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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
6
London tests show walkie talkies can transmit through the earth aiding rescue teams in mine disasters. Radio equipment is being evaluated for rapid voice contact during emergencies.
An old hut in western New South Wales bore a door note offering a farm to whoever finds it. The message, posted for years, described isolation: twenty miles from a neighbor, fifty from a railway, and a hundred miles from a city, inviting a settler to help pioneer the west as the author leaves for the city.
Two UCLA students Al and Joe Linesch sailed the Pacific during a college break. After a shark fishing expedition to Tahiti and a voyage in a Tahiti ketch they joined the Morning Star VI missionary schooner and then signed a year with a Pacific trading company. They plan to return to UCLA after their summer break.
Rogers Arkansas residents honor Marguerit Miller a telephone operator as First Lady of the year for staying at her post during a approaching tornado. The local Beta Sigma Phi chapter recognizes her devotion to duty.
A notice urges motorists to get vehicle inspections done before a rush period. It warns approvals must be completed by June 15 and notes a related fact about deep sea water pressures and potential sea level rise if expansion occurred.
In a wry stance Truth sits between Temperance and Tyranny arguing two beers do not force trouble and that distortion of facts is the real issue. The piece muses there should be Truth, not laws, with Tyranny kept at bay as Temperance stands to one side.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour precipitation none at a.m. June rainfall none in 1948 to date totals 15.11 inches. Average annual rainfall over 35 years is 36.20 inches. Monthly averages by period 1913 1946 list January 2.46 inches through December 2.38 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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