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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1948
Page
5
A note states there are more than 1.7 trillion board feet of saw timber in the United States outlining vast timber resources without game schedules for baseball leagues.
Medical authorities claim SSS Tonic builds up low blood strength in non-organic nutritional anemia. The ad says the tonic activates blood production, improves digestion, reduces gas and sour taste, and leads to better appetite, energy, sleep, and skin color. It touts millions of bottles sold and urges purchase at drug stores.
Rosenberger routed Red Wing 8 3 to extend its City Softball lead as Pingley Smith and Grim each had two hits. Elks beat Winchester News 8 5 in eight innings, Jackson pitched well for the losers. Jewel Box crushed O Sullivan 27 7 in the highest scoring game of the season. Highland Ave. Presbyterian beat Christ Episcopal 20 5 in Junior Church play. Tonight Braddock St Methodist faces Sacred Heart in Diamond 1, Loudoun St Presbyterian meets Montague Ave Methodists on Diamond 3.
Star southpaw Dave Pence will rejoin Conrad Hoover American Legion post team Sunday for a double header with Clarke county All-Stars. Pence battles Lefty Buckner as the Legionnaires edged Vint Hill 7 2 on June 6. Cap tain Leon Pope and Harold Fawcett expected back, with Keller rotating players. First game at 1 30 PM. Rain checks from May 2 honored.
Registration for a girls day camp at City park near Senseny road runs June 28 to July 1, July 5 to 8 and July 12 to 16. Open to Brownies and girls aged seven to nine, with space nearly full. Call the Girl Scout office at 7456 with transportation ideas. Sponsored by Winchester Girl Scout council and Winchester Recreation Dept, with Mrs. Leroy Cahill as director.
Grove Team leads the City Softball League undefeated as it travels to Stephens City for a game against the M. J. Grove Lime Co. team on the Grove diamond at p.m. EST tomorrow.
All interested in forming Winchester City Tennis Club are asked to meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the recreation office at City Hall. Officers will be elected and summer plans set.
A new fever described in the June issue of the American Journal of Medicine is spread by mites on house and field mice. Named rickettsialpox, it resembles typhus smallpox and chickenpox but is not fatal. First detected in Queens in 1946, it sickens for days with fevers up to 104 and symptoms like chills sweats headaches and fatigue.
The Winchester Brown Bombers schedule a home game at N Kent Street against the Charles Harding American Legion post from Hagerstown. The Martinsburg game was rained out Sunday and will be rescheduled for a later date.
The Ladies Aid society of Mt Olive Disciple church near Capon Bridge plans its annual benefit festival in the church grove at 5 p m Saturday. Thirty members will prepare dinner with soup fried chicken sandwiches pies and cakes to fund remodeling the church.
Round Hill Methodist church hosts its annual Children’s Day program at 8 30 p m Sunday featuring songs recreation dramatizations exercises and tableau by local children and families.
An outline of work at Daily Vacation Bible School last week will be given and certificates awarded. The annual loss of soil fertility through erosion and leaching is estimated to be about seven times the amount used by crops. Q A golf etiquette Q Should a player or his caddy smooth over holes or foot marks in a bunker The player The caddy should not enter a bunker.
Citizens of Round Hill are asked to meet in the school house at 7 30 p m Monday to discuss building a recreation center. The meeting aims to gather ideas from as many different people as possible.
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