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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1948
Page
2
Britain suspends commercial work to refit about 110 warships for service. Navy confirms ships ready for duty before April with work possible in as little as two months.
Miss Betty Jo Wright of Winchester is among more than 20 persons registered in West Virginia University extension classes for teachers held Thursday nights at Martinsburg High School. Registration is concluding this week for the three courses offered.
Classes continue from Page 1 with entries due by 9 a m Friday. Judging starts soon after with morning sessions. Afternoon contests for boys and girls precede a football game between Ville West Virginia and Berryville high schools. At 7 p m there are movies and prize presentations. Exhibits open all day. livestock may return home at 5 p m while non livestock stay until 9 p m. Last year over 1000 attended. organizers expect a larger crowd this year.
Paris reports that American, French, and British foreign ministers met at the French ministry for a second session to plan moves on the Berlin issue. Their advisers worked through lunch to iron out differences as Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Robert Murphy represented the United States in the talks.
Six to seven men robbed the East Carolina bank in a coastal town today stealing about $50,000. They held up five employees and three customers with pistols before noon and escaped in a high powered car with Virginia plates. Police described the bandits as five Negroes and a short yellow skinned man who may have been white.
Funeral services for Cecil Selvon Shoemaker were held at 3 p.m. yesterday from Ebenezer Christian Church in Mountain Falls with Rev. Charles R. Line and Rev. W. L. Hudson officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
Funeral services were conducted at the Episcopal church in Boyce for John Simon Yowell with Rev. G. Peyton Craighill officiating. Interment followed at Green Hill cemetery in Berryville. active pallbearers included J. W. Suddith Everett Locke Holmes Lloyd Henry Gray George Burwell and C. T. Wiley. honorary bearers were B. B. McKay Charley Jenkins John Hawkins Lee Clark John Copentrver and Roy Pyle.
The eight outstanding students who will be guest scholars at Stanford University during 1948 49 will come from seven European countries. They include a Dutch geographer a political refugee from Bulgaria two Finns a Russian Displaced Person a German girl and two lawyers from Austria and France.
Groups include John Adams and John Quincy Adams presidents. Thomas Arnold and Matthew Arnold educators and writers. Sir William H Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg physicists. William Herschel and John Herschel astronomers. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Jr. and William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger.
New York dispatch says the joint chiefs of staff laid out a tentative mobilization day schedule for armed services. The munitions board, told by the Times, now plans a firm industrial mobilization. About 700 million dollars in critical materials are stockpiled, with 12 000 plants surveyed for war production.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. EST tomorrow at Kerns Town Methodist Church for Miss Nannie Sidney Triplitt who died of pneumonia Sunday in Memorial Hospital. By request of the deceased the casket will not be opened at the church.
North American Aviation B-45, one of the first all jet bombers, exploded in flight over Alpaugh California killing two civilian test pilots George W Krebs and Nicholas G Pickard. Eyewitness William McAfee described the plume and debris extending over several miles.
Israel bans terrorist organizations under a new law signed by Premier Ben-Gurion. The act carries up to 20 years for leaders, members, or supporters and follows Bernadotte’s assassination. Undeclared whether Stern gang and Irgun fall under the law, with a large post assassination arrest tally and reports of leaders at large.
The hurricane stopped activity in the metropolis as hundreds of homes and multiple hotels are under construction. Lumber was secured, scaffolding reinforced, and elevator guylines steadied while life in the usual bustling area paused. Two funerals were postponed. Schools closed and events canceled.
A special meeting to discuss Cub scouting is scheduled for 7 30 p m September 27 in the recreation room of the Presbyterian church. All Cub scouts den mothers parents and others interested are invited. Movies will be shown.
Landon Whitcare chairs the county board of supervisors welfare department and Byron Brumback serves as welfare board member and supervisor. Miss Clara Rush represents Winchester and heads the city welfare department.
In New York last night, Dewey urged Democratic voters to unite for American unity while Wallace warned that bipartisan foreign policy by both major parties has brought the nation to a crisis. He argued the Progressive Party’s rival stance could destroy civilization and even threaten human life.
On a train stop the narrator recalls President Truman telling voters a Republican administration would harm the common man by favoring special interests lobbi es and Wall Street. He asks if the crowd wants to meet his family as Mrs Truman the boss and daughter Margaret appear and wave, drawing cheers as the train departs.
SEPT. 23 10 a m Alfred DeMazzon York Inn 2 mi north of Winchester Antiques and glassware SEPT. 25 12 Noon Trustees E B Cooper front of Frederick County Court House Real Estate SEPT. 25 2 p m Mrs Benjamin Massie Stephens City Building Lots SEPT. 29 10 a m C J Emery Grimes Va Livestock and household goods OCT. 2 11 am J H Funk houser Estate Court House Bank stock and local industries stock OCT. 6 10 a m L R Fay 2 mi northeast of Winchester Antique furniture and kitchen furnishings
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