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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1948
Page
4
Advertising details for Winchester Evening Star include daily publication except Sunday, display ad deadline by 12 moon the day before, 60 cents per inch transient rate, contract rates on application, classified rates in Classified columns, and national reps DeLisser Inc New York.
State Health Commissioner Roper announced the opening of the Medical College of Virginia clinic for alcoholics on October 16. He stressed it is not a solution to Virginia's alcoholism problem but a pilot approach. The initiative targets costly public health and behavior issues arising from simple alcoholism and related offenses.
Nearly 50 percent of Virginia's high jail commitment rate is addressed by a planned clinic at Eastern State Hospital Staunton. The program treats alcoholics as sick individuals not simply offenders, with 15 beds planned and Saturdays as start, to aid psychiatrists in finding deeper causes.
Nineteen forty seven report notes forty five Lions clubs in Northern Virginia expected to attend the district governor s annual fall conference at the Baptist church on October twenty eighth.
The London Daily Herald cites a Madrid dispatch claiming German forces loot Rome on a wholesale scale, seizing paintings manuscripts and other treasures for their headquarters. Pope Pius XII allegedly sends secret documents to papal nuncios to be opened if he is imprisoned.
Frosts sweep county sections causing damage to crops and gardens as temperatures plummet overnight. Local farming communities brace for losses while weather officials issue warnings of further cold snaps through the week.
Twenty five years ago in 1923 a memorial for Dr Godfrey L Miller was nearing completion. Dr F T McFaden led a Rally Day program at the Presbyterian church. Lee Cave filed a candidacy with the circuit clerk for county board of supervisors. John McIntosh Sam Trotty C B Curl Ellis Jones and Lindsey Leafe left for Richmond to rejoin the Virginia regiment which may be disbanded soon.
California-born Tomoya Kawakita, 28, an interpreter at Camp Oeyama, was sentenced to death for treason after brutalities against American war prisoners. Federal Judge William C. Mathes ordered the gas chamber at San Quentin, with no execution date set.
A vintage quiz layout presents ten questions with scoring by score bands. It asks about palindromes historical figures air force day Georgia governorship Davis Cup Amos n Andy dictionary Columbus and Amvets leader, ending with a note on penguin wing feathers.
Present and past rainfall data report 24 hour precip at 7 a.m. October rainfall to date 2.53 inches and 1948 to date 32.91 inches. Average annual rainfall for 38 years is 36.39 inches. Monthly averages for 1913–1946 list values from January 2.46 to October 3.31 inches. Statistics courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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