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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
2
A devotional reflection contrasts prophets longing for the Lord with the Christian belief that Christ has already come in flesh. It emphasizes that God sent his son to share humanity and calls for prayers that Christ be shown as the light of the world and savior.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. wage dispute ends as union workers approve a company offer with weekly raises from $3 to $6. Of 2690 ballots, 2632 support the deal. The vote closes the long running labor dispute affecting 5000 Virginia employees.
Answers printed on Page 4 include Japan as Q1 and Sicily as Q8. Other items name Higher for Q2 Yes for Q3 A and P grocery chain for Q4 a gallows for Q5 The House of Representatives for Q6 the first ten amendments for Q7 Stephen Collins Foster for Q9 and False that cavalry is now mechanized for Q10.
A public sale of livestock and farming equipment in Clarke county grossed about $14 000 as Wilton S Singhas discontinues farm operations near Berryville. Items sold included a tractor cultivator for 1427 dollars and cattle up to 273 dollars per head with buyers from several states. Coleman Dunn of Winchester acted as auctioneer.
J W Morrow Winchester agent for Railway Express orders no shipments to New York or metropolitan area including Hoboken Jersey City and surrounding territory due to strike. He will not take shipments routing through New York and expects outgoing volume to drop about 50 percent. Apple and textile plants O Sullivan Rubber J C Penney and other local shippers will be affected.
A buck in the three forks area tangled antlers with telephone lines breaking free and dragging hundreds of yards of wire, disrupting service over a wide area in Bozeman Montana. Carson City Nevada is noted as the smallest state capital in the United States with population under 2,500.
A field meeting of the local Forestry Service showcased a fire truck and pump with fog and stream nozzles. Attendees noted the equipment’s efficiency while Lawrence Clowser won the footage estimation contest, with second place to Robert Smith.
Clinchfield Coal Corp reports gas in commercial quantities at Nora site in Dickenson County. Open flow estimated between 450 000 and 550 000 cubic feet daily from the wier sand at 3849 feet, with sand 125 to 250 feet thick. Drilling began last October and continues. A second site 30 miles east in Buchanan County has gas shows but not yet commercial.
Trans-Jordan reports Arab Legion halted an Israeli push toward Aqaba 32 miles from the port. A brigade with heavy tanks and 75 mm guns reached Ras El Nakab while main force advanced along the Aqaba valley before being repulsed. Israeli foreign ministry in Tel Aviv denies knowledge of fighting.
Moscow dispatch reports the fifth session of the second Supreme Soviet opens with the national budget for 1949 under review. Delegates from nearly 2000 legislators in two chambers discuss military expenditure and economic responses to recent decrees as foreign observers watch Russia’s plans.
William T. Schaeffer shot his wife Martha then killed himself on their farm near the Maryland Pennsylvania line. Police found the pair, parents of 11, in the yard with a shotgun propped in the doorway. Melvin and Esther Jones testified they saw Martha fall.
The Hoover Commission plans to recommend Congress move the Selective Service System into the Labor Department and restore the United States Employment Service there. The shift aims to give Labor Dept key wartime draft and civilian placement duties, with mixed industry backing and labor support for the broader housekeeping reform.
Scientists photographed and studied the May 1948 solar eclipse along a 5300 mile arc from lower Burma to the Aleutians. Multiple expeditions contributed observations and analyses of the event.
A listing of farm and real estate auctions across Virginia with dates from March 11 to April 6. Auctions include livestock, farm machinery, autos, real estate, pianos, furniture, antiques, and household goods at locations near Berryville Middletown Winchester Frederick County Court House and Greenspring with sellers Wm F Hough H Hershman Orpha Lockhart Clara Kanney C Gibson G I Brady George Helsley.
Mount Washington New Hampshire known as the highest peak in New England records temperatures dipping below zero occasionally reaching near negative fifty degrees.
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