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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1948
Page
3
Easter service set for 6 30 a m Sunday on the lawn of Hebron Baptist Church in Gore. Pastor Rev Vergil Hudson will deliver the message The Risen Christ and special music will be performed.
C Douglas Brown is appointed to the city electoral board succeeding H W Coopenhaver. Other members are M Vincent Hollis and Richrd K Eddy.
Middletown Virginia social column lists Mr and Mrs onn Fred Larrick of Strasburg visiting Mr and Mrs David Muntzing. Miss Nancy Dwyer returns from Winchester Memorial Hospital after tonsillitis. Laura Brake visits Martinsburg and Shepherdstown. Norman Bean family and Mrs James Bean visit L M Lauck. Mrs Giles Miller and daughters Amy Lee and Sarah Jane visit Bealeton. Ellen Clagett Shull visits Marlboro grandparents. Hershman decorating home bought from Mamie Coffman. William Wood returns from Memorial Hospital.
Loving wife and three daughters remember Staff Sgt Harry T Smith who died in service. The poem laments the loss and vows to keep his memory alive while awaiting eternal day. Date indicates memorial inscription March 26 2011.
Local brief lists crossword clues and notes from a page with funeral attendance. It records that Mr and Mrs Ervin Polland Mrs Jess Shingleton and Mrs Hun ter Smith attended Maud Wolfe's funeral at Ebenezer Cemetery on Wednesday while other residents Mrs Rumsy Smith Mrs Ivan Park and Mrs Thelma Haines were seen shopping in Winchester Wednesday.
Central 4-H members gathered at the Shin gleton home in Central Va with 36 attendees for demonstrations and a party. Visitors from Romney attended and many local families visited over the weekend. The Central Farm Women's club met, and the 4-H club announced a Radio Show benefit at Central School on April 9 with proceeds for school and community building.
The Stonewall Softball Association will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Grange hall to plan the upcoming 1848 season.
Ed Molden announced 12 more entries for the JET Turtle Derby next Wednesday with the entry list near completion. He said heats will award prizes over 100 dollars, proceeds from turtle sales to a teenage center, and box office receipts go to the Boy Scouts.
The Russell H. Dunlap property at 715 S. Washington St. was withdrawn from public sale for a second time yesterday. Authorities plan to pursue a private sale of the seven room house, located two blocks from Handley school.
The Winchester White Sox will hold two practice sessions next week at 5 p m on Tuesday and Thursday. There is no drill planned for Sunday.
Richmond dispatch reports a 1947 study by State police safety engineer Capt W L Groth finding men involved in accidents about eleven times more than women. The analysis notes no miles driven by sex, cites Saturday as the riskiest day with 6788 wrecks and 7 to 8 p m as the deadliest hour with 53 deaths.
Virginia farmers intend to plant about four percent more acreage to principal crops this year than last. A survey of planting intentions as of March 1 shows larger crops of corn, oats and hay. Increases indicated include three percent for corn and two percent for wheat.
The document lists crop percentages and acreage estimates for Virginia. It notes oats at 12 percent, barley 15 percent, all sorghums 12 percent, peanuts 1 percent, and hay 7 percent. Potatoes are planted at 64.00 acres, unchanged from last year, with sweet potatoes at 27,000 acres, down four percent from last year and one percent below the average.
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