths, a unique adaptation among the swift family. The birds gather saliva-like material to form coarse, gluey nests used for attachment.
Eight Berryville and seven Boyce boys will travel to the Pennsylvania State Farm Show in Harrisonburg tomorrow. They are accompanied by Huffman agriculture instructor and R. A. Cross, veteran farm training instructor. Berryville delegates include Jack Hardesty Carl Burleson Albert Nicodemus Eugene Singhas Edward Lake Philip Hardesty Harry Tharpe and John O. Hardesty. Boyce delegates include George Jones Kennerly Digges Robert Cook Jerome Russell R. B. Pyle Noah Carroll and Winston Presgraves.
Answers printed on Page 4 reveal that none can see in complete darkness. Asia minor. Montreal. Iran. Jewish. Minnesota. False regarding wine name. writer and news commentator. Secretary of Labor. Ovid Livingstone. Typical swifts rest inside hollow trees or chimneys or on cliff faces rather than perching on twigs.
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