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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1947
Page
9
The name Passaic comes from an Indian word variant or passajeck meaning a valley and possibly the Indian equivalent of peace. Dutch settlers arrived in 1852 when the area was called Aquackanonk. It became a Landing village in 1869 and was chartered as a city in 1873.
Washington January 17 by a unanimous vote the House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation to continue indefinitely the wartime tax rates on liquor jewelry furs and many other goods and services pending full House action.
Virginia authorities report 19 year old Andrew Solomon Daughtry killed in a downtown scooter car crash in Portsmouth on January 17. Police indicated the accident happened in the city center and involved a motor scooter and an automobile.
Independent notes trace the Grocers Wholesale growth from a small venture to a Valley leading grocery firm after 1940 when local merchants purchased W. E. Cooper and Son. The article lists officers Cecil Bailey Ora Bailey C S Burgess Paul Massey W F Brown Landon Boyer L M Larrick Oscar Ramsburg Hoye Riley and employees C D Lanahan Miss Ella De Haven Miss Donaldo Koontz Elwood O'Hara Delmer Mellwee Leonard March Melvin Lineberg Jack Haines Alfred Ashton Lester McKee Leonard Holtsman.
Advertisement touts a compact Beltone Hearing Aid approved by the AMA Council on Physical Medicine. It claims to relieve nervous fatigue from deafness, enables sermons and conversations, and offers a free illustrated booklet and demonstration via Miller's Drug Store at 107 N Loudoun St. with no cost or obligation.
Dr. Allen T. Hawthorne of the Winchester Lions Club spoke at the Clarke County Lions Founders Day to advocate good neighbor policy as a path to world peace. He cited wars caused by greed, praised sight conservation work, and urged Lions to expand their example in Cuba and beyond. Guests included Charles Ramsburg Frank Yowell and Paul Racey. Hawthorne received a traveling kit pen and ash tray.
Virginia senators Byrd and Robertson propose reintroducing a bill to authorize minting at least 250000 Jamestown 50-cent coins. The pieces would commemorate the Jamestown Island Settlement and mark the opening of the Jamestown drama next summer, with coins sellable at par or premium.
Former resident attended school in Winchester and Strasburg and learned photography by experience. Bowman worked with Bachrach Studios in Baltimore before moving to Boston and then Washington to join the Associated Press wire photo division. Now photographer and darkroom superintendent, he is 46, married, living in Arlington, with no children, and has siblings Mrs. Ernest Green in Winchester and Fuller Bowman in Nain.
The newly elected directors of the Commercial and Savings Bank met at the banking house this morning and organized for 1947. Officers elected: President Herbert Loem, Vice-President H C Teetz, Cashier John I Sloat, Assistant Cashier and Trust Officer Harold R Edwards. New directors Fred I Brumback and Grover Teets attended their first board meeting.
Thomas A. Boyce infant son of James C. Boyce and Maxine Hupp Boyce of 107 Euclid Avenue died at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore from brain hemorrhage aged two weeks. Born December 22 1946 in Winchester he is survived by parents and grandparents Russell Hupp Winchester Irving Boyce Yellow Springs. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Lamp’s Methodist Church interment Mt Pleasant Cemetery. friends meet Jones Funeral Home 2 p.m. to accompany to church.
Funeral services for Emmett E. Roberts of Radford were held this afternoon at 3 oclock in Radford. He died at 11 oclock Wednesday at his home after an illness of several years. He is survived by his wife Laura Fansler and by siblings George and Ralph S Fansler, of this city.
Washington action raises wholesale sugar ceilings by 18 cents per hundred pounds for raw sugar and 20 cents for refined sugar. The move, effective tomorrow, will raise retail prices about a quarter cent per pound once new wholesale supplies arrive at stores.
Robert Johnson 82 died Thursday at Washington Sanatorium and Hospital Takoma Park Md after a long illness. Born Gore Va June 15 1864 he worked as a wheelwright and blacksmith in Winchester then lived in Washington DC in retirement with daughter Mrs Bertha V Dietzel. Survived by son Harry J Johnson and daughter, funeral by Rev Dr E C Beery in Washington then burial Mount Hebron Cemetery Winchester.
The Tri County Association of the I O O F met at Marsh Run lodge hall Middletown with all seven lodges represented. Taylor Barr presided and Rev H S Roane spoke on Friendship Love and Truth. C L Wright praised Thomas Wildey born January 15 1782. Herbert Jones received a wallet for service. J Everett Will chosen chaplain. next meeting set for Edinburg.
London markets resume near normal operations after a one day transport strike ends. About 35 000 of 50 000 workers in the dispute postpone returning to work while 15 000 truckers agree to resume Saturday. Port workers also delay until tomorrow.
The Virginia Agricultural Extension Service dairy division says demand for dairy products will exceed supply in 1947 and all milk produced in the state should find ready markets at favorable prices.
Five day weather report notes light rain Sunday and again Tuesday and Wednesday averaging about one half inch. Temperatures are slightly cooler on Sunday and Tuesday with average daytime readings three to six degrees above normal.
Richmond Virginia January 17 traffic on Virginia's primary highway system last month set an all time December record 12.3 percent above December 1942 levels the State Highway Department reported today.
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