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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1962
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star announces daily publication except Sunday with editor Harry F. Byrd Jr and managing editor Eugene Miller. It lists business manager H D Koontz and executive editor Jack F. Davis as part of the staff and provides subscription contact information and national representation details.
A guest editorial by Harold G. Brown urges Winchester to expand off street parking to 300 spaces. He argues downtown growth, traffic flow, and economic health depend on bold city council leadership and coordinated business group support to secure central lots and traffic routing. He warns of apathy and procrastination.
The Star Files notes Messrs. William H. Reynolds Delvin R. Reynolds and Harry G. Reynolds, all Merchant Marines, spending a few days with their mother Mrs. H. B. Reynolds at her South Cameron Street residence. Mr. and Mrs. William Franla hosted a dinner honoring Mrs. Alwinus Van Niekerk of Johannesburg South Africa.
A 1937 report notes the Viscose Corporation plans a factory on several hundred acres near Front Royal. Checks totaling 52004 were deposited in local banks for the property sale. Kenneth Robinson and Walden Resseguie, VPI seniors, were visiting home during the sale talks.
Fifty years ago in 1912 William Fair a B and C Railroad brakeman lay in Alleghany Hospital Cumberland in a dying condition from a fractured skull suffered during an attack and robbery. Broaddus Chamberlin had gone to Norfolk after visiting his parents. Miss Julia Jenkins attended the Davis Marshall wedding at Summit Point and planned a week with friends there.
Earl L. Douglas reflects on becoming replicas of Christ's sonship while acknowledging that God's full glory as Son of God remains beyond human reach. The piece compares earthly life to a university training preparing believers for eternity and future heavenly mansions.
John Reed, American journalist and author of Ten Days That Shook the World, traversed Harvard to Moscow chasing radical causes. He reported from Mexico and the eastern front, sided with Bolsheviks, and died in Moscow after a state funeral, leaving a legacy as a vivid eyewitness rather than a political zealot.
The poem notes leaves staying through wind and rain before falling from the tree, highlighting summer’s end and nature’s calm transition as Luther Markin reflects on beauty and change.
A Bible thought quotes I Corinthians 13 4 6 urging that peace comes when love and righteousness bind nations as neighbors and all men as brothers. The note emphasizes love that rejoices not in iniquity and believes in harmony through moral conduct.
A Virginia bill seeks to bar motorists from stopping near emergencies unless aiding police or rescue crews. Introduced by Del. Kenneth I. Devore after an Imperial Airlines crash that killed 74 army recruits, the measure aims to prevent crowds from impeding responders.
The Navy announces a three year enlistment option to raise readiness. The program also allows sailors released for more than three months to re-enlist for two or three years, replacing the four or six year limits. Open to men without prior military training, it runs until June 30.
Richard H. Ranger an electronics inventor of Newark New Jersey died Wednesday at age 72. He is credited with developing the first transoceanic wireless picture transmitter in 1924.
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