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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1958
Page
4
Readable fragments show names and places without clear event. Mentions Winchester Virginia and Mohawk, names like Byrd and Galegher DeLiser, and a 64th Bored in New York City context. Details are incomplete for a full report.
Rep Burr Harrison urges openness, criticizing wartime secrecy rules and the use of public information officers to dodge questions. He argues secrecy fosters waste and mismanagement, while noting the danger of blanket silence in military matters and defense planning.
Mr Harrison highlights the danger of secret large projects and the need for government transparency. He argues secrecy harms the public and stresses that government business is the public’s business and no bureaucrat should deny information.
A Western radio TV forecaster recounts a reader letter critiquing his weather and jokes about forecasters predicting rain and sun. The piece decries the long running gag as outdated and worn out by repeated bromides and dual role rainmaker forecasts.
A digest highlighting the most engaging editorials culled from forty newspapers arriving at the office daily. This feature curates diverse opinions, offering concise commentary on current events, politics, and social issues from multiple perspectives.
The piece argues President Eisenhower's civil service cuts in the Pentagon are too modest. Defense analysts cite 30 assistant secretaries trimmed to 27, and complain about wasteful directives on mowing grass and garbage cans.
From The Star PPC files Lawrence EB Coates son of Mrs. O D Sergent of Gore was wounded in action in Korea. John Braxton McKee son of Dr and Mrs John B McKee and UVA student joined Phi Eta Sigma honorary society. Mine Hilda Miller head of Hopkins dispensary visited her mother Mrs Samuel Miller in Baltimore. Mr and Mrs Julian Michael announce the birth of a daughter former Miss Dorothy Myers is Mrs Michael.
In 1948 Mr and Mrs Charles Anderson welcomed a new son named Johnny Long Vir end Mia. Charles HB Shenk hosted Mr and Mrs Frederick James with a crime of Cumberland as their son We sod Mee Comme Hart at their home on Valley MI road.
A brief archival note from 1933 references Fee Mele Beth in Lexington in a local historical roundup marking events from a quarter century ago.
Fifty years ago in 1908 all Winchester saloons shut doors at 10 oclock on April 30 as the town enacted the local option law making the town dry from that date. Mrs A P Osborne and her sons Hunter and Francis from Berryville visited Mr and Mrs George Plaster in Bluemont. Charles Pishpaw of the Berryville pike was kicked by a colt and suffered a badly shattered arm. Dr A P Osborne of Berryville attended the injury.
Dr. Joseph Lelyveld notes 85 percent of girls and 45 percent of boys have foot defects by high school. He warns many adult foot problems are preventable with proper care, footwear, and exercise. He recommends sturdy shoes, longer socks, and daily walks to improve circulation and reduce fatigue.
Dr Bundesen outlines three medicines promising safer living. Medicel sulfamethoxypyridazine treats urinary and respiratory infections and rheumatic fever recurrence with smaller doses. Trilafon perphenazine is a potent new tranquilizer with fewer side effects. Thorexin relieves coughs without codeine, using dexethorphan and non narcotic action. soon available OTC.
A note claiming the cheese on toast dish name Welsh rabbit began in Wales during a short age of meat. It clarifies that the Welsh form is a joke and that the dish is not genuinely named after a Welsh word for rabbit.
A reflective piece on wrongdoing and its consequences. It cautions against small private misdeeds that lead to public disgrace and urges immediate moral turning away from evil before tragedy strikes. It notes how victims extend beyond the wrongdoer and calls for self examination.
A dated quiz page outlines scoring by daily IQ questions with bands Memory Genius Very Superior Excellent Good. It includes questions on cipher terminology, biblical succession, WWI fleet scuttling at a French base, Oglethorpe’s colony founder, Mt Whitney location, pre 1950 city populations, Isle of Man location, the bends disease, Romance languages origin, and the plural of alumni.
Hollywood report notes Richard Skel ton, nine, son of comedian, is battling leukemia with home tutoring and weekly UCLA Medical Center checkups. Family spokesman says he shows no real progress but is holding his own as he remains out of school.
A writer argues art critics resemble snobbish gatekeepers who favor antiquity. He credits Michelangelo as an applied psychologist and forerunner of modern advertisers, then praises Dagwood, Dennis the Menace and other comic artists for teaching child psychology through humor.
The Senate approved a bill to regulate private pension and welfare plans covering about 4 million workers. It requires annual reports to the Labor Department, independent audits, and public access to filings. Penalties include criminal charges for willful falsifications and embezzlement. The House action is uncertain.
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