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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1957
Page
4
Daily newspaper page item dated Tuesday December 24 1957 from Winchester Virginia features local news and AP dispatches. Publication details include editor H F Byrd Jr and contact numbers. Subscriptions and postal information are listed for readers.
A contemplative piece on the Christmas message from Luke 2 10 11. It argues that every day should be Christmas and that the season awakens kindness humility and generosity in people, despite differing reactions to the holiday.
The Eisenhower administration keeps shifting on tidelands. Texas initially won broad underwater rights to its historic waters but legal briefings to the Supreme Court reopen the boundary question. Attorney General Rogers now says the final brief will not clash with the president’s earlier stance and may support a ten mile claim. The court’s reaction remains uncertain.
A college football payroll clash highlights money in the sport as Duffy Daugherty stays at Michigan State University for 30000 a year instead of moving to Texas A and M offering twice that. The episode underscores pay disparities between coaches and professors and questions about football’s commercial nature.
A digest of editorials selected from forty contributing papers presents diverse voices on current issues. Analysts note trends in policy debates, economics, and public affairs, reflecting regional attitudes and national concerns.
Twenty three European holiday skiers died in an avalanche on Austria's Arlberg Pass when the slide swept a bus from a bridge into a stream eighteen feet below. Richmond votes 100 percent water tax to fund a sixteen million dollar sewage plant. Two gunmen robbed an American Airlines office at LaGuardia Field in daylight, taking 3500 dollars. A child, Donald E. Mason, died of pneumonia at age two. Ada Glass Baker arrived to spend holidays with her parents in Richmond.
Ten years ago in 1947 a gunman menaced a Reno gambling casino wounding three policemen. He hijacked a taxicab, robbed the driver and was captured wounded after a half hour gunbattle.
50 years ago Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Huntington Hyde of New York stayed with Mrs. Hyde's parents Dr. and Mrs. William P. Mc Guire during the holidays. Theological seminary student Frank Ridgeway spent Christmas at his home on South Market Street. M. H. Trenary of Clarke County boasted of a 905 pound dressed hog he butchered in town. Merry Christmas.
The article portrays Luke the physician as the sole seeker who uncovers the nativity story's core scenes. He, guided by an old shepherd, travels to Bethlehem to witness the manger and the newborn savior, described as the moment the world’s salvation begins.
Dr Herman N Bundesen offers a holiday health tip tasting warm water with sodium bicarbonate to ease indigestion from overindulgence. He warns that excess eating stresses the heart kidneys liver and vessels and urges rest and restraint plus safe driving and warm dress.
The Weather Bureau notes that surface ice forms as water freezes and thickens downward. The water immediately under the ice stays at 32 degrees, with temperatures rising at greater depths but unlikely to exceed 39 degrees at the bottom.
Dr. Crane presents questions on Jesus birthday December 25 and why some churches prescribe fish on Fridays. The piece outlines historical adaptations of pagan customs into Christian practice and explains the origin of Friday fish and other dietary rites.
The piece defends the virgin birth attributing Jesus as God's only begotten Son and argues Matthew and Luke establish the doctrine as essential to scripture. It says adoption makes believers sons of God, while stressing the virgin birth as spiritual triumph beyond human generation.
A reader guide to a 10 day IQ test with daily scoring ranges from memory genius to good. It asks ten sample questions including census timing, biblical lineage, Iran's parliament, blimp, Uvalde VP link, dynamite discovery, state motto, Franklin shop site, coal center city, and number of languages spoken.
The piece presents quiz questions and answers on baseball feats a blimp drop catch by Joe Springer, beetle life cycles, pecan tree yields, and 1912 US flag star arrangement with 46 stars prior to Arizona and New Mexico statehood.
The saying burn the candle at both ends is traced to an old schoolmaster who lit both ends to gain more light for his classroom. It warns that living fast risks early ruin and fund requests for more candles followed.
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