Winchester Telephones Daily Coverage Surges
Winchester Evening Star reports a daily readership boom with over 50,000 telephones receiving the paper, signaling strong community engagement and broad circulation across the region.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1962
Page
4
Winchester Evening Star reports a daily readership boom with over 50,000 telephones receiving the paper, signaling strong community engagement and broad circulation across the region.
The document lists business and editorial staff and various subscription rates for home delivery and single copies. It notes in advance pricing for one year, six months, and one month, with a post office entry in Winchester Virginia and references to national representatives.
A Star reporter probes water plant rumors and a White House press secrecy issue. The piece draws analogies to water contamination denial and executive leak favoritism, condemning government manipulation of news and stressing public right to know. Two Rutgers scientists find apple pectin may help arteriosclerosis prevention and cure.
In 1952 Governor John Battle named Chester H. Lamb acting commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to succeed Crawley F. Joyner who resigned. In Tokyo a $10,000 check arrived from John L. Lewis backing Japan coal miners strike. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Swartz hosted dinner for several couples including Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wilson and the Fiddlers.
Twenty five people were injured when three Pere Marquette passenger coaches traveling from Detroit to Bay City, Michigan, overturned sixteen miles west of Detroit. Also noted are social visits of Mrs Richard Hawkey of New York and Mrs Florence Willis hosting relatives and students at area homes during the holidays.
About 100 suffragettes from New York City start a 140 mile trek to Albany bearing yellow Votes For Women signs to hand a petition to Governor-elect Sulzer. A Patterson business district fire causes a loss of 300000 dollars. Miss Bessie Hockman spends the night with Miss Edna Carpenter at Relief.
Earl L. Douglas argues true religion moves from theory to practice by applying biblical directives in everyday life. He warns classroom or book religion lacks power and cautions against mere memoralization, urging religion to endure rough life trial.
This profile credits William Tecumseh Sherman as the first modern general whose adaptive strategy and rail era methods transformed Civil War combat and influenced WWII. It notes his vision, clashes with politicians, and pivotal campaigns from Kentucky to Atlanta and beyond.
Quiz outlines daily scoring ranges from 9 to 10 correct answers for Memory Genius down to 4 for Good with a page 2 answer key. It asks ten questions covering notable women, wordplay with clock times, family relations, state initials, mountains, river sources, furniture anagrams, and mentions royal guests at a World Fund dinner with Roast Pheasant as the main course.
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