Winchester Evening Star Classified Header Collection
A fragment from the Winchester Evening Star shows lingering subscription and office details for the paper, listing editors and managers, postal information, and advertising rates. It notes rates for in state and outside Virginia and West Virginia and mentions circulation figures and contact numbers.
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Winchester Evening Star
Barry F. Byrd, JR
H. D. Koontz
Jack F. Davis
Eugene Miller
Winchester
Gallageher-DeLissers, Inc
East 14Th St
New
Madison College hosts teachers in three week economic literacy program
Madison's Experiment at Harrisonburg reports 22 public school teachers underwent a three week seminar including plant tours and Wall Street visits to boost economic understanding. The project aims to curb economic illiteracy in Virginia schools and may be repeated next summer.
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Madison College
Harrisonburg
New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Chambers of Commerce
Virginia
Small Business Set-Asides Stir Senate Hearing
A Senate subcommittee heard a witness for construction firms urging Congress to block Small Business Administration set-asides for small contractors. The testimony questioned SBA policies intended to foster competition and lower risks for favored firms.
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Congress
Sam
Senate
Small Business Administration
SBA
Ridgway Visit Met by Squelched London Protest
Gen Matthew B Ridgway arrived in London as Atlantic Pact Commander in Europe and police quickly dispersed a Communist sponsored protest. In the city and county marriage licenses show June remains a peak month with 282 licenses sold, 119 more than May. A Mizuru riot 240 miles from Tokyo left one Korean dead and 42 injured including 30 police.
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Matthew B. Ridgway
London
Europe
Mizuru
Tokyo
Coast Guard Seeks Earhart and Noonan Lost at Sea
Coast guard officials stated they felt Amelia Earhart Putnam and her navigator Fred Noonan were lost at sea. Naval ships and planes continued the search. Miss Hilda Robinson of Valley Avenue visited her sister Miss Virginia Baker of Blue Ridge Summit. Karl Sprinkle of the Washington News visited his parents Capt. and Mrs. D. M. Sprinkle.
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Coast Guard
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Fred Noonan
Hilda Robinson
Valley Avenue
Virginia Baker
Blue Ridge Summit
Karl Sprinkle
Washington, D. C
D. M. Sprinkle
Fire destroys Empire Theater in 1912 on Market Street
About 3:30 in the morning fire swept the Empire Theater owned by J. H. and E. L. Henry on North Market Street near Rouss Avenue. The building burned quickly and posed a threat to neighboring properties while a separate note says a series of open air gospel services on City Hall Plaza drew a large crowd despite the heat.
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Empire Theater
J. H. and
E. L. Henry
North Market Street
Rouss Avenue
City Hall Plaza
Daily Meditation on Forgiveness by Earl L. Douglas
The piece reflects on forgiving injuries and injustices, noting the difficulty of forgiveness. It emphasizes Christian faith as the path to forgiveness and cites the Lord's Prayer as central to understanding God's willingness to forgive sins. It urges a reciprocal ethic: give forgiveness to receive forgiveness.
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Jesus Christ
God
Pork barrel bill targets veterans with 11.6 billion payoff
Henry J. Taylor reports on HR3745 a World War I veterans payout tied to a bribe driven by the Veterans of World War I group led by John Brashara Denton and allies push a controversial $11.6 billion measure. The piece details costs the author says will extend into 2100 and vows public protest against lawmakers.
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House Committee On Veterans Affairs
Khrushchev
American Legion
Legion
Remember When Babysitters Earned 10 Cents An Hour
HAL BOYLE recalls memories of a bygone era with vivid details from midcentury life. He notes small freedoms and social habits, from babysitters at ten cents an hour to a country life soothed by kerosene lamps and 25 watt bulbs, and a culture of big family Bibles and open doors at night.
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Switzerland
St. Bernard
Markin Time Note On Self Harm And Reckless Eating
The passage reflects on suicide and self harm as a moral failing yet compares it to reckless eating. It emphasizes that harming oneself betrays loved ones and questions the value of life against dangerous behavior.
Dear Doctor Health Qs and Answers From Burton H. Fern
Medical column presents patient questions on gallbladder removal diet aging parents and infections with practical advice. Topics include digestion post surgery ear fungus skin eye causes hay fever fever patterns and a memory quiz with 10 questions and answers.
Holden Says Love Scenes Aren't Fun on Screen
Film star William Holden recalls kissing for movies as effortful and awkward. He cites garlic eating actresses and a pregnant co star making scenes hard, notes actors rarely kiss in rehearsal, and says genuine connection can help a film. He recounts using a lookalike Grace Kelly kiss in The Bridge Over the River Kwai sighting incident.
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Paris
William Holden
Mr. Holden
Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Barbara Stanwyck
Deborah Kerr
Toko-Ri
Japan
Grace
U.S. Navy
It's Not Too Late To Reverse Trend
The passage warns that a steel episode moved toward authoritarianism as a central government claims power to define national interest. It notes this step, likely inadvertent, and urges government and public to understand free market processes and resist long-run evils of short-run gains. The speaker expresses cautious hope for reversal.
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Henry J. Taylor
Capitol Hill
Olin E. T. Teague
D. Tex
Texas
Teague
Veterans’ Bureau
Denton
Brashara
the Torch
Clarence Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
House
America
United States
Hal Boyle
Markin Time
DR. Burton H. Fern
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Ohio
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E. B
N.C
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Sun Ba Aun
Doctor
I.Q
Rhode Island
Gunga Din
Great Britain
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
New Orleans
Berne
Department of the Army
Art Buchwald
W. Allen Wallis
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
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