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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1949
Page
5
Average monthly precipitation in inches for 1913 to 1948 totals. January 2.47, February 1.92, March 2.91, April 3.07, May 3.68, June 3.88, July 3.81, August 3.82, September 2.58, October 3.34, November 2.50, December 2.43. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
About 6000 White Russians displaced by China’s civil conflict head toward a Samar Island camp in the Philippines. The vanguard group of 492 women and children travels aboard a Manila Bay steamer, organized with leaders for every ten and a staff of a Cos sack officer and a 64-year-old chief. They hope for resettlement in Canada the United States Australia or Argentina and plan a refugee school in the camp for children and adults.
The saguaro cactus, a giant and iconic plant of Arizona, is highlighted as one of America's most remarkable trees. It traces its discovery to Coronado and the Conquistadors who entered the region from Mexico City in 1540.
Norfolk reports the 16 inch guns at Fort Story have been silenced permanently. Lt Col E B Hempstead notes Fort John Gustis two gun battery also dismantled for scrap, but coastal defense armament remains at the Chesapeake Bay entrance.
The Fort Story guns were considered outmoded. They fired 2000 pound projectiles costing $1400 each.
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