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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1957
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription rates and contact details as part of a standard notice. The item notes the paper’s long history since 1896 and references Associated Press content. Readers are reminded of rates by mail or carrier and regional pricing in Virginia and West Virginia.
The Gaither report and other estimates show critical views of America's military stance but are not claps of doom. Objective analysis aids policy, and while emphasis matters, America remains strong when harnessing its potential for desired results.
The article argues memory is faulty and forgetting is essential. It notes memory can miss details unless impressions are consciously filed away and everyday experiences rarely stimulate memory, preventing overload and erratic results. It urges disciplined mental effort to remember meaningful impressions.
The Department of Agriculture reports this year matches the 1948 and 1956 record farm output despite the smallest cultivated acreage since 1919. Surplus will rise as productivity grows, underscoring the failure of price supports and controls to stabilize the farm economy. Economists favor voluntary farmer shifts to industrial work to reduce surpluses and taxpayer burdens.
The article explains memory as a process built from repetition and sensory coupling, with brain cells changing physically when impressions are strong. It notes aging slows these cellular changes, yet older people may vividly recall childhood events while forgetting recent ones.
A digest of the most interesting editorials selected from forty newspapers arriving at this office daily. Readers get concise summaries of opinions on politics society and policy from multiple outlets.
A Fort Myers News-Press anecdote recalls a boy who brings home a black eye after a fight with Billy Briges. His mother suggests reconciliation with cookies, but the boy returns with a second black eye, revealing Billy’s continued aggression and request for more cookies.
From The Star files: Charles Owens Jr at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas completes basic indoctrination. SFC Norman Feltner serving with the 25th Infantry in Korea, artillery unit firing its 400000th round. Col John Geiglein receives Oak Leaf Cluster to Bronze Star before Korea rotation. Notices of Peter Rouss’s death in Brooklyn. Adm Louis Nulton entertains guests Dean Francis and Virginia Nulton. Nancy Larrick hosts luncheon honoring Basie Steck and Dr James Miller engagement.
Ten years ago 1947 news notes show Tiebert E Woltz a University of Virginia Law School graduate joining Thomas O Scully in a general law practice in the city. A major fire hit Westminster Maryland destroying a lumber yard warehouse and garages amid suspicions of arson. The piece also notes Texas annexing submerged Geet bends off its coast expanding the state by 18 349 574 acres.
1907 report notes T. J. Fuqua of Hagerstown former resident of this city as an incorporator in the To Ko Company with capitalization of $60,000. The firm aims to manufacture soft drinks. Richard Stuart Hunter leaves Winchester during holidays for a job with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. Harry G. Hillbern and daughter Ivy Belle of Norfolk return home after visits to Mr. and Mrs. James O. Ritter on West Cork Street.
A collage of trivia and witticisms ranging from hair color and baldness odds to daylight air collisions near airfields, fashion gags, and quirky observations. Highlights include redheads delaying hair loss, Coleridge on ghosts, and a kerfuffle about a fish tester from England.
In his piece Earl L Douglass links liquor use to higher expenditures and crime. He notes liquor costs surpass education and religion spending and cites 50 highway deaths daily tied to liquor plus mortalities from assaults and murders. He urges awareness to prompt change.
Dr. Bundesen discusses wart treatments and the power of suggestion. He cites 1927 work by Bruno Bloch and a Zurich study showing about 78.5 percent success in 179 cases. The piece notes warts are viral and explores possible physiological mechanisms behind suggestion’s effects.
A brain teaser guide describes scoring from 9 to 10 correct as Memory Genius and outlines daily results across 10 days. It poses ten quiz questions on religion, Bible stones, UN meetings, a Tokyo raid, clothing warmth, Mayo Brothers, weather effects on materials, definitions, egg-laying mammals, and naval flag laws.
Dr George W Crane urges Hillsdale College graduates to seek facts on both sides of issues to prevent mob hysteria. He cites atom bomb fallouts and fluoridation fears, arguing longer lifespans spark cancer counts and fluoridated water has long been consumed in Texas. The address promotes logical debate and rebuttal of glib, one sided reasoning.
President Eisenhower appears passive as Dulles dominates Washington’s public briefing on NATO talks and the secret Gaither defense report. Leaks claim the panel urges huge spending. Hagerty downplays peril while promising a state of the union address in January.
A compendium of Q and A items covers Wilson’s Europe tour dates from 1918 to 1919 and his return to New York. It also includes notes on animal gaits, Pearl Buck’s Nobel Prize, and Bryophyllum pinnatum as described by the Department of Agriculture.
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