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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
4
The Evening Star outlines subscription rates and delivery guidelines. Rates include one year five dollars, six months two dollars seventy five, three months one fifty, and one month eighty cents, with higher charges outside zones. It requests prompt reader reports on delays to maintain service quality.
A devotional line from Psalms seeks guidance and truth as a church calendar entry marks Thursday August 31 1944 with liturgical reflection and a plea for fear of the Lord.
A satirical survey mixes a tale of ancient peas from King Tut with modern woes as a Florida officer grows the exotic crop and pests avoid them. The piece also lampoons the Office of Price Administration plan for a simplified 12 volume code, ready by November to ease public confusion.
Reprinted Washington Post editorial notes Arthur Rimbaud as a boy genius who joined Paris Communards during the 1871 uprising. The poem Paris se Repeuple expresses adoration of Paris and fierce hatred of German desecrators, ending with praise for Paris's beauty as the city rebuilds.
A reader asks general knowledge questions answered by The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau. The exchange covers topics from tomato relish recipe and storage, climate temperature timing, Oxford Group history, Bach, spun glass versus hair, continental population density, English Channel swims, industrial organization initials, Shakespeare usage, climate variation and human activity, Bounty survivors, and high school attendance by location.
The Baltimore Sun notes competing postwar theses on Germany's loss. Pravda prints a von Paulus letter blaming Hitler's leadership for Germany's downfall, while German chatter favors a betrayal by generals or leadership. The piece discusses which narrative will prevail as Allied victory is recognized.
Leesburg Times Mirror notes Wright Bryan cites General Montgomery praising the infantry as the guts and backbone of the war effort. The piece stresses foot soldiers bear heat and battle, deserve recognition alongside the Air Corps and other units.
Berryville High School will not field a football team this fall while Handley remains undecided. J. W. Baker is appointed County Clerk by Judge Philip Williams to complete the term of the late C. C. Brannon. The Appalachin Apples, Inc. begins a membership drive as chewing gum manufacturing shows sharp growth over twenty five years. Junior Board of Trade softball loses district tournament opener 5 to 3 to a Hagerstown team, ending their bid for the Eastern Softball tournament.
Registration begins tomorrow for a baby contest hosted by the Winchester Camp of Modern Woodmen of America. The notice lists Miss Sarah Belle Pingley as the youngest applicant for a hunting license, hoping to use it.
The George Washington Hotel Corporation purchases the Jack Hotel for 90000 dollars with no rate increase announced for either property. T. J. Cooper and daughter Grace arrive in New York this week from Naples after an European tour. H C Browne wins the Winchester Golf championship defeating E V Weems Jr. Miss Susan Carson defeats Mrs Anne Reba to claim the women's title.
Dr. and Mrs. B M Roszel and Miss Gertrude Barton travel mid ocean aboard a steamship and expect to land in New York this week after visiting the continent when the war began. Rev Dr Julian Broaddus of Berryville is re elected president of the Shenandoah Baptist Association at Front Royal annual session.
Forty years ago Richard E Byrd Jr Philip Williams and Carl Minnigerode entered the fourth class at VMI in Lexington. The four day Grangers Picnic opened at Williams Grove with many attendees. Forty five years ago John S Robinson became a second lieutenant and was sent from Camp Meade to the Philippines. He had been a popular brakeman on the Cumberland Valley Railroad. William Flemister harvested a second strawberry crop. The Capon Springs ball in Capon Springs West Virginia closed the summer season with hundreds of guests.
A page advertises a seven-question IQ style quiz with items on Coutances location in France, authorship of I Never Left Home, yard bird meaning in the Army, capital of the Bahamas or Trinidad, Ursa Minor's star for directions, true false Syria's Turkish Empire status, the Gothic Line location, chives as disease or slang for a butler, Burns line completion, and best electrical insulator among glass paraffin or rubber.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hours to 8 a.m. at 0.17 inches, August-to-date 2.75 inches, year-to-date 25.36 inches, with a 31-year average annual rainfall of 35.95 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1943 include January 2.51, February 1.95, March 2.02, April 3.15, May 3.60, June 3.83, July 3.60, August 3.74, September 2.31, October 3.45, November 2.46, December 2.43 inches. Courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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