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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1949
Page
5
Washington reports a much smaller potato surplus in 1949 with fewer crops planted and a lower grower price guarantee. Officials estimate costs below 50 million dollars, versus 225 million in 1948, while the surplus may stay under 30 million bushels.
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Douglas Jones of Shawnee district earned the Eagle Scout award at the September court of honor. In six years of scouting he earned 23 merit badges, surpassing the 21 required. He is the third Troop 9 member, sponsored by Market St. Methodist church, to receive the badge. former recipients Robert Kellas and Lester Arnold Jr. now serve as Scout leaders. Harold Rowe is Scoutmaster. Mrs. Jones, Alice Estep formerly of Shenandoah county, is married to a Winchester postman.
James Grant sold the Fanny E. Huntsberry property at 339 North Loudoun Street to Thomas W. Baldridge of Winchester. The old colonial brick house, landmark on Fort Loudoun hill, dates back about a century and retains original brass locks and wide pine floors. Baldridge has not announced plans for the property.
The upcoming United Nations gathering at Flushing Meadows is expected to focus on the Balkan crisis. Yugoslavia Greece and Albania dominate agenda amid clashes between Tito and Cominform and tensions over church persecutions and aid to Greek guerrillas. Delegations from Yugoslavia and Greece are set to attend with Greece warning it could invade Albania in self defense if guerrilla raids continue.
The lamprey preying on fish in the Great Lakes is the sea lamprey. It entered the lakes via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, is not native to the area, and now spawns in rivers feeding the Great Lakes while spreading to nearby inland lakes.
A building at 910 11 S Brad dock St recently built by Ray A Grim of Winchester has been leased for five years to the Organized Reserve Corps of the U S Army. It will be used by Battery B 159th Airborne AA unit commanded by Lt M C Wagner of 7 Parkview Ave. Wagner is manager of the local B F Goodrich store. The local battery will resume training meetings next month. Organized three years ago the units present membership consists of 19 enlisted men and 4 officers who had been meeting weekly at Handley library.
Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey note multiple theories on the fleur-de-lis at the north point of compass cards. Sylvanus Thomson proposed it stems from a spearhead combined with a T for Tramontana, the Italian name for the North Wind in the eight-wind scheme.
Hollywood mourns comedian Frank Morgan a veteran of stage film and radio who died in his sleep at 59 His wife Alain reported the cessation of breathing after he completed his latest film Keys to the City with Clark Gable and Loretta Young Morgan famed for a calm demeanor and noted for sleeping through a yacht race to Honolulu his 68th film had just wrapped context notes an inhalator squad attempted revival for about an hour.
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