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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1946
Page
4
The Evening Star announces a reader notice from Deldsser Inc requesting reports of delays in paper delivery to help maintain an efficient system. Subscription rates by mail or motor route are listed in advance for various terms, with higher charges outside zones 1 and 2.
Editorial notes after Byrnes Moscow return say Big Three policies favor power politics appeasement and expediency. It critiques the Far Eastern Advisory Commission and Japan directives showing U S veto risks but a broader joint control trend with Britain Russia and China. The piece argues the Moscow agreement marks a retreat from U S sole governance.
General Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army reflects on a growingly better world as she nears her eightieth birthday. She compares East London birth, thirty years in the United States, and wartime changes, noting a global will for peace and the end of oppression.
The piece argues fear drives smoking initiation and continuation across ages and genders. It notes teens seek to appear older, while adults persist to avoid being seen as different. It warns tobacco dulls judgment, is costly, and warns against the habit compared to not impairing thinking and finances.
The passage cites The Economist criticizing the Anglo American loan and asks how the United States profited from the war. It notes U S public debt grew from about 48.96 billion on June 30 1941 to 263.08 billion on Aug 14 1945, deepening the financial hole by roughly 215.12 billion. It ends with a biting remark on wealth gains from the conflict.
The writer warns against socialized medicine and fears government control over health care decisions. He envisions a political machine influencing doctors and dentists and doubts federal immunity to such power. He concludes Americans value personal choice in choosing their health providers.
Post-War Council leaders chaired by Frank Armstrong and Dr. E T Clark plus Grant Pollock and Arthur Humphrey finalize plans for the January Town Meeting. Tipton Company, a New York thoroughbred sales firm, sold to Eastern breeders led by May Kenneth N Gilpin of Boyce. From a fall on the ice, Mrs Ella B Bowman of Hayfield dies.
Local council debates possible prohibition of Sunday skeet shoots at the Winchester Gun Club. A committee led by Thomas Kremer Percy Miller W W Del linger and Brady Largent will visit a city with six months of parking meters to gauge business opinion on their use. Charles Town Quint defeats Handley Judges 27 to 15 last night.
Ten years ago Miss Virginia Butler of Berryville suffered a fractured collar bone in a car crash near Hupps Hill. Amelia Earhart will lecture on her air travel at Staunton Military Academy Friday evening. Senator Harry F Byrd pays tribute to late Justice Louis E Epes of the Virginia Supreme Court.
Twenty years after its debut the Ford's National Show on the history of the Ford Motor Company will visit Winchester in the showroom of N. B. Page, a local Ford dealer. Fred W. Forney is re elected head of the Friendship Fire Company. Wm. Weakley a fiddler is stabbed and beaten at a Frederick County holiday dance.
The Post section notes citrus and apple growers lose about 30000 due to cedar rust while Lewis Pidgeon reports his post office and store at Wadesville have burned to the ground. Troop movements reveal over 200000 Bulgarian Austrian and German forces massed on the Greek border ahead of Salonika.
A brief social notice records the engagement or marriage announcement of Miss Vernie Good and Evan LaFollette at Highview. It mentions a personal event involving James N. Lockhart, son of a Gore squire, who cut his hand at a sawmill.
The President urged action on labor legislation as he watched two major strikes unfold. General Motors faced a fact finding panel while 700,000 steel workers prepared for a January 14 walkout. Bowles to report by February 1 with panel decision by February 10.
Earl L. Douglas argues that the beauty of the afterglow mirrors the social good linked to religion. He states that ideals for justice and world peace originate in religious heritage and must be sustained by faith. Social advance apart from religion is an illusion and will fade into darkness.
A set of seven trivia prompts asks for nations ratifying the UN charter last month, a Kansas Republican senator backing Eisenhower, Civil War Bull Run location, Daniel in the fiery furnace, the current Chinese Ambassador, the author of The Fall of the City, and more including a 1947 naval chief, Stephen Foster Kentucky song, and Dean Acheson’s State Department role.
Baltimore date report notes 18 births at Union Memorial Hospital this year with 16 boys and 2 girls. Dr. John G. Murray Jr delivered three boys yesterday, continuing the apparent male majority this winter.
Lady Tressilian and Mary Aldin weigh Nevile Strange’s plan to bring Audrey and Kay together. Audrey’s fragile past, Nevile’s motives, and a May visit loom as clues rise about hidden tensions. A coastal village setting frames a tense social chess game with old loyalties at stake.
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