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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1952
Page
7
Classified display ads in bordered columns priced at 1.50 per column inch per day with a minimum charge. Cash is required for all out of town ads. Closing time is 10 a.m. for same day insertion as of January 26 1930.
For sale items include 20 percent off all hardware at Pareet Hardware 89 S Braddock. Also for sale a collie dog described as excellent with children age 24 months, price reasonable. Oak slab wood listed with contact notes Acorn Heights phone 4252. Westinghouse range in excellent condition priced for quick sale phone 6787 after 5 30 pm.
Classified notices list shop and farm items for sale including motors pumps water systems heating boilers and equipment from Hagertso Equipment Co Hagerstown Md. Also fruit trees ornamentals Waynesboro Nurseries Waynesboro Va with local rep W L Darnell Winchester Va. plus a 1938 Chevrolet 1 1 ton truck sale in Whitacre Va and a blue and white range stove with shoats.
Classified notices for a male clerk and storeroom worker with typing, bowling alley pin boys 16 and over, and a part time money collection job for automatic vending machines. Opportunities include paid vacation and insurance, car and $600 capital required, $400 monthly potential, interview requests to Box Nos. 22 and 24 in the Winchester Star listings.
Help wanted ads seek salesgirls for a drug and cosmetic counter at Pine's Drug Store Berryville and for a soda fountain and drug counter at Gilbert's Community Cut Rate Store 625 Berryville Ave Winchester Virginia. Experience not essential but neat appearance and character references required.
A Hollywood column calls for smarter scripts over censor clashes and urges casting and project ideas. It proposes radio ham themed films, more military and cartoon content, fewer bosom shots, and longer runs plus dramatic reassignments for actors like Audie Murphy Humphrey Bowart and Tallulah.
WVU basketball coach R A Dyke Raese compares the 1952 Mountaineers to the 1942 Cinderella team, praising shooting by all regulars at 6 feet 1 inch or taller and noting Mark Workman 6 2 and high depth. WVU leads in scoring with Workman second in the Southern Conference behind Duke’s Dick Groat.
Funeral services for John Davis Thomas 80 retired Loudoun County farmer were held Saturday at 2 PM at Hall Funeral Home Purcellville. Interment followed at Lincoln. Survivors include granddaughters Mrs Granville Cather Winchester and Mrs Robert Dunan Clearbrook.
Larry MacPhail the "Barnum of Baseball" plans to assume executive head role at Bowie racecourse after New York syndicate contracted to buy a controlling interest. He promises modernization and showmanship similar to his baseball era with lights fashion shows and gilded boxes to attract patrons. He aims Bowie as a premier track midway between Baltimore and Washington and vows rapid modernization under government rules.
A collision one mile east of Gore at 2 p.m. damaged a 1935 Ford. Ralph Kenneth Wright of Gore was injured with a shoulder sprain and a cut hand after his car skidded about 166 feet and overturned following railroad crossings. State Trooper Lawrence Coverstone reported the incident.
Sharps are medium length with round eyes used for general home sewing. Between needles are shorter and designed for very fine sewing.
Science Service reports reassurance that pets do not spread polio to children. Most transmission is person to person, with outbreaks linked to household contact. Animals show no definitive polio carriage. Eskimo outbreaks traced to humans, with insects unlikely carriers in sub zero conditions.
Co Koonte district soil conservationist and Walker McC Bond from this city join Oscar M Carr of White Post Bo A Hepner of Maurer J C Coiner of Woodstock and Reymond H Dudacille of Glen Echo in traveling to Richmond for the two day annual meeting of supervisors of Virginia 29 Soil Conservation Districts. The event features an annual banquet tomorrow at 7 p m with General Assembly members present and Governor John Battle among the main speakers.
A pair of rustlers operated during a night blizzard in Great Falls Montana converting a 1700 pound calf into beef inside a dairy barn. They absconded with two hind quarters leaving the rest of the animal on the barn floor.
Kyle Jr. of this city has been named representative for State Farm Insurance Companies in the area with office at 195 N Loudoun St. He assumes duties January 1 and will represent Auto Life Fire and Casualty divisions. He is a former Warrenton employee, served as a FA-17 pilot in World War III, and is active in the American Legion and Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Kyle family resides at 832 Dunlap St.
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