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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1948
Page
4
Present and past rainfall figures with 24 hour, year to date totals for June. 1948 year to date rainfall and average annual rainfall are listed. Monthly averages for 1913 to 1946 show values from January to December. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
The piece analyzes criticism of Rep John Taber chairing the Appropriations Committee as it reduces European Recovery Program spending by one billion dollars. It notes opposition from Washington Post editorialists and mentions Spain trade deals, European crops, and Harrriman’s lend-lease era guidance as context for the ERP debate.
The piece argues that scrutiny of appropriation requests is patriotic while unchecked spending risks domestic crisis. It notes 18 billion spent since VJ Day on Good Samaritan work and warns Congress that funding every admin request could harm finances and strain international friendships.
President Truman campaigned in the Omaha Coliseum before 2,000 attendees with about 8,000 seats empty, reflecting limited Southern Democratic support and growing disinterest in his western push.
In Salem Oregon Henry Wallace proposed using government land purchases to electrify farms then move non electrified residents. he later said he did not mean denying rights to have children. Wallace's campaign halted the remark amid pressure from his adviser Baldwin. The episode highlights tensions over reformist policies and free enterprise critiques.
Heavy wind storm struck Winchester and Charles Town causing damage. County mail pits closed as conservation funds stalled in the House. Fersons interested in tennis asked to meet in the CCC office.
Five years ago farmers across Frederick and Clarke counties reported a mostly beneficial week for crops with favorable weather. About 75 observers of Virginia Woolen post completed a two month aircraft identification course. Groree W. Clowser, local administrator, announced ODT had emended the inspection requirements.
Norfolk June 9 under a court approved settlement the Virginia Railway will pay damages of 75000 for injuries to Charles D Armentrout 14 month old who strayed onto the tracks near his Raleigh County West Virginia home and lost both hands when struck by a locomotive.
A sermon discusses language as a barrier between cultures and groups. It notes that even shared words carry different meanings across professions and nations, hindering understanding between Russians and Americans and complicating politics and ideals.
A quiz mentions ten questions with scoring tiers from Genius to Poor and directs to Page 2 for answers. It asks about AEC, the Battle of Lake Erie, Taiwan, saccharin sweetness, a ship gall ey, the Preakness winner, compass points, a sentence correction, the first U S Mint city, and the number of Muses in mythology.
With two thirds of the drive elapsed Winchester and Frederick counties are over 200000 dollars short of their 350000 quota. Clarke county shows 7418 of 80000, Shenandoah 72537 of 240000, and Warren 47043 of 164000 as sales lag.
Fungi do not produce seeds but propagate by spores. Even a large spore is only about 1 to 1000 inch long and many are smaller.
Ten years ago in 1938 Miss Elizabeth Barr won the sweepstakes award in a Little Garden Club show. Japan was reported as the best customer of the U S for war supplies. About 500 Winchester public school students marched to Mt Hebron cemetery to pay tribute to Judge John Handley John Kirr and other school benefactors.
Mrs. Harry Cookus’s students gave a piano recital at the Empire theater. Gas produced here proved to have high heating value. Robert P. Glass, a well known farmer and fruit grower from Long Meadows near Opequon Creek, died at home.
In 1898 Mrs. A. E. Carroll suffered a broken right ankle and left hip after an accident. Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton of Fairfax County preached the baccalaureate sermon at the Episcopal Female Institute as American troops landed in Cuba and encamped on hull overlooking Santiago.
The trustee will sell at public auction on Friday July 2 1948 at noon in front of the County Court House Inches2ter Virginia the property at 713 and 720 South Cameron Street corner of Cameron Market with 88 feet front. Terms require one third cash and the rest in two equal annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance policy.
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