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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1949
Page
6
Judge Dirk A Kuyk upheld Roanoke citys five percent tax on transient rooms amid a court case. Hotel and tourist court operators plan an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Florists clash over a floral design tax ruling though no appeal decision is stated. A separate cigarets tax challenge remains to be heard.
Chile plans a Belgian colony in the Murta River valley in Aysen province. Led by Paul de Smet and Gabriel de Halleux, 86 Belgians travel by motor trucks and ships to settle on 10,000 hectares with potential for 90,000 more. They bring a priest doctor teacher and equipment to live independently.
Prof Willis R Wolrich of the American Embassy Scientific Office said Britain should bow less to tradition and rely more on creative youth. He spoke at an Engineering Industries Association luncheon urging Britain to compete with the United States in small plant production and praising British labor diligence.
COPENHAGEN March 19 Eye banks and blood banks have become well known factors in medical science Danish doctors own plan cara
Seventeen-year-old Seymour Levin was sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 8 murder of 12-year-old Ellis Simons. The jury found first degree murder with a finding of perverted sexual lust. Simons’ mutilated body was found behind a garage with more than 50 stab wounds in Philadelphia suburbs.
In Gary Indiana gamblers out of work may collect unemployment insurance while prostitutes cannot because prostitutes are classified as independent contractors. Indiana Unemployment Compensation Bureau manager Lyman K Bilts notes a rise in claim files a week after Gary residents protested crime and vice.
The Virginia Assn. of Milk Sanitarian today elected G. S. Kennedy of Roanoke president to succeed H. R. Anderson of Richmond. G. E. Musgrove of Bristol and H. M. Hallett of Leesburg are auditors.
President's Council of Economic Advisers chairman Eldwin G. Nourse told the Chicago Executive Club that 1949 should be only slightly less prosperous than 1948. He warned against panic reducing business and consumer spending and urged orderly price and wage adjustments to sustain health.
Scientists aboard the Marine laboratory yacht Velcro in the Gulf of California report major migrations of oysters and clams around San Gabriel bay on Espiritu Santo Island. The USC expedition notes no oysters or clams remain in areas abundant a decade ago.
In the House of Lords discussion March 19 the limit of 100 donors for artificial insemination was proposed. Lords Merriman Brabazon and others challenged the idea citing genetic and moral concerns while Archbishop Fisher and others questioned principle and enforcement. Viscount Addison pledged government attention to the issue.
The document lists 24 hour and year to date rainfall totals for March 1949 and annual averages from 1913 to 1948. It includes monthly average precipitation figures by month and notes the data courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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