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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1948
Page
4
Public notice from the Winchester Evening Star detailing postal classification, publication schedule, and advertising rates. Information includes second class mail status, display advertising deadline at 12 noon the day before publication, transient rate of 65 cents per inch, and contract and classified rate references.
The column urges Virginians to support Governor William M. Tuck against federal overreach and a perceived attempt to weaken state authority. It defends civil rights for African Americans in Virginia, critiques the Truman program, and urges keeping a Wallace electors slate on the ballot with eleven Virginia voters backing Henry Wallace.
Navy experts contend about 90 percent of airplane accidents stem from human error. Scientists trace Arctic ice retreat northward to long term climate patterns spanning over 20 000 years.
County superintendent Leslie D. Kline announced all county schools would open Monday after a closing due to heavy snow. Gainesboro high school principal and coach Fred Braithwaite was named president of the Frederick-Clarke county baseball league.
A reader quiz scores IQ from ten questions. It asks about a WWI advocate who died in Baltimore, a dismantling Rex liner, Sunset or Apache state, crystal gifts for anniversaries, a Havana harbor explosion, a saliva test in sports, matrilocal living, the shopkeeper nation, Shirley Temple's baby gender, and the first to reach the South Pole.
Present rainfall for the 24 hours ending 7 a m shows .04 inches for 1948 with year to date 3.52 inches and February to date .90 inches. Average annual rainfall over 85 years is 36.20 inches. Monthly averages for 1913–1946 list January 2.46, February 1.94, March 2.91, April 3.02, May 3.67, June 3.92, July 3.82, August 3.76, September 2.57, October 3.81, November 2.44, December 2.38 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
A devotional piece discusses greed as a great destroyer of men. It contrasts greed with prudence, noting greed as acquisition for its own sake and prudence as measured acquisition with legitimate ends. The Loveless heart leads to moral decline in individuals and nations.
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