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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1956
Page
4
An advertising notice lists Gallagher DeLisser Ine at 11 East 44th Street New York City with one year advance six months advance and postage by carrier rates. It includes a slogan about translating thoughts into weeds and controlling thoughts.
The local softball season starts Monday night with the first annual Frederick Clarke All Star Game at 7:00 PM. Commissioners under Edwin F. Ritter lead M. J. Billmyer Gene Funkhouser J. S. Grubbs Brunk Shickle and Ronnie Carper. Night games draw more than 400 spectators in the Church League with nine teams and City League with five.
Congress rebuffed President Eisenhower by voting to deny a return of a $1 billion cut in foreign aid funds from $5 billion requested to $4 billion. The president and Speaker Rayburn backed the cut, but rank and file Republicans and Democrats resisted, arguing $4 billion plus a $6 billion carryover suffices. The clash sparked debate on the scale of U S aid abroad.
A ten day trip through North and South Carolina and Virginia finds Virginia’s crops well established despite scarce moisture. Wheat is prolific, tobacco transplants progress, Virginia factories in Martinsville and Bassett show activity, and the Blue Ridge Parkway offers famed mountain vistas from Asheville to Front Royal.
The piece notes swift American adoption of automotive air conditioning with 1954 sales at 57,469 units, rising to 184,027 last year and strong projection for this year. It highlights rapid consumer uptake and expanding market demand for cooled car interiors.
The piece notes over 300,000 motorists will install air conditioning amid a total of about 60 million vehicles, arguing demand will grow. It cites Detroit Flint South Bend and Kenosha as labor surplus centers and says many ex-auto workers may move to new gadget industries that sustain the economy. The piece praises designers who popularize products as stabilizers of the economy.
A roundup of notable editorials from the day’s papers. The digest surveys opinions on politics, economy, and social issues, offering concise summaries of stance and proposed actions by several editorial boards.
The sales pitch claimed to offer thousands of pages meant to contain all the love of the ages. The salesman urged buying for youngsters but gave no clear method to foster reading.
A 1955 recap notes Mrs. Raymond Baker becomes auxiliary president of the local VFW post succeeding Mrs. Arthur Braithwaite. Events include a Granges River ferry capsize near Allahabad with 31 women drowned and a boy, Betty Jean Trenary, wedding news, graduations from Virginia Tech, and social visits across Shenandoah Valley. A hail storm hits Apple Pie Ridge with $10,000 losses, a New Market post office robbery with nitroglycerin damage, and various social visits and dinners across Frederick and Shenandoah counties.
A horned moth rare to the area was brought to The Star Office by resident Michael Abe from four miles from Winchester on the Northwestern Grade. In the same period the Winchester Steam Laundry and American Store were broken into and robbed.
The columnist answers readers on presidential wealth and candidates. Estimates place Eisenhower’s income from The Crusade in Europe at $500000 with $100000 capital gains tax, plus possible $300000 invested in a Gettysburg farm. Other figures cover Stevenson, Kefauver, Harriman, and possible pensions, with commentary on Patton’s Prague order and European vacation pricing developments.
A quiz style page presents a 10 day scoring plan with daily results and ten trivia prompts across Oddity Bible Science Nature and Word lore. It asks about silk weaving history channel flight Marathon battles and block Island geography, ending with a riddle about maidens.
Past 24 hours show no rainfall. Year to date totals stand at 14.92 inches. The 43 year 1912 1955 period records an annual rainfall of 36.95 inches with monthly averages: January 2.45 February 1.95 March 2.98 April 3.10 May 3.90 June 3.90 July 3.69 August 3.99 September 2.65 October 3.22 November 2.57 December 2.46.
A vintage guidance piece emphasizes proper refrigeration to curb germs and spoilage. It advises storing perishables like meats poultry and dairy separately from pantry items, thawing frozen fowl safely, stuffing separately, cooking dressing and turkey apart, and keeping leftovers at 50 degrees or below. It closes with a brief Q and A on how skull fractures can affect the sense of smell.
A dense, fragmentary TV schedule lists Channel 4 5 17 7 9 5 9 programs with parade of shows and times. Highlights include Perry Como Show Max Liebman Presents Holiday Gunsmoke and The Honeymooners plus dramas, variety and news blocks across stations with late night reports and sign offs.
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