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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1948
Page
2
Answers to the quiz printed on Page 4 include: cake fillings cream or fruit jam. Earl Carroll age 54. seven. Methuselah. larynges. at the North Pole all directions south. False about Australia as island. within 90 days. Antelope. division of the school libraries.
July 24 sales at 1 p.m. DST Mrs. H B Green 22 E Cork St. July 24 at 10 a.m. EST Miss Ida Wyndham 234 Amherst St. July 28 at 11 a.m. DST Mrs. Earl Rinker 526 N Loudoun St. August 21 Mrs W A Sale 371 National Ave Winchester. Household goods furniture and kitchen items
Count Folke Bernadotte and Dr Dmitri Manuilsky confer as the United Nations Security Council issues a cease fire order for Jews and Arabs in Palestine to take effect tomorrow. Bernadotte boards a plane from LaGuardia to Rhodes to report on mediation efforts and hopes for broader acceptance despite unclear Arab response.
A United States assessment places the dry fuel peat resource at about 12 million tons. Analysts note the figure reflects recoverable fuel within defined peat beds and may influence energy planning and mineral policy discussions.
Peat moss grows in compact mats along stream banks and on bog and lake surfaces. Two out of every three American soldiers who reached France in World War I took part in combat.
Mosses form limestone deposits by encrusting with lime, leaving only green tips exposed.
The Veterans Administration will test the suction socket method for attaching an above knee artificial leg in Virginia. Henry G. Moore of the Roanoke VA regional office disclosed that the approach avoids harnessing and may improve muscular control and the sense of the leg as part of the body. Volunteers will be recruited from veterans who lost a leg, with required fidelity to use the leg, undergo physiotherapy, and attend periodic exams as part of a Congress funded prosthetic research program.
A 1948 feature from King features Syndicate urges thorough exams for fatigue. It outlines eye tests, thyroid checks, sedimentation rate, agglutination tests, blood counts, chest X rays, and heart exams. It notes fatigue can stem from emotional strain or sleep issues and cautions against sedatives without a doctor.
In Pulaski Virginia Dewey Andrews 48 died after grabbing a live high tension wire to rescue Homer Ryan a private electrician. Ryan stopped to fix two 4000 volt lines and was struck when the wire was pulled to ground. Ryan survived but in serious condition in Pulaski hospital.
Christian Democrat labor leaders in ROME plan to split the Italian Labor movement. The move signals internal factionalism within the party and could reshape labor politics in the region.
Italian turmoil deepened as workers split from the communist led CGIL after an assassination attempt on Palmiro Togliatti. A 36 hour general strike killed 16 and wounded 204 before government pressure halted it. Togliatti survived with pneumonia and was reported stable. Christian Democrat labor leaders urged an autonomous union free from party influence while calling a Rome meeting to reorganize labor.
The text explains meteors are small rocks carried by the Earth as it orbits the sun. It notes these rocks originate in space and enter Earth's vicinity during orbital movement.
U S Senator Irving M Ives and his bride Mrs Marion M Crain wed in St John’s Episcopal Church Bethesda Md The bride had served as the senator’s secretary for 13 years Marriage was the couple’s second for both following the death of previous spouses The report notes their long association and shared retirement from prior marriages.
By mid 1948 the number of cities with an income tax had risen to 42. In the spring of 1948 only three cities Philadelphia Toledo and Columbus taxed incomes.
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