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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1946
Page
4
Winchester Evening Star lists DeLisser Inc, national representatives, at 11 E 44th St New York with price details of 5.00 2.75 1.50 shown in the classified column.
A critical analysis condemns the government for signing a wage pact with John L. Lewis covering 136 mine supervisors. It argues the move nationalizes the mines, empowers labor leaders, invites prolonged strikes, and abandons impartiality, risking collapse of industry and free enterprise.
News from Seventh Avenue shows American designers shaping next fall and winter wardrobes. Fashion editors report elegant, Elizabethan inspired garments with gold belts and embroidery, including a copper gold checked wool design.
One of America's great generals retires after forty eight years of Army service at Fort Sam Houston Texas. General Krueger led the Sixth Army from New Guinea to Tokyo and served closely with General MacArthur. His future plans are not announced and a wartime history may follow.
Congressman John Main Coffee of Washington's Sixth District faces scrutiny over a $2500 campaign contribution from Elvind Anderson tied to war contracts. Coffee asserts Anderson sought to influence his secretary Paul Olson and that details were discussed in the recent primary. The Mead committee will investigate the Fort Lewis contract linked to Anderson.
News from Winchester notes that the counties surpassed all Seventh War Loan quotas to set a record for a single war loan campaign. Ruth J. Dallwig becomes office manager at O'Sullivan Rubber Co overseeing clerical staff. Mrs J P Morgan, wife of a former church pastor, to speak at the 18th annual Women's Missionary Conference of Virginia Valley Central Congregational Christian churches on Thursday.
Dorothy Hawthorne daughter of Dr and Mrs Allen T Hawthorne and a Stephens College student is chosen Miss Winchester and will represent the city at the tobacco festival in South Boston. Virginia Purebred Swine Breeders Association schedules its third annual summer sale of purebred hogs in Winchester on Friday August 8.
The first round pairings for the Winchester Park Tennis Tournament were announced today as 27 contestants registered for the event. Earlier notes mention the Virginia apple growers annual orchard picnic at Green Orchard on Apple Pie Ridge Road scheduled for August 22, while the Street Committee discussed plans for a city garbage incinerator.
Mrs W H Baker hosted a whist party at her West Piccadilly street home. Bernard Redmond rode to Harpers Ferry, lost control, and injured his ankle after colliding with a fence. The tenth Lutheran Church reunion at Pen Mar drew over 8 000 attendees. An Ashby Guard bivouac committee meeting set for tonight at the barracks at 8 o'clock.
In Washington July 24 Paul Matton notes returning servicemen face living costs and housing shortages while colleges overflow. He highlights Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts and its Placement Bureau guiding about 300 veterans to careers through 41 alumni clubs, with robust employer ties and detailed psychometric intake.
The article notes music shaping nations from the Marseillaise to Napoleons era and cites biblical Psalms as a poetry collection. It highlights how priests worshippers and multitudes once sang antiphonally, illustrating music as a powerful cultural force.
The article argues that Jesus sang a psalm with his disciples before the Mount of Olives and defends the价值 of old hymns. It urges improving church music standards without judging what music nourishes the soul, asserting music’s value is measured by its impact on those who sing it.
A set of seven quiz prompts includes who said Walk softly and carry a big stick and asks about the G C B honor for Britons, whether a pearl is a mineral animal or vegetable product, who wrote Diana of the Crossways, the base product of casein glue sizing and plastics, and name two prominent Black women artists denied use of Constitution Hall.
A brief item notes that Washington will host a series of concerts. The schedule and performers are not fully detailed in the fragment. Additional context is unavailable in the readable text.
The Navy Department reports the USS L. C. I. 884 was decommissioned on June 24 at Green Cove Springs Florida. It is not stated when the ship will return to the United States.
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