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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1948
Page
3
Winchester Peoples Cleaners earned three points from Waynesboro Pa to stay near the top of the Blue Ridge League standings. Mickey Perry led the match with a 361 score as Waynesboro carded 1573 total.
No Virginia dogs finished in the top classes at the No Virginia Coon Hunters Assn field trials in Berryville. Winners came from Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania and Maryland taking the prize money.
Across The Headpin reports team standings with O Sullivan Plant in first after sweeping American Legion. Individual high scores include Bud Miller 142 and Dick DuVall 137. team totals reach 1631 for O Sullivan Plant and 1666 for B S Poultry. standings reflect results across A League teams and recesses.
Careful measurements show total soil losses by erosion on all lands reach 5.4 billion tons annually, with farm lands alone losing about 3 billion tons.
Multiple Virginia college teams plan heavy passing plays this Saturday in key intersectional and conference games. Washington and Lee, Virginia, and Virginia Tech rely on aerials against tough foes, with Virginia Military Institute and Richmond also banking on the air as injuries trim lineups across Hampden Sydney and Randolph Macon.
Sterope, an outsider, captured the Cambridgeshire Stakes over nine furlongs at Newmarket. Royal Tara carried top weight, and 32 runners contested the race. A photo finish confirmed third place as a dead heat between Patchouly and Impeccable.
It has been found that impregnating wood with a solution of methylolurea under low pressure makes the wood harder stiffer and stronger.
HAL BOYLE reflects on democracy and the duty to vote. He contrasts wartime sacrifice by Sgt Dorland and Sgt Drabnik with peacetime apathy, urging citizens to register and cast ballots to preserve a free, anonymous voting system.
The American League service bureau notes that the 1927 New York Yankees began the term murderers row with a potent batting order Combs Koenig Ruth Gehrig Meusel Lazzari. They combined for 142 home runs and a team batting average of .309.
Attorney General J Lindsay Almond ruled the State Corporation Commission is a judicial agency and not subject to state personnel laws. The decision ends a feud with the Budget Office and may reduce personal services costs by not filling vacancies while employees take on more duties for higher pay.
Horace H. Edwards former Richmond mayor and governor candidate urged Virginia educators to support a state sales tax for educational relief. He called for a special session of the General Assembly to act quickly and proposed a broad tax system revision to equalize burdens, including exemptions for lower income brackets and relief for merchants collecting the tax.
Nicolas Jacques Conte, a French inventor, is regarded as the father of the modern pencil for his development of graphite and encasing methods that shaped today’s writing instrument.
VA interpretation reduces subsistence for on the job GI training in Virginia trades where apprenticeships exceed four years. The American Legion condemned the ruling at its Miami convention. The VA says subsistence now equals the trainee wage minus the four stage journeyman wage, potentially about $30 monthly for long programs.
Ruth Moore, 33, described as a 400 pound housewife, shot herself saying she was unloved and too fat. Patrolman Norman Talbert quoted her before she died in Muncie Indiana on October 27. The text also references gray kangaroos about their growth, but provides no further context.
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