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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1948
Page
9
Harrisburg July 14 Connie Mack renews a prediction saying Boston or Cleveland will win the American League pennant. He cites Boston’s acquisitions from the Browns and notes Cleveland has beaten his club eight of 41 meetings, calling it his biggest puzzle to solve.
London July 14 reports tea shortages forcing shops to offer coffee at some hours while rationing hits food, soap, and clothing. A tourist notes queues, scarce staples, pink petrol for commercial use, and enduring British courtesy amid postwar constraints.
Winchester Lions postponed action on their current budget for three weeks to study it further. President Rebert Smith appointed a committee of Robert Jasper and Leonard Sirbaugh to set the date and location for the Lions annual outing.
Winchester Girl Scout council and the Winchester recreation department close their Day Camp with a 7 p.m. program for parents and friends. Mrs. Leroy Cahill leads crafts display and a tour of the Lions Club shelter at Rouss Park near Senseny Road.
Dr Franz Leitner, chairman of the Austrian league of the United Nations in Vienna, proposes to Gov. Tuck to ease Virginia's rural doctor shortage by allowing surplus Austrian physicians to immigrate. He pledges screening for moral and scientific fitness and says Austria could supply many specialists and health officials.
A note left by taxi driver Michael Murphy before his death led to the arrest of two Black men charged with his garroting in a Manhattan Brooklyn run. The men, who allegedly confessed, described one suspect as Duke in a white coat near 122nd Street and Park Avenue.
In a Los Angeles report a will says if Earl Carroll and his former employee Beryl Wallace die in a common disaster, she loses a potential 1 million inheritance. Carroll and Wallace perished in a Mt. Carmel plane crash with 43 others on June 17. The will directs stock to Jessie I. Schuyler of Los Angeles after bequests, and directs cancer research funding from remaining assets. The ashes were interred in the same Glendale crypt per the will.
A farm tour on Friday July 23 will draw hundreds of farmers from Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia to view practical demonstrations of farm equipment in use on Maryland farms Two stops in Washington county and one in Frederick county cover three phases of farm operation Visitors will see grain handling drying and storage at Stockslager farm 930 am Grass farming silo and mow filling at Harshman farm 1045 am and modern controls for European corn borer and Japanese beetle at Otis King farm Frederick County County Agent I Fred Stine Henry Brumback and T N Cather of Winchester will join local agriculturists on the trip.
Richmond July 14 Applications total 12 localities requesting 4.203 million dollars in federal funds to build hospital facilities valued over 12 million. Leading request from Danville for 2.1 million, plus Suffolk 1.6 million and Front Royal 600 thousand. Local priority list spans A B and C groups with projects in Winchester Fredericksburg Staunton Harrisonburg Leesburg Pearisburg and the Medical College of Virginia hospital among others.
New York reports the United States sending 304 athletes coaches and managers aboard the liner America for the London Games July 29 to August 14. The party includes 15 of 21 American Olympic teams with others already overseas by air or departing on the Queen Elizabeth. Sixty five male track and field athletes joined a final Randalls Island workout under nine coaches and managers.
The National Bureau of Standards advises grounding home fuel storage tanks as a general safety measure. Additional protection is needed if the tank is exposed to direct lightning strike potential. The oil inside the tank would not ordinarily ignite from a lightning discharge.
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