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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1948
Page
7
New York residents fear a range of urban dangers from falling objects to tunnel collapses and street crime. The piece notes fear shapes daily life in Manhattan with worries about loneliness in crowds, missed trains, and the terror of failure in a bustling metropolis.
Mrs Mildred V Birmingham 31 died this morning at her residence on Robert St after four weeks illness Born in Shenandoah county daughter of the late S B and Annie Windle Green she was Episcopal Survived by husband John and daughter Joanne V Birmingham Services 4 pm Thursday at Jones funeral home Rev James B Roe officiating Interment Mt Hebron cemetery Pallbearers Willie Brown Claude Charlie and Jimmy Windle Wylie Pingley Elmer Laing Honorary pallbearers Raymond Dinges Nelson Page J H Taylor John Quick Carl Campbell Harold Anderson William Stickley Robert Wheeler Robert Dick
Funeral services for John Lavender Jr., 41, will be held at Cartwright funeral home at 1 p.m. tomorrow. He died Saturday at Winchester hospital and is buried in National cemetery. A WWII veteran, he lived most of his life in Winchester and is survived by his father John Lavender Sr., three brothers Hort on, Roosevelt and Frank, two sisters Mabel Wallace and Pearl Reed, two aunts Daisy French and Katie Jackson, an uncle Charles Lavender, and several nieces and nephews. Rev Ralph Laws will officiate.
The ring should be engraved with the bride and groom initials followed by the wedding date. The bride and groom initials appear first because the groom is considered the donor.
Business Week notes A. F. Whitney trains and Robertson enginemen clash with AFL switchmen amid union politics. Whitney’s pledge to back Truman for re election was tied to a promise of no harsher settlements for Whitney rivals. Glover argues settlements must rest on merits, not politics.
A total of about 260,750,000 barrels of crude oil moved through the Big Inch up to V-J Day. The Little Inch carried finished petroleum products, delivering 107,125,000 barrels to the Eastern Seaboard.
The county board of supervisors approved the assessment of three mineral tracts totaling 1 019 acres. M. J. Grove Lime Co. owns 29 acres, an old manganese mine property covers 260 acres, and a 730 acre undeveloped tract in Back Creek district is owned by F. R. Williams and Cecelia Horst.
Final rites for Mrs Magogle Grant of 376 Gray Avenue were conducted Sunday at Braddock St Methodist Church by Dr T J Hawkins with interment at Mt Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers were Clifford Grim Grover Clevenger Carl Sirbaugh Earl Baker William Lothan and Dan Dodson.
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