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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1946
Page
5
24 hour precipitation 0.47 inches, May to date 1.62, year to date 7.56. Average annual rainfall over 33 years 36.49 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1945 include January 2.49, February 1.97, March 2.97, April 3.14, May 3.63, June 3.85, July 3.82, August 3.76, September and October 3.37, November 2.45 inches. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
Members of the Frank T. Metention class will build a cabin for Boy Scout Troop 2. Harry Ridgeway says many contributions have been received and plans are forming with no site chosen yet.
Savings bond sales for Frederick County in April totaled 83 666 25 dollars. Wendell Barney Winchester and Frederick County chairman Clarke County sales reached 11 315 dollars. Richmond reported the highest state total at 1 741 088 dollars. Saufley Field in Pensacola Florida was named for Lt C Saufley killed in 1916 per Navy Department.
Lt Bernice L Ritter of the Army Nurse Corps will arrive home on leave in a few days. She arrived in the U S A at Seattle on May 6 after a year of foreign service at a Korea Army hospital and received her commission on February 1 1945 following training at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Miss Mary Gay Marker will speak on the youth program in Frederick County at a meeting of the USDA Council to be held in the County Agent's office Tuesday at 4 p m. Criswell Henderson, chairman, will preside at the gathering, last of their monthly meetings until August.
The Bright Lights Exposition Shows open tonight for a week featuring a free aerial act by the Sky High Girl 90 feet above ground. The event is sponsored locally by the Robert Conrad Post of the American Legion.
A sequence of sales notices from May 13 to May 25 listing auctions in Berryville Aberdeen Winchester Bunkerhill and nearby areas. Items include livestock cattle horses bedding furniture household goods and antiques with locations such as Berryville Pike Greenwood George P Kern farm and Virginia Livestock Auction Market. Managers include Wm Bell Watkins and I Fred Stine.
A playful verse describes dogs gnawing bones and a lover carrying off the maid, concluding that the constant advertiser in The STAR is the one who wins the trade. The lines mimic a newspaper voice praising relentless promotion and persistence.
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