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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1948
Page
4
Advertising deadlines noon the day before publication. Rates: transient 60 cents per inch, contract rates on request. National reps DeLisser Inc. Subscriptions by mail or motor route vary by term. Single copy price 6.50. Bible verse 1 John 4 not relevant to local notice.
Editorial correspondence notes twelve hundred newspaper publishers at the American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting in New York City. Observers see Republican odds for president unclear while Truman faces Democratic doubts. many favor Douglas or other Democrats and some foresee Eisenhower or Taft on the Republican side. Business conditions appear mixed with optimism short-term and inflation concerns due to European recovery spending. Wall Street predictions lean toward a possible near-term rise.
The Roanoke Times editorial praises Judge T Alan Goldsborough for his handling of the Lewis mine walkout case. It credits his thorough summation and firm upholding of court authority, arguing he strengthens public confidence in federal justice amid widespread defiance. If not man of the year, who is more deserving?
The Raleigh News and Observer voices concern that the South relies on outsiders for festival queens. It cites Wilmington's Azalea Festival and Virginia's Apple Festival featuring Hollywood and Boston queens, prompting a question about home-grown beauty.
A humorous item notes a special award for parties in a telephone call who resume quietly after being cut off by a switchboard error. First party suggests the interruption, while the second party concedes with a clipped reply indicating a missing syllable.
A Kingsport Times remark contrasts modesty and immodesty in spectators, joking that modest women appear to wear more clothes than they have while immodest ones seem to have less. The Greensboro News carries the snippet as commentary on public perception.
Baseball players from Millwood and Berryville formed a team to compete in the Blue Ridge league. Herman O. Bly, son of Mrs. J F. Bly, was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Appeals in Richmond. William M. Battaile was elected president of JBT.
In 1943 a walkout by 113 workers at three Winchester motor freight lines continued as they headed to Richmond for Army physicals. In the same period, more than forty auto speeders were apprehended in the Winchester area by a new speed recording device.
Ten years ago in 1928 an anthracite mine blast in Pottsville, Pennsylvania killed seven and injured eleven. Garland Quarles, then city school superintendent, announced vendors would be barred from selling food on Handley school grounds during the Pageant as Winchester Lions club claimed the state attendance trophy.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway reveals an extensive improvement program for 1923. A public appeal urges saving bees to aid orchardists. In York Pennsylvania forged notes are cited as evidence of bank defalcations.
A Winchester Star information notice promotes Webster's Illustrated Tower Dictionary and Atlas a 378 page reference with maps 16 color pages and various supplementary data includes definitions terms population statistics weights measures and presidents offered for thirty five cents postpaid via the Information Bureau 316 Eye St NE Washington DC with coupon.
T. Z. Koo, a Chinese statesman, resisted graft until a Quaker visitor saw “the light of God” in his eyes. He embraced Christianity, becoming a pillar of the Church of China. The anecdote urges faith in personal influence.
A quiz asks ten questions from a vintage memory test with scoring labels. It prompts turning to page two for answers and includes questions on Roosevelt sons, maple sugar, Wellington’s dominion capital, Declaration signatures, a Nuremberg term, flightless birds, Shakespeare birth anniversary, Model T end year, Peron’s country, and rationing token colors.
Semi official reports say a Spanish fleet is at sea headed toward U S sea ports. Rev J B Stopesifer a Reformed church pastor volunteered as army chaplain. Wright livery stable floor raised with red clay fresh application.
This report shows rainfall totals for a 48 hour span ending 7 am and year to date figures for April and 1948. It lists the average annual rainfall over 55 years as 36.20 inches and provides monthly averages from 1913 to 1946 with values for each month from January to December. The text ends with an offensive phrase unrelated to the data.
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