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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1956
Page
4
Daily edition of Winchester Evening Star serving over 40 000 readers with H F Byrd Jr editor and national reps Gallagher DeLisser Inc listed. circulation details and post office entry noted.
The Kimberly Clark Corporation of Neenah Wisconsin experiments with K 2000 a paper fabric made from balsam spruce and jack pine extracts Lab aprons have been made and tested The material cuts sews prints drapes and screens easily and may reach personal clothing after lab uses Hospital gowns lab overalls are planned first as paper clothing gains acceptance despite slow consumer adoption and pulp limits.
Roanoke NAACP leader Atty. Reuben Lawson announces a court bid to desegregate Roanoke City Schools. He notes large investment in Negro education from 1949 to 1954 and argues funds exceed white-school construction on a per-capita basis, urging the board to treat all children equally.
A Richmond Times Dispatch summary notes the so called reign of terror in the South against African Americans, framing it as hostile oppression and violence. It references ongoing fear, intimidation, and racial retaliation alongside reported incidents. The piece emphasizes historical context and calls for attention to racial injustice.
Recap of 1955 items including Legion Aux president elected Mrs Clarence Hill visits by Hartford guests and Florida travel stops. Mentions Garden Club speaker, oratorical prize winner Helen Fugitt, and a Royal Navy cordite factory blast with casualties near Wareham Dorset. Also notes Prince of Wales turning 37.
Miss Audrey Lee Bayliss wed Stanley C. Boyce in a family ceremony. Miss Suzanne Watson, daughter of the Watsons, returned home from Winchester Hospital after a tonsillectomy.
Miss Nellie Estep returned to Millwood from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. William Chapman. Farmers worry as rains delay corn harvest while grain remains ready. Mr Turner A DeHaven returned to DeHaven from Richmond where he sought a new home and spoke highly of the area around the capital city.
Hugo Dunn-Meynell leads Finders Limited a London firm that for a fee will ferret out information or perform unusual tasks. Clients range from literary researchers to odd requests like supplying 300 toads or a hospital bed shipped abroad. Dunn-Meynell says the firm handles diverse missions as long as they are legal and moral and has 25 assistants ready for assignments worldwide.
Paraguayan consul general Waldimir Morinigo, 31, shot and killed his estranged wife Josette, a Belgian, and wounded a man identified as F. G. in a car. Morinigo survived an attempted suicide and remained hospitalized under guard facing homicide and assault charges.
A repeated employer refrain, better late than never, echoes the Bible parable of workers called at the 11th hour who all received a full day's wage. The saying’s origin remains tied to that story and its moral on fairness and reward.
Past 24 hours ending 8 30 a m shows rainfall. Year to date 1 91 inches with 15 67 inches total for 1956. Average monthly rainfall across 1912 1955 spans 2 45 to 3 99 inches per month by month.
Advice urges parents to decorate with lead free paint to prevent child poisoning from chewing paints on cribs toys and walls. Notes cities like Boston Baltimore and Chicago report cases and advises reading labels for pigments with lead chromate while favoring paints that state no lead. urges doctor care for symptoms and highlights foods rich in iron for low blood count correction.
A quiz style list presents ten questions across oddity science Bible nature and language. It asks about a Scottish locality name real or imaginary. Leonardo da Vinci works. biblical king at Jesus birth. mythical g milit ans. boiling science. Balkan Axis states. Indian Black Buck. E Pluribus Unum meaning falsehood. termagant gender use. and a cut phrase about Mahound.
The fragment questions if Termagaunt a violent Turbulent fabled deity worshipped by Moslems equates to term a grant. It references terms and figures such as Mahound and Mohammed in a debated comparison. The text appears as a fragmentary note or quotation seeking etymological and theological parallels.
An essay urges older readers to resist aging stereotypes by continuous growth. It contrasts aging adults chasing youth with the example of George Washington growing mentally into old age and notes youth can persist in spirit at any age through ongoing personal development.
About 38,000 Americans resign from work each day. Surveys show that roughly half of the 60 million employed find their jobs interesting.
A dense list of primetime programs across three channels including Traffic Court 6 30 4 Corner News 6 45 Adventure Theater 7 00 Patti Page Show 8 00 The Browning Version film and 12 00 Insp Sign Off plus Channel 7 6 00 This Is the Story through 11 15 The Late Show.
Daylight time schedule showing noon to late night programs across both channels. Highlights include children's shows, movies, news, talk and variety programs with actors and hosts such as Steve Allen Loretta Young Ed Sullivan Alfred Hitchcock and Patti Page among others.
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