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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1949
Page
3
A 10 mile pushcart chase in the Rockies ends when the light cart collides with Leslie Kincaid’s coupe in Colorado Springs. The cart sustains no damage while Kincaid’s vehicle takes a beating.
New Orleans May 4. A Tulane psychologist Dr H M Johnson says water can learn and remember. Experiments by N E Dorsey of the National Bureau of Standards show frozen water samples in sealed tubes remember and prefer different freezing temperatures, suggesting non living systems can learn.
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Generalissimo Stalin was a favorite subject for many winners of the Stalin prizes in art this year. Works awarded Stalin prizes depict the leader as the embodiment of the Soviet people's best traits, ideals, victories, and achievements.
Rev E B Smith officiated the reinterment for Pvt F Orndorff killed in the Battle of the Bulge at St Johns church. Pallbearers included Walter Roberts and the Moore brothers with other attending relatives from Washington and Stroudsburg.
A London Times note shows a nature writer recounting that a lady was offended when told a wild flower on the cliffs was the bloody cranesbill. He mused that calling it blood red cranesbill might have been wiser than using the term deemed improper by some British readers.
Mt Williams Virginia May 4 Lucien Ashwood recovering from broken arm after hay wagon fall. Janice and Delores Ashwood ill with intestinal flu and measles. Mrs Ernest Ashwood and Mrs Russell Feeley guests of Mrs Tilden Hopkins. Washington visitors J W Aruitt and sister Delilah Bell. Wilkens home hosts Mr and Mrs C A Wilkens. Donald Jackson and Sharon April stay with Merle Moore. N B Bell of Washington visits Delilah Bell.
Families visit and recoveries noted as residents report hospital discharges and illnesses. Social calls include Mrs Elmer Melsiwee hosting in Star Tannery and Betty Ann Fox visiting Marilyn Feeley. Several women attend the 28th annual conference of the Womans Missionary Society in Toms Brook.
Mr Charles Ashwood spent weeks working in Winchester and visited brother Ernest Ashwood. Little Mary Elizabeth Ashwood spent Sunday evening with aunt Mrs Arthur White. Lewis Allen Williams celebrated his birthday with a party at his home Saturn.
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