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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1947
Page
9
New York report notes high construction costs keep homes out of reach and slow 1947 starts below 671,000 in 1946, far short of 1925 peak. It warns housing demand will need large gains to catch up with population growth and cites 1,000,000 fewer construction jobs than boom times.
The Masonic lodge hosts a St. John’s day celebration at the John Mann Methodist church on Sunday. Rev. T. Beecher Travis of Mt. Zion Methodist church Martinsburg will preach. Members of the Metropolitan lodge from Leesburg are guests.
Funeral services for Jesse Gregory were conducted yesterday afternoon by Rev. Raymond L. Booze from his brother Roy Gregory’s home at 915 E Cork Street. Interment followed in Green Hill Cemetery, Stephens City. pallbearers were Charles Bass Howard Mills Daniel Brumback Robert Stickley Joseph Funk and Irvin Williams.
Local growers will sample turkey steak prepared by the latest approved method at a Monday regional Virginia Turkey Growers Assn meeting in the Prin cess Anne hotel Fredericksburg. Delegates include Charles M Rosenberger and son Omas Leonard Williams S P Henshaw I Fred Stine and John T Wolfe. They promote turkey as a cheap daily meat and note Frederick county’s turkey industry is in its infancy with potential to rival apples as a cash crop.
According to Marine Corps Headquarters the United States Marines have surrendered several times but always under another service. On Bataan and Corregidor the surrender was by an Army general. On Wake and Guam the capitulations occurred under a Navy captain.
A collage of classic tunes and performers features Woody Herman Count Basie and Eddy Duchin with big band selections and standards like You Make Me Feel So Young and Night and Day among others.
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