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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1948
Page
10
The Amazon River in South America and the Yangtze kiang in China are noted as the two great rivers with a general east west flow direction.
A reader ad promotes the Webster's Illustrated Tower Dictionary and Atlas with 378 pages and over 25 000 definitions plus earth and measurement information and 16 color world maps. Priced at 35 cents postpaid, with coupon and mail return to The Winchester Star Information Bureau Washington DC.
The claim that only West Point graduates become generals is refuted. During World War II non graduates could attain general rank. West Point alumni supplied 83 percent of generals, 65 percent of lieutenant generals, and 55 percent of major generals, excluding Medical Corps officers.
Wallace asks President Truman and Gov. Dewey to state positions on Spain Israel and Germany in four pointed questions. He sends identical telegrams to both nominees during a Washington state campaign effort. He questions Spain's Franco regime admission to the United Nations Israel loan requests Nazi sentence commutations and Berlin UN role.
The Rev. Thomas J. WIllam of Pittsburgh was elected secretary of the Episcopal church's province of Washington at concluding sessions in Erie. Other new officers named include Bishop Noble C. Powell of Baltimore Bishop J. Thomas Heistand of Harrisburg Pa Bishop Herold Brooke of Staunton Va and The Rev Ogle Singleton of Washington.
Harry T. Cook of Winchester veteran group United Spanish War Veterans presides over a two day administration council meeting at Shenandoah Caverns hotel near Woodstock. More than a hundred veterans and their wives were expected for the weekend event.
Paris dispatch reports Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber pressing Western powers to restart negotiations with the Soviet Union on a peace treaty for Austria. Gruber met in Paris with French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to push the effort.
Richmond reports the State Division of Markets and Agricultural Extension Service will assist grain growers. The Dixie Portland Flour Mills inspection center will inspect truck lots of corn, soybeans, wheat and barley and also hay and straw. Grading by a disinterested inspector aims to ensure fair quality and protect dealers. Services cover sampling and inspecting grains across Richmond, the Eastern Shore, Norfolk, and Roanoke areas.
In the 79th Congress there were 74 presidential vetoes with none overridden. The 80th Congress had 75 vetoes with six overridden.
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