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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1946
Page
2
Dr. L C Riggin warns travelers to plan trips safely and avoid hazards common to vacations. Water sports, boating, snake encounters, sun exposure, and vehicle care are highlighted with first aid tips and prevention measures to reduce injuries and fatalities.
The Star plans to expand coverage with 30 correspondents in Frederick County to bring readers a broadened news section. The move aims to enhance local reporting across communities and events within the county.
Lesson on correct English usage with examples of misused phrases and pronunciations. Highlights include fresh air devotee, inter mezzo, steal versus steel, and a focus on orthography as the system of correct spelling.
The roundup notes 40 schools entered 160 players at Springdale Course as contenders for the national amateur crown emerge from Princeton. Tex Coulter cannot contend due to scholastic deficiences, and Giants coach Steve Owen comments Coulter would be a giant tackle if he played pro football.
Dixie Walker batted in a run and added two triples while scoring another as the Dodgers beat the Cardinals 4 to 2. Jim Tabor homered in the 12th to lift Philadelphia over Cincinnati 5 to 4. Tommy Holmes and Johnny Sain fueled Braves wins over Pirates 4 3 and 4 0. Tommy Henrich hit a two run homer in the 11th off Hal Newhouser to seal New York’s 10 win. Bill Zuber allowed three Indians hits in a 16 0 Boston shutout.
Produce apples dull with small midsize hampers. potatoes steady with few sales quoted. rail and truck prices for various potato types listed. Poultry market steady with moderate receipts. roasters and fowl priced by size and color. eggs steady with moderate receipts. butter and eggs exchange reports no current offerings.
Local markets list wholesale prices for flour corn meal grains and feeds. Entries include 10 lb and 25 lb bag rates per cwt and bag prices for corn meal and various mash blends. No further details or dates provided.
In a brief market note, buyers see medium eggs and graded options amid standard specs. Butter Creamery is listed among vendors supplying dairy products alongside egg grade offerings.
Open ing grain prices for corn oats and barley listed with monthly and contract codes. Prices show small increments around 1.46 for corn and 88 for oats and 1.35 for barley with various month contracts.
The event drew 15 000 entries with eight finalists. two were teenagers Jo Ann King 15 of Oklahoma and Liber al Kansas and Alice Marie Baker of Columbus Ohio won prizes for a blue balloon cloth frock with detachable peplum and a tailored black and white checked suit.
A compact note listing nicknames like Jelly Joes and Swift Terrific with a prompt to write to Vivian Brown of this paper about new angles in your own gang. The item reads like a playful local society snippet from a bygone page.
J A Hotinger of the Mutual Insurance Agency announces a fishing contest offering a Pflueger Supreme Reel worth 25 dollars as first prize and a True Temper Casting Rod worth 17 dollars as second prize. Prizes go to the largest bass caught in the Shenandoah River forks before November 1, judged by weight and length. Entries should be weighed at Joe the Motorists Friend by day or at Jack Jenkins Shawnee Filling Station by night.
Answers to the daily quiz printed on Page 4 list the correct responses for 10 questions. The key names include Secretary of State, Dewey, Steelman, and the German context, with references to a mysterious infant illness and a term for a bug.
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Douglas Neill were held at 3 p m today at Grace Episcopal Church Berryville with Rev Henry G Lane officiating. Interment is in Green Hill Cemetery Seeryville. Pall bearers listed include Robert W Browse Edward L McDonald Kenneth Levi Joseph F Moore and others. She was widow of John B Neill of Berryville daughter of Capt William Naylor McDonald and Katherine Cray McDonald. A longtime Berryville resident she helped found the Berryville Chamber of Commerce and was active in Kings Daughters and county civic life.
Firemen answered a 6:45 p m call at the Robert Willis residence in Sunnyside a mile north of Winchester on Route 522 a kerosene stove blew up in the kitchen and the fire was confined to the kitchen little damage resulted by fire department volunteers
Dr. R. O. Bryant and the Rev. T. J. Hawkins of this city departed this morning for Lynchburg to attend the Virginia Conference Leadership School and Pastor's Conference at Randolph-Macon Woman's College this week.
The Winchester Izaak Walton League invites members to a 7 o'clock dinner meeting at Tokes Inn to discuss plans for a new club house. Members are urged to notify E. E. Harbaugh if attending.
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