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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1947
Page
7
Joseph Massie Jr general chairman reports plans are complete for the second annual Soap Box Derby in the city on Friday July 4. Twenty six boys aged 11 to 15 have signed up to race, with competition beginning at 2 pm after a parade through the city.
Move at 1 p m and heats in two classes A and B decide the local championship. Winners advance to Akron Ohio for a $4 000 scholarship and a new Chevrolet. Grand prize includes trips and various merchant prizes. Time trials July 2 from 2 to 6 p m. In Freder ick Virginia a chancery suit seeks heirs to D J Whitacre and partition of lands with non residents Roy Whitacre Elsie Boxwell and Floyd J Whitacre charged to appear.
L. J. A. The term blue ribbon jury selection was coined by a noted criminal lawyer, the late Abraham H. Hummel, though state attorneys are credited with the idea of great care and use of provisions in selection.
Clarksburn W Va June 20 Former Governor Howard M Gore 69 a member of the West Virginia Public Service Commission died today in a hospital He served in the cabinet of former President Calvin Coolidge as secretary of agriculture and was governor from 1925 to 1929
Winchester VFW post will send 18 delegates to the Norfolk State Encampment from June 30 to July 3. Attending delegates include Roy Earl Marvin Miller James Keffer Jr William Claytor Harold Patton Douglas Butler O C Holliday Edward Goss and H W Butler Jr. Ray Brenaman and James E Van Zandt will address events. A June 30 parade features about 30 drum and bugle corps from Virginia, with competition at Foreman Field that night.
The greatest distance in the continental United States runs 2835 miles from Cape Flattery Washington to a Florida coast point south of Miami.
Clarence W Windle a cyclist from R J Strasburg was fined 10 dollars and costs by Judge John Rice for reckless driving after a June 12 collision on Valley Ave. that injured Ralph Cline Cedar Creek Grade. Windle crossed from the cold storage to the O Sullivan driveway and struck Cline who rode north on the highway. Cline received head injuries and two leg fractures at the hospital.
Funeral services for Miss Edith Newbold Wall were held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the Winchester residence of William C. Miller. Dr. Joseph A. McMurray officiated. A Presbyterian member, she was laid to rest at Mount Hebron cemetery after a quartet sang Abide With Me We Would See Jesus and Home Sweet Home. She was a granddaughter of the late John F. Wall a prominent early citizen. Pallbearers included Dr. P. W. Boyd Clifford D. Grim R. Bruce Slonaker Joseph Hodgson Fred S. Boyd W. W. Glass Henry W. Brown and William C. Miller.
It explains that a person does not need a full length mirror. A complete image can be obtained with a mirror that is half the person's height if it is properly placed.
The Veterans Administration announced that over 150000 World War II veterans are taking correspondence courses at government expense, including 67 living abroad.
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