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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1955
Page
4
A fragment from a Winchester Virginia publication lists subscription rates by mail or carrier and notes post office handling. The page closes with a Bible verse from Isaiah 28 16 and a moral line about wisdom and guidance.
The Texas Railroad Commission keeps an August 15 day oil production schedule as in July, citing market demand and avoiding surpluses. If prices fall, exploration could end, wells shut, and reserves not augmented. Domestic refiners process 600000 barrels more daily than last year as oil usage climbs.
Below we publish the most interesting editorials culled from forty newspapers arriving daily at this office. The digest summarizes prevailing viewpoints, policy debates, and the public mood across multiple publications.
The piece argues that a guaranteed annual wage undermines risk in business and shifts profit incentives from capital to labor. It cites a National Association of Manufacturers view, contrasts guaranteed wage with stock plans like Ford’s, and warns such pledges remove financial risk from the worker beating the core of free enterprise.
Complete Airing The Army reports Pentagon officials anticipate charges against at least two former Korean POWs who defected to the communists and signed a letter aimed at persuading an American general to desert. The case tests the Army’s stance toward the returnees.
The article notes uncertainty about when Army jurisdiction ended for repatriating POWs who defected. It cites Pentagon plans to challenge a signing letter while soldiers were under Army control, aiming for a full public airing of deserters despite their later repatriation. The custody was with the joint repatriation commission in a twilight legal zone.
In a bold feat of endurance Miss Dolores Kipple becomes the first to ride a single water ski from Miami to Nassau completing 200 miles. The piece frames her achievement as a reflection on individual ambition amid global affairs and scientific quests.
The State Highway Department announced plans for a new four lane highway through Middletown. Hilton Hotels Corp. announced it had purchased control of the Statler chain in the largest transaction in hotel history. William H. West Jr and Frank Christopher of Millwood bought the Winchester Knitting Mall. Miller Pines had been killed in a low level Allied air attack. Charles E Boyd with the Fifth Army in Italy was promoted to sergeant.
B 22 bombers carried out a third major strike in five days on North Korean chemical and munitions plants. Mrs Mildred Shoemaker and children arrived from Hawaii where her husband Sfc James Shoemaker had been stationed. Sfc Shoemaker had been transferred to Korea. Mrs Orin Ritter, Mrs Harry Ritter and Mrs Fred Unger returned from Atlantic City vacation.
County Agent Stine reports 1945 Frederick County apple crop projected at 700 000 bushels based on office data. An unconfirmed Philippine guerrilla broadcast cited by New Delhi radio mentions Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita, former Japanese army commander in the Philippines.
William DeHaven reports three women assaulted him near Gainesboro and robbed his pocket book containing 120 dollars after beating and biting him. A regional heat wave pushed temperatures to 101 in the area, with Kansas at 115 and Kedysville Maryland recording 105. Dr and Mrs R F Cline, who had been at Capon Springs, returned home as he resumed practice.
Fifty years ago in 1905 Prof. J D Eggleston Jr of Prince Edward County arrived in Winchester to campaign as a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction after exposing graft in the school fund. Frank Reardon was a guest of Roy B Cook at Weston West Virginia. Mrs H Douglas Fuller and daughters visited Mr and Mrs J W McSherry at Martinsburg.
W R Farley argues Southern Negroes work with whites for progress and urges patience. He cites wages, schools, and teachers in Georgia North Carolina Texas Florida Mississippi, warns against forced integration, and calls for time and goodwill.
A test style article lists 10 daily questions for a 100 question session over ten days. It asks true false and factual prompts about avocados Pauline history and rulers with cryptic wordplay about Richard III and the Hog. The piece prompts page 2 for answers.
Nuclear explosions smash recording instruments almost simultaneously. Scientists found the need for a time unit far shorter than a second or microsecond, creating a new measurement called a shake, exactly one hundred millionth of a second.
Rainfall in the past 24 hours ending at 7 am today shows none for August and none for the current August total. The 1955 rainfall to date stands at 19.65 inches, with an average annual rainfall across 42 years of 36.64 inches. The 42 year monthly averages list January 2.50, February 1.94, March 2.96, April 3.11, May 3.92, June 3.89, July 3.73, August 3.82, September 3.46, October 3.34, November 2.50, December 2.81 inches.
The piece contrasts spiritual health with physical well being, noting churches as clinics for adjusting the inner life and citing prayer as a method. It asserts a universal spiritual universe led by a personal divine presence and reports coffee as the world’s second largest traded item after petroleum products.
The key factor is a business size relative to the market or field it operates in, not its absolute scale. A company can be considered a monopoly if its dominance in a specific market harms competition regardless of total size.
The article notes that Calamity Jane really existed as a Western character Mrs. Martha Burke who was famed for carrying two tins and warning that any man who troubled her invited calamity.
Sara Dacre buys a ruby called Fire of India at a Fifth Avenue store where a jewel heist unravels as Moxon dies before reclaiming the treasure. Earlier, a strange stranger and a lurking stalker threaten her, linking crime to a tattered, aging New York estate of Caroline Larch.
A suspenseful scene shows Dickson Clive, Sara Dacre, Caroline, and Edna Creel amid a tense dinner setting. Clive rescues Sara’s pendant as danger or loss hangs over a ruby chain, foreshadowing trouble with a potential motive and a looming cliffhanger.
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