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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1950
Page
6
The small district near East Bul arock Victoria hosted a rare event at St. Columbanus Church. The church, with 30 seats, serves about 100 residents and does not hold regular services due to the community size. The note also mentions a biblical reward tied to Delilah.
Classified ads list multiple items including a 5-section American hot water boiler and two stokers in A-1 condition, a 1949 Oldsmobile 4 door sedan with extras, a 5 room brick bungalow with dry basement and oil furnace, a 5 room bungalow on 1 acre, a 220 acre grazing tract with 10 room house and barn, several modern bungalows, a Quonset hut on 1 acre, and a housekeeper needed. Also includes a sewing and crafts ad and a note about a Denver last name mix-up. A shooting match is announced for March 18 at Giles Bray's place near Stephens City with guns and prizes.
Dr Guy R Fisher campaign chairman of the Virginia Division American Cancer Society spoke at a pre campaign meeting in Luray to over 50 keys workers. He cited Virginia cancer deaths rising to 3198 in the past year and stressed education and rapid cancer evaluation for curable outcomes.
Funeral services for Mrs. Vernie P. Oates will be held tomorrow. Friends meet at Jones Funeral Home at 12 30 P M for a brief service then proceed to Ebenezer Church of Christ for final rites at 1 30 P M conducted by Rev S J Goode and Rev J S Duckwall Burial follows in the adjoining cemetery Pallbearers include nephews Ralph and Richard Keller Russell Carpenter Harrison Whitacre and Russell and Walter Fletcher
A medical warning notes hoarseness indigestion and bowel changes as possible cancer signs. It cautions against salves for cancer and asserts that surgery X-ray and radium are the only proven cures.
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