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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1963
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star announces its weekly masthead with staff roles including D. Koontz business manager and Eugene Miller managing editor. It lists postal status, national reps, and advertising contact details.
Spring arrives with mercurial mood and shifting favors. The season acts with a hidden purpose, delaying yet certain to complete its work. Soon the world will don new garments and be ready for summer as the promise of spring is kept.
Early morning fire at the Snack Bar on Loudoun street caused severe damage after hot grease on the grill ignited. The incident followed by a note of civic updates including Mrs. E. W. Lacy Jr being re elected president of the Winchester Tuberculosis Association and a flood report from Duiveland in the Netherlands recovering from the February 1 disaster.
25 Years Ago 1938 The British Cabinet gave final approval to the last draft of Prime Minister Chamberlain s Italian friendship pact. The 1938 Winchester and Vicinity telephone directory was distributed to over 3 000 subscribers. Mr and Mrs W Nelson Page entertained at dinner for Harry F Guggenheim, house guest of Mrs R E Byrd.
Gen Francisco Villa and former Madero leader seized a Mexico and Northwestern Railway train at Andreas, taking 122 bars of silver worth 1 000 pesos each belonging to Dolores Mining Co. Sugar men protest to President Wilson after meeting yields little satisfaction. A record snowstorm disrupts Sioux City communications, causing 50 000 in telegraph and telephone damage and leaving 15 inches of snow blocking streetcar traffic.
Earl L. Douglas reflects on Good Friday as the crucifixion of Christ, noting it as a dreadful, non Roman act yet the greatest display of compassion. He portrays God suffering in Jesus Christ, presenting the cross as the source of humanity's salvation through suffering and death.
A study from the Association Press and YMCA historian explores the varied theories of Jesus resurrection. It weighs swoon, hallucination, theft, and myth concepts against four postresurrection evidences: church, New Testament, Sunday Sabbath, and the Lord's Supper, asserting the event remains a mystery yet a historical turning point.
Henry J Taylor salutes Thomas Jefferson on his Charlottesville birthday honoring Monticello lineage and Jefferson’s role as founder of the University of Virginia. The essay contrasts Jefferson with Napoleon, notes the Louisiana Purchase, and critiques modern liberal discourse while celebrating Jefferson as a global liberal figure.
Dr. Lester L Coleman cites Emmett Holt's study of premature infants showing they gain weight and stay healthy on milk straight from the refrigerator. The piece also notes doctors handwriting issues, explains deviated septum, thumb as a pinch grip, arthritis surgery, digestion relaxation, and general health guidance from these medical columns.
New York AP reports tests and studies on a space suit for moon bound astronauts are under way in a laboratory. Dr William M Helvey chief of the Space Environment and Life Sciences Lab of Republic Aviation says the suit is designed for inside and outside use and Apollo crewmen will carry a backpack life support system when exiting the spacecraft.
A short verse framed as a personal piece by Luther Markin invites a figure to rise from cave confinement. It uses bird imagery to urge getting up onto a perch and singing, expressing resilience across place and age.
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