Winchester Evening Star Details and Rates
The Winchester Evening Star lists staff roles with Jack F. Davis as General Manager and Executive Editor and J D Koontz as Business Manager. It notes the paper is entered as second class matter in Winchester Virginia and provides subscription rates: one year eight dollars fifty cents, six months four dollars seventy five, one month one dollar. outside Virginia postage applies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack F. Davis
J. D. Koontz
Eugene Miller
Winchester
Gallagher-Delisser, Inc
East 44Th St
New York City
Observance of Father’s Day Takes Root in U S
The piece traces Father’s Day origins from Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane promoting a national observance after 1910. It notes Spokane the first celebration year, early 1910s efforts in Chicago and Washington DC, and the day’s aim to honor fathers despite jokes about bills. It also mentions parking meter experiments in St. Petersburg and a Brookhaven Lab radiation finding with a crabgrass punchline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
Dodd
Chicago
Washington, D. C
Pater
St Petersburg Florida Removes Downtown Parking Meters
St. Petersburg announces removal of all downtown parking meters in a 40 block area with two hour limits in the main business district. The move aims to curb downtown decline as shopping centers expand with free parking and suburban growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Fla
Fire destroys Selma home of Robinsons after four hour blaze
The Star Files reports a four hour blaze gutted the Selma residence of Mr and Mrs H Delmer Robinson Sr. Firemen fought the flames to bring it under control. Also noted: the Supreme Court refused to stay the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Richard K Eddy returned from Philadelphia where he attended a Franklin Sugar Refinery brokers meeting at the Warwick Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
H. Delmer Robinson
Supreme Court of the United States
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Richard K. Eddy
Philadelphia
Franklin
Warwick Hotel
Franco reportedly accepts prisoner exchange offer in Spain
25 years ago 1938 Generalissimo Franco was said to accept U S Ambassador Claude Bowers proposal for an exchange of American prisoners from the Spanish civil war. Seabiscuit arrived at Suffolk Downs to prep for a meeting with War Admiral in the 50000 Massachusetts Handicap. Seabiscuit won the race a year earlier. War Admiral had not raced in New England. Mrs Mabel Rinker Hicks and Miss Helen Newell Rothgeb of Washington visit Mrs R H Baker of Middletown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francisco Franco
U. S
Claude G. ‘Bowers
C. S. Howard
S “Seabiscuit
Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit
New England
Mabel Rinker Hicks
Helen Newell Rothgeb
Washington
R. H. Baker
Middletown
Cavalry Troops Prepare for Winchester Maneuvers in July
Fifty years ago in 1913 seven hundred cavalry troops left Meredith New Hampshire to march to Winchester for maneuvers starting July 20. Negotiations with Noah Solenberger Frank Solenberger and the U S government over renting 1200 acres for 2500 cavalry troops were settled to everyone's satisfaction. Town and county residents would supply provisions to the cavalry during the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meredith
N. H
Winchester
Messrs
Noah
Frank Solenberger
U. S
Daily Meditation By Earl L Douglas
Earl L Douglas reflects on berserk origins and the human struggle between base instinct and divine potential. He urges recognizing the animal within and prioritizing the divine to guide life, describing triumph as aligning the spiritual first and using the body to serve it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Douglas
Kennedy Khrushchev Face Domestic Struggles, Not New Crises
President Kennedy aims to reexamine Cold War posture while races and civil rights loom. Khrushchev keeps quiet as Moscow propaganda targets American racial tensions and NATO fears. July talks with China loom amid lingering Soviet Chinese dispute and test ban planners.
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Washington
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Dnes
Ienedy
Moscow
NATO
Russia
Longest Greek anthem with 158 stanzas shocks mailbag
HAL BOYLE notes quirky mail found in 1960s era features. trivia covers aging brides, cats homeless after razing, drinkers versus abstainers, the Greek national anthem length, vowels in order, and various odds and ends from spice prices to presidential estates and spider silk strength.
Bible Thought on Daily Prayer and Youth Training
A brief religious reflection emphasizes daily devotion at home on the road and at rest with Deuteronomy 6 7. It asserts that Christian training of youth is of paramount importance.
We Call Her Old Glory Named by William Driver
Nashville reader reminiscences about William Driver of Salem Massachusetts who named the flag Old Glory. He sailed as master of the brig Charles Doggett, settled in Nashville, refused Confederate demands to surrender the flag, and died at 83 buried in City Cemetery.
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Nashville
Tenn
William Driver
Salem
Mass
Charles Doggett
Driv- See
Old Glory
Driver
U. S
6Th Ohio Regiment
State Capitol
6Th Ohio
Denver
Glory
Nevada
Stig Patriot
Ore
City Cemetery
Payroll Levies: Editorial on Social Security Tax Shifts
An editorial notes the rising social security tax from 3 to 4 percent for employer and employee combined and the first $4,800 of wages. It mentions Wilbur Mills and a proposal to broaden the base to $5,400 to prevent a deficit and support financing, distinct from Kennedy’s planned increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur D. Mills
Anne
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kennedy
Tuberculosis science advances and other notes
An article notes that the tuberculosis germ resists full analysis though Osaka researchers show progress toward immunization. It urges continued chest X rays and exams, and warns against complacency about disease activity. It also mentions French food science, a dairy powder, and a quirky explainer on borborygmus.
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Ed Reed
Eeeee
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nature
God
By James Marlow
Pravda
Izvestia
Kremlin
Congress
Hal Boyle
Mailling
New York
huMane Organization
Ed Howe
U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
W. H. Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Bly
Arnold Glasow
Mississippi
Paris
Helen Rowland
By Jan King
Joe
The
Baltimore Sun
Lester L. Coleman
University of Osaka
Japan
France
Ita
I.Q
Utah
Maine
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