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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1949
Page
3
A Breezy Sunday of services and Sunday schools across Brucetown and nearby towns. Multiple congregations including Brucetown Methodist charge, Capon Bridge, Salem Congregation, Timber Ridge and others list worship times, Bible schools, Sunday schools, and confirmations with various pastors and supervisors.
Hall worship at 11 10 a m and 7 30 p m. Opequon Memorial Kernstown service 11 a m Parish hall Boyce Bible lecture 3 p m by Mr Eberle Stephens City Methodist Rev E C Day pastor Kernstown Sunday school 10 a m worship 11 a m Refuge Sunday school 2 p m worship 3 p m Stephens City Sunday school 9 45 a m worship 7 30 p m.
Prague reports the Catholic bishops urge priests to refuse wage hikes under the new church control laws. They call the government a suffering nation and warn against total church control amid arrests and prison camps.
Berkeley California October 21 Public Enemy No 1 around California prune orchards is getting to be the eye spotted bud moth Dr Harold F Madsen of the University of California has been tracking this pest that has sabotaged half the crop in some orchards In the larval stage it ties a leaf to a prune then crawls under and feeds in the shade The moth formerly fed on New England and Canadian apples and emigrated to California ten years ago It has attacked apricots peaches pears apples cherries and prunes with a preference for apples cherries and prunes DDT proved most effective against it.
Cotton picker Billy Boiles and brother Robert Boiles died of arsenic poisoning after a lunch at Yerkay's home in Kilmichael Mississippi. Mae Yerkay is jailed for murder while Rosilee Yerkay and another woman are hospitalized. County Attorney Garner cautions ongoing custody of Mae and Rosilee.
Miss Nancy Broy and Miss Dolores Henry represented the youths division of Refuge church at the Methodist conference in Richmond on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Rotenberry and family of Vienna spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Blevins. The Broy family and Avis and Robert visited Washington and Keller in Arington. Effie Broy Julia Grim and Garland Broy visited the Grim family in Middletown Wednesday.
A sales blurb invites readers to order the booklet FORTUNE TELLING with dream dictionary horoscopes omens and superstitions. It promises complete directions and signs readers to mail 15 cents to the Winchester Star Information Bureau in Washington DC for a copy.
London reports indicate a strict economy program from Prime Minister Attlee targeting cradle to grave social services and the armed forces. The plan, to be announced in the House of Commons, seeks to cut subsidies, medical costs, and construction plans amid pound devaluation and a multi billion dollar budget.
Hollywood reports Ginger Rogers will pinch hit for Lauren Bacall in Storm Center after Bacall turned down the role. Jack L. Warner named Rogers for the part and said production will proceed without delay. Bacall, wife of Humphrey Bogart, spurned the role and drew a suspension.
Federal officials traced broadcasts to William F. Moody a 50 year inmate at Parchman State Prison. Moody operated three transmitters from a guard house bunk and prison staff helped relay pleas for an indefinite suspension of sentence to Governor Fielding Wright via Moody’s wife. FCC and state investigators located receivers in Pascagoula and Bucatuna Mississippi after a two day search.
London dispatch reports George Bernard Shaw, England's famed Irish dramatist, confessing he is too old to dance a Scottish reel. He told the Clan Chattan Association he prefers to be left alone as they invite him to a Scottish dinner dance on November 11.
Mrs. Emma Robinson will again lead the Christmas seal sale among Negro residents for the 36th year. She has directed the effort for 35 years and is recognized as a community leader for promoting better health and unselfish service throughout the city.
The assistant supervisor of the State Department of Education visited county high schools this week. She inspected library facilities at Gore Gainesboro and Stephens City yesterday and toured Middletown and Stonewall schools today.
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