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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1956
Page
3
The Winchester Evening Star shows its 1896 establishment, circulation claims, editor name H. F. Byrd Jr, national representation Gallagher DeLisser, and mailing details with post office classification and contact numbers for business and newsroom.
The piece warns that weekend drownings often involve children and cautions guardians about water risks and supervision. It then shifts to a statistical overview of lifetime radiation exposure, comparing roentgens from various sources and noting no weather impact from atomic tests.
The National Academy of Sciences reports that X rays pose greater long term mutation risks to humans than atomic bomb fallout. Mutations can be beneficial in plants, but radioactivity may affect sex glands and potentially pass through generations. The piece notes cosmic rays and background radium also cause mutations.
A digest of editorials culled from forty newspapers arriving at the office daily. The column highlights opinions on current events, policy debates, and public concerns with a concise overview aimed at informing readers about prevailing editorial viewpoints.
The column reports on a tongue in cheek survey of bowleggedness among local women. Experts offer varied opinions from doctors to a corset seller, while a psychiatrist calls the change observer dependent and immune to fact. The editor plans a long study with hired tabulators to gather data.
A Science study based on 33 000 births finds peak arrival times at 5 00 am 3 00 am and 8 00 am with 7 00 pm the least popular. Virginia's Shaia quadruplets in Richmond arrived between 4 and 4 30 pm illustrating variability.
Peggy Elliott and Alvila Snyder won the 4-H Short Course at VPI representing Frederick County. Also named headmaster Robert Jay Evans at Blue Ridge Country Day School and Ralph Cain named commander of Conrad Hoover American Legion Post. Polio cases rose 60 percent to 341. Marriage licenses surged with 775 leases in three months. Cherry growers report brisk sales. Miss Helen Jenkins and Miss Freida Zuckerman visited Washington. Clarence Grim injured in Philadelphia bus crash. London remains world’s largest city. Marie Cammer returned from Epworth League Convention. National Observatory staff spent the Fourth at Berryville. Marvin W. Carlisle injured when a gun exploded near Berryville. Fireworks display at Hackwood hosted by Mr and Mrs Logan Fay.
Leroy White, aged 15, captured the first annual local Soap Box Derby title and earned a trip to Akron to represent the area internationally in August. General G. Bryan Conrad donated an original copy of Hit to the Henesey Library.
Washington reports a disorganized AFL CIO merger strained by rivalries among leaders, notably Walter Reuther and David McDonald, amid wage peaks and worker loyalty. Meany funds organizers privately while battles over jobs and control threaten coherence and labor support in 1960s politics.
A 10 day quiz scores readers on daily results from 9 to 10 correct answers. Questions span Oddity Bible Science History and language with multiple choice answers and page 2 corrections.
Report shows 24 hour rainfall 1.56 inches ending 8:30 am. July total 3.49 inches. 1956 year to date 19.21 inches. 43 year average 3.95 inches. Monthly averages list January 2.45 February 1.95 March 2.98 April 3.10 May 3.90 June 3.90 July 3.69 August 3.99 September 2.65 October 3.22 November 2.57 December 2.46.
Advice cites South American practice of a 15 minute nap after lunch or before dinner to reduce heart fatalities among men. It urges rest over strenuous chores and notes dozing is better than sitting, with a nod to early pioneers valuing midday rest. A brief Q and A on measles immunity follows.
This note explores how the term up carries diverse meanings in English. It can indicate direction elevation or movement toward a higher position, raise a quantity, increase intensity or level, onset of action or completion, and statuses like awake ready or elevated mood. It also functions in phrasal verbs and idioms across contexts.
In Cleveland a 3-foot-7 mother and 4-foot-7 father, both former circus performers, welcome 4-pound 7-ounce Mary Ann by Caesarean birth. Mrs Milane, 58 pounds, and Joseph Milane, 35, say the child should grow to normal size and they have long wanted a baby.
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