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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1948
Page
6
A set of cancer research grants was announced, including a continuing project at the University of Virginia and funding totaling 11 200 dollars.
F. L. Barnes assistant to Raymond V. Long of the Virginia Conservation Commission will speak at Berryville Clarke county chamber of commerce luncheon at Battletown restaurant at 1 p m. He will discuss the commission work and its role with county boards, planning groups, and related entities.
Rulings expected today in Harbison hearings to decide if around 60 workers may testify for the Virginia Oak Tannery and if about 20 union men should be bonded. The show cause orders arise from a court order limiting picketing at the tannery plant entrance to three at most during a strike.
Mayor M. B. Clowe Jr. was named an executive committee man of the Virginia League of Municipalities and City Manager S. Lee Grant a national committee man of the Virginia City Managers Assn during conventions concluded yesterday at Old Point.
Government health geological and weather experts join the Atomic Energy Commission to standardize dangerous radioactive waste disposal. Methods include deep burial for long lived waste, liquids into safe running water, stagnant pools, and filtered gases released only with favorable meteorological conditions.
The Agriculture Department will auction 67 thoroughbreds at its remount station near Front on Oct 19. The lot includes 24 mares 9 geldings 10 fillies and 24 foals most are German or Hungarian bred and brought from Europe by the Army in 1946. Some geldings are noted as good jumpers.
Four weeks old Dolores Lake was found dead beneath her mother Mrs Alfred Lake Jr who had fainted while holding the child. Police reported the mother was discovered on the apartment floor in Reading on September 30.
Bristol Tennessee on September 30 reports the Freedom Train drew 14 615 visitors, breaking the national single day attendance record. The train commander said the figure established a new daily high and the train will visit Winchester next Thursday.
A notice states Mack Samuel Goldstein will appear before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on October 10, 1948 to apply for a license to retail beer and wine above 3.2 percent alcohol at Edgewood on Route 522 three miles south of Winchester. The beverages are for on and off premise consumption.
Three freeholders of Frederick County Virginia sworn by a Trial Justice Court to appraise one Jersey heifer estray calf found on J Frank Orndorffs premises. calf aged about one year, marks described star forehead dark back light legs horns 1 1/4 inches, weight 350 pounds, appraised at 55 dollars. report dated June 2 1948. Notary Virginia Ritter authenticated oath and commission expires 1952.
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