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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
6
Current Opinion argues that only seven percent of Earth's land is arable. As population grows and death rates fall, this limited soil must feed more people. Farmers with draft animals need large feed plots, signaling inevitable mechanization to avoid hunger.
The story describes an Indian fire writer in New Mexico who was interrupted by a mighty explosion from an atomic bomb test. He was knocked into a ditch but recovered, saw a tower of smoke rise, and muttered, I wish I had said that.
Harry M. Kimball of the Richmond Field Division presented crime facts and figures at the Lions Club meeting. Van Woolen captured its third straight city championship by beating Royal Crown 2 to 0 in the playoffs. Mrs. A. C. Halvosa and daughter Elizabeth started a motor trip to Lake Farm Camp on Cape Cod Massachusetts.
The ration board and sugar concerns in 1842 five years ago report 5,500 requests for supplemental gas. Herman Hable says the new building for the D. C. Penney Co. is finished and will be handed to the firm tonight as of 1942 five years ago.
Mrs Edward Johnston of Clay Hill won the weekly women’s golf tournament at the Blue Ridge Country Club in Clarke County. Harold G. Brown, vice president and cashier of Shenandoah National Bank, is named chair of the bank management and research committee for the Virginia Bankers Association.
A 1922 item notes the Rotary Boy's Camp has been named in honor of John Handley. It also mentions Prof. William Samsell’s move from Winchester Public Schools to Maryland and recalls a 1897 wheat rick fire caused by children playing with matches.
The article likens a locomotive starting a train to a Christian person beginning small acts of kindness. It argues that initial effort by one person can trigger a chain reaction, pulling others along and expanding good deeds across a community. It urges starting with the nearest duty to set off wider, positive actions.
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