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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1948
Page
4
By mail or motor route annual six month three month and monthly rates listed with advance payment. Outside Virginia and West Virginia add one dollar postage. Bible verse reference included from Tim 4 18.
Winchester and the Valley gain national publicity as the Apple Blossom Festival draws wide media attention. President H Delmer Robinson estimates almost 10 000 volunteers will take part in two days with 1700 in the pageant 3500 in the Fireman Parade 3500 in the Feature Parade and 1000 in miscellaneous tasks.
Fifteen senators from teen states propose a bipartisan plan to revise the UN with Russia if possible, or without if needed, to strengthen the world body. The package targets veto limits, arms control, a world police force, and an impartial World Court, while preserving most UN functions.
A proposed revision argues the UN Charter should allow the United Nations to build strength while keeping a door open for Russia to join. It calls for mutual defense pacts and quotas to enable world armed forces that could outpace Soviet allies. Proponents urge immediate action to guarantee world peace through a stronger UN led by the United States.
The Franklin County crowd backs Booker T. Washington’s emphasis on industrial training with a $5,000,000 goal for Negro youth education. A Richmond NAACP rally, led by Walter White, criticizes Byrd and Tuck, but the piece argues progress requires mutual enlightenment, education, and cooperation over coercive federal action.
More than 100 sportsmen attended the annual banquet of the Winchester Frederick county Fish and Game Association at Sarah Zane hall. C. P. McVicar, commissioner of revenue, announced that state personal property and income tax returns were due to be filed before May 1.
Rotary president McSherry Lupin announced the club will enter a float in Festival Frederick while Clarke county orchardists report early apples severely damaged by freezes but after reviewing weather records from past years they hope for at least a fair crop.
Marshall Hollis Wade Guard and Lester Forney traveled to Loudonville Ohio to inspect and accept a new ambulance purchased by Friendship Fire Co. The report notes Winchester's suicide rate as the highest in the state for ten years ending 1938.
An Alexandria man was arrested in Middletown for drunken driving and released on a bold white goose he had previously stolen. The goose rode on the front seat as he spoke with him and was credited as part of the arrest. He remains in custody pending the owner’s arrival.
In 1898 John McFadden accepted a position with Western Union in Washington. J W Hillyard claimed seven pigeons he said flew from Harrisburg Pa to the area covering 116 miles in 2 hours and 25 minutes.
Richmond April 18 Assistant Attorney General Walter B Rogers said more information is needed before ruling on religious instruction in Virginia public schools under the Virginia Council of Churches. He approved three approaches including an elementary course with religious education questions, three Bible study syllabi for electives in high schools, and religious services during school opening exercises.
Grant Reynolds testified before the House Armed Services committee as national chairman of the Committee against Jim Crow in military service and training. He described a nationwide civil disobedience campaign protesting racial segregation in the armed services as the committee considers a military draft bill.
A humorous piece recalls a football coach who misdirected players to victory after a locker room pep talk. It notes Theodore Roosevelt Lincoln and Shakespeare on self irony, and argues tyrants like Hitler or Stalin lack humor and cannot laugh at themselves.
A fragmented quiz asks if Easter falls in March or April and tests on maitre d oeuvres, sentence correction, Trieste’s return to Italy, Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name, Puritan minister John Eliot, the Stars and Bars flag, Evra Van Horne a United Mine Workers official, WWI talks between FDR and Churchill, and the number of U.S. presidents who have been?
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour precipitation to 7 am none. April rainfall to date 3.25 inches, year to date 9.40 inches. Average annual rainfall over 85 years 36.20 inches. Monthly averages 1913–1946 list January 2.46, February 1.94, March 2.91, April 3.02, May 3.67, June 3.92, July 3.82, August 3.76, September 2.57, October 3.31, November 2.44, December 2.38. Courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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