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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1950
Page
3
In Greek myth three old women named Dino Pephredo and Enyo had only one eye and one tooth between them and used the eye in turn.
Virginia officials warned dairy supply could fall short of demand as per year 1949 production of 2.078 billion pounds and graded milk for fluid use rose 15 percent to 591.754 million pounds. The 1950 road toll rose to 298 with five weekend deaths and one today in various counties.
Negotiations between Citizens Rapid Transit and its operators union will resume May 29 at 10 a m in Newport News offices. State Labor Commissioner E M Boggs Jr will join the second conference. The AFL affiliated Amalgamated Association led the first meeting to a deadlock. Colorado hosts 150 celebrations yearly including about 30 top rodeos.
Two men die and five survive after boats capsize on Virginia rivers. Ward Torrence 26, of Lynchburg, drowned in the James River at Waugh while ferrying lumber. Claude Bradley 18 of Coeburn drowned in the Clinch River near Miller Yard when his boat capsized after striking a shoal. Bryant swam ashore. Sparky Blanks and Jim Bryant reached safety. Bradley sank after the jump.
Governor Battle granted 60 day stays to seven prisoners condemned for rape in Martinsville. Four were scheduled to die May 26. their date moved to July 28 while three others were set to die June 2. Supreme Court petitions seek review of the trials.
Major General Cecil Moore, once Eisenhower’s chief engineer in Europe, was grand marshal of the Armed Forces Day parade in Harrisonburg. He returned to Grottoes after 45 years, recalling boyhood days and July 4 pictures with old friends. Now retired in Baltimore, Moore helped direct construction of Friendship Airport.
William G. Sturm, son of Mrs. Edwin J. Selers of Mt. Sidney, was one of four people killed when a plane crashed near St. Charles, Missouri. He served as pilot. Survived by stepfather Edwin J. Sellers, brother Donald Sturm, and sister Mrs. Louise Berry of Crimora Augusta County.
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Richmond Virginia Attorney General J Lindsay Almond issued an opinion denying that local school board members may be named or paid as agents to take the 1950 school census. The ruling was sent to Green County clerk Charles T Garth after a request from the county division superintendent seeking board participation.
James Wood Consolidated High School signs a teaching contract for next year with L Payne World War II veteran who will earn a B S at VPI this spring. He joins James C Gordon and James S Giv Ens as the three agriculture instructors, per R E B Ayler division superintendent.
Mr and Mrs W C Loy of Winchester were high bidders at public auction for the late Fred Smith property on Paper Mill Road. Executor James P Reardon notes the acre with a frame dwelling and outbuildings sold for 3100 dollars. Takoradi is cited as the only deep water port serving the African Gold Coast.
Ox Da Grosa leads a new Touchdown Club formation in Philadelphia to recruit 10 000 members at one dollar each to support Pop Warner football for boys under 13 and 110 pounds Plans include visits to Notre Dame Army and Navy and perhaps a San Francisco bowl game.
Middletown waits for formal approval from the State Health Department on water samples submitted earlier. Mayor C. L. Wright says about 30 applications are pending approval before domestic connections can be permitted.
Samuel Pepys notes tallies used in 17th century trade. The tally began as a 9 inch stick and gradually extended to as much as 8 feet 6 inches in one extreme case. The original tally is preserved in the Bank of England with a few other examples surviving in the country.
To Be Speaker, an attorney at law in this city, will deliver exercises at Stonewall Cemetery on Confederate Memorial Day June 6. Larrick, a Captain in the Army Reserves, has a distinguished World War II record and is the grandson of Capt. James B. Larrick, a famed VMI cadet who fought in the Battle of New Market in 1864.
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