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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1948
Page
4
Display and classified ad rates published for the Winchester Evening Star outline transient space pricing and subscription options. National representatives Pelisser Inc lists New York address and various prepaid annual, semiannual, and monthly rates for mail or motor route delivery and single copies.
A brief notice urges members not to forsake the gathering of their faith community and to continue regular attendance and participation in services and meetings.
Reports from Philadelphia show the Democratic platform committee torn over pledging repeal of the Taft Hartley Labor Law. The AFL and AFL CIO push repeal arguing Truman vetoed it, but a majority of Democrats in Congress supported the bill, complicating the pledge. President Truman is framed as out of step with both the country and his party on this issue.
The piece traces how Supreme Court justices have typically avoided public political comment on presidential nominations. It cites Hughes in 1916 and Douglas in 1944 as examples of silence, contrasts early justices who sought office while serving, and notes various later court figures who did engage or were involved with party politics, including Marshall, Chase, and Chase’s 1868 campaign sanction.
The dispute over Hayes and Tilden in 1877 hinged on a 15 member electoral commission. Davis’s Senate election altered party balance, leading Bradley to be the fifth associate justice. The commission then favored Hayes, reflecting party lines among justices and Congress.
A 1908 Republican convention in Chicago featured tense battles over seating Alabama and Arkansas delegations. A reporter coined the term steam roller after nearly colliding with a parked machine as he filed his lead, sparking a lasting political metaphor about overwhelming forces.
The Roanoke Times reports the Virginia State Health Department urges Virginians to avoid North Carolina unless necessary due to a poliomyelitis outbreak. Officials note 369 NC cases so far, with 490 nationwide in the region, including first deaths in Portsmouth and new cases in Pulaski and Montgomery counties.
In New York a barred Plymouth rock chicken hatched from a double yolk egg with a four legged, two tailed, double barreled egg laying apparatus walked in a Brooklyn yard. Bernard F. Groves Jr. was elected third vice president of the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Assn.
In 1943 a report listed 143 bird donors to the quota of Frederick arre needed. Funeral notices recall the death of Samuel W. Brooks 87 a retired business man and local politician in Loudoun County and Purcellville.
Howard Huthes the millionaire sportsman pilot reached the halfway point of his around the world flight by landing in Siberia. Japanese raids on Chinese posts near Kui kiang destroy property and U S possessions. Woody Hockaday rushes to President Roosevelt in Oklahoma City claiming to shine his shoes but is declared insane. Thirty people were killed in a Midwest rear wave after 1923 events at the Loyal Order of Moose convention and Harding's party arriving in Skagway Alaska.
On Amherst Street the new home of William McCann nears completion. Dr. Hunter H. McGuire successfully removed a cataract from James Spurr in a delicate eye operation.
The piece argues modern life demands rapid effort yet warns speed is useless unless aimed correctly. It compares Carrolls Looking Glass insight to today, urging readers to run faster only toward goals guided by conscience and faith, lest progress miss the right destination.
A reader test offers ten questions measuring memory and reasoning with a scoring guide from Genius to Poor. Page 2 reveals the correct answers and explains how memory and recall may improve over time through practice.
John Quincy Adams, nominated by President Madison for the Supreme Court in 1811 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, declined the appointment. Adams cited his education and professional life as divergent from judicial work, expressing distrust of his fit for a bench position.
George Silek Abraham Silek and Joseph Silek partners suing G G Lewis and L E Hill in a property attack plan to secure payment of 292 05 with interest from December 19 1947 nonresident defendant to appear within ten days after publication publication four weekly issues in Winchester Evening Star and notice at Winchester City Hall front and mailing to Lewis at Washington DC address by clerk.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hours ending 7 am with none. July rainfall to date is 18.21 inches for 1948, with average annual rainfall over 35 years at 36.20 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1946 list figures for each month, and the statistics are from the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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