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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1951
Page
4
The editorial argues tax policy is set by Virginia's elected legislature, not the Tax Commissioner. It notes the commissioner collects taxes under state law and should not advocate tax increases, while the Byrd plan and federal interaction shape net income and revenue.
General Douglas MacArthur outlines a model government in a letter to Japan’s premier Shigeru Yoshida. He lists public morality frugality restraint and limited centralization the free enterprise economic system adherence to the Bill of Rights and robust judicial processes as essential foundations for Japan’s new era and applicable to the United States as well.
More than 2,000 Georgians lost welfare aid in July under the child support law. Critics seek repeal or changes while officials defend the measure as vital to reducing rising relief costs, noting 1940-41 costs exceed 41 million dollars and the law aids fiscal restraint.
David Sarnoff, RCA chairman, returns from abroad and says the Voice of America is not winning the propaganda war with Russia and should be reorganized as a separate agency outside the State Department to boost psychological peacefare. He cites decades of radio expertise and urges decisive reform.
Mayor M. B. Clowe Jr and Eugene P Bakers returned from a business trip to New York City. Mrs Grace Dailey of Fairmont Avenue is home recovering from fractured bones in her ankles and leg. Mrs R R Sartelle, Miss Doris Sartelle and Miss Genevieve Fox returned from Atlantic City New Jersey. Miss Shirley Carter Williams hosted Miss Serena Simons from Charleston Washington DC.
Walker McC Bond was reelected head of the Southern States Co op. William Herbert Hershman and Joseph J Ryan were sworn into the United States Marine Corps. Mr and Mrs Don C Hall left for Cleveland Tennessee where Mr Hall would enroll at Bob Jones College.
Mrs Lucy Gibson Baker 75, daughter of Capt Bruce Gibson of the Confederate Army, died at her daughter Mrs Bruce Longstreets home in Washington DC. Mr and Mrs Joseph Thrift returned to their home here after several days away.
The four day Winchester Fair started with a rush and promises to exceed recent Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society shows. Winchester Hospital benefited from an illegal hunting case as Game Warden Pingley presented 13 freshly killed squirrels to the institution. Berryville rivals Leith Brothers Wiley and Feltner arrived with their running horses to contest events at the fair.
Fifty years ago Tom Beardsworth narrowly escaped a runaway team and wagon as he came from the post office. County correspondents report crop prospects as very good. George Eagle led the Epworth League annual meeting at Market Street Methodist Church.
Washington scene centers on Senator Paul Douglas proposing a commission to raise federal ethics. Lobbyists dispute calls for a new code, arguing their work checks executive power and citing Kefauver and Fulbright reports to defend current norms. The piece links Truman aides’ anti-Dewey push to Ike’s 1952 bid and New York political shifts.
An early 1960s guidance piece urges regular breast examinations for women and notes 12000 US deaths annually from breast cancer. It explains chronic cystic mastitis can predispose to cancer, advises tissue sampling of any growth, and highlights the value of early diagnosis and treatment including surgery and X ray. It also mentions male hormones as a post operative treatment. A reader asks about frequent bowel movements and is advised to seek complete physical examination for potential infection tumor or colitis.
The report lists past 24 year rainfall to 7 a.m. today with August totals, 1951 year-to-date rainfall, and average rainfall over 38 years. It also provides monthly averages from 1912 to 1950: January 2.48, February 1.95, March 2.86, April 2.90, May 3.863, June 3.91, July 3.84, August 3.90, September 2.65, October 3.33, November 2.42, December 3.46.
The piece recounts how Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne rose from invalidism thanks to love and marriage. It parallels their recoveries with Louise Tharp’s claim that Sophia Hawthorne became a supremely happy woman after marriage and companionship.
A reflective note on how affection and new interests can heal more than medicine. The text suggests Elizabeth Barrett and Sophia Peabody may have fallen ill, yet a fresh romance or passion acted as a powerful therapeutic force, driving away ailments and easing distress.
About ten percent of a submarine’s total weight is rubber. B. F. Goodrich notes the largest use is for 252 hard rubber storage batteries. Rubber coats bulkheads and decks in battery rooms and appears in gaskets hatch seals shock mounts cables hoses and various valves and tanks.
The New York Public Service Commission records show the final horse drawn vehicle operated on Bleecker Street along the Avenue C Line, in July 4, 1817.
A quiz listing ten questions on general knowledge with answers on page 2. Topics include a West Virginia congressional vacancy, British wartime leadership, Earth-sun proximity in seasons, diamond hardness, beaver diet, the PHA, cloud types, first female suffrage state, philately, and grammar correction.
In Aurillo Vic, Tonto and Tex pursue Bart Overby and Ruby Sevier after a gunfight and Bradley arrest. Tonto declares Ruby did the murder, as Vic learns of deeper schemes and a looming final roundup with Dr Gret and a sawbones planned.
Avrilio shadows and Bart Overby loom as Vic and Tonto dissect the Ruby Sevier triangle. Rick Staples died after warnings and a hidden derringer. The small gun and Bart’s threats point to a dangerous, mistaken chase of motives and murder.
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