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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1947
Page
3
The Warren county high school football team defeated Luray Friday afternoon 24-0. North Gehringer Tederick and Kennedy each registered a touchdown for the winners.
An advertisement claims INNER-AID cures stomach gas and headaches. It asserts the product cleanses bowels clears gas and improves digestion with 12 herbs and is sold at all drug stores.
The piece notes a regatta afternoon with over 200 boats entering the harbor. It compares sailing to life teaching that skill lies in catching wind from any direction to reach a goal, warning of drifting and dangers if sails are not managed.
A six team girls softball loop starts Wednesday in Frederick and Clarke counties with Gore at Gainesboro Stonewall at Stephens City and Boyce at Berryville. Shenandoah county schools may join next year as district officials discussed plans.
The Winchester White Sox overwhelmed Mt Williams 15 to 1 on Sunday driving in 18 hits off pitchers Fawcett and White. Sam Purtlebaugh allowed four hits as the county nine struggled at the plate.
The Brooklyn Dodgers earned the National League pennant after Chicago Cubs beat the St Louis Cardinals 6 3 in the day night double header second game. Manager Burt Shotton planned rest for most regulars ahead of the World Series with the New York Yankees, starting next Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. The Yanks and Dodgers meet for the second time in a World Series, the first victory in 1941.
National League games saw St. Louis 4 Chicago 3 and Chicago 2 Detroit 6 in another pairing. American League results had Detroit 6 Cleveland 4 and St. Louis 4 Chicago 0 with Chicago 2 Detroit 4.
Batting by Cliff Akerson helped the Cubs beat the Cardinals 6-3 to erase them from the National League pennant race. Pitching by Johnny Schmitz and reliever Paul Erickson limited St Louis to six hits through six and a third innings in the second game of a day night twin bill.
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Berryville high school may stage grid games at night using lights after Principal D. G. Cooley announced plans to convert the softball field. Cost for lights and grading expected under 300 dollars. Coach Chester Rockwell, a Shepherd College graduate from Charles Town, leads the 1947 squad with regulars Feagans, Locke, and Asberry, plus several newcomers. Schedule lists eight games from Oct 3 to Nov 27 with home and away dates.
New Orleans dispatch describes John Quarrier of the Associated Press who played his trumpet through the hurricane’s height, matching the famed Rosini piece amid wind and rain. A humorous aside notes Alligator wrestling as a contrast to chasing storms, as the writer follows the northern edge of the hurricane from Florida toward Louisiana.
The hurricane blasted the coast with wind and salt spray as Ben Price crawled two blocks to reach a phone in West Palm Beach. Refugees filled shelters while veterans recalled battlefield-like chaos and the storm’s devastating impact along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Colgate W. Darden Jr. will be inaugurated president of the University of Virginia in an outdoor ceremony on October 1. A Philadelphia Orchestra concert at 3:30 p.m. on the music shell lawn will conclude the events, with Sir Alfred Rimmern of Oxford delivering the principal address. Darden will outline university development plans.
The region remains a vast high table land with elevations from about 3,000 to 8,000 feet, shaping the country's geography and climate.
Liberia discovers iron ore rated equal in quality to Swedish ores. The finding compares favorably with Sweden's iron resources, signaling potential for development and export.
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