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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1948
Page
7
Winchester leaders outlined a six payment memorial program to fund the Winchester Memorial Hospital expansion. gifts cover maternity and operating rooms, laboratories, and private rooms with $13,300, $2,500, $4,800 and other specified pledges. Tax advantages and a brochure guide donors through memorial choices.
Senate approved a bill adding one half of one percent to the gross receipts levy on public service corporations with an amendment preserving the tax for the first $100,000 of receipts for heat and power firms. Floor Leader E Blackburn Moore says the change shields small power cooperatives in the red. The measure moves to the Senate after House approval.
President Truman argues the steel price increase supports anti inflation plans including standby wage price controls and rationing. He dodges questions on his candidacy and refuses to discuss Southern Democrats revolting or ballot strategies in Virginia while noting no Russian overtures to meet with Premier in Stockholm.
Mrs Ollie Mae Grim 66 dies at home Friday night in the county. Services set for 2 p m tomorrow at Jones funeral home with Rev Robert Whitten officiating. Interment at Mt Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers: Robert Boyd Burton Ritter Eston Tevalt Emmett Boyce Irvin Boyce Garland Vincent.
In heated discourse Van denberg rejects war as endlessly costly while arguing that peace negotiations offer a bargain. The speaker claims to discuss a current effort to avert further conflict using all available resources.
Gertrud Scholtz Klink head of the Nazi Party women's branch was arrested by US Army agents in the French zone. The 46 year old, long believed dead, was seized on a secret tip. An aide of Heinrich Himmler’s elite guard was also arrested.
Admiral Nulton rose from Annapolis class of 1889 to command the Pacific Fleet as a four star after serving as commandant of midshipmen and chief of battleship divisions. He earned the Navy Cross for World War I meritorious service and retired in 1933 with family ties to Winchester and a daughter in Mayville Kentucky.
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