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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1946
Page
2
Plymouth sedan, colored gold, sold at public auction to Winchester Credit Corp for 97.50. City Sergeant G. G. Baker acted to execute the sale by court order.
Maxwell E Rudolph was fined $25 and costs by Trial Justice Erle Edwards after a Friday accident on Route 50 near Gore high school. His 1940 Ford coach rolled over in a ditch. he was not hurt and damages were about $10. The charges were brought by Trooper J S Fant.
The Winchester Stephens City Lions Clubs host a joint meeting and Ladies night at Sarah Zane Hall tonight at 7. The Stephens City Club will receive its charter from a Lions International representative. Visiting Lions from nearby clubs attend. TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE
At a Clarke County School Board meeting an agreement was made with First Church to pay monthly rent for using the church hall as overflow space. The board has asked for sealed bids on the construction of a Berryville Elementary School nine rooms, to be opened at 11 a.m. on October 18 in Superintendent R. Robertson's office.
The Jalopy Racing Champion ship trophy has been received by the local airport speedway operator and is on display at the Central Amoco Filling Station. It was procured through Johnston's Jewelry store and will be presented to Ken Cather, winner of the championship race at the Speedway on Sunday, October 13.
John Mack of Smithfield Avenue received a 12 month sentence from Judge John Rice at the Winchester labor camp after Capt. F. M. Funk testified Mack stole fountain pens clothing and personal items from the camp.
Forrest Gray of 1812 Braddock street was fined 50 dollars plus costs in police court for hit and run and an additional 10 dollars for driving without an operator's license after striking a car on Loudoun street and fleeing. Other cases disposed by Judge John Rice include Madison H. Rosenberger of Hayfield for reckless driving at 19 dollars plus costs and Richard W. Moncure of Alexandria for reckless driving at 11 dollars plus costs.
Desk Sergeant Warren Rudolph said Winchester police have three bicycles and part of another found in various city sections in recent weeks. They will be returned to their owners upon proper identification.
Bishop Goodwin of Virginia Diocese presided at a dinner for Episcopal clergy and vestrymen from Clarke Frederick and Loudoun counties. P Winfree Fore of Culpeper spoke to inspire and instruct the attendees after the meal at Christ Church parish house.
A 1941 Dodge coupe was nearly destroyed in a collision with an apple truck last Friday. Police reported no serious injuries and investigators are examining the site for details.
A car driven by D. B. Combs of Winchester collided with a 1936 Chevrolet truck loaded with apples on Route 622 about two miles south of Winchester. The truck was operated by J. L. Low of Opequon.
Acre Nicholson of 510 Highland avenue received a $100 fine and 90 days in jail after Judge John Rice found him guilty of assault and battery against William Everly outside Patton's dance hall at 1130 p m Sunday. Arrests were by Officers Wisecarver and Milburn.
Decatur ITI Association of Commerce and Winchester chamber of commerce supplied a cross shaped stone from a 50 acre Bull Mountain site in Patrick County Virginia. Known as fairystone or staucolite stones these small crosses seldom exceed an inch. They turn gray and then golden brown when polished and were once sought as lucky pieces. Robert Cope of Decatur requested a stone from Wendell Barney after writing for details.
Secretary Krug says arbitration has been suggested to settle disputed points. He states the government UMW contract covers wages hours and working conditions during government operation and does not allow reopening to revise wages or hours.
The American delegation led by former Senator Warren Austin conducts day long sessions on UN assembly agendas including refugee agency needs after UNRRA. Five Westchester sites are publicly reported while San Francisco touts its land offers and Molotov signals Soviet cooperation.
The set lists the correct responses: payments deemed gifts, Marguerite Steen, Egypt, medical services on a national scale, are not, Australia, Portugal, a jockey as the Derby rider, and Robert H. Jackson.
In a two day debate in the House of Commons Bevin urged unity among Great Britain the United States Russia France and China and expressed hope for enduring peace with Japan and a settlement in Indonesia. He cited Egyptian political difficulties Iran and Turkish Straits concerns as key issues and warned against foreign interference in Persia and the Dardanelles.
The duration of a game is 60 minutes. There are four periods of 15 minutes each.
Thousands of shoppers surged to fats and soap as 500 A and P stores reopened in the metro area for the first time since September 14. In the Bronx a store drew about 3,000 people and police were forced to close doors until lines reformed. Special police details were posted at newly opened chain outlets in crowded neighborhoods.
Sheriff Maxey L. Blaydes and Game Warden P. Blake Lewis of Spotsylvania County face a hearing before month’s end on charges of breach of peace. A warrant was issued yesterday by Commonwealth's Attorney T Stokely Coleman for a courthouse green fight during a court session about ten days ago.
Students return to Clifton Forge High School amid a resumed program. Principal E. E. Trent warns insubordination will lead to suspension.
Marvin L. Simpson, 33, leader of a snake handling sect in Covington, found guilty by Alleghany County circuit court of unlawfully wounding Hite Jones. Jury deliberated 25 minutes. Sentenced to no jail time and fined 100 dollars for passing a poisonous snake during a July service.
Frank B Famular 20 and Clarence F Krummert 19 from Camp Hood Texas were found guilty of kidnapping and assault in Hastings Court Richmond and sentenced to eight years in the state penitentiar y by Judge John L Ingram. Famular from Jersey City and Krummert from Pittsburgh were convicted for abducting Wilson and Ruth Abernethy in the Abernethy automobile on Sept 3. Virginia guests attend New York State Garden Clubs luncheon in Portsmouth.
Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge J. R. H. Alexander overruled a motion to set aside the verdict convicting William Davis, 43, of Halifax County, of the first degree murder of John H. Woodson, a Southern Railway detective, near Catlett on August 5.
The original painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by Leutze, intended for the Capitol, was destroyed in a British bombing raid on Bremen on Sept. 15, 1942. It had been retouched after a fire and sold to the German government in 1863, later hung in Bremen Kannsthalle and valued at 1 mark ($24,000 prewar).
In Peshawar on October 21 Muhajir Prophet Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a Moslem supporter of Jawaharlal Nehru, was injured when hostile Muslims pelted Nehru's automobile near Malakand. He was taken to hospital for skull X rays after being struck on the head during Nehru's convoy tour of the north west frontier.
African Minister Jan Christiaan Smutts flew to New York for the United Nations Assembly meeting. When asked how long he would stay, Smutts replied to “Ask Mr. Molotov,” signaling uncertainty about the duration of his visit.
Late AP Bulletins report ed operations in China with no identification of forces. The speaker expressed strong confidence in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and noted he rejected several attractive offers from Japan to pursue a separate peace harmful to the United States.
Phillips Lee Goldsborough former Maryland governor and U S senator died in Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore at age 81 after an operation ten days earlier. The Eastern Shore native served as governor from 1912 to 1916 and as senator from 1929 to 1935.
Secretary of State Byrnes suggested that the degree of political freedom shown in Bulgaria’s October 27 elections would shape Washington’s policy toward the Soviet dominated Balkan state.
Treasury records show the government moving back into the red for the fiscal year as of October 18 with a deficit of 30.7 million dollars after a four day stretch in surplus. For the first 110 days, 104 were in the red and six in the black.
The government boosted grain allowances to whisky beer and ale makers signaling possible removal of OPA ceilings on flour bread and breakfast foods. Distillers gain about 16 percent more from October and brewers receive a quarterly about 6 percent increase as the restaurant trade seeks end to ceilings on meals and drinks in public eating places.
In Germany near Hersfeld a truck overturns after a dance return. Four German girls and an American soldier are killed. two other soldiers and eight German girls are injured, announced by the Third Army.
District Attorney Andy Borg said the 12 year old girl confessed to shooting her father while he slept saying she wanted to be happy. He noted she told him she got the idea from a radio program.
George Wellman aged 23 of Louisa Kentucky died in a blaze that destroyed the Pilgrim Laundry in Huntington. Fire Chief Floyd Crouse said Wellman was found ten steps from his cot, likely awakened by the fire and trapped while trying to reach a door. Property damage was estimated at 150000 dollars by proprietor Cecil Elkins.
Des Moines reported Mrs Jessie Valadez age 109 said two ambulance rides were fun while her family noted she has gastric distress that caused a hospital visit for difficulty swallowing. She was diagnosed with gastric distress and later returned home.
The AFL Teamsters Union extended a local beer war by picketing downtown saloons that they say receive CIO delivered beer. Spokesman Lester M. Hunt said all truck deliveries to the picketed establishments would be cut off, potentially halting milk, food and ice deliveries.
A 1938 Ford convertible belonging to Garland L. Arnold of White Post was stolen while he attended a movie in Winchester. The car was later found wrecked and abandoned in Chantilly, Virginia. Arnold said he parked it on Woolfe Street and Indian Alley and left the keys inside. A passerby witnessed the incident.
Report describes a man leaping from a car and fleeing while a woman was taken to a hospital. A subsequent survey of area hospitals found no matching patient.
The sea supports immense bodies because water eliminates the need for heavy skeletal support. Land requires stronger bones and greater muscle development to move huge masses like whales, which limits their size on land.
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