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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1951
Page
3
Flamingos at Hialeah race track are producing a bumper crop with more than 100 young birds expected. The facility is noted as the only place where flamingos have successfully hatched and raised in captivity.
Seven of eight Pacific Coast League teams now include Negro players. Hollywood signed pitcher Roy Welmaker from San Diego, leaving Seattle as the lone team fielding an all white roster.
The article reports Dean Acheson discussing General Barr's 1948 China dispatch stating no battlefield losses due to ammo shortages and attributes Nationalist defeats to leadership. He confirms firing MacArthur and helped draft the announcement. Acheson also notes Wallace secured Chiang Kai Shek's 1944 agreement to accept US aid to the Communists and that the U.S. could not guarantee Chiang's survival postwar.
Mrs. Sarah Margaret Hicks 79 widow of Edward M. Hicks of Frederick County died at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Born August 25, 1871 in Hampshire County West Virginia she was a daughter of the late Scott and Caroline Fout Johnson. She was a Round Hill Methodist Church member. Surviving are two sons Thurman and Boyd Hicks of this city a daughter Mrs Eva Cumiskey Martinsburg WV a brother Davis Johnson Winchester one sister Mrs Millissa Pugh Capon Bridge WV 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral will be Wednesday at 2 pm at Kutts Funeral Home 21 S Loudoun St with Rev B W Coe officiating interment Mt Hebron Cemetery. Body is at Kutz Funeral Home.
Stockton report notes College of Pacific students Jim Lane and Duane Weaver near 100 hours of teeter tottering to celebrate Cop’s centennial. They passed the prior 72 hour world record set by UC students and began Thursday morning, with sleep breaks in a sleeping bar.
Free lemonade will be available to all in Bluefield West Virginia today as temperatures reached 92 degrees The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce started the tradition to serve lemonade whenever the mercury hits 90 or higher The city bills itself as an air conditioned town on a hot day.
A tree rose is described as a bush rose grafted 3 feet or more above the ground onto a long straight stalk of a brier Rugosa or other strong stemmed rose.
When a river is rising the water surface is higher in the center than along the banks.
Sgt. Maurice Mosher of Glen Lyon Pennsylvania led a machinegun platoon in the 24th Division during an ambush in Korea. In 15 minutes his fire pinned a Red assault killing about 300 enemy and wounding many more. His unit withdrew with all 14 soldiers unharmed and officers later recommended the Distinguished Service Cross.
Tass claims American forces deployed Japanese troops in the Korean war and says about 4500 Japanese soldiers died in 1950. The agency reports urns with ashes arrived in Yokohama and accuses U S officials of blocking funerals and discussion to hide Japanese involvement.
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company offered to send representatives to Tehran for full and frank discussions with the Iranian government over the oil crisis. U S Ambassador Henry F Grady hailed the move, hoping for a balanced solution. Iran viewed the offer as acceptance of taking over the oil properties, while AIOC reserved its legal rights and did not specify negotiable points.
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