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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1947
Page
3
Dr. L. M. Allen the city health officer will address listeners on the local radio tonight at 7 45 in support of the Virginia Cancer Foundation fund drive now underway.
Miss Lucy F. Kurtz announced that Kurtz Funeral Home has opened a new chapel in the city. The firm was established in 1868 by Captain George W. Kurtz and remains operated by the same family.
Cow Tie Tuggie Waddell Marshall F F A 1300 lbs exact weight Lewis Hodgson Friendly Grove 4 H 1300 lbs exact weight Berlyn Cook Woodstock FP A 1300 lbs exact weight Prizes totaling 76.50 awarded to winners in several classes Prize money provided by Shenandoah Valley Polled Shorthorn Association Farmers and Merchants National Bank National Farm Loan Association Shenando t Production Credit Association
Berryville Virginia reports the Berryville Parent Teachers Association ended the 1946 47 school year with a successful program. Over 300 raised by the Womanless Wedding and Auction funds supported blackout shades and equipment for the three schools. The lunch program showed a small profit to May 1 and plans urged cooperation to boost participation and better lunches. Officers for 1947 48 were elected with Henry M. Davis re elected president.
Miss Hallie LaRue Dorsey, 79, a Clarke County native, received last rites at Haymarket Episcopal Church. Interment followed in Green Hill Cemetery at Berryville where she lived for years. Pallbearers included Henry Lynn John Piercy Robert Bellington R Meade Dorsey Dalton Carpenter and Ridge Morrison.
Miss Anna Elizabeth Theis 77 retired Shenandoah county businesswoman and Frederick county resident for years died at 6 am from a heart attack. She lived with sisters Mary and Emma Theis two miles west of Winchester and was born in New Market Va on April 22 1870. Survived by sisters she was a member of Winchester Presbyterian Church. Funeral Thursday 10:30 am Kurtz Funeral Home Chapel Winchester with Dr Ronald S Wilson officiating. Interment New Market Cemetery. Flowers requested to be omitted.
Testimony named Currie and three youths with witnesses from Cross Junction and Winchester recount purchases at stores, car sales, and a body find near December 23. Corroborating statements from Madeline Luttrell and others, including hotel staff and police officers, outline the sequence of events.
The record notes an autopsy on the dead seaman and testimony by Roland McInturff of Jones Funeral Home. Trooper C A Seale testified as the last witness for the commonwealth before the noon recess.
Thirty five Clarke County women gathered in Berryville May 15 to hear Janet Cameron, food specialist from Blacksburg, discuss and demonstrate proper preparation of vegetables and fruits for the freezer locker. The demonstration occurred in the Berryville Community Building kitchen.
Demonstration covered processing of peas and strawberries with slides showing steps for handling other fruits and vegetables.
Andrei Promyko of the USSR tells the American Russian Institute that a single nation's atomic monopoly is temporary and illusory. He urges UN action to outlaw atomic weapons, supports international control after outlaw, and warns against control that harms the Soviet economy.
Gromyko reiterates that security and international confidence depend on limits to armies and arms reductions. He warns that delaying disarmament hinders reaching international accords and stresses the Soviet position alongside broader justice interests.
A discussion notes the upas tree of Java as a poisonous plant whose juice natives use on arrows. It also states the tree has been cultivated in botanical gardens without harmful effects within a few miles of it.
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