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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1948
Page
3
Dr Glenn T Seaborg reported that UC's cyclotron can transmute uranium atoms into a full range of elements down to iron. The machine began operations with 400 million volt alpha particles, enabling creation of many elements and their breakdown products.
Salaries for Winchester and Frederick County teachers climbed in the 1946-47 session with elementary pay up from 1140 to 1247 and high school pay from 1047 to 1504, positioning the county 86th and 77th in Virginia respectively. The Winchester city saw elementary salaries rise to 1691 and high school pay to 2055, ranking 20th and 14th statewide.
Winchester residents have contributed 4158 to the 1947 Christmas seal sale, says C F Schenck, chairman of the Winchester Tuberculosis Assn. He asks unacknowledged receivers to respond promptly to support early 1948 TB control work. A free chest x ray clinic for food handlers barbers and beauticians is planned this month.
YOKOHAMA January 1958 Death on the gallows was decreed today for Hisakichi Tokuda called mad doctor convicted by a U S army commission of killing four prisoners of war in medical experiments. He injected a bean milk solution into the prisoners who died after severe vomiting and convulsions in Shinagawa hospital Tokyo.
James Marlow explains how congressional committees operate as the real focus of lawmaking. He notes committees study bills, hear witnesses, and draft committee bills for House or Senate debate, with parallel hearings on the Marshall Plan underway in both chambers.
British officials report the eighth mass grave uncovered at Belsen in the British zone. The estimate places about 2000 bodies in the grave unearthed by German workers exhuming two Polish workers. Officials say at least 30,000 Jews died at Belsen before and after liberation.
In 1948 election year all 435 House members and one third of the Senate will face voters. Lawmakers aim to return home as soon as possible to mobilize campaigns in the late summer and early fall for re election.
George Harrison, 174, who for a decade visited his son Victor's grave at Cedar Hill cemetery, was found dead along a path yesterday. Police said he apparently died of a heart attack.
CIO workers at Palmer Wellcot Tool Co in Meadville Pennsylvania will gain a paid holiday on the opening day of the Pennsylvania deer season. Last December 1 about 100 employees left to hunt deer, forcing a temporary plant closure.
The Cirminello family welcomes a set of quadruplets as they relocate to Arlington Virginia on moving day. Joseph Cirminello a corporate analyst with the Securities and Exchange Commission moves his family from their five year old home to a two bedroom residence in Arlington amid the agency’s shift to Washington.
Senator Wiley urged a non partisan survey of the Marshall plan’s economic impact. He backs Brookings Institution efforts to study aid administration for 16 Western European nations and wants the analysis to include effects on the U.S. economy.
In Boston a nurse Mary O'Reilly 24 proposed to Richard F. McNamara 27 former Army Air Force Lieutenant and college student. They had applied for a marriage license and planned no fixed date as they began their New Year courtship in a hotel.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky presses Congress to “sink our teeth into it” and pass the Marshall plan promptly. He argues an investment in world security is cheaper for Americans than another war, while warning of grave danger to lasting peace if delay continues.
Rep. Leo Allen of Illinois argued the Marshall plan will pass in some form despite opposition. He estimated the plan costs 200 billion dollars over 20 years and said there will be no effort to bottle it up in the House Rules Committee, which he chairs.
In Rangoon crowds celebrated Burma's new foreign assembly action as it ratified a treaty with Britain. The accord cancels $60,000 of Burmese debts, allows Britain to keep military bases in Burma, and provides transfer of 27 small vessels to the Burmese navy.
Union officials report timbering and sawmill operations feeding mines in three states frozen as about 12,000 United Construction Workers members strike for higher wages. The disruption affects operations employing over 100,000 mineral workers. In Florida, an estimated 750,000 people visited last year.
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