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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1957
Page
4
Daily Winchester paper established 1896 with editor H Fr Byrd Jr announces staff contacts and AP affiliation. The notice lists news, subscription rates, and postal details for distribution and republication rights in Winchester Virginia.
Newspaper fragment shows a scripture citation from First Samuel 1 27 and a postal rate line including amounts and a date. It lacks a coherent news item but preserves the religious reference and pricing details.
Congress last week highlighted federal relief payments as a point of dispute between the House and Senate over May and June appropriations for aged and needy persons. The piece notes postwar prosperity masking rising costs, with public assistance predicted to reach five million in fiscal 1958 and costs rising from 271 million in 1940 to 1.68 billion in 1958. It discusses shifting attitudes toward relief, including recipients with property, and Virginia’s frugal relief spending.
Editorial letters from New York note Secretary of State Dulles offered little new in his major address to the Associated Press luncheon. He repeats anti Soviet rhetoric, calls for evolution to freedom in satellite nations, warns of Middle East intrigue, defends foreign aid, and argues for restraint rather than bold change.
Howard Keel was announced as Grand Marshal for the Apple Blossom Festival Feature Parade. Other items note local bank assets at 1 119 206 as of January, F-84 and B 36 jets in Air Force announcements, and community notices from Winchester and Baltimore.
N E Dougherty sold Charles Boxwell a six weeks old calf weighing 303 pounds. Mrs Garrett Carter returned to Wood stock after visiting her mother Mrs Mary Conner in this city. George W Price of Bunker Hill West Virginia spent the day in Winchester on business.
The Associated Press board urges permitting qualified reporters to cover mainland China firsthand. It notes State Department denials but details AP workarounds including a Canadian reporter’s China tour by Lancashire series and photographs. It highlights AP’s broader expansion with new bureaus from Juneau to Johannesburg and services in Asia Africa and Latin America.
A feature on marital tensions titled The Worry Clinic discusses nagging wives as a trigger for spousal conflict. It argues wives seek physical reassurance, cites Shakespeare and popular culture, and promotes a booklet by Dr. Crane to prevent divorce and sustain permanent happiness.
Dr. Bundesen advises disposing of old medicines that may have lost potency and those with signs of degradation. He suggests checking labels, disinfecting cabinets with Lysol solution, and keeping doctor and pharmacist contact info handy. An allergy is unlikely the cause of pus in stool. infection is more probable and medical consultation is advised.
The wirephoto radiophoto service, started for Brazil and now spreading to Buenos Aires Cara cas and Trinidad, sees many new newspaper and radio subscribers in South and Middle America. Growth doubles in five years as Photofax delivers ready to engrave pictures with improved high fidelity images and over 340 transmitting stations now in operation.
The article argues creeds matter in church life but warns against overreliance on them in a modern action oriented age. It notes creeds are carefully pondered summaries of faith created over generations and that unity exists among great historical creeds on core Christian truths.
A quiz style item asks ten questions with scored answers and page navigation. It asks about banks in 1861, ancient bones found by Japanese researchers, Bible language, Theodore Roosevelt, Rhodes location, isosceles triangles, Napoleon birth, a war correspondent DSM award, Holocaust terminology, and the proverb meaning.
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