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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1952
Page
13
The SPCA reports several arsenic poison deaths in the extreme northeast city area. Officials urge residents to avoid distributing poison that risks animal and child harm, noting cruelty laws and promising prosecution. Calls for information can be made to 8616 or 8864.
The National Assembly suspended its first appearance in wild disorder after two Communists questioned Tunisia and German unity. De Gaulle supporters clashed, Soustelle accused Communists of seeking independence while making France a satellite of Moscow. Pinay’s 22 ministers face a confidence vote soon.
The article notes cities very near the equator rather than on it, listing Quito in Ecuador and several others such as Libreville in Gabon, Coquilhatville, Entebbe in Africa, and Macapa in Brazil. It highlights their proximity to the equatorial line rather than precise location.
A kitchen guide compares cooking to old piano tunes and offers budget friendly tricks. It describes transforming plain foods into fancy dishes with molds garnishes and a few ingredients then provides recipes for tomato gelatin salad pimiento potatoes with egg pineapple Charlotte and peach dessert with steps and substitutions.
Clarice Wood Beard 40 wife of John W. Beard died this morning at her Harrisonburg home after a long illness. She was daughter of the late C G and Laura Belle Wood of Fayetteville West Virginia. Funeral services by Rev Albert G Edwards Thursday at 3 30 p m from Lindsey Funeral Home Harrisonburg with burial in Woodbine Cemetery. Survivors include four Beckley West Virginia sisters and six Wood brothers.
High water and mud cover Route 60 in Low Moor after overnight rains wash out the road. Three nearby homes, including Henry Hamilton’s, sit surrounded as residents report the flood as the worst seen, with no injuries among about 600 residents. L EF Persinger directed traffic and noted the scene after 9 a.m. involvement.
Mrs J Sloan Kuykendall as chairman and Mrs Dailey Slonaker as vice chair appoint captains to canvass the city in March for the Red Cross Fund Campaign. Teams will visit homes to offer residents a chance to support humanitarian work at home and abroad amid Korean War and flood disasters.
The National Archives and Records Service warns that any treatment to remove ink will also weaken the paper. Therefore, valuable papers stained with ink are best left alone.
Danville area residents and Pittsylvania County sparsely populated hills search for an unidentified plane believed lost after a wind driven rainstorm. Witnesses heard a loud crash around 9 45 pm as planes diverted to Danville airport but no trace was found by search parties. The CAA and officials confirm a plane was lost with conflicting reports on its size while hundreds lit runway lights in Martinsville efforts to guide it down.
Measured along the equator a degree of longitude is a little over 69 miles. The distance decreases with latitude and at 60 degrees it is about 34.5 miles, dropping to zero at the poles.
Governor Battle indicated he may seek an attorney general opinion to clarify actions under the 1952 redistricting law. He cautioned about whether the three districts kept by the Fenwick-Moses plan can hold congressional primaries this year and noted time constraints could force nomination by convention in six districts and the new northern Virginia district.
Aneurin Bevan defeated a censure motion by Clement Attlee and the Moderates over Bevan's backing of Labour Party rearmament policy. The motion failed 172 to 62 at a party meeting. A watered down standing orders provision survived with loopholes for Bevanites.
Bevan remains unreconciled to his beliefs and leads a bloc of 56 followers, resisting authorities and steering through a strict crackdown.
The era marks the first rise of self service supermarkets larger than traditional grocers. Independent operators established early stores before chain expansion. The 1930s saw the initial development that led to later chain growth.
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