Berlin Transport Workers on Strike
About 20 000 Berlin transport workers walk out for higher wages and food aid. Roughly 44 million daily riders stay home as subways and buses are halted in the city.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1948
Page
10
About 20 000 Berlin transport workers walk out for higher wages and food aid. Roughly 44 million daily riders stay home as subways and buses are halted in the city.
Warren County High School to graduate eighty eight seniors as commencement week begins with baccalaureate services Sunday at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium at Front Royal. Rev. Wilfred Waterhouse, Episcopal rector, will speak. Commencement exercises are set for Tuesday.
A dense list of radio program times and show titles across networks CBS ABC MBS and NBC style segments. It catalogs morning to midnight offerings including news music talks dramas comedies variety and sports, with hosts guests and program blocks.
In observance of its fourth anniversary the Negro Day Nursery School will present a Rainbow Wedding at 8 p.m. Friday at John Mann Methodist Church on Cork Street. Proceeds fund nursery improvements. the program is led by auxiliary chair Mrs. Emma Robinson and school supervisor Mrs. Gladys Crawford with bake sale and refreshments planned.
Anne sits in the park pondering John and their shared love at Stone House. He professed a future together and urged a plan to free Helen, yet Anne foresees pain. Their affair strains loyalties as she returns to Don's apartment and contemplates a life on her own.
State Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. will deliver the Gore high school graduation address at 8 p.m. EST tomorrow. The event features a processional, invocation by Rev. Vergil Hudson, welcome by senior class president Patricia McGraw, and class history by Genevieve Roe. Seventeen seniors graduate with awards and diplomas presented by Principal Paul D. Beable.
In Mathews county near Fort Non sense heavy rains washed earth from new fills, turning roads into a quagmire. A ten ton ice truck bogged down, freezing traffic until crews moved the ice and detours were set.
Moscow June 1 reports Pravda that a Riga factory has started production of a five tube shortwave home receiver. The USSR pursues a nationwide radiofication plan with over 7 million radio points including wires, speakers, and receivers in homes, with millions more planned and funded by a listeners tax.
A study notes that extreme ocean depths exert crushing pressure capable of compressing a wood block to about fifty percent its normal volume, illustrating intense underwater forces.
Fred Tooma of Sam Tooma and Son in Hagerstown will lecture at Kurtz furniture store at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday about how oriental rugs are made from raw wool to finished product. The firm sponsors a $50,000 rug display through Saturday, including a 16th century Persian rug valued at $5,000, with a copy kept at the London museum. In 1947, over 20 000 owls were killed by farmers and hunters.
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