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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1957
Page
4
The July 18 1957 Winchester Evening Star lists wartime pricing and national representation details with a brief masthead. The edition notes circulation figures and editor contact lines for press operations.
The June report from the Investment Bankers Association of America shows elementary and secondary school bond sales at 134 million, bringing six month total to 1.2 billion. Voters still plan 296 million in education bonds in upcoming elections, with many other municipal issues rejected.
As the 1957 summer vacation season begins, several states including Kansas Maine Maryland New Mexico and North Carolina raise highway speed limits by five mph. daytime limits are higher than night limits and divided highways higher than two lane roads. Experts say higher limits may boost obedience though enforcement remains key.
The article notes Connecticut's tough speed enforcement as part of a broad safety program backed by the Governor and a strong state police. It argues for better policing density, citing experts who say one officer per 50 miles of road outside cities, versus the national average of one per 150 miles.
Virgininius Dabney editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch was chosen as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The group of about 600 editors from seven states plus Hawaii Puerto Rico and Alaska selected him to succeed Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Tulsa. The honor reflects well on Virginia and the Richmond paper where Dabney has served 20 years.
Digest of editorials culled from forty newspapers arriving at this office. Highlights capture prevailing opinions on public policy, governance, and social issues with concise summaries.
Surgeon General Burney reports increasing evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is a causal factor in lung cancer. The British Health Ministry issue similar findings from 19 studies in seven countries, while Dr Clarence Cook Little of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee disputes a simple cause and effect link, urging continued investigation and responsible industry action.
Five years ago Miss Louise Castleman was elected president of the Conrad Hoover Unit 21 American Legion Auxiliary at a supper at Mrs. Claude Cammer's home. The item also notes military awards and several local residents with family and travel details.
Kermit Orndoff and Wayne McKIlwee were indicted for the murder of Kermit Orndoff's wife Frances Nicholas Orndoff. The hoover household hosted guests Ida V. Willis and Ben Neilizy from Washington DC at the time.
Seneca leader Andrew Johnson, head of the six Indians for 15 years, died in Washington at age 59. He helped secure a $2 million appropriation for the Indians. Col. Joseph E. Willard, former Virginia Lt. Gov., was arrested in New York on Pelham Parkway for reckless driving. Bicycle Policeman Dillon and City Sergeant W. Taylor of Winchester appear in related actions. Governor Swanson named Taylor as Virginia’s delegate to the National Poong Association meeting in Chicago.
New York columnist Hal Boyle recalls growing up amid secret mail and how stamp trades fed a boy’s imagination. He recounts mail ventures from ventriloquists to self help schemes, noting the post office’s role in his youthful privacy and its later debt troubles.
Summer brings plantar warts from public showers and sports. Viruses cause them on the ball of the foot and they can be painful and hard to treat. X ray helps 50 to 75 percent of cases. others need office procedures and acids. Do not self treat. seek a doctor for permanent removal.
Mrs. Micheal Madin, 26, expecting her first child, delivered a 6 pound 8 ounce girl in a Detroit bus station washroom. Both mother and baby are reported well.
Peru derives its name from three Indian terms Peru Beru and Biru meaning in order a river a chieftain and an Indian territory south of Panama.
A prominent wealthy man with early life hardship rises to business success becoming a multi millionaire yet abandons religion and faces a broken marriage. After dismissal from a respected position he commits suicide by hanging, leaving a scratched wall as the stark sign of choosing a final wrong path.
A described 10 day scoring method ranks daily results from 9 or 10 correct as Memory Genius to 4 as Good. It includes questions on stamps, holly berries, birthplace of Hebrews, tea fermentation, Haile Selassie, euthanasia, John L. Lewis, Panama Canal, missing letter in tarmigan, and a lyric line by Harry Lauder.
Sir Thomas Dilling, a former senior veterinarian with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, has retired at age 65. He is identified as a Scotchman.
A cord of wood is defined as a pile 6 feet long 4 feet wide and 4 feet high. The term survives as a nod to historic measurement practices where a string or cord gauged timber stacks.
Dr George W Crane urges fathers to actively parent before children turn ten, teaching sports, swimming, biking, and life skills. He warns that later, dads lose influence as kids seek other heroes and stresses personal involvement over money or tutors. He promotes his 200 point Parents Tests for self rating.
President Eisenhower dodges preciseU.S. civil rights bill details at news conferences. He reiterates general objectives and backs the four sections while signaling limits on court order enforcement. Northern Democrats and Republicans clash over section three and troop-authority implications.
Questions and Answers cover Montgomery Alabama as the Confederacy’s first capital up to May 21, 1861 with delegates electing Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens. They note figureheads on ships anciently by Vikings, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Chinese, East Indians, and American Indians on canoes. They state RCA Building in NYC privately owned at about 2.91 million sq ft, surpassing Empire State and Chrysler figures.
DO COMPLAINT CHARLOTTE N C Uncle Sam sent a bill to druggist J A Monroe Monroe says he'll pay it without any fuss It's for one cent the amount the government says he still owes on his income tax.
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