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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1948
Page
9
In New York on May 25 a man recalls buying a television set and facing ruin from upkeep as friends crowd in to watch. The piece notes TV’s growing hold, its potential to reshape home life, and the social strains and temptations it brings to households and public spaces.
Fragments of a 1500 B C Babylonian statue yield the first literary reference to a fallen angel. Prof. Samuel Noah Kramer translates part of the inscription, naming a king Kurialzu. The find, involving Iraqi scholars, was published in Bagdad and notes the use of a difficult remaining Sumerian language.
FRANKFURT May 25 Loitering women are arrested in the American Occupation Army headquarters city at about 250 a week. About 40 percent suffer venereal disease. German police cooperate with military police to clear streets of prostitutes but hospital space is lacking. An increase in "rolled" cases where victims wake to find money and valuables gone after new acquaintances is reported. Americans urged to be more selective in making acquaintances.
Funeral services for William A. Anderson 64, prominent retired educator, will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from his home near Mt. Jackson. He died May 24 after a long illness and will be interred in Lexington. Born in Glenwood, Rockbridge County, he was a direct descendant of four Virginia governors and founded the first high school at Fairfield and the first accredited four year high school in Shenandoah County at Woodstock. He served as superintendent of schools in Radford Virginia and Bristol Tennessee. He is survived by his widow Sarah Terrill Bushnell, two brothers and two sisters.
In sad but loving remembrance of our dear husband and father J R Largent who departed this life a year ago May 25 1947. From our chain one link is broken None on earth can take your place. We watched you night and day and saw you fade. Sadly missed by wife and children and mourned by family.
John M. Knovhel of Lincoln retires after 44 years delivering mail, claiming a dog bite never touched him. The note adds that Americans bought about 75 percent more goods and services in 1941 than in 1909.
The notion that rain cleanses the air has little foundation. Air remains dusty and impure, and while rain removes some pollutants, the amount is very small.
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