Winchester Evening Star 1956 Local Rates and Edition Details
The Winchester Evening Star dated Tuesday July 17 1956 lists subscription rates by mail or motor route including one year 3.50 six months 1.75 and monthly 0.15 with outside Va and W Va add 1. The paper notes its establishment in 1896 and current editors and offices with contact numbers and address in New York City for national reps. The page also includes price and delivery options for carriers and weekly copies. A slogan I know how to live appears on the page line.
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W. Va
Atomic Power Aims for Direct Competition Soon
Gen Walter Bedell Smith outlined plans for an atomic power plant in Elk River Minnesota to produce electricity at below eight mills per kilowatt hour. West Milton New York will be electrified by a General Electric reactor and Consolidated Edison builds a 55 million dollar atom plant at Indian Point New York set to operate in 1960. The uranium fuel yields energy equivalent to 1300 tons of coal per pound and a decade could reshape the US power system.
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Walter Bedell Smith
American Machine and Foundry Co
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
General Smith
Elk River
Minn
West Milton
N. Y
General Electric
Consolidated Edison
Indian Point
N.Y
Twining: U S Ahead of Russia in Air Power Race
General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, argues the United States leads Russia in air power quality though planes are similar in number. He warns Russia could overtake if the US relaxes, urging continuous design improvements and noting Congress has funded large defense appropriations.
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Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
United States
Russia
U.S
General Twining
Uncle Sam
Moscow
Senate passes crop support bill to raise CCC borrowing limit
The Senate approved a bill lifting the Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing authority from 12 billion to 14.5 billion and sent it to the House. The funds will back farm price support loans and purchases and the soil bank program, with a half billion earmarked for soil bank operations. Senator Anderson of New Mexico urged passage.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate
House
Department of Agriculture
Anderson
New Mexico
Secretary of Agriculture
Question on CCC crop sales and storage policy
The CCC has not monetized stored crops to fund operations. Since last August it sold 1.5 billion dollars of surpluses abroad but earned little cash because most payments were in foreign currencies redirected to foreign aid. With rising farm price supports and soil panics, payments will rise. the government appears reluctant to cash in on stored crops, preferring partial sales or gifts with funds used for non revolving CCC support.
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CCC
Made for Each Other Tobacco Experiment with Bulldogs
A Florida report from Lawtey notes bulldogs chewing tobacco and ponders if other bulldogs would take to tobacco. The piece jokes about the idea being worth trying and even suggests possible funding from the U S Post Office Department as postmen could be involved.
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Lawtey
U. S. Post Office Department
No Duck-Tails in This Court
A Macon Telegraph item applauds an Ohio Juvenile Court judge who will not hear cases unless youths are properly dressed. He bans metal studded jackets, engineer boots, excessive trouser cuffs, heavy sideburns, marcels, dyed hair, and any duck tail variations.
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Ohio
Hats and glasses drive women shoppers choices
Swiss marketing researchers say one in three women who do not wear glasses shop for hats they bring home. The comment suggests eyewear may influence fashion purchases and accessories chosen by female shoppers.
State ABC stores profit drop hits first quarter 1955
Net profits from the states ABC stores in the first quarter of 1955 fell 49 percent from the same period in 1954. The report notes weather and political backdrop while listing local personal notices and industry context.
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ABC
Pacific
Clara
Japan
U.S
Eisenhower
Atlantic
Geneva
Rejected Mercy Appeal for Mihailovic Executed
Belgrade radio reports Gen Draja Mihailovic’s appeal for mercy was denied after his death sentence for collaboration with the Germans. A Baltimore dispatch notes John J. Hurst leased a St Paul and Bank Lane property in Winchester to Charles P. Jack for use as an up to date hotel. William Keating visits his niece Miss Katie Fitzpatrick of Philadelphia as H D Puller cashier of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank announces a three percent semi annual dividend payable after July 10, 1906.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
Mabel Finey
Baltimore
John J. Hurst
Charles P. Jack
Winchester
St. Paul
Bank Lane
William Keating
Katie Fitzpatrick
Philadelphia
H. D. Puller
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Star
Republicans Fear Political Gain From Steel Strike Clash
Washington observers say Democrats seek electoral advantage as the steel strike disrupts production and defense plans. Republicans cite Ike’s illness and inaction while Harriman and Williams press for a settlement before the election.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Averell Harriman
New York
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Ike
F.D.R
Truman
Harriman
How's Your I Q Based On 100 Questions 10 Days
A quiz style article lists daily scoring and grade bands from 9 to 10 correct answers for Memory Genius down to 4 Good. It poses 10 questions across categories such as Oddity Bible Science Nature and Word lore with prompts and a note to turn to Page 2 for correct answers.
Rainfall Figures For Past 24 Hours And Yearly Averages
Rainfall in the past 24 hours ending at 8 30 a m shows none with July rainfall to date at 4 16 inches in 1956 and year to date total at 19 88 inches. Average annual rainfall over 43 years is 36 95 inches and monthly averages across 48 years from 1905 to 1955 are listed from January 2 45 to December 2 46 inches.
Wake-up Owl aids bed-wetter children
A Chicago mother designed an owl shaped plastic handpiece worn at bedtime to wake bed wetters. The device interferes with restless finger movements and glows phosphorescently to remind the child to rise. Guidance includes consistent bedtimes and limiting evening fluids.
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Chicago
Puzzling old riddle questions on bows wolves and dollars
A fragment asks about bow usage before gunpowder and the phrase draw the long bow. It notes the gray wolf as a skilled big game hunter and comments wolves’ coordination. It ends by noting a dollar’s value dropping from 1935 to 1939, a 52 cent dollar era.
Purchasing power of the 1956 dollar vs 1939 dollar
The mid-1956 dollar buys about 51.5 cents worth of common consumer goods and services compared with the 1939 dollar.
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Macon Telegraph
Nashville Tennessean
O'Connor
B. F. Brown
Toledo
Oho
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Sleepy Hollow
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Mom
Herman WN. Bundesen, M.D
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Plains
Scott
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
R. J. Scott
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