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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1960
Page
4
A news feature discusses Professor Woodward’s progress on plant photosynthesis and chlorophyll’s role in transforming sun, rain and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. New laboratory methods could enable production of complex organics and open vast scientific horizons.
Detroit auto makers pursue opposing trends with compacts growing larger while conventional cars shrink. Executives cite semantic marketing around economy as the driver, predicting cycles of bigger small or smaller big models and eventual midpoints.
Harvard University chemist Robert Bodward completed four years of work to synthesize chlorophyll in the lab marking a milestone in natural product chemistry. He previously synthesized quinine cortisone cholesterol and other natural compounds, and his work impacts biology and chemistry research.
The meditation compares the cross's sacred meaning to the electric chair, noting how the cross once symbolized a death for the vilest of criminals. It reflects on how symbols shift in culture from sacred to controversial as generations change.
The author notes that Roman citizens could not be crucified and observes Paul’s head amputation as a “privilege” for his Roman status while Peter and others faced crucifixion. He explains Paul and his family were Roman citizens though fully Jewish, like Peter. He argues symbol meanings have shifted over two millennia from disdain to church glory.
The passage argues numbers can mislead by offering identical figures with opposite conclusions. It uses 1929 and 1958 hourly values for steak bread milk and butter to show wage comparisons for workers and farmers. It invites readers to pick numbers to claim divergent interpretations of economic justice.
Vice President Nixon joked that oil was found on a six acre lemon grove after leaving his family hands, remarking that this is the only reason he did not become a Rockefeller.
King Leopold offered to abdicate and pass the crown to Prince Baudouin as Belgium faced potential civil conflict. In Grimes a frame barn owned by Harry Mason burned, destroying six truckloads of new hay sixty bales of old hay paint and more. Local entrants including L D Arnold J H Minnegerode Bowyer B Browne Horace Browne Nelson Page and Dr R F Cline competed in the Virginia Seniors Golf Association matches at White Sulphur Springs.
Mr and Mrs Clay Manuel Mr and Mrs Ryland Conner and John H Seal Jr attended the Virginia Letter Carriers Association meeting at Hampton. Miss Emma Brown of 305 N Loudoun Street fractured her right hip at home. Mr and Mrs Harold C Sheetz Jr returned from their honeymoon to Atlantic City with Mrs Sheetz formerly Miss Elizabeth Lucas.
In 1910 Mrs. R. T. Strickler, wife of a Baptist minister, earns local praise after two large rattlesnakes were killed in her Page county yard in one day. Miss Bessie Greenwalt visits Syracuse native Mrs. William McKenzie on Braddock street. Virginia Barrel Company announces new operation with a large Star advertisement.
The 1861 tale centers on Ellsworth the 24 year old colonel who led the First New York Fire Zouaves across the Long Bridge toward Alexandria Virginia, seized the telegraph office, and fell at the Marshall House after cutting down a Confederate banner. The piece recalls Ellsworth in enthusiasm for volunteer militias, Zouave discipline, and the era’s military parade culture.
Luther Markin notes that many criticize openly while few choose to highlight the good in others. He emphasizes restraint in speech and the value of focusing on positives rather than fault finding.
A reader quiz lists ten questions testing memory and general knowledge. Topics include U S history geography language treaties literature currency religion and music with a prompt to check page two for answers.
Alexander Law began creating miniature historic ships in the early 1930s. Fifteen ships are each displayed in a custom cabinet with a velvet lined drawer containing first editions of books or historic documents related to the original ship or notable events in its history.
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