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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1938
Page
4
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Classified and display ad pricing details, deadlines, and policy notes from the newspaper, including word and line charges, memorials and cards, border display rules, and Associated Press credit. Publication date implied as December 21, 1938.
Mass Psychology at Princeton University will spend $3,000 to analyze what went on in the American mass mind regarding Orson Welles’s The Men from Mars radio broadcast. The project aims to determine the general extent of reaction and the social reasons for it in different individuals and to assess broadcast authenticity and susceptibility to demagoguery.
Census Bureau figures show manufacturers spent 44 million dollars on sports equipment in 1937, up 27 percent from 1935. Golf led with over 13 million, fishing tackle 10.8 million, winter sports up sharply, and tennis football basketball rising while baseball equipment fell about half a million.
The Social Security Council endorses revising the Social Security Act to do away with a projected 47 billion dollar reserve fund under the current plan. The sum would exceed the nation’s entire income in 1933. While Social Security remains essential, the law needs changes to improve practicality and effectiveness.
An Roanoke World News examination argues that public tolerance and police discretion replace strict enforcement in Virginia Beach gambling, highway headlight and truck weight laws, and ABC board crackdowns. It highlights widespread nonenforcement and tacit acceptance across agencies.
The piece critiques lax enforcement at cigar stores punch boards and pools where off duty officers may overlook violations. It notes a tacit understanding with laws ignored by both state and local police and contrasts it with the predictable constraints of the fire department where chiefs control fire suppression without discretion.
A Gallup poll shows 49 percent support for Chamberlain while 40 percent favor Eden as his successor. Eden, now in the U S perhaps, is seen as potential cabinet ally with growing backing should a second Munich crisis unfold and anti-Chamberlain sentiment rise.
Paul F. Shryock listed as crew member of the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Hamburg reported sinking after a collision off the Dutch coast. William Fox dies in Memorial Hospital as the county records a third auto accident victim in recent days.
Five years ago reports show two safes forced at John W. Rosenberger and Co. plant with $100 cash and papers taken. Large public concern includes Navy Coast Guard consolidation protests. Immunization drive reports 1 500 county school children inoculated against diphtheria by teachers.
Ten years ago Joseph Denny of White Post announced his bid for the Democratic nomination to the House of Delegates from Frederick and Clarke counties. Lester Lineburg and Boyd L. Cassard are expected to die in Georgetown hospital after inhaling carbon monoxide in a truck cab. Stephens City and Middletown FFA chapters hold their first farm crop exhibit. Valley Pike widening proposed to bring millions in tourist revenue to the Shenandoah area, say valley leaders.
Twenty five years ago a proposed amendment in Congress would prohibit carrying concealed weapons. The Star features a photo of John D Rockefeller at his Ohio home. Allison Kline, 24, of Vaucluse, is badly injured when an auto strikes his motorcycle, throwing him 121 feet. Miss Kate Wolfe leaves her entire $80,000 estate to sister Miss Fannie Wolfe.
Forty years ago Miss Marianne Virginia Mason daughter of Major and Mrs R F Mason married in Charlottesville Virginia to Mr B Saunders Minor. A M Baker chosen eminent commander of Winchester Commandery. The Presbyterian Church of Vaucluse Virginia witnessed the wedding of Miss Clara Dinges to James Wise a county farmer.
A collage of trivia items covers silk production Lyons of America in Paterson New Jersey to historic slave trade controls. It names Vesta Victoria introducing Waiting At The Church and the Dropping Well in Yorkshire. It also cites the 1940 census cost and labor union tax status.
An instruction style note promotes a booklet on fortune telling from the Information Bureau. It claims facial features reveal character and offers chapters on palmistry dreams and card fortunes. Readers are urged to send ten cents and provide name address and location to obtain the booklet.
A 1938 McNaught Syndicate essay highlights Arthur Hotaling who built a home town newspaper sales chain from a New York Times Building start after discovering travelers want local papers. It also profiles Douglas Leigh who turned moving ads into a billion dollar Broadway sign business.
Sara Sue Davis at Rice Institute offers a social counseling scheme for students. Bob Towne learns Nightmare the bulldog was given to Sara Sue by T. J. Sanders, triggering suspense as Bob confronts a possible date with Sara Sue and a budding romance complex.
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