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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1949
Page
2
British scientists devised a plan to destroy V-2 rockets near their flight path predicted to work by firing London guns when rockets were 30 miles out. Monty beat them to authorization, and once Holland was liberated the V-2 threat ended.
Secretary Brannan argues a new farm program aims to raise farmer income with subsidies and marketing quotas, contrasting it with the Aiken law. He contends critics overstate cost and contends the plan requires no new authority beyond marketing controls, while seeking public input for a fair deal.
Senator Murray's economic expansion act of 1949 gains seven co sponsors but is unlikely to reach a hearing this session. Administration officials say conditions are not bad enough for federal pump priming and broad government intervention could deter business.
Annie McKinney 64 of 307 Highland Ave. died Saturday at Winchester Hospital after a nine week illness. Born in Frederick County she was daughter of the late George and Fannie Palmer and member of Highland Ave. Presbyterian Church. Survived by two sons Bruce and Robert McKinney and four daughters Irene Higgs Elsie Golightly Isabelle Taylor Margaret Bean. one step daughter Mrs Floyd Landis. brother James Palmer. sisters Mrs Cora Miller and Mrs Ida Dunlap. 22 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Body at Jones funeral home pending arrangements.
Raymond Cylde Messick, 64, native of Harrisonburg and brother of Roanoke attorney T Warren Messick, died 10 p.m. Saturday at Rockingham hospital after a brief illness. Survived by wife Ella Weddle, daughter Martha Lee Robertson of Salem, son Raymond King Messick of Richlands, Wash., and a grandchild, plus two Roanoke brothers James W. and T. Warren Messick. Services set for 4 p.m. tomorrow at Oakey funeral home in Salem with interment in Sherwood cemetery.
The three suits for judgement, filed by the mothers of the victims, were met with not guilty pleas by CUC but settled in full. Compromise sums included 5 dollars to Dr. E W Lacey for Margaret Cook, 20 dollars to Dr. Carrington Harrison for Emerson Cook, 92 50 to Winchester Hospital, 50 dollars to Dr. Hugh Clark for Miss Hileman, plus 15 dollars to Dabney Watts as guardian ad litem. Judge Elliott Marshall presided as the cases concluded in one court session.
Correct responses list includes BATORY Fatima first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 No Franklin D Roosevelt motto To the stars through difficulties located in Iowa 108 cards total two decks plus four jokers The giraffe and the quoted sentiment I feel as if I need a long vacation.
Market observations across U S cities show light receipts and firm to steady tones. Cattle trade slow with prices mostly below last Thursday. hogs and sheep mixed as buyers respond to varied weights and grades.
Chicago grain futures opened with overall declines for feed grains while wheat held steady. Weekend precipitation across the belt appeared bullish for wheat and bearish for corn, with changes seen in July and September contracts for wheat and corn plus oats rye and soybeans.
An ECA agreement could total about $800 million over five years, described as Yugoslavia's biggest trade pact with the West. In April this year gasoline prices in Europe were reported in cents per gallon.
New York stocks edged lower on June 13 as uneven buying muted gains. The first day of a planned one week miners walkout accompanied tentative wage negotiations in several large industries. Prices fell for U S Steel Bethlehem Steel General Motors Chrysler Studebaker Sears Roebuck Caterpillar Textron Glenn Martin American Telephone Consolidated Natural Gas Kennecott Cooper Phelps Dodge General Electric DuPont Eastman Kodak Santa Fe N Y Central Southern Pacific Union Pacific and Gulf Oil while U S Rubber National Distillers Consolidated Edison Southern California Edison American Tobacco and others resisted the downturn.
Rites were conducted at 4 p.m. today for the infant son of Aubrey and Audrey Pyle Funk of Middletown at St. Pauls Cemetery Cedar Creek grade. Survivors include the parents and siblings Charles E William L Virginia C Ruth E Betty Jean and Judith L.
Star markets page indicates daily corrections for local market listings and declines responsibility for typographical errors.
The Agriculture Dept markets division lists U S Grade A eggs by size with varied prices and live poultry prices in Winchester. It includes Leghorn and Rock Cross broilers, young and old turkeys, tomato market notes, and foreign price equivalents for Italy Denmark Switzerland France Belgium England.
Solomon Jefferson Catlett, 73, died suddenly of a heart attack at his Reynolds Store home. Survived by a daughter, two sons, two sisters and three brothers, his wife died in 1945. Funeral pending at Omps Funeral Home with services at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, Reynolds Store, led by the Rev. C. D. Larrick. Interment nearby. Pallbearers named.
Executive Basil Starkey announced 200 reservations for Rock Enon camp opening June 26. Potomac district scouters led by Philip Hunter built 20 tent platforms, bringing total to 43 with seven remaining to finish next weekend by Two Rivers scouters. Work includes waterfront fence and tower. Rock Enon Day started with optimism.
Six Zagorski children died from burns and smoke in a flash fire that swept their home in Firthcliffe New York as parents visited nearby friends. The father rushed home and authorities prevented him from entering the blazing residence.
Police reported nine deaths from traffic accidents in Virginia over the weekend. The deaths raised the state's 1949 on fatality total to 318 early lay.
Spokesmen for U S Steel say they do not know what Lewis will demand as he presses a walkout that affects 20 000 coal diggers in captive mines. Lewis had ordered a stoppage and said some mines are running erratically while others operate only part days.
Contract talks were under way with one segment of the industry, the Southern Coal Producers Association, as negotiators sought terms on prices, production, and labor conditions.
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