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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1952
Page
6
A group of young women discusses dating in 1952 noting higher costs for dates and waning interest from men. They blame inflation on budgets, prefer traditional entertainments, and value home skills while seeking a new approach to courting. The piece captures postwar shifts in gender dynamics and romance.
Moscow papers report a government backed commission store now buys and sells private used automobiles. An official appraiser sets prices, sellers accept, and proceeds reach sellers minus a small deduction. The move marks a new channel for private car owners.
About 35 000 Houston children aged one to six will join a large trial of Gamma Globulin for polio prevention. The study, funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at roughly 500 000 dollars, starts next Wednesday across eight clinics. Half receive the medicine, half receive a gelatin shot to test effectiveness against paralysis amid Houston’s polio surge in 147 city cases and six deaths to date.
Montana has cooled over the last decade with more moisture and longer winters. R A Dightman of the Weather Bureau reports 10 year average temperatures at 42.2 degrees, two degrees below the prior decade, and 15 inches of annual moisture in 1952 up from 12 inches. Grinnier Glacier in Glacier National Park thickened by five feet and extended 25 feet downward in the past year, expanding from 250 to 270 acres over years.
Robert Hockensmith of Shenandoah Junction was named president of the Shenandoah Valley Cherry Growers Association at the annual meeting in Kearneysville. Charles Town was named secretary treasurer. Turner Ramey and W N McClung were added to the board, replacing others. Growers expect production to reach about 70 percent of last year’s 4500 tons as the crop moves to processors next week.
Riverside notes tracing the Vedalia beetle release from the University of California station to Samoa in 1888 to combat the cottony cushion scale on citrus. The beetle, about one-eighth inch, led to scale control with no trouble since then except where insecticides like DDT disrupted its effect.
Mr and Mrs L F Spicer spent several days in Grafton. Esther and Jean Golliday of Washington DC visited their parents the Gollidays. Daisy Alt of Winchester visited the Carpers and Vanmeters. The Russell family dined with Mrs John Perry. Roy Miller visited his parents in Fabius West Virginia. Jasper Berg of Winchester visited the Turneys. Troy Houston and children visited the Tripletts in Summit Point. Jubilee Church Bible School opens at Mortey continuing next week with 9 am class and 11 30 am session. children under 16 may attend. Burley Turner and family called on the Malones near Stephens City. Mrs Roy Miller visited Mrs James Russell.
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