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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1944
Page
4
Notices request subscribers report delivery delays or irregularities to the Evening Star office at Winchester. Readers are urged to help maintain prompt service with timely notices. Advertising deadlines are 9 PM the day before publication. rates vary by contract. Psalms 86 10 is quoted.
Internal Revenue Bureau spokesmen pitch tax season as less painful with simplified filing. Under $ five thousand annual income filers use employer withholding forms. higher incomes use new tables. A 10 percent deduction for deductions applies. the exemption rises to 500 dollars. dependents must be citizens or residents of the United States, Canada or Mexico.
A Royal Air Force report praises tiny crews for destroying German munitions sites. Footprints of German girls guiding a shortcut led to an underground plant. A freight train entering a tunnel revealed a vast munitions dump.
Reprinted editorial cautions against premature euphoria over Allied gains. It notes continued German resistance possible for weeks, predicts a hard break after France Belgium and Holland, and cites fuel shortages and civilian sacrifices as key factors likely to decide when Hitler may surrender, possibly by early October.
A note from margarine makers counters A D Lynch of Sanitary Milk Producers arguing margarine must be bleached white and artificially colored, while yellow is the natural color for margarine. Lynch suggested colors including red blue purple green. The piece questions why natural color applies to one product but not butter and whether both should be colored to an attractive shade.
Dr. McClellan C. Fellows, a prominent dentist, is expected to return to the United States aboard the Gripsholm after leaving Shanghai. Clatterbuck goes on trial in Loudoun County as Park team defeats U S Remount Club 10 to 4 with Mentzer fanning 14 in his fifth straight win. Frank Schaffenaker, veteran lumberman of Capon Bridge West Virginia, is killed instantly when struck by a rolling oak log at a Blue Ridge lumber camp. The Stephens City Firemen vote to pay 1000 dollars for the South End truck. The South End Company plans a meeting tonight to decide final steps. The Winchester Concert Band will perform on the John Kerr school playground court with Strauss waltzes on the program. A man and wife, traveling from New Orleans to Baltimore since May 15, push a wheelbarrow with a large ore cart and a small white terrier.
The Em pire Theatre will host the road show season opener for Bringing Up Father. The Winchester Golf Club tournament has reached the semi finals with Miss Susan Carson posting the low score of 59.
The story notes Koenigsburg is reported captured by the Russians while German sources claim the English are defeated at St Quen tin. It also mentions a Horse Show Dance in Charles Town with attendees Barton Grim and Long, and heavy rain flooding Winchester streets for about an hour.
A bridegroom in a pink necktie marries a blushing country girl here. The annual mission services will be held at Burnt Church. Colored teachers receive a $2.50 monthly raise to $27.50 for ten months.
Forty five years ago the Rev. Julian T. Broaddus is elected to his eleventh term as president of the Shenandoah Baptist Association during the gathering in town. The City Council grants a five year contract to the Winchester Gas and Electric Light Company. A fire destroys a new stable and contents on Cornelius Gibbons property, with suspicions of arson.
A dinner in a Washington hotel becomes a parable about taxation and war contracts as three high grade salesmen boast about how much they will pay. The first claims a 50 percent tax bracket saves him half the bill. The second argues an 80 percent bracket lowers his share further. The third says a cost plus contract will net his firm a profit of three dollars.
The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau answers common questions. Topics include Lady Astor’s long service in Parliament since 1919, eel breeding in the Sargasso Sea, and Hawaii printed dollars noting they are valid but not for U.S. circulation.
A reader from Baker, West Virginia, August 4 argues that victory should be met with a period of humbly supplication and prayer rather than balls. The writer asks the President to designate a national time of thanksgiving to honor those who suffered in war and to seek guidance for postwar affairs.
A reader quiz listing ten questions on wartime topics and general knowledge. Items ask about overseas duties, a Albania king, a German pocket battleship, Doolittle raid aircraft, arm position, the Empire State Building status, California ownership, Lenin's first name, Lucia di Lammermoor composer, and Palestine mandate power.
Washington reports that the War Production Board has changed hands to new dealers led by Krug and Maury Maverick, with a wider clash of New Deal figures over reconversion and surplus property. Conflicting leadership, stalled policies, and shifting plans threaten postwar strategy as Byrnes and Baruch pull back and Congress debates industrial unemployment and land transfer details.
The piece discusses cultural lag as a barrier to preventive medicine led by anti vaccination groups. It cites typhoid inoculation starting in 1912 and significant declines by 1940, noting public sanitation and carriers. It contrasts beliefs with modern credits to government action and medical science. It also includes a brief medical Q and A on tuberculosis testing and X rays.
The author analyzes administration disputes over contract termination legislation and the Nelson Wilson matter. They predict Roosevelt will respond with a major restructuring of manpower bureaus and a new leadership group, likening it to past grand reorganizations to mask failures.
The community clinic invites volunteers to donate blood at the 9th annual drive. Organizers urge donors to give one hour of time and a pint of blood to help local patients in need.
Ridings Chapel A. B. Church near Stephens City hosts annual Homecoming and Anniversary on Sunday September 3. Sunday School at 10 a.m. led by Wm Sargent. Worship at 11 with Fred Maphis Strasburg address and Gore Male Quartet. Noon basket lunch. 2 p.m. devotions by visiting minister. Gore Quartet and Mrs. Howard White sing. Everyone invited.
Judith announces plans to leave Matthew and go to the Coast to think, seeking time apart to reassess their marriage. Matthew resists, then acknowledges emptiness in their union as Judith insists on independence. Judith departs as both confront an irreconcilable gap in understanding marriage and partnership.
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