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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1948
Page
2
Advance tickets go on sale for Shakespeare's Henry V at the Capitol with 3 30 p m and 8 30 p m performances tomorrow. Laurence Olivier stars and directs the film version praised as a season must by audiences in many cities.
Mrs. Walter F. McCauley aged 77 died this morning at her son Marshall McCauley’s home in Frederick Maryland after a long illness. Born in Frederick County she moved from Winchester to Frederick in 1938. She was a Methodist and her husband died 19 years ago. She is survived by sons Marshall Frank and Robert Swartz of Winchester.
Funeral services for Mrs Cora Ellen Kingree will be held at 2 30 p m Thursday at Omps Funeral Home with burial in the Mt Hebron family lot. Pallbearers are Belmont Keut Oren Snapp Ralph Marker Ralph Bauserman Hammon Mc Donald and Samuel McDonald. She was a daughter of Ezra and Emily Whetzel. Her son William B Kingree studies at V P I.
A sequence of auction notices lists sales by date and location in West Virginia and Virginia. Items include livestock dairy cattle farm equipment household goods and antiques with multiple estates and farms along Bloomery road Cedar Grove road Merriman Lane Route 50 and US 11 near Winchester White Hall Boyce Stephens City Capon Bridge and Woodberry Farm. An April 7 to 10 sale by Edgar Mar le near Nain features livestock machinery and farm goods.
A lengthy joint hearing featured strong opposition to the governor’s reorganization program with dairy interests, soil conservation members, mental health experts, psychiatrists and ministers voicing concerns. Senate bills on insecticide controls and boiler inspections progressed with subcommittee review and House actions on game laws, licensing, sanitation standards and enforcement measures.
Hugh T. Henry director of the Winchester recreation department joined the Virginia Recreation Society committee at a Richmond hearing on a Senate finance committee bill. He said the State Recreation committee favors the bill to establish a state recreation division and authorize agency contributions to its operation.
City tennis enthusiasts met at Joe Briggs residence to discuss a summer program. Attendees included Hugh v. Henry and Frank Anderson with plans for facility improvements and a tennis clinic for all ages. A dual match schedule and an early season Sage ae tournament for the city were proposed.
At the Winchester armory on March 10 the JBT Turtle Derby will include a race of turtles tagged with potential presidential candidates. More than 200 turtles are expected in the main derby with prizes over $100, and the event aims to raise about $1000 for the city teen-age center.
Answers printed on Page 4 reveal selections for 10 questions. Highlights include a the thirty eighth anniversary, cremation on sandalwood pyre, a note favoring re election, a cocker spaniel, Bloodstone, and fool's gold.
The committee approved the Fenwick Clarke Senate measure already passed by the upper chamber. A House identical bill was tabled to give precedence to the Senate version. Amendments remove bowling alley pinboys and movie ushers from certain provisions. The code bans hazardous work for under 16 full time unless a high school graduate, with farm and orchard work exempt. The bill advances to the House floor.
The rule varies by state. True escheat statutes pay the deposits to the state after years of dormancy without return rights for the depositor or heirs. Custodian statutes treat the state as custodian and preserve the right of the true owner to reclaim the account if established.
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