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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1944
Page
4
The Evening Star lists subscription rates by mail or motor route with yearly, half yearly, quarterly, and monthly options and carrier prices. It asks readers to report delivery delays or irregularities to maintain prompt service. The page includes a Bible verse from Psalms 103:4 dated Thursday December 7, 1944.
At the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers meeting in New York City, experts debated air travel's impact on railroads. Col. A. B. Lambdin warned airlines could make railroads "non existent" in 50 years, while Albert B. Brushaber argued air growth would reduce passenger revenue but not freight. They noted planes excel in speed, not replacing traditional freight by rail or water, and questioned whether freight transport would vanish.
Farm mortgages held by U S life insurers totaled 817 million in October, far below FHA loans and other mortgages, suggesting farmers are nearer debt freedom. U S bonds dominated insurer assets at 15.6 billion, implying rural America may see lower demand for farm debt as land prices rise potential.
Reprinted editorial notes that Allied wins in the Pacific have reduced Japan to a minor threat and enables air attacks from land bases or carriers. It warns the war remains hard, with Japan’s forces still large and fanatic, and stresses continued heavy fighting required to defeat Japan even as victory in Europe nears.
The Food Administration plans to reduce laying hen numbers to curb egg output after Congress backed 90 percent parity. The government holds millions of eggs in shell and dried form with extensive losses and past fertilizer sales, spending hundreds of millions this year to support egg prices.
A discussion on what it means to be religious in all life aspects. It contrasts religious consistency with political hypocrisy. The piece cites St. Paul and emphasizes daily reliance on God, sincerity, and faith as core elements of genuine religion.
News of Other Years notes the death of Berryville merchant Harold Scheurer after a paralytic stroke at Winchester Memorial Hospital. The item also lists regional notes including Dr. E. T. Clark becoming president of the Winchester Ministerial Association and other brief items from different years.
Berryville Odd Fellows hold dedication exercises with fifty five members present. Miss Louise Carper of Boyce attends the Army Navy football game. C H Willis captain of the Sarah Zane Fire Company announces the group has finished paying for their new equipment.
Thirty years in this county ace Jacob S. Haldeman a well known dairyman installs a mechanical milker for his Holstein cows. The report notes a dance sponsored by the Star was not stopped by a minister and proceeded as planned with all in attendance having a fine time.
Forty five years ago the Rev. Dr. Nelson P. Dame rector of Christ Episcopal Church receives a call to St Stephen's Episcopal Church in Harrisburg Pa. The City Council building committee led by J Correll fails to select a plan from the fourteen submitted for the new city hall.
The reader faces a quiz with ten questions covering capitals, terms of office, inventions, inaugurations, cyclotrons, naturalists, city management, leopard markings, rival generals, and chukker in sports. The source invites turning to page 2 for correct answers.
The Veterans Administration set monthly payments from 10 dollars for a 10 percent disability to 100 dollars for a 100 percent disability with intermediate steps. Public Law 312 of May 27, 1944 increased these sums by 15 percent of the basic amount, starting June 1, 1944 for current rolls and for awards made on or after that date.
The Navy Nurse Corps states a nurse with three years of service who resigns to marry will receive an honorable discharge if her record is clean. If she has served less than three years she receives a discharge under honorable conditions.
A reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Winchester Evening Start Information Bureau at 316 Eye St N E Washington D C enclosing three cents for reply.
The page presents a series of Q A trivia items including the first chemical element discovered in the United States as illinum element 61 by B S Hopkins at Illinois in 1926. It notes Heitor Villa-Lobos as a leading South American composer with over 1500 works. It lists Gallant Fox and War Admiral as standing at stud at Claiborne and Faraway Farm in Kentucky and the World War I aces with their enemy planes destroyed. It claims a Die sel engine of 22 000 hp by Burmeister & Wayne installed in Copenhagen.
In a tense scene, Drue reveals her escape from guard duty and confirms Claud Chivery’s murder. Craig confronts Alexia’s claim of love and reveals his intent to protect Drue, while Drue vows to leave Craig and the house. The discovery shifts amid tension and looming danger as all faces come to light.
Washington dispatch notes that six months after France’s invasion the Nazis still control Le Havre Cherbourg Saint Nazaire and Dunkirk with 25 000 30 000 and 20 000 troops at key river entrances. It cites Himmler driven discipline and a hardened civilian resistance as crucial to keeping morale while Churchill urges continued hard power and bond buying to back the effort.
The Baptist denomination traces its origin to 1608 among English exiles in Amsterdam led by John Smyth. Thomas Helwys, with Smyth, returned to England about 1611 and established the First Baptist Church in Southwark, London.
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