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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1946
Page
4
Subscribers are urged to report delivery delays or irregularities to improve service. Advertisements must reach the office by 9 PM the day before publication. Rates listed for mail, motor route, and carrier delivery with various advance periods and zones.
Eastern railways plan a new era with trains between Cincinnati and Washington offering restaurants, film theaters, libraries, personal radios, flowers, art exhibits, air purification for smoking, two deck vista-dome cars, hostesses for children, and no meal waits.
A symposium by the Child Study Association of America urges teaching children about money early. It argues that early money handling shapes views on giving and saving and that allowances can be educational despite some inevitable frivolity. School experiments show youths learning cost estimation and budgeting alongside arithmetic.
The order restricts new construction to fund veteran housing while allowing specific exceptions. It outlines dollar limits for repairs and industrial work, disaster or military projects, and field petitions by Civilian Production Administration agents. Local committees assess essential needs to balance housing with economic stability.
News notes from the George Washington Hotel report a Winchester chapter of the Izaak Walton League organized by local sportsmen. Briscoe L. Snapp, Frederick County farmer and fruit grower, died yesterday in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Middletown High School baseball, without last year’s star hurler, is favored to win the 1945 championship.
Five years ago J Sloan Kuykendall of Winchester Virginia Bar was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States on the motion of R Gray Williams. Clinton Cochran Handley High senior and F F A Chapter president will preside at the Father Son banquet tomorrow night. Stephens City fire engine moved today from the high school basement to the White property to make way for the National defense class.
Ten years ago Mr and Mrs J E Ware announce the marriage of their daughter Kathryn to Leon ard Rosenberger. Charles B Snider opens an electric shop on East Piccadilly street.
Twenty five years ago a maple tree on the south side of Frederick plaza was budding. Mr. Wilbur E. Cather was chosen last night as Exalted Ruler of Winchester Lodge No 867 Beltr Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and will head the fraternal group for the coming year.
Forty five years ago young schoolgirls form a club named The D. O. D. and openly debate whether girls have a right to flirt. Miss Louise Henry, a former Winchester girl now an actress, is appearing at the Haymarket Theatre in Chicago. A grower says a hard freeze would be needed to injure peach and apple orchards' bright prospects.
Washington reports Baruch, the financier, is called in to calm inflation and defend wartime controls. He critiques administration wage and price policy, forecasts limited reform, and argues a coherent plan is needed to restore production and reduce strikes amid political resistance.
A reader can get the answer to any fact by writing The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau 316 Eye St. N W Washington DC enclose three cents for return postage. Q What was the date of the first presidential election in the United States Was Washington officially notified of his election JL R A The presidential electors were chosen on January 7 1789 and met and cast their votes on February 4 The electoral votes were counted on April 6 by the U S Congress in New York and Charles Thomson the venerable secretary of the Continental Congress was selected to go to Mount Vernon and officially notify Washington of his election. Q Can a veteran obtain a loan guaranty to buy a home while he is going to school at government expense H B A Yes The fact that a veteran is taking a course of education under the GI Bill does not affect his eligibility to apply for a loan guaranty.
The quiz asks ten questions on topics from diving bells to boxing venues. It includes asks about Trygve Lie, a U.S. bean and pot home city, grand opera Jewel Song, the Civilian Production Administration, a Finnish president, British court etiquette, the naming of Leningrad, a Justice of Greece committee chair, and the cities for Dempsey Tunney bouts.
A meditation notes a starry night and vast universe beyond the five senses. The text contrasts ancient stars with modern radio broadcasts from stations worldwide filling homes with music and announcers. It suggests human perception cannot grasp all realities beyond ordinary hearing and sight.
A succinct argument asserts that strict materialism fails to account for reality beyond the senses. It claims science can strengthen religious faith by revealing wonders and suggesting a divine destiny for believers who trust in God.
An April Fool prankster phoned the weather bureau in San Diego on April 3 claiming to speak with Jack Frost. Carl H. was the on call operator who was startled by the caller and the odd dialogue.
Claire orders me to dress while I seek help from Hunt Berwick in the nearby wast eighties as we plan a rapid getaway. She pushes me to rehearse what I will tell the police, insisting we have no time for petty hesitations.
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