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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1946
Page
4
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Dr. Elvin 8 Byster of Indiana University addressed 1 000 members of the Eastern Commercial Association in New York at their forty ninth convention. He urged a shift from sugar coated schooling to mastery of subject matter and genuine learning even if painful. He warned that many graduates lack responsibility and that business needs demand deeper basic knowledge and a spirit of inquiry beyond mere job training.
Three Soviet journalists Ilya Ehrenburg Konstantin Simonov and Mikhail Galaktinov accepted a State Department invitation to tour the United States at government expense. They will visit at will and report freely, a craft unheard of for American papers in Moscow.
Current Opinion notes pressure groups urge weakening the OPA to ease price ceilings, but the piece argues this betrays the goal of control. It praises measured adjustments like cigarette and cheap shoe ceilings, warns that wrecking the OPA worsens inflation that harms workers and savers, and likens inflation to a tiger the OPA is slowing but not yet mastering.
P. W. Plumly, president of Plumly Lumber, says 78 employees at the Winchester plant will remain at work on V-E Day. Handley High School Band members tour Winchester in a truck promoting tomorrow's clothing collection drive. Four county residents must appear in Trial Justice Court over charges of failing to send their children to school.
Mollie Lee Foulkes as Queen Shenandoah XVIII arrives in Winchester tomorrow evening at six. H A Doman returns as manager of Hable Enterprises in Winchester, replacing Ashton Rudd. Jalopy racing begins its 1941 season Sunday afternoon May 4 at Airport Speedway on Bufflick road.
A compilation of survey Q and A covers merchant seamen contracts, veteran C numbers, timber reserves by region, lamp bulb testing, common names in the U S, orchestral Pieces at an Exposition, pension rules after failed exams, War Department Circular 370, and the official baseball basque and at large representation. It lists various factual clarifications and figures on these topics.
The item lists quiz prompts asking about an Army Day speech city false or true zebu the inventor Alva middle name green rose poll tax repeals capital of Louisiana naval base on the Black Sea Senator Mead's state approximate Earth circumference and whether Sunday is the seventh day.
Earl L. Douglas portrays a California observatory eclipse scene where a workman admires the precise celestial motion. The piece emphasizes the universe’s order, speed, and lack of disruption, arguing against atheism and affirming intelligent design through celestial science.
The veteran examination requires birth between July 1 1915 and July 1 1925 for eligibility with a June 17 1946 deadline. The government allows a total of 500 dollars for a veteran taking a correspondence course, with one fourth of elapsed time charged against eligibility and no subsistence allowance.
Festival officials announce a Richmond NBC station will broadcast events of the feature parade this year. The U S Chamber of Commerce at its annual convention discusses partnering with the government for real recovery. Mrs Lela Wright widow of Carl Wright of the Opequon area leaves an estate valued at 25000 dollars.
The text notes Field Day at Middletown High School is scheduled for Saturday May 7. Separately a safe in the Rawson post office near Charles Town West Virginia was broken into Wednesday night, with about 400 dollars in stamps taken by unknown parties. Mr and Mrs William P Harris White Post celebrate birth of son William Penn Harris Jr born April 24 weighing 11 pounds and to be christened.
A Board of Trade member says a large brass implement manufacturer is looking for a location in the city. The council’s building commission decides to lower the light on the city hall auditorium.
A letter from Miss Martha L. Richard Gore High School teacher praises Bible classes in Frederick County Schools. Students report learning Bible characters, worship, truth, love for neighbors and increased Sunday Church attendance. The writer argues Bible study enhances language arts geography music and art in the curriculum.
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