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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1949
Page
4
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour precipitation 40.00 inches and June to-date 1.00 inch. Weather statistics cite 36 year average monthly totals from 1913 to 1948 with January 2.47 inches through December 2.43 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
A brief devotional note cites a Bible verse Leviticus 19 13 warning against keeping wages overnight and urges timely payment as a moral duty.
A Charlotte physician invited a real estate friend to a public talk on socialized medicine. The friend declined, noting alarm at socialized medicine but asking why doctors did not oppose it sooner.
The text argues that interest groups fight their own battles against government encroachment and never unite. Doctors oppose socialized medicine while real estate and other industries oppose public housing. The strategy divides groups, enabling gradual impact before the victims realize.
One day events feature Elder T. W. Alderton addressing Primitive Baptist Cedar Creek church speakers list includes Clayton Shiley Middletown ace hurler and 15 soap box derby entries noted. Temperature 98 degrees reported with Bishop W. Roy Mason guest of Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Allen.
Ten years ago in 1939 residents recorded 2.87 inches of rain. Jay ends a month long drought. Jane E. Jackson achieves perfect attendance over 12 years at city schools. Beaul Knight, brother of Dr. B. M. Knight of Winchester, graduates from VMI.
Death summons the long serving magistrate Theodore Carson Adams in 1824 twenty five years ago. Two colored girls receive jail terms for stealing hosiery. Sunday schools hold a convention in Hebron Church.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell steps down after a year and a half tenure. The Market and Cecil Street corner rack outside George Copenhaver’s store is cleared from the sidewalk. Winchester merchants report a rise in gramophone sales.
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A Philippine investigation cites a love triangle as the possible cause of a May 7 C 47 transport plane explosion killing 13. National Bureau of Investigation agents report information that a woman and her lover placed a time bomb aboard the Philippine Air Lines craft before takeoff from Daet to Manila.
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