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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
2
A pastoral meditation on Matthew 6 25 34 urges believers not to worry about life its needs or tomorrow Reinhold Niebuhr is cited on the roots of anxiety as guilt from rebellion against the real Giver The speaker emphasizes God cares for lilies and birds and provides beyond our deserts inviting reliance on divine providence.
Listings show auction and sale actions across Virginia Maryland and West Virginia. Items include real estate autos household goods livestock and farm equipment from sellers such as Herman Dyke Gordon Farm W Kenneth estate B Derflinger George Helstey Fieldcraft Forms Co R G Wolvert on Garland A Shutts and others with dates April 1 through April 9 and locations mainly rural counties along Rt 11 and near Winchester Ellicott City Halltown and Stephens City.
Washington reports a Congress showdown over oleo taxation and interstate sale rules. Butter bloc seeks to preserve taxes while oleo advocates push repeal and new restrictions on sale. Dairy state members expect a House vote to repeal oleo taxes and aim to outlaw yellow oleo in interstate commerce.
Services for Mrs. Alicia Greener of 326 Smithfield Ave were conducted at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Jones Funeral Home with Rev. L. F. Havermale officiating. Burial followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Born in Gateshead England, she lived in East Hartford Conn until eight months ago. Survived by husband Thomas and two daughters Mrs. G. W. Eckerd of Winchester and Miss Dorothy Greener of New York.
I Fred Stine presided at the meeting stressing that producing 100 bushels per acre is not required. Last year only about seven per county reached this mark, with the real goal set at 10 bushels more per acre. Virginia’s corn acreage and yields improved since 1944 from 1,450,000 acres at 23 bushels to about 1,175,000 acres at 43 bushels per acre. North Carolina averages 30. The Dye club showed 106 to 122 bushels per acre with different test seeds. The committee included James Givens, James Gordon, C E Koontz, I Fred Stine, John Wolfe, Archie Frye, John Lewis, C D Dye and Carroll Campbell.
President Truman expressed confidence the Atlantic pact will be ratified by the Senate. He called the defense alliance absolutely necessary and said most senators would support it despite Senator Taft questioning its advisability. The president, with Acheson and Bevin, planned major Western Powers conferences to solidify backing.
Funeral services for Harry Branson Reynolds of 228 Loudoun Street were held yesterday at Gravel Springs Lutheran Church with Rev. E B Smith officiating.
Local businesses back a charity derby with names like Jack Pot Jewel Box and Rita Lee as contenders. Heat prizes total $5 $3 and $2, culminating in a grand purse of $50 $25 and $12.50. Proceeds go to the JCC and Winchester Municipal Band.
A sequence of wrecks on Cameron Street and nearby intersections caused extensive damage. Deputy Henry Kenner reported a 1935 Ford coach struck by a southbound vehicle, plus a Ramobile collision injuring a 1948 Chevrolet and a 1948 Plymouth sedan, with damages ranging up to 66 dollars for the Cadillac and 40 dollars for the Plymouth. A separate 5:05 p.m. crash at N Cameron and E Piccadilly involved a 1940-41 Pontiac and a 2-ton dump truck, with the car sustaining an estimated 450 dollars in repairs. A house trailer ripped from a hitch hit a telephone pole on Fairmont Avenue causing 500 dollars in damage. Harold Aikens owned the 1947 Buick involved. The pole required C. & P. Telephone Co. workers to replace it, and wires stayed up.
Answers to daily quiz printed on page 4. Highlights include Shakespeare as Q1 and Spain as Q2. The CLERMONT is noted as the first steamboat. Navy hero and a value around 50 billion dollars are referenced. Other items cover dice, thirteen, poetry, clubs and diamonds, and percussion instruments.
Modern continues on page one with a contract scope detailing a sewer project of 17 660 feet. The item lists responsibilities and work boundaries for the completion of the sewer segment as part of ongoing city infrastructure efforts.
Authorities warn that a parachute may function only if released from certain conditions. A jump from about 75 feet is almost certainly fatal, 150 feet could be saved with speed and angle, and 500 feet or less is considered unduly hazardous.
The city advances a postwar sewer and water extension from Berryville Ave to the corporate limits with connections on Baker Knight Atwell Ross W Va Conway Dodge Woodland Orchard Franklin Pine. The project costs 1 137 000 funded by bonds and city funds to curb Abrams creek pollution and improve public health. Howard A Murphy serves as resident engineer with S L Grant overseeing.
The creek feeding the new facility runs into the Opequon and will supply water to livestock. Samuel H. Reaves will direct operations once finished, having arrived in Winchester in March 1948 as superintendent of water and sewer. He studied engineering at Virginia Tech and previously worked with the Engineers and at Hunter Field in Savannah.
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