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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1951
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices in 1940s style terms. One year in advance 6.50, six months 3.00, three months 3.00, one month 0.50. Outside Virginia and West Virginia add 10 for reins.
A devotional note from January 2, 1951 urges readers to strengthen faith by practice and prayer. The meditation cites belief deepening through daily effort and divine aid to overcome doubt.
The 81st Congress eyes a new Senate majority leader with Sen. McFarland of Arizona and Sen. O Mahoney of Wyoming as candidates. Both opposed key Truman Administration pushes and differ on civil rights and farm policy. O Mahoney holds seniority and is seen as potentially leading a majority with constraints from Southern anti Fair Deal Democrats.
The account notes a rift in Congress as Roosevelt faced criticism over timing of mourning and policy. It recalls Barkley's 1944 resignation as majority leader amid heated language, followed by his re election by Democrats and a Senate veto override on a bipartisan tax bill. McFarland supported the override while O Mahoney favored it overall.
The Providence Evening Bulletin reflects on the Gibson Girl era and late nineteenth century life. It recalls gaslight parlors Sunday songs piano melodies Newport society Four Hundred society Teddy Roosevelt and Dooley cartoons street scenes yellow kid and Happpy Hooligan readers, fire engines, wooden Indians, barber mug lore, livery stables, and early forecasts of telephones and gas stoves.
A Birmingham University physics authority notes that intensive atom bombing would require about 20 000 years to destroy the entire globe surface. The remark questions the worth of such effort.
A Greensboro Daily News comment questions the affordability of so called wonder drugs and the struggle of patients to pay. The piece suggests concern over access to treatment and cost. It frames the issue as a societal dilemma about drug pricing and patient needs.
Taylor L. Barr becomes Winchester Commissioner of Revenue succeeding C. P. McVicar. 1949 rainfall totaled 4.32 inches, above 31 year average by 4.76 inches. First baby of the year born at Winchester Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Russell Spaid of Gore. Other first births in 1946 noted. Commander John D. Buckley USN and Mrs Buckley arrived in Winchester with Tom Baldridge. Pfc Earl Printz and Pfc Earl H. Sealock aboard US Monticello arrive in New York. No New Year arrests reported. stork took a holiday with no births on Jan 1.
Twenty five years ago a total of six thousand six hundred eighty dollars was taken in at the Chamber of Commerce from applicants for state motor vehicle licenses for the year 1926. The cold early week allowed ice house owners to fill their rigs with natural ice of very fine quality, six inches thick in places. Elsie Janis and her company performed at the Empire with orchestra tickets from two dollars to fifty cents for the gallery.
Leonard I. Miller was installed as president of the Kiwanis Club. Other officers inducted were F. Grove White as vice president and Andrew Bell as secretary treasurer.
Fifty years ago Mrs. Bessie Woodward Victoria Smith Viola Sumption Nellie Roderick Charlena March and Ethel Anderson won prizes for best costume at the Rouss Hall New Year's Eve Ball. Several prominent local businessmen had received threatening letters amid fears a white hooded gang was again active.
The Tax Court ruled the National Tax Equality Association and similar groups do not perform scientific or educational work and are not tax exempt. It labels them lobbying outfits funded by major corporations, not nonprofit organizations. The decision threatens their funding as donations lose deductibility, impacting Capitol Hill influence and treasury revenue.
A medical note discusses cervical ribs, their higher occurrence in women, and potential symptoms from nerve and blood vessel compression. It outlines diagnosis by physical exam and upper spine X ray, mentions treatment from exercises and heat to surgical rib removal, and notes possible differential conditions like arthritis or disk protrusion.
Presentation of rainfall data shows 72 hour and January totals as none and 1.51 inches respectively. It lists eight decades of monthly averages from 1912 to 1950 with January 2.48 inches, February 1.95, March 2.86, April 2.99, May 3.83, June 3.91, July 3.84, August 3.90, September 2.65, October 3.33, November 2.53, December 2.46 inches.
A devotional piece discusses Christmas meaning citing John’s gospel and the birth of Jesus as a simple universal event. It notes Christmas as religious, contrasts with commercial images, and includes reader questions about banisters and royal lineage with factual answers.
A quiz guide offers a 10 day program with four daily averages and scoring bands from Memory Genius to Good. Sample questions test cake ingredients cognac origin goose rhyme little boy material, Venice, a bird with special vision, a NY senator, Jungfrau location, Arctic region, Washington White House tenure, and Friday the 13th alignment.
The term yardarm derives from the old practice of measuring the yard by the king’s arm. King Henry I’s arm served as a standard reference, hence the name.
Liza prepares to leave Michael and Chicago ties, while Virginia presses her to visit Abby and arrange nursing help. The scene mixes personal moves with the looming baby and shifts in relationships among Liza, Abby, Robert, Hiram, and Patty as tensions simmer.
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