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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1946
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star issue from Saturday June 22 1946 presents a dated religious verse from Proverbs 3 6 with a devotional line. The page likely contains standard Saturday content typical of the era including notices and local items.
Congress weighs a plan to split regular officers between Annapolis graduates and ROTC cadets from 52 civilian universities. Captain Piper warns the two-track path would create lasting divisions, urging a combined approach with years at both ROTC units and Annapolis. He argues uniform training benefits future wartime integration of reserve officers.
The passage contrasts two groups: one benefiting from a complete Naval education with its traditions, and another disadvantaged by schooling across 52 colleges with 82 differing standards and traditions. It questions whether the latter can compete successfully with the former.
The Political Action Committee led by Sidney Hillman aims to retire Mississippi figures Bilbo and Rankin and later oppose Senator Byrd of Virginia. Byrd but for economy, the PAC’s central issue, faces mixed GOP and public sentiment as voters weigh fiscal restraint against conservative labels.
A Milwaukee Journal reflection notes 1920s headlines on kidnappings and gambling tied to the Prohibition era. The author argues similar crime waves today mirror past suppressions and ask who drives the ongoing criminal activity.
Keith Bee, son of Mr and Mrs Herman Lee, is hospitalized in Winchester after a copperhead bite to the ankle at the Boy Scout Camp at Rock Enon. Frederick County School Board appointed Bryant Harper principal of Stonewall High School for the coming year. John O Hardesty elected president of Clarke County Lions Club at Berryville meeting.
Ten years earlier in 1936 Roosevelt forces took over the Democratic convention at Philadelphia preparing for a clash with Al Smith. A meeting of citizens from Winchester planned to secure a new water supply. David Headley won a top prize in the Dairy Judging contest at the FFA rally in Blacksburg.
The clerk of the Corporation Court issued a marriage license to William Edward Brill Jinner and Dora Venora Plank, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Plank. Captain Louis McCoy Nulton of Winchester is advanced to Rear Admiral, announced by Secretary of the Navy Denby.
In 1901 a community talent matinee at Rouss Hall raised funds for the hospital. Main street shows patching on the Petrified brick surface. Valley Female College plans move to Buena Vista with a new site to be called Southern Seminary.
Panoramas report eight collegiate eights ready to race 2000 meters for the national sprint title at Seattle with a large crowd expected along the lakeshore. A later item notes a small Brooklyn Handicap field at Aqueduct and a boxing weight-class reform proposal in Washington.
Sports round up from New York and Wisconsin details bets on boxing matchups and baseball misplays. Mentions Cleveland Indians hope, Gene Tunney bets, Billy Conn, Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Red Patterson and July baseball optimism. Also reports Appleton Papermakers offense against White Sox with six walks, and trivia about Jack Johnson and Bob Fitzsimmons graves.
The unmarked grave of James Bland the minstrel author of Carry Me is to be dedicated in Philadelphia July 15. Virginia Lions Club sponsors the war memorial with dedicatory ceremonies attended by Governor Tuck of Virginia and Governor Edward A. Martin of Pennsylvania as part of Lions International Convention activities.
Electricity for house heating is still experimental though used in a few instances.
Pauline Betz of Angeles and Margaret Osborne of San Francisco meet for the women’s singles title at the London Grass Courts tournament. They reached the final by defeating Americans Doris Hart of Miami and Louise Brough of Beverly Hills.
Maurice Parlett former owner of a Diamond Cab Company was fined 50 dollars and costs and given a 30 day sentence to serve in Winchester Police Court. The sentence was suspended. He was charged with hit and run involving property damage on May 12 when he struck a parked automobile on East Boscawen Street and drove away. Witnesses included two passengers and two bystanders.
Washington reports that the Doolittle Board proposal to drop the hand salute may be adopted on active duty posts overseas and on special dress occasions. The board also suggested replacing officers and enlisted men with a single term poange, a plan Secretary Patterson reportedly rejected.
Texan hurler for Boston, the Army Air Force veteran, matched Bob Feller in a 1-0 duel. Doerr hit a triple in the second, Rudy York scored on a foul fly, and Cronin’s club extended its AL lead as Yankees edged by Detroit.
Earl L. Douglas argues against retirement and urges lifelong work. He cites two elderly men in their seventies and eighties who remained active and achieved distinction. The piece stresses continuing useful activity suitable to aging and the idea that age should not end one’s usefulness.
A fragment discusses how people perceive the calendar and its alignment with time. The note questions reliance on fixed dates and the sense that months and holidays fit neatly into our routines.
The report lists present and past rainfall figures including 24 hour totals ending June to date and year to date, with monthly averages across 33 years. It cites January through December values and notes data from the Winchester Research Laboratory.
In Nanking on June 22 Chiang Kai-Shek extended the truce in Manchuria for eight days just before renewal negotiations were to lapse. The move was seen as a concession to the Communists who seek an unlimited truce while talks proceed. He warned that no further delay should be allowed and a settlement is expected by the extended expiry on June 30. Negotiations had been deadlocked for three [months].
Days pass as officials press General Marshall to receive powers to arbitrate the ongoing internal dispute. The move positions Marshall as a key mediator in the stalled talks amid rising tensions.
A puzzle page asks seven questions including names of the Secretary of the Treasury and a famous composer, true or false items about sapweed and hogs, Roosevelt’s reference to Happy Warrior, Canadian birthdays, Illinois industry, bribery nicknames, and the meaning of L S on legal papers.
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