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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1947
Page
3
The 12 team B league started a 33 week schedule last night at Health Center alleys with all six matches finishing 2 to 1. Highlights came from Valley Service Glaize and Bro. across the lanes.
Advertisement touts Victory Ointment as a grease free antisepticTreatment for eczema psoriasis rashes and itching. Describes it as safe for babies and children and notes it is sold in Winchester by Miller's Rhodes Brooks' Rexall Peoples Silco Cut-Rate Gaunt's.
Advertisement promotes Peterson's Ointment 35c as quick relief for itchy pimples red blotches and skin irritation. Claims include prompt itching relief and soothing effect with improved skin appearance. Also marketed for itching of feet and cracks between toes.
Raymond Webber anchored Valley Service with a 156 game and 390 set as his team split results in a high scoring night. Glaize won the first game by 20 pins and added another to an all evening 535. Valley Service rallied to a 586 to 553 win in the final game with all bowlers contributing solid scores.
In the B League no South Virginia woolen teams compete as Va Woolen No. 1 tops individual and team events. Raymond Webber leads individual scores with 156 in the game and 390 in the set. Team results list Va Woolen No. 1 594 and Valley Service 586 in the team game, with Glaize and Bro. 1624 in the team set. Next week features Snapp's Foundry against Clearbrook and Va Woolen No. 1 vs Elks among others.
E. P. Browning assistant superintendent of Winchester schools will attend the District G Education Association meeting at Madison College Harrisonburg on October 4. He serves as district vice president. The state superintendent of public instruction will address the gathering. District includes Frederick Clarke counties and Winchester. The article also notes an unsubstantiated claim of a billion tons or more of gold dissolved in ocean waters.
North Mountain defeated Wardensville 5-4 with Baker earning the win allowing five hits and striking out seven. Keller homered for the losers while Richard and Keller doubled, Miller and oats doubled for Wardensville. Next weekend Gore at Wardensville and Lost City at North Mountain in league play. The standings show Gore 6 1 Strasburg 5 2 Lost City 4 4 North Mountain 4 4 Star Tannery 3 5 Wardensville 1 7.
The senior league championship series begins with Catholics vs Presbyterians in a three game set. Game 1 starts at 5 45 tomorrow on Diamond 1 at eee Rd play area with no admission. If needed a second game follows Friday and a deciding game Monday night.
Funeral services were held in Moorefield West Virginia for Daniel Seldon 78 a former Highview resident who died suddenly at work in Covington where he had lived for 15 years He was born in England came to the United States in youth and survived by a Covington widow two sisters Robert Miller and Mrs Ann Bowman of Akron a brother Fred Seldon of Highview and many nieces and nephews in Winchester and the county.
In Harmony township the special referendum on liquor sales produced a 101 to 100 dry victory. The item also notes the draft question about 18-year-olds, stating selective service ended March 31, 1947, so 18-year-olds need not register.
New York September 10 Steels and aircrafts led a selective advance in today’s stock market with limited vigor as many pivots failed to rise. Gains ranged from fractions to around a point while deal volume tapered after an active start. Investors cited oversold conditions and potential technical rebound amid concerns on international finance and rising living costs.主要 blue chips showed mixed movement with V S Steel Bethlehem Youngstown Sheet Philips? Douglas Aircraft Boeing Glen Martin Chrysler J I Case Goodyear Deere Kennecott Public Service of N J among leaders.
These local markets are corrected daily but The Star does not assume responsibility for typographical errors.
Chicago traders opened mixed with grains mostly firm and some selling in nearby corn and oats. Early quotes show wheat at 2.73 1 2 for Sep and 2.75 2 4 for Dec while corn trades around 2.59 1 2 Sep and 2.44 1 4 Dec. oats near 1.20 Sep and 1.19 Dec. Additional futures stand at 22.12-25 for Nov and 27.50 for May.
Produce prices show apples mainly steady with modest gains for several varieties across Maryland Delaware New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Poultry eggs butter and hogs move modestly with quotes for fowl turkeys ducks and calves noted and cattle and sheep market activity described as steady or modestly higher in Chicago and Baltimore sessions.
Government conciliators report a Taft-Hartley provision urging secret worker ballots has settled 31 strikes in six weeks. Workers mostly voted to accept final offers, while 25 rejected. 54 more elections pending field reports. Overall strikes nationwide include 35,000 idle at a major East Coast shipyard.
Fat steers 23.50 to 26, medium 19 to 23, plain 14 to 18. Fat heifers 21 top, medium 18 to 20.50, plain 14. Cows good heavy beef bred 16 to 17.50, odd to 18.50, medium 13.50 to 15. Light bulls 18 to 19, odd higher. Veal calves good to choice 25.50 to 27.50, medium 22 to 25, culls 14 to 18. Lambs 23 to 24.50, culls 13 to 16. Fat sheep 6. medium 5. Hogs fat 28 top, heavies 22 to 25, lights 25 to 27. Shoats 26.50 to 28, pigs 8 to 9.50 per head. Fresh cows and springers good 160 to 220, medium 130 to 150, old thin 70 to 90.
Buying interest remains firm with solid eastern demand for steers and heifers. Prices range widely: salable cattle 10 000 total, calves 800, most steer and heifer classes up 25 to 50 cents, cows steady to lower, vealers 25.5, bulls 25, shortage of stock cattle notable.
Eight men died and four were reported missing after a Yorkshire coal mine explosion. It marks the seventh British mine disaster this year with more than 150 men involved.
A fatal blast occurred this year in the Thornhill pit at Dewsbury, an area where a five week old unauthorized strike shuttered 44 collieries.
The story was related almost in its entirety in one afternoon sitting on June 2, 1862. The poems were added later.
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