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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1946
Page
4
Publication notice states daily issuance except Sunday by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia. It lists NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES DelLisser Inc located at 11 East 44th Street New York.
Three of four jet propelled Army planes started from March Field California and returned after 41 hours 9 minutes covering 4500 miles with an average 446 mph. One plane failed due to dropping wing tanks. Pilots showed little fatigue. British designers plan to focus on jet engines as the future.
A Holstein cow Colantha Wild Rose is celebrated at a Jeffersonville Indiana board of trade banquet as world’s champion milk producer. In 305 days Colantha yielded 812 pounds of butterfat and 20170 pounds of milk for owner Clark Delinger. The piece playfully imagines other barnyard celebs and banquet revelry with a humorous tone.
The war story notes the ongoing Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders. It highlights how new testimony sheds light on known facts as defense attorneys question Arthur Seyss Inquart, drawing renewed public interest.
Edward von Glaise Horstenau testified that Berlin drafted Schuschnigg’s resignation and a radio speech while Seyss-Inquart planned an early move. He recounted urging appeasement to delay war, but Hitler’s troops entered Vienna anyway, sealing Austria’s fate and foreshadowing wider conflict.
The Norfolk Senator proposes recruiting Poles Czechs Dutch and other wartime nationalities to serve in place of 18 and 19 year olds for occupation duties. Critics call it an anti Russian provocative plan and a hireling army that betrays American war traditions.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch argues looting is a war’s handmaiden and that nations must prevent the plunder of art objects. It contends that when fighting to preserve civilization, efforts must also safeguard civilization itself.
News notes from 1945 recount that First Lieut Lawrence Fries sustained injuries on Okinawa while students from Mrs Ella L Hodges's class planned a recital at United Brethren Church. Robert Butler of Albin is named trustee of Burnt Presbyterian Church during a congregational meeting.
Herbert Rhodes, longtime Middletown banker and merchant, announces retirement from the family store that has operated for 75 years. Congress speeds adjournment. a bill to enlarge the Merchant Marine through subsidy passes. Harold G. Brown, Shenandoah Valley Bank cashier, elected to the Virginia Bankers Group executive council at Virginia Beach.
In 1921 John Murnan was bitten on the leg by Hor ace Browne's dog, said not mad. A fund drive aims to raise 25000 dollars for a local hospital as Abner Ferguson and Edmond Terrell are noted as the sole S V A graduates.
A veterans quiz covers reinstating lapsed life insurance with simple health verification and two months premiums. It names McKellar as longest-serving senator and Sa bath as longest-serving representative, plus details on canal traffic via Sault Sainte Marie with MacArthur Davis and Sabin locks as the longest locks and high annual tonnage.
The article argues the Dead Sea area, long seen as desolate, contains rich mineral resources and may become industrially valuable. It contrasts secular potential with biblical insight, noting Jesus valued hidden moral qualities in unlikely people and urging less contempt for those deemed barren.
Selmah Hinkle Santmier sues Hardy Santmier in Frederick County Virginia Circuit Court for divorce a vinculo matrimonii on grounds of desertion. Defendant is nonresident. he must appear within 10 days after publication to protect interests. Clerk N Whitacre issues notice.
Residents of Chatham voted 249 to 52 to end beer and wine sales in a referendum. They also opposed opening a state liquor store 226 to 73. Four local beer and wine establishments now have 60 days to dispose of their stocks.
Page 2 provides correct answers to seven questions about Tru man s middle initial a New York sky scraper attacked by a Beechcraft Supreme Court tax on out of state workers which colony remained uninvaded Marie Celeste mystery classed as a sailing vessel and whether War of 1812 veterans are still living
The question asks for the exact code words chosen by the two railroad brotherhoods to signal that the original strike had been postponed. It also references a famous novelist and playwright, the creator of Penrod, who died last month in Indianapolis, along with a note about infantile disease in a state where DDT planes were used to combat it and a draft law question on whether fathers may be ordered to report for induction.
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