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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
4
Framed as a 1945 Evening Star page note, the brief column includes a Bible verse II Kings 10 31 and a moral exhortation. It features the publication details, deadlines, and subscription rates for The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia.
An essay on how wartime shortages and staffing hurt everyday courtesy in hotels, shops, and restaurants. It notes how the end of hostilities should restore proper service, with clerks and waiters improving manners and attention to customers, boosting trade and employment.
Reprinted editorial from the New York Herald Tribune notes the Hays office objections to the words hell and damn may delay US release. It recalls British censorship of bloody as offensive and asserts the film was an honest depiction despite cuts.
The piece argues war’s brutal language cannot be fully sanitized for cinema. It contrasts grim frontline reality with the censoring impulse from Hollywood, noting that words spoken by officers and soldiers in war’s drama reveal death and destruction beyond polite decorum.
The Washington Post argues postwar demobilization cannot be rushed or mass released. It notes the army must retain occupation troops and experts like prosthetic fitters to aid maimed veterans, and demobilization centers must run smoothly to avoid chaos.
A Washington dispatch notes wartime federal agencies expanded staff in the capital with thousands reassigned to Baltimore Philadelphia New York Richmond Chicago. Chairman Cannon leads a financial belt tightening push asking agencies to review finances and report how much money can be returned to the Treasury. Reductions hinge on cancellations and eliminating useless positions.
The article recalls Dr Bernardo, a founder of homes for outcast boys in Britain. He discovered homeless children in London and led thirteen boys to a shelter, inspiring a lifelong mission to place them in homes. It notes World War I veterans saved by such charities and urges carrying charity in the heart.
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The Rev. C. R. Line is elected president of the Valley District Disciples of Christ at a Luray gathering this week. Garland R. Quarles announces city schools will open for a full term September 7. Virginia State Guard 11th Battalion units plan a two day encampment near Warrenton this weekend.
Star Staff held its annual picnic at the Rosemont home of publisher Harry F. Byrd near Berryville. Miss Bertha Kline, secretary to Judge Weems, won a cow in a New York radio contest and the informant says the bovine will be shipped immediately. Aerial battles rage on with Nazi planes approaching London suburbs.
In Crozet Virginia a hobo returns five hundred dollars found in shoes given by a local housewife. He refuses a reward, saying honesty deserves no prize as the money represented proceeds from her husband’s peach crop. Elsewhere the report notes Italian troops sailing for Africa and Dr L M Allens’ hunter winning at the Berryville Horse Show.
Officials of the Winchester Fair invite entrants for the first annual dog show. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, touring drought struck Vir ginia, vows to prosecute fur ther profiteering on feeds after learning hay sold at 32 dollars per ton.
Survivors of the Clarke Cavalry Company D Sixth Virginia Regiment meet at the home of David Meade near White Post for a reunion as the war enters its second year and reports claim Russian finances are bankrupt.
R William Walter city coroner and clerk of the Magistrate Court before Winchester dies. J R Miley of Wardensville sues the Baltimore Herald for 30000 dollars for printing a damaging story about his credit. R Gray Williams and Warren Rice law students plan to take an examination before the Court of Appeals on September 9.
The writer argues that postwar relief and unemployment measures loom large with billions in federal outlays. He questions tax cuts, highlights GI benefits and flood control funding, and notes limited public discussion of the true scale of spending and its impact on taxpayers.
Fitz and Terry navigate a hectic schedule and shopping spree as Terry receives an extravagant trousseau from Jime and Madeline. The couple discusses Terry’s novel plot while Fitz toys with a revolutionary twist involving Brooks and peon uprisings, hinting at a larger political scheme.
A loud wolf cry described as deep wails drowns public attention, focusing on a reported wolf presence. Citizens react with caution as authorities investigate possible sightings and advise التركية safety measures.
A Maryland circuit judge ratified a compromise in the damage suit of Strother Lineberg et al. The settlement arises from a May 20 accident on Route 50 in Fairfax County injuring Catherine Lineberg, a passenger in H. Ashby Dyke’s car. The agreement provides $892 for hospital and doctor bills plus $200 for loss of time, with no admission of fault by H. J. Dyke and associates.
Members of the Winchester Junior Board of Trade schedule their annual picnic at Cacapon State Park near Berkeley Springs on Route 522. They plan basket lunches, reserved tables for the cats at five, and a softball game between the JET and the Exhausted Roosters at three o'clock.
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