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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1948
Page
4
Advertising instructions state all display ads must arrive by 122 moon the day before publication. Transient rate is 55 cents per inch with contract rates on application and references to classified rates in the classified columns.
Dr Samuel P Duke argues Virginia must raise elementary teacher salaries and funding to avert a systemic collapse in public education. He cites low pay versus neighboring states, high college costs, and declining teacher education enrollments, proposing remedies including higher salaries, tenure guarantees, extended retirement benefits, increased state funding for colleges, and broader scholarships.
A missionary in China held by a Japanese guard reframes hardship as mission and wins a guard to Christianity. European Christians in Russia labor camps during the approaching war despite limited success, illustrating how adversity can reveal fertile ground for service and conversion.
A set of multiple choice style questions asks about a gray market in a small commodity for house building, a two word message to AFL President Green, Panama Canal location, meaning of sen night, truth about mining in Mexico, author of Lost Horizon, Hungary’s four bounding countries, WWI women in Navy service, E N van Kleffens' ambassadorial nation, and the first U S Chief Justice George Marshall.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour, monthly totals and a 35 year basis 1913 to 1946 with January 2.46 inches and December 2.38 inches. The annual average from 1913 to 1946 is 36.20 inches and the 1948 year to date amounts are reported.
Dr. J. C. Neale Jr state health department official outlined plans for a city health unit with over 200 attendees at Sarah Zane hall. County Agent I. Fred Stine reported a five year jump of nearly 5 million dollars in county farm product values. Clifford D. Grim was reelected president of the Handley library board of trustees.
Abner Johnson says professional teams may be invited to use Winchester as spring training grounds. Theodore Lakis, Greek employee of Apple Blossom restaurant, via Red Cross, receives first word since the war’s start from his wife in Greece. Mr and Mrs L R Dettra of Kernstown will be honored tomorrow on their Golden Wedding anniversary.
Sir Herbert Ames told Washington and Lee University students there would be no war in Europe in the next year. The Arthur S. Wright farm at Rosedale was advertised for sale by the executors of his estate.
1923 report notes Mrs Woodrow Wilson cannot attend the Democratic Women's club meeting here as planned. G P Coleman resigns as State highway commissioner to campaign for the bond issue. All local fire companies respond to a blaze endangering the Glaize and Bros Lumber Co plant.
1898 report notes Harry Leafe son of Joseph Leate injured at the Lewis Jones knitting mill with a mangled foot and in serious condition. Meta Sartelle, daughter of Mr and Mrs John P Sartelle, hosts friends at her S Cameron home. John Kerr school pupils publish a weekly paper The School Boy Talk.
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