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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1949
Page
2
The 89th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U S South heard a relations committee report urging active defense of minority rights. It warned neutrality harms the church and urged adherence to principle to defend all civil liberties.
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Directory entry lists auctions including Mrs Emmert Lone Oak at Rt 560 and State Rt 12 at 10 am May 27 for livestock grain farm items. Herman itz 7 miles NW of Berry on Rt 668 at 10 am May 27. Wm Prank estate in front of Frederick County Court House at 11 am Aug 4 for real estate. Lena C kin s estate in front of Fred Co Court House at 12 noon June 4 for real estate. J Donald Picharas trustee in front of Warren County Court House Front Royal at 11 am June 4 for 250 acres real estate.
Handley High student Miss Mary McFarland, 17, plans a Mozart concerto at Handley on June 14 with Kathleen McCartney as her piano teacher. She has won a state French prize in the Modern Language Tournament and a college tuition scholarship after auditions.
The Federal Reserve Board reported that industrial production fell for the fifth straight month in April and remained weak into early May. The index slid to 179 in April, the lowest since 1947, with declines from March and 1948 levels, while minerals and coal output also showed decreases.
Walter G. Little was seated as a Middleton council member succeeding James Inskip who resigned. The oath was given at a special Monday meeting. The council also passed a new ordinance to readvertise bonds for the town water system.
President Truman urged agencies to cut costs while improving performance after receiving the Hoover Commission report on executive branch reform. He announced steps to implement recommendations and outlined a top level State Department shakeup with ten assistant secretaries, including two deputy undersecretaries, to be approved.
A Tennessee donor paid a $2,682 auto accident judgment, freeing veteran Ralph H. D. Fugatt from Rutland jail after 62 days. Three veterans faced decades under a century-old nonpayment law. Bernard J. Smith and Frederic L. Lapan remain jailed.
Chaplain Henry Scott of the Martinsburg VA hospital will speak at 11 a.m. Sunday during special services at Reliance EUB Church. Rev. L. P. Tedrick reports a free will offering for the building fund.
A historical note states that early humans across continents used the bow and arrow, with Australia absent from this widespread adoption.
Ford Motor Co prepares a new arbitration proposal amid the CIO United Auto Workers strike affecting about 106,000 Ford employees and others. The plan aims to restart talks after a two hour session that yielded def inite progress and centers on who can set faster work standards and make up for stoppages.
Five year old Sherry Kercheval, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Kercheval, was bitten by a dog while attempting to pet it in a yard on Northwestern Grade. The child suffered a nose wound requiring stitches and punctures to the chest hand arm and leg. She was treated at Winchester hospital and released. The dog belonging to Miss Joyce Eaton is under observation.
The House agreed to an administration plan allowing the Economic Cooperation Administration to operate for a year with nearly Truman's requested funds, though $629 million cuts by the appropriations committee remain. The package provides $464.2 million for ECA through May 15, 1950, and preserves $50 million for Greek and Turkish aid.
In San Francisco on May 26 a federal grand jury indicted labor leader Harry Bridges and two aides on perjury and conspiracy charges linked to his 1945 citizenship hearings. The immigration service filed a civil action to revoke his citizenship, signaling a new bid to deport the Australian born union head and his associates faced bail set at 5000 dollars.
The United States covers about thirty two times the area of the United Kingdom and has a population nearly three times larger. U S population density is 44.2 people per square mile versus 516.3 for the United Kingdom.
The exchange recalls Ptolemy I asking Euclid for an easy path to geometry. Euclid reportedly answered that there is no royal road to geometry, emphasizing that mastery takes study and rigor.
Cubs and their families are invited as Pack 2 of the Presby terian church holds a meeting at 7 30 p m tomorrow evening.
A science note states it would require roughly 3,000,000 Earths to match the Sun’s volume, highlighting the Sun’s immense size compared with our planet.
In Shanghai the fighting subsides with Nationalist holdouts in Soochow Creek buildings signaling surrender while Red forces tighten control. Reports say Woosung fortress fell, and garrison troops pull back toward Yangtze escape port as evacuation from Hongkou continues northward. Foreign nationals remain trapped amid the urban battle.
The Women's Guild hosts an Ascension Day prayer service tonight at 8 o'clock at Centenary Reformed Church. The tropical bread fruit tree provides fruit for diet wood for canoes bark for cloth and juice for glue.
AFL leader William Green told a Atlantic union convention he will use every ounce of strength of labor to defeat Senator Taft and Southern Democrats opposing labor. He urged repeal of the Taft Hartley Act this Congress and said Democrats must back Truman’s platform. He defended the closed shop as stabilizing labor relations and noted wartime gains.
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