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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1959
Page
4
In the Winchester Evening Star for Monday August 24 1959 editorials remind readers to avoid extravagance and waste while many suffer lack of necessities citing Luke 1413. The page includes newspaper masthead details and subscription rates.
Reports show growing interest in merit rating plans for auto insurance including endorsement by the Virginia Association of Insurance Agents. Three states Nebraska Pennsylvania and Iowa plan to implement next month with California already adopting a similar system. The approach rewards safe drivers with lower rates and penalizes those at fault in accidents using driver records.
The speaker contrasts Einstein with another genius who built a college from a small group of learners. A genius creates utterly new ideas or ways of life, Latin roots meaning to beget. Few have existed. many are unhappy, yet value comes from those who nurture and spread knowledge.
The commission announced a study to gauge the feasibility of adopting a merit rating plan. Further word is awaited as interest grows and actions are hoped to follow.
The Department of Agriculture reports the Delicious apple crop will be twice the size of the McIntosh. Delicious set at 24,266,000 bushels and McIntosh at 12,815,000. Mr and Mrs Milton Harris hosted Albert Power of Cambridge Mass as a guest. Peggy Anderson and Mr and Mrs Meredith Anderson return from Bowlers Wharf cottage on the Rappahannock River after a week away.
A bomb shattered windows and wrecked type forms at a Chicago United States Printing Plant owner who operated open shop and refused NRA code prices. Mrs. Ray Albin started a two week motor trip visiting friends in West Virginia and Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith hosted Mrs. J Philip Diffenderfer and son John of Baltimore.
Fifty years ago in 1909 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington received a large collection of animals killed by ex President Roosevelt during his Africa hunting expedition. Mrs H C McDonald and Miss Viola Mc Donald spent the weekend with Mrs James Bush. Roy Patterson and Charles Crim of Connellsville Pennsylvania were guests of William B.
The departure of former Cuban leader Batista from the Dominican Republic to Madeira islands is seen as stabilizing the Caribbean. The Declara tion of Santiago denounces anti democratic regimes and questions Castro Trujillo relations. Harry Byrd Jr reports from Cuba noting few Moscow directed Communists but Raul Castro's leftist influence and uncertain drift.
President Eisenhower's Western Europe trip makes summitry possible despite historical delays. Khrushchev's push for top level talks, a July 1955 Geneva outcome, and Eisenhower's planned Washington and Moscow meetings set a compressed schedule for negotiations and reciprocal visits.
Luther Markin crafts a reflective meditation on ingratitude that wounds many, yet bites hardest when directed at the original benefactors as the verse unfolds with a somber, personal tone.
Former President Harry S. Truman announced plans for two new books to be published by Bernard Geis Associates and distributed by Random House. One work will cover his life since leaving the White House and his transition to private life.
A quiz score guide lists daily targets for IQ style with 10 day totals. It ranks 9 or 10 correct as Memory Genius, 7 or 8 Very Superior, 5 or 6 Excellent, 4 good and points readers to page 2 for the answers. It presents 10 trivia questions on canals statues eggs Willamette casein bats whales and more.
The AP reports rising stakes as management and labor prepare for a possible Labor Day showdown over steel and copper strikes. Productivity, capital investment, wage and price lines, and public interest shape the dispute. Mitchell’s report highlights output gains since 1940 and argues higher costs hinder price stability.
This column notes Leonardo da Vinci, who died in 1519, is credited with inventing the alarm clock that tickled a sleeper’s toes. It treats alarm clocks as a sign of an around the clock era and adds a string of trivia on work hours and famous figures.
A weather upheaval swept Virginia with a cold front bringing a micro tornado, thunderstorms, and extensive lightning. Richmond saw temperatures plunge from 90 to 75 in minutes as a brief storm hit with strong winds. The Buckingham County tornado toppled trees, damaged a barn, a restaurant and motel near State Route 15 and U S 60. Lightning caused $500 damage in a Goochland County garage and struck seven Fairfax County homes during the storm. Bristol buildings also reported lightning with high winds and heavy rain. Five minor fires, a power outage and various car accidents accompanied the weather.
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