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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1946
Page
10
The Potato Blossom Festival called the C. L. P. festival runs July 22 to 27. It is set around Houston in Arcosa County. The event coincides with blossom appearances.
The Football Yanks sold 400 season boxes at 140 dollars each and gathered 65 000 dollars in season ticket sales. The balance of the column notes that this is strong for a new club but not proof of future gate success. A string of golf events and anecdotal items follow including a college recruiting tip and a fan fined for taking a foul ball.
Virginia State Police will add a new air arm using three highwing planes based at Lynchburg Waynesboro and Chilhowie to patrol Eastern Central and Western Virginia. The move aims to help locate stolen cars chase fugitives and direct searches in inaccessible areas.
Brig. Gen. J. Fulmer Bright announces spare stamp 10 for five pounds of canning sugar becomes valid, final canning sugar stamp of the year. Total sugar for home canning expected at 750000 tons this year, urging use only when needed. Spare stamp 49 misprint corrected. table sugar stamps effective September 1 next.
October 31 1946 notice lists Spare Stamp No 10 valid for 5 pounds of sugar for canning starting July 1.
Gas company employees continue to investigate the Saturday explosion at the home of Mrs. L. L. Bell at 119 E. Clifford Jr. The blast damaged doors on the basement stairs and buckled part of the dining room floor. The basement gas water heater was on. no injuries reported.
The Second Marine Division plans return to Norfolk in July aboard six ships. The unit, noted for battles at Guadalcanal Tianian Saipan and Okinawa, suffered about 3,000 casualties. About 2,500 officers and men are due for discharge. most veterans had already returned.
Dr. Ernest Trice Thompson warned that a world war could arise from a clash of life styles such as capitalism vs communism democracy vs totalitarianism and even Christianity vs materialistic atheism He spoke to 631 delegates at the Presbyterian Young People's Conference on the church and world order in Massanetta Springs.
Officers of the Sarah Zane Fire Co meet Landon Whitacre and C Irvine Cather of the County Board of Agriculture tonight at 8 to zone the county into fire control districts on the first floor of the Sarah Zone building.
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