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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1962
Page
4
The notice lists mailing details and rates for subscriptions including daily editions except Sunday. It cites contact lines and executive staff in Chester, Virginia, and New York City, with pricing for one year six months one month and single copies.
A Gallup American Express survey found over 9.5 million adults lost cash in a year, averaging $75 each. More than eight million losses occurred at wallets or purses. education and profession influence risk, with professionals most affected. Winchester figures: about 1,500 residents lost $112,500 in 1962.
From The Star Files ten years ago in 1952 three local men were reported for induction into the U S Army. The men named were Lonnie F Strawderman Gerald W Dulaney and Herschell E Jones. Also noted were Mr and Mrs John Sna of Wesbing and Mrs Calvin.
Joe Schroth of Gray Gables Inn underwent a tonsil removal operation at Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Horace Davis spent the day in Hagerstown Maryland. Polly Terretta of Altavista visited Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hockman on Washington Street for several days.
Yale University offered a land law professorship to President Taft who did not accept. The Ebenezer public school near Whitacre suffered fire damage, with J. L. Dailey as teacher. Donald and E. V. Weems Jr. returned home from Tome Institute for Boys Port Deposit Md due to chickenpox outbreak.
Earl L. Douglas argues that Jesus condemns focus on externals while inner goodness governs true worth. True values arise from the heart, not wealth or status. honesty, purity, helpfulness, and commitment to great causes endure beyond outer riches or praise.
In a Washington opinion piece, David Lawrence argues the tax system favors the enterprising and burdens the efficient. He questions fairness across states and calls for reform to base taxes on benefits rather than income, warning current policy risks stifling the economy.
HAL BOYLE reports Herb Gardner, a Bronx born cartoonist who could not draw horses, found fame as a playwright with his Broadway comedy A Thousand Clowns. At 27 he recalls childhood dreams, early theater jobs, and years as a commercial artist before his gamble paid off with immediate success. Gardner’s rise from Nebbish comic creator to hit playwright underscores his unusual path to Broadway.
A West Side apartment hosts Herb and Rita as royalties from his first play fuel a rush to furnish a new home. He argues against delaying life and champions risk-taking over merely buying time, while his fame as an apostle of this philosophy grows amid public acclaim.
James Marlow surveys the looming leadership gap as Konrad Adenauer, 87, and Winston Churchill, 88, near retirement. He notes Germany's fragile democratic roots and possible successor Ludwig Erhard, contrasting Britain’s steady continuity with a changing West German future.
The fourteenth amendment is accused of overrunning state functions as federal courts extend reach into state matters. The writer calls the ruling ominous and warns it could lead to a centralized government over the fifty states. A stray note mentions political figures Kasperiet Lambelle and Pinay with unrelated quips.
The text outlines a 100 question daily quiz with scoring bands from Memory Genius to Good. It lists ten example questions about faces on dice, nursery rhymes, drinks from pears and apples, trade winds, chess pawns, fencing length, life/death questions, mercury synonym, Isle of Man waters, and wood for campfires. It also discusses decorating trees during ancient winter feasts and a Christmas Eve legend about forest trees blooming.
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