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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1948
Page
3
Pearl Wart aged 19 admitted stealing purses from churchgoers in Chicago. She will serve six months in jail followed by two years of probation after pleading guilty to felony theft.
By deed dated January 15 1947 and filed in Winchester Virginia, a trustee will offer for sale at 2:00 PM on February 9 1948 at Monmouth and Loudoun Streets Winchester the listed buses including 1938 Ford transit bus BB 18 4507120 and other Ford buses with serials 99T 109354 99T 109 - 99T 179949 179993 and 1946 Ford bus 1099447. Cash terms. Trustee Journey L Largent Jr Auctioneer Coleman C Dunn.
Public sale of county realty in Frederick County Virginia offers 21 acres with improvements in Gore near U S Highway 50. The deed of trust from Rich M Keffer and wife dated August 28 1944 triggers a public auction at Winchester Court House on February 7 1948 at 11 AM. Terms: one third cash day of sale balance in two equal installments at one and two years, secured by purchaser's oath and trust. Auctioneer Coleman Dunn. Trustee W E Edwards.
Puzzle hints list multiple entries with numbers and definitions including oceans insect herb of car rot family goddess of digits win and samarium symbol Sm arranged as a compact crossword material for a newspaper page.
The House appropriations committee backs 10 million dollars for Langley Virginia and Cleveland aeronautical research facilities. An additional 18.2 million contract authorization is approved for the NACA program. A 6.4 million Langley gas labor at Langley field with 1.5 million initial funds would study high speed air flow. Also proposed are 3.608 million for a flight research hangar and 0.5 million for jet energy fuel research.
The Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk and Western railways seek trackage rights into West Virginia coal fields. Norfolk and Western accuses C and O of plan to bypass its line by tunneling and climbing to reach about 500 million tons of coal along and beneath N and W. The dispute is before the Interstate Commerce Commission for referee action.
A warning underscoring how a tiny flame can ignite large blazes both big and small. Emphasizes prevention and vigilance to avoid fire hazards in daily settings.
Public notice urges readers to renew subscriptions to The Star before special January rates end on January 31.
Song sheet titled Cowpens Battleground honors Daniel Morgan and the Cowpens fight of January 17 1781. Written by Harry Wilkins and Geoffrey O’Hara, it was sent to the Turner Ashby DAR chapter and published by multiple DAR chapters in Spartansburg Spartanburg etc. Miss Lucy Kurtz will present it at the February DAR meeting.
Sen. Flanders asserts meat rationing needs price control and calls Truman dead wrong. Sen. Buck agrees that fixing meat prices before rationing would block both measures, arguing Congress will not approve price control.
President Truman directed the Federal Security Agency to draft a decade long plan to improve national health and care. He cited notable progress but said the surface has barely been scratched and rapid future gains are possible. Oscar R. Weing, FSA administrator, quoted him on the effort.
A dense listing of worship times and church leaders across Winchester area churches including attendances, Sunday school at 9:45 or 10 a.m., worship and communion at 11 a.m., evangelistic services in the evening, and midweek prayer or youth programs. Names of pastors and superintendents featured.
Poland bans the music of composer Richard Strauss saying he embraced the same ideology as Hitler. The decision was announced in Warsaw on January 31.
A man wearing a new blue serge suit was hanged last night for the murder of a state policeman in 1946. The execution closed a long legal case following the officer's death decades ago.
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