Winchester Plans Four Baseball Diamonds For 1946 Season
A Winchester recreation committee outlined plans for at least four baseball teams and up to three softball leagues in 1946. Proposals include building a new baseball diamond and two softball diamonds on Senseney Road with possible additional fields near the Park and Armory. The White Sox, Valley Cubs, Legion program for boys, and a boys club are among groups seeking fields, with lights and new equipment topics discussed.
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Winchester
Winchester Recreation Department
Howard W. James
Ao A. Hobert
City Recreation Department
Ryland Conner
Peeranes
The
Park Association
American Legion
National Legion
Hobert
Sacredeart Athletic Club
Senseney Road
White Sox
Val
Winchester Armory
Virginia Avenue
White
Legion Nine
Park Diamond
Conner
Robert Richard
General Electric
Sabbath Lecture Tackles Evolution and Faith
Roy Edward Giffin, noted Bible lecturer, spoke at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Virginia Avenue near Berryville Pike. He called the Sabbath God’s barrier against evolution infidelity and atheism, with a closing lecture on Rome's Challenge to Protestants planned for Sunday night. Tonight is youth night with a Jonah and the Whale topic, and Griffin’s family arrived today to join the program.
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Roy Edward Giffin
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Virginia Avenue
Berryville Pike
Mr. Griffin
Rome
Washington Missionary College
Basketball Seen Headed For Still Greater Popularity
New York March 22 Interest in basketball at the peak of its history will rise further due to its extensive use by the armed forces for recreation and training. At the National Association of Basketball Coaches convention Blair Gullion cites service programs and players developed in the military as boosting spectator interest and the game's quality. Coaches who served as officers or consultants in combat zones say basketball was the most popular sport among servicemen.
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New York
National Association of Basketball Coaches
Blair Gullion
University of Connecticut
Cornell
Army Air Forces’ Technical Training Command
Gullion
NYU Violets Fall to North Carolina in NCA A Semi
NYU once seen as the country’s top team squandered its eastern N C A A title bid. North Carolina defeated NYU 57 to 49 at Madison Square Garden before 18 452 fans, with John Dillon scoring 15 to lead the Tar Heels.
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New York
Mar
New York University
Violets
North Carolina
Madison Square Garden
New Yorkers
John “Hook” Dillon
White Phantoms
NYU
Ohio State
Buckeyes
Harvard
Holy Cross
Crimson
Schedule Of The County Agent March 25 To 30
Mrs. Madeline B. Myers Home Demonstration Agent lists events for March 25 to 30. Meetings include Grange at White Hall, Coat and Suit planning at Northern Virginia Power Company Kitchen, Stonewall HDC demonstration, Evendale HDC demonstration, Friendly Grove 4-H Club, Camp Planning in Front Royal, White Hall 4-H radio program at Stonewall High School, and a Saturday in-office day.
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Madeline B. Myers
The
Grange
White Hall
Northern Virginia Power Company
Stonewall Hdc
E. H. Woore
Evendale Hdc
Lynn Norman
Friendly Grove 4-H Club
Front Royal
White Hall 4-H Club
Stonewall High School
Winchester Star Employees Banquet Planned at Sarah Zane Hall
Plans for the first annual Winchester Evening Star employee banquet are set for Saturday at 6 30 p m in Sarah Zane Hall. Speakers include R Gray Williams and Judge Burr P Harrison with magician Leroy Loewner from Harrisonburg and music by Ken Windle and His Rhythm Kings.
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Winchester Evening Star
Sarah Zane
R. Gray Williams
Burr P. Harrison
Leroy Loewner
Harrisonburg
Ken Windle
Hisythm Kings
Market Quotations Stock Market Report
New York March 22 stock market favoring winners amid hopes for price ceiling changes. Gains seen in Gimbel Bros common and modest advances for Du Pont General Motors Goodrich Rubber Douglas Westinghouse Kennecott N Y Central while several leaders lagged on weaker bids. Bonds remained narrow and trading slowed amid mixed sentiment.
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New York
Gimbel Bros. Common
du Pont
Pod Sars
General Motors
Goodrich, Rubber
Douglas Aircraft
Westinghouse
Kennecott
N. Y. Central
U. S. Steel
Sears Roebuck
United Aircraft
American Telephone
Anaconda
Philip Morris, Texas Co
Southern Railway
Local Man’s Son Set for Atom Bomb Test Duty
J. I. Crabill of Amherst street reports his son Lt. Col. William Roy Crabill has been assigned as quartermaster on the Atom Bomb test staff in the Marshall Islands. He departed March 15 from Roswell for Heikman Field Hawaii with headquarters on Kwajalein and duties on Eniwetok and Hawaii, expecting to return by midsummer.
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J. I. Crabill
Amherst Street
Extended
William Roy Crabill
Marshall Islands
Col. Crabill
Roswell
New Mexico
Heikman Field
Hawaii
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Who will be Miss Douglas
The Douglas School page notes a home economics class field trip to a kitchen planning picture at Northern Virginia Power Co. and announces a ninth grade social at Miss Ann Fletcher's home to support "Miss Douglas" with public invitations and refreshments.
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Miss Douglas
Josephine Catlett
Fay Johnson
Ann Fletcher
Beulah Bannister
Jane E. Johnson
Jane Gaskins
Joan Elliot
Northern Virginia Power Co
Gibbon St
Selma Williams
Answers to the Daily Quiz
Correct responses listed for page four quiz questions. Items include places first Phoenix Arizona and Panama lease, objects rags and carbon, dates September, person Andrew Jackson and Mrs Wallis Warfield, a quoted phrase he said to me, and a fragment meaning part of an airplane.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Republic of Panama
Rags
Andrew Jackson
Carbon
Wallis Warfield
Baltimore Market Report on Produce and Livestock
Baltimore market update shows apples steady and poultry market steady with light receipts. Eggs also steady with liberal receipts and butter and egg totals recorded at 7394 pounds and 2482 cases respectively.
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Baltimore
Livestock Price Report From Baltimore and Chicago Markets
Bid and price levels for cattle calves hogs sheep and pigs listed for Baltimore and Chicago. Records show steady to firm tone with varied weights and grades including good to choice beef, canners, cutters, sows and slaughter lambs amid active trade and ceiling prices.
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Baltimore
Chicago
Chicago Grain Quotations Light Opening Prices
Grain futures opened with oats Sept and Dec near 81 1 8 to 78 5 8. Rye May at 2 19 3 4 and barley May at 1.26 1 2.
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Chicago
Ebert recalls early days of Winchester Buick dealer
Harry W. Ebert recalls starting with crank engines and matches lighting headlamps while describing his 30 years as a Buick dealer in the Washington zone. He says he sold about 10,000 cars and delivered some to the White House for the Roosevelts. He began in 1916 with Stanley Horner and Shirley Carter and now operates at 665 N Loudoun St after moving from Piccadilly and from Loudoun and Braddock.
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Harry W. Ebert
Winchester
Washington
Hagerstown
Frederick
Ebert
Buick
Rites Saturday For J. F. Dodson
Funeral services for Joseph F Dodson will be held at Jones Funeral Home at 2 PM led by Rev E T Clark of First Baptist Church. Burial in Mt Hebron Cemetery. Survived by wife Edith Strosander Dodson, parents Mr and Mrs B F Dodson, brothers James H John W Raymond Ernest Roy, sister Mary Dodson, and others in Maryland Leesburg and home.
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Joseph
F. Dodson
Jones Funeral Home
E. T. Clark
First Baptist Church
Mt. Hebron
John Sandy
Melvin Sandy
William Mowery
John Mowery
Richard Nicholson
Junior Nicholson
B. F. Dodson
Stephens City
Madison County
Edith Strosander Dodson
James H. Dodson
England
John W. and
Raymond
Ernest Dodson
Roy Dodson
Mary Dodson
Maryland
Vergie Anderson
Leesburg
Cora and
Florine Dodson
Byrd Will Have Opposition Revealed by Moss Plunkett
Moss Plunkett, president of the Southern Electoral Reform League and former Virginia gubernatorial candidate, says Senator Harry F. Byrd will face an opponent in the August primary. He will not run himself and will withhold the challenger’s name until the candidate announces.
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Roanoke
Moss Plunkett
Southern Electoral Reform League
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd
Byrd
Plunkett
Pilgrims Society to Fund Roosevelt Statue in London
The Pilgrims Society of Great Britain announced a committee led by the Earl of Derby to raise funds for erecting a statue of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt in London.
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London
The
Pilgrims Society of Great Britain
Earl of Derby
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pfc Ritter Due In New York Today
Pfc Randolph C. Ritter, a passenger aboard the Texarkana Victory, is due to arrive in New York today per a special telegram from the Associated Press.
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Pfc. Ritter
New York
The
Star
Associated Press
Pfc
Randolph C. Ritter
Texarkana
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H. W. Ebert
North Loudoun St
Winchester Star
Sue Tokes
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Bruce Slavin
J. R. Lineweaver
R. J. Webster
Daily News- Record
Hedrick D. Koontz
Edgar C. Scott
John Carpenter
Cpl
Haywood Washington
Stock Market Report
Douglas School News
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Childs
Old Mill
Delco
Roy P. Duvall
C. J. Carver
J. F. Dodson
Minnie E. Headley
Opequon, Va
Tokes' Inn
Frederick County
Roy Duvall
Wm. and
Ruby Schnider
John W. Sibert
Roosevelt
Chapman Motor CO
Food Center
Grimm’s Radio Sales & Service
E. Boscawen St
Virginia Loan & Thrift Corporation
CBS
Nelson Eddy
RED Cross
W. D. Byron and Sons
Williamsport
A. C. Slonaker & Son
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