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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1947
Page
3
Fireworks on specially constructed frames were lit as Keystone Fireworks Company workers rushed to set off units before rain could damage fuses and dampen the large crowd’s expectations.
Firemen from Martinsburg and nearby towns marched with Edison High School cadets in a colorful parade. Awards include United Fire Company first for largest and best appearing, $100. Miami Edison High School drum and bugle corps first, $100. Hagerstown Moose second, $50. best drum corps honors and other float prizes with cash grants to multiple participants.
The Hover Kern, Golden Rule, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Good Samaritan Men’s Bible Classes hold Sunday 9 45 a m sessions at Market Street Methodist First Baptist and First Evangelical United Brethren churches. Directors include Bob Jasper C P McVicar E T Clark Lewis Fries. Members urged to attend and bring a friend.
Harley R. Gain, a former merchant of Glengary, West Virginia, died at Kings Hospital Martinsburg Thursday evening from a cerebral hemorrhage. He will lie in state at his Martinsburg home until Sunday afternoon, then be removed to Brown Funeral Home for services at 3:30 p.m. and burial at Rosendale Cemetery.
Prize list for a local parade awards 200 to Winchester Cold Storage 2nd 150 to Southern Dairies and 100 to Independent Food Dealers and Republic Oil Refinery. Bands receive 200 Lane High Charlottesville 150 William Mary College 100 Augusta Military Academy. Marching Units top Augusta Military Academy 2nd Randolph Macon Academy 3rd Greenbriar Military Academy each receives a plaque. High School Bands first Lane High Charlottesville 200 second W igton Lee 150 third Dallastown 100. Drum and Bugle Corps 250 American Legion Baltimore 150 Harold H Blair 100 Dundalk Sunday School Band 50 Henry Hart Post. Major 1st Monroe Junior High School trophy. Drum Majorete Romney High School trophy. Special drum major Henry Strange.
The House passed a compromise measure 173 to 27 to outlaw most portal to portal pay claims. It bars past and future suits unless under contract or recognized by custom, allows limited settlements, sets wage floors, and grants employer defenses based on government or federal interpretations of agricultural workers.
President Miguel Aleman, the first Mexican chief executive to visit New York, backs American capital that shares in Mexico’s life and obeys laws for fair profits. A busy day included a Broadway parade, an honorary citizenship, a Columbia University degree, and a 1.5 million crowd. Miguel Aleman Jr was briefly missing after a motorcade mix‑up, found safe at the Commodore hotel.
The report notes pink spray completed on apples with light spore discharge and no scab this year depends on weather. It covers peaches cherries plums pears and grapes with timing for petal fall spray curculio control and first scab or rot sprays. Recommendations include lead arsenate lime sulfur Bordeaux mixtures and proprietary fungicides with cautions on combinations and small quantity conversions.
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt may drive an automobile again after a three and a half month license revocation following a car accident. Her secretary confirmed the license has been reinstated by the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles and she declined to comment.
An American Airlines plane halted in Philadelphia to assist Warrenton Virginia woman Mrs Anne Hufnagel to deliver a baby. She was rushed to FitzGerald Hospital by ambulance after the Washington to New York flight stopped at 8 49 ET. Attendants expected birth within an hour. She traveled with her husband and four sons.
A 2,500 pound Maverick steer broke loose in midtown Manhattan during the morning rush today injuring three people and stunning thousands before police fired revolvers to stop the animal.
Mrs Etta M Brady 58 of Champaign Illinois died this morning at Memorial Hospital from a heart attack after a layover at Green Lantern Tourist Camp near Martinsburg while on vacation with her family. She was married to Deboe Brady and survived by several children. The body was sent to Champaign for funeral services after arrangements with the Martenburg Jones Funeral Home.
President Miguel Aleman of Mexico addressed the United Nations Assembly in New York warning that only international cooperation can prevent a second global war. He urged the UN not to settle for a convenient peace and urged lasting, free-man democracy to guide postwar action.
The Sarahi Day Leo Durocher marriage dispute is before Superior Judge In gall W. Bull with a ruling due next Friday on whether actress Durocher’s California divorce from J Ray Hendricks is void. Attorneys describe Durocher as either a fine upstanding gentleman or a rough neck from Brooklyn.
Senator McClellan and colleagues push an anti coercion provision in the omnibus labor bill as the Senate plans Monday session. The chamber advanced a measure 60 to 28 to bar unions from backing bargaining reps, with Republican and Southern Democratic support to potentially override a presidential veto.
In Moscow on May 30 the New Times charged American newspapers with systematic misinformation and paying reporters to falsify facts. It cited the Stalin Stassen censorship talks, criticized Annie O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, and claimed some U.S. papers tolerate false dispatches for higher pay.
Henry Monsky died last night in New York at age 57. He served as international president of Bnai Brith, the world’s first Jewish fraternal organization.
James L. Bragasa, manager of the Sears Roebuck buck farm store in Lynchburg, was killed instantly when a Jeep overturned on Locke's Mountain between Lynchburg and Big Mountain. Three companions were injured, two seriously, in the late night crash.
Probables Purtle for the Sox and Duvall for Stephenson. Game time 3 p m. Winchester players meet at Sam En sogna s shop on N Loudoun street by 1 p m.
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