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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1956
Page
2
Quiz responses cover items from petroleum jelly to the tardigrada and water bear. The notes list several facts including Soviet Russia and a claim about John L. Sullivan eating 15 pounds of beef at one sitting.
Sales directory lists auctions around Winchester Virginia including Mrs Foster Milburn four miles north of Winchester on Route 522 on July 24 at 10 a m featuring store equipment and household furniture with W F Artrip Jr as auctioneer Mrs L E Armel at 612 South Cameron Street Winchester on August Inst at 1 p m with furniture electrical appliances and household items Charlies Duvall as auctioneer and Duncan C Gibb Trustee real estate on Martinsburg Pike in the August 9 10 a m sale with E T Snider as auctioneer
The dispute over a 400 million dollar plan to launch large atomic reactors moves to the House floor. Republicans press protective amendments while critics warn of federal control. supporters say private utilities cannot bear the risk of building reactors now.
Smith Braithwaite 83 died Tuesday at his Martinsburg home. He was born at Cross Junction son of David and Phoebe Braithwaite and worked 40 years as a Berkeley Woolen Company weaver. Survived by wife Virginia Webber son Ralph daughters Lymon Tibbetts Butler OConnell sister Effie Baker. five grandchildren one great grandchild. Funeral Thursday at 3 p m from Brown Funeral Home with burial at Gerrardstown Cemetery.
Nation's top steel negotiators held private talks in New York with United Steelworkers officials aiming to resolve a 24 day strike. A three year contract and modest hourly benefit increases were anticipated as talks followed earlier stalemate and mass layoffs.
Matt Bennis dreams of becoming world heavyweight champion as he enters the brutal boxing world of the Butchers stable. His father is in prison for jewelry theft and his mother’s evenings with Dan fuel his resolve to rise and escape tenement life. He bonds with Beth and Miriam while learning ruthlessness and sacrifice on his path to success.
Cambridge expert Dr. James A. Tobey warns the world has not seen the last of great epidemics. He cites Athens 430 B C as the first major outbreak and weighs cause theories from typhus to smallpox, noting some diseases may be extinct. Dr Tobey presented this for MIT Review.
A sensational tale from Frankfurt Germany recounts Sam a crow who after a life of dope fed on U S Air Force tails becomes an informant for a price. He guides shooters to crows in Zeppelin woods prompting gunfire that rids the flock and sustains his cynical bluff.
New York Gov. Averell Harriman told South Dakota Democrats that the New Deal for farmers has given way to the raw deal of President Eisenhower. He cited 90 percent parity pledges from 1952 and argued farm income, equities, and mortgage costs have fallen and interest charges risen under Eisenhower, aligning with Kentucky Gov. Chandler’s attack. Harriman and Chandler both campaigned for Kefauver in Aberdeen so voters would support the Democratic ticket.
Geophysics embraces fourteen branches including meteorology seismology oceanography geomagnetism and glaciology as well as solar activity gravity pull airflow cosmic rays and ionospheric physics in a broad research framework.
Marshal S I Rudenko said Soviet air force pilots have orders not to shoot at foreign planes crossing Soviet borders casually. He warned only upon deliberate, persistent penetrations would superiors advise action, and said the US would bear responsibility for incidents from American made planes over Soviet territory.
Police seek a lunchtime thief who pried open the Alleghany County Court Office door and took $197 from a money drawer while staff were at lunch. Sheriff Emory Thompson noted the thief appeared to know when the office was locked and where to look in the second floor courthouse office near the jail. Last week Spotsylvania County saw a $300 lunchtime robbery.
Fred Hall born July 24 1916 in Dodge City Kansas serves as governor of Kansas since January 1955. A USC graduate, he worked for the War Production Board in 1942 and gained notice in 1955 by vetoing a bill making compulsory union membership unlawful.
Four Frederick County 4-H members from Round Hill and James Wood High School Senior 4-H clubs traveled by bus to the State 4-H Conservation Camp at Camp Farrar in Virginia Beach. The delegates will return Saturday and gain leadership training focused on conservation of human and natural resources.
A historical report notes the grizzly bear population in Alaska has fallen drastically, signaling near extinction. Conservation concerns focus on habitat loss, hunting pressures, and climate impacts threatening remaining bears and future recovery.
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