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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1952
Page
7
Classified display ads in bordered or larger type cost $1.50 per column inch per day with a minimum. Cash is required for all out of town ads. Closing hours: classified acts received before 10 a.m. at The Star Office may be included in that date’s issue.
Multiple local ads offer a six room house with fireplace and heat, contact Harry H Willis, phone 4631, dating January 17 1960. Then a 1950 Buick Special near Cameron Street listed January 1961. Hardware store sale offers 20 percent discount until February 1 at Parkers Hardware 98 Braddock Street. Also steel cots and mattresses advertised at A N Store 12 N Loudoun with prices. Used boss kerosene range for sale at 317 Fairview Ave with January 22 1961 dateline.
A collection of local for sale notices lists items including a six room house with 40 acres and two ponds, a 1944 Superior house trailer, oak slab wood, neon tourist sign, a Delco oil conversion unit, a Mack tractor, a 1941 Chrysler Royal, a 1850 bulldozer, a Layree business lot, and two classic cars a 1951 Ford Victoria and a 1949 Packard with contact numbers and brief notes on condition and pricing.
Three rental notices listed. A three room apartment at 316 W Boscawen after 5pm, a second floor heated three room and bath with contact number 4747, and an apartment at 1100 Orchard Ave dated 1-23-21.
Community classified notes seek items and services including fodder buyers house cleaning kitchen work gas station businesses and child care in Winchester Virginia area. Advertisers list contact Box numbers and addresses for delivery pickup or sale inquiries across multiple categories.
Old line, legal reserve company seeks male agents to represent in hospital and health and accident division across Virginia. Permanent, full time employment with lead generation and strong earnings. Write R. D. Stinson, P. O. Box 3, Alexandria, Virginia.
Local promotion seeks drivers with car and references to refill and collect from five cent nut machines. Requires $600 cash for qualification and six hours weekly, with potential earnings up to $400 monthly and possible full-time takeover. Include phone number in Box 14 application to Winchester Star dated January 21, 1940.
Trade in and reconditioned Singer sewing machines priced from 19.95. Singer Sewing Center lists 25 N Loudoun with phone 5116. Also Terminix Company promotes termite control services and offers authorized representation by E W Armstrong Company phone 4643. Winchester Sewing Machine Co advertises conversion of treadle machines to electric portable or console units with prices 39.50 and 69.50. Langford F Leach disclaimer.
Frederick County Virginia master commissioner will hear evidence January 31 1952 at Winchester VA offices on real estate ownership liens rents and profits to satisfy a decree. Interested parties must appear with documents and records for inquiry and report.
The community organizes for a January 31 polio fund raising march from 7 to 8 p m with captains including Mrs James Miller and Mrs R Gray Pollard. Homeowners are asked to light porchlights to signal donations to the March of Dimes as mothers urge public support.
The Cleveland Indians announced Dale Mitchell has signed for the 1952 season and will receive the same pay as at the end of last season. Also noted are golf and Olympic funding updates from Phoenix and New York.
Boston veteran manager Jack Kearns favors a light heavyweight title bout between Joey Maxim and Sugar Ray Robinson in June. He notes Robinson at 165 pounds and Maxim at 172 pounds and also proposes Maxim vs Rocky Marciano in Boston, citing a weak overall talent pool.
The USS Boxer donated 2,377 pints of blood in October while off Korea. The carrier’s crew saw 90 percent of officers and men participate, believed to be the largest single contribution by any organization, civilian or military.
Slugger Ted Williams, now fishing in Florida, will resume fly casting exhibitions at the Boston and New York sportsmen shows. He opens a nine day run on February 2 and previously earned about 30000 for similar appearances. He must report for a physical at Squantum Naval Air Base on April 2 and may be called to active service May 2 if cleared.
The Apple Valley Beagle Club staged its first 1952 field trial last Sunday on Middle Road. Winners in the 13 inch and 15 inch classes include Susie owned by J R Russell and Rocky Ledge Yoedler owned by Blake Keller. other placements list several owners from Reliance Virginia to Hagerstown Maryland. The next trial is set for Sunday February 3 with 8:00 am drawing at Red Star Restaurant near Winchester Route 11. All beaglers are invited to attend meetings and trials.
The 19 day walkout by 4700 operators slowed city streetcars and buses. Workers' representatives and the Toronto Transportation Commission agreed last night to end the strike and submit two disputed points to an arbitrator.
Mrs Dorothy DeHaven and Mrs Irene Copenhaver spent the evening with Eva Martin who has broken her arm. Wayne Stotler from Winchester spent Saturday night with Tommy Tavenner. Janie Sargent and Shirley High joined a Washington DC day trip. Col Cawthorne shopped in Winchester. Maude DeHaven visited J J Copenhaver. John Derflinger started building a new house. Herbert Copenhaver visited Loring Wright. Wesley Hawkins spent weekend with his mother Jouella Hawkins. William Carlisle visited Ray and short trip with Carl Strickler. Carlton Himelbirt and J J Copenhaver hosted Sunday afternoon calls.
In her eighth year she captured the Oslo children’s figure skating title and at age 10 she won the Norway figure skating championship, marking her first major titles as a young skater.
An Egyptian paper cited Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky claiming Moscow will aid Middle Eastern peoples to free themselves from Western economic domination. The statement appeared in El Misri and said Vishinsky spoke in a Paris interview.
The question names Kermit and Quentin as the two Roosevelt children who rode ponies up to the tics of the White House.
A bat uses a thin skin membrane stretched over elongated fingers, while a bird wing is covered with feathers attached to a rigid skeletal structure. The bat’s wing allows highly flexible flight control whereas bird wings rely on feathered surfaces for lift and propulsion.
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