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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1946
Page
2
The Holy Name Society of the see of Virginia announces its first Post War Convention to be held September 29 in Lynchburg.
The Sacred Heart Catholic Church parish of Winchester will be permitted three delegates. The Convention will close with Benediction.
Maurice Grim reports a small greenish brown insect from his back porch steps and M D Bowers finds a black and yellow bug on a dahlia at home. Rev. E H Jackson cites $120 raised at the Arch Chapel Methodist Church rally with totals expected to rise. Camera Club hosts Norman E Dewes prints at 8 pm at 19 West Pall Mall Street. Aetna agents L Jamison and George R Moyer attend a Washington conference September 25 to gain up-to-date insurance knowledge.
Richmond September 18 Governor Tuck will attend a meeting of the State Bar Association at the annual convention in Virginia Beach tonight and return to Richmond Thursday morning. Virginia bankers head to Chicago for the American Bankers Association 72nd convention September 22 to 25 with about 35 Virginians attending. Charles T. O Neill of Charlottesville will speak at the convention's state association section.
C P Wiley associate state entomologist returned from a 10 day infestation survey of the European corn borer in nine Virginia counties. He reported damage below expectations overall but rising in Clarke and Frederick counties with greatest impact in Loudoun and parts of Fairfax. The pest has shown declines in Culpeper Prince William Westmoreland and Gloucester. Since 1931 the survey tracked the pest across Virginia. the only sure control is feeding fodder from the field plowing under cleanly or burning infested stalks.
News reaches here of the Norfolk death yesterday of Mrs Laura Tucker Pendleton widow of E M Pendleton of Lexington She was a daughter of the late John Randolph and Laura Powell Tucker of Lexington and is survived by four children and several nieces and nephews in this city Funeral services will be in Lexington presumably tomorrow.
A compact school dictionary advertised by the Winchester Evening Star offers 378 pages and over 21 000 definitions with illustrations and special supplements on current words mis pronunciation abbreviations and foreign phrases. Priced at twenty five cents postpaid order form included. The ad also notes a reader inquiry about Guayaquil’s origin tracing to an Indian chieftain Guaya and his wife Quil.
Rockingham co op plant at Broadway Virginia and other plants in Moorefield New Market and Staunton will add a Stanley branch as materials permit. Sewer and water lines on N Kent street pass through limestone to serve the co op plant with operations expected to begin to handle a sizable turkey crop. Some buying is already under way.
Colonel Titus outlines a three year Shenandoah Valley fund drive to support tourism and Apple Blossom efforts. Winchester quota is about 9 760 dollars, plus annual allocations. New members James C. Davis Lawrence Miller and Douglas Haines joined, with installation planned for Stephens City club next Tuesday.
Correct responses are listed for page four questions. The set covers topics from oceans to historical figures and wartime provisions. Detailing items include the Indian Ocean, five stars, Soviet Ukraine, and a WWI veteran unemployment benefit of twenty dollars a week for up to fifty two weeks.
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