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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1947
Page
5
Present and past rainfall records show 24 hour precipitation ending 7 a m January to date at 1.86 inches. Average annual rainfall over 34 years is 36.30 inches. Monthly averages based on 1913 1946 include January 2.45, February 1.97, March 95, April 3.07, May 3.64, June 3.86, July 3.79, August 3.77, September 3.36, October 3.36, November 2.40, December 4.3.
In the Ladies Commercial League Martha Washington posted a season record 534 with June Barman 140, Nancy Adams 114, and Jean Steele 99, as Valley Service Station fell in two of three. Elsie Miller led Woolen Co. with 115 and Cap Restaurant and South End tied for first.
Fragmentary OCR text lists multiple figures and names such as Bill Moores in fifth with 112, Ernest Pugh with 152, Mickey Perry with 142 and 380, Jack Larrick 363, Perry Co. 691, Parkway 583, and Royal Crown among scattered entries. No cohesive event or context is identifiable.
The Evening Star Ladies League lists teams Worth's and Virginia Pruit in play with Ware and Star Office among competitors. High individual game honors go to Clevenger of Weber Nursery with 130 and Schmidt? Schneider with 127. Stimmel and Clevenger also post strong scores.
Fragmentary OCR lists team scores and high games including Worths and Bell Chute with numbers 482 and 1395 plus Virginia Fruit 1369. See brief tally of top performers and venues.
The Winchester Junior Board of Trade will award the outstanding young man of Winchester Frederick County for 1946 at a stag dinner at York's Inn on February 6. President F. L. Sargent will announce the event. Judge Elliott D. Marshall will present the award. Special speaker will be H. Bruce Palmer, former president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce.
A discussion notes that healthier Chinese tradition ends with burial in an American cemetery with an identification tag. Ten years later the remains are moved to a zinc lined box and shipped to China for reburial to minimize freight costs.
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