Winchester Star Classified Notices Readout
Notice from The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia addresses ad deadlines and delivery notes. Subscribers are urged to report delays for prompt delivery. National reps listed as DeLisser Inc at 11 E 44th St New York. Psalm 25 15 is quoted.
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Evening Star *Publishing Co
Winchester, Va
The
Star
National Representatives
DeLisser, Inc
44Th St
New York
Public opinion on Saturday bank hours in Virginia
The Virginia Senate killed the Blanton Clarke bill allowing banks to stay closed all day Saturday. The column argues hours should reflect public demand and patronage, noting workers need after hours access and comparing banking to other services like stores and druggists. It calls for balancing employee workload with customer needs.
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Newport News Times-Herald
Virginia Senate
Lady or Tiger Adage Reimagined In March Debate
A Christian Science Monitor piece questions seasonal clichés about March’s character. The author invites a fresh view, challenging the lion and lamb imagery and proposing a new phrasing for the old proverb.
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Christian Science Monitor
March the Lady or the Tiger in Weather Like Politics
The passage compares March to a lady and a tiger, noting its shifting moods as a weather field and political climate grow ambivalent. It hints at cautious timidity and sharp, sudden shifts in public mood and action.
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March
E¢Her
Time For Reason On Highway Speed And Responsibility
Safety authorities label speed as the top cause of highway deaths and injuries. The piece argues the danger lies not only in overtly fast driving but in drivers’ poor judgment under adverse conditions, urging better understanding of safe speeds and collective responsibility.
FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLE critics spark Civil Rights debate
The piece argues Southern Democrats fight for principle and portrays Truman as a champion of the downtrodden. It says calling Truman ten points a battle for civil rights is political theater and that supporters and critics alike are accused of hypocrisy, which the author deems untrue.
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Truman
Simon Degree
South
Sons of Light
Children of Darkness
A Land of Opportunity in Richmond Rumor Sheet
A short column notes Ty drifting toward a land of opportunity as women nationwide amass wealth and a clever suitor may marry into it. The piece reads as a sharp social quip about wealth, marriage, and upward mobility.
Gold from Sutters Mill Found Deeply Buried at Fort Knox
The article notes a one hundred year span since the 1848 Sutters Mill gold discovery. It reports the ore has been dug up and then placed underground again at Fort Knox in Kentucky.
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New York World Telegram
Sutter’s Mill
California
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Winchester Police Spur Seek Driver In 1947 Crash
Police tried to locate the driver of a car with an Ohio license that allegedly struck 12 year old James Prince, a bicycle riding newspaper delivery boy, in Winchester.
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Winchester
Ohio
James Prince
Frederick County
Were You There at the Cross Sermon Reflections
A preacher recalls a Negro spiritual's impact on audiences as he notes its call to confess faith. He explains that answering yes to the gospel’s promptings means sharing in Christ’s crucifixion by turning from evil and helping others.
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Bis
Army Plans Drop Tests for 21-ton Bomb from B-29
Army plans further test drops of a 21 ton general purpose bomb mounted on a B 29. An initial March 5 test at Muroc Base California was uncharged with explosives. The Boeing Aircraft Co modified the bomber for the missile. The weapon was designed by the Army Ordnance Department for the Air Force in 1945 but completed after World War II. It lacks atomic power but causes no radioactivity.
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Wichita
Kas
Muroc Base
Calif
Boeing Airplane Co
Army) Ordnance Department
Air Force
Tractor Oil Short Threatens Virginia Farmers
A Senate oil subcommittee heard farmers face a critical tractor fuel shortage this year. L. A. Taylor of Richmond described his co op supplying 16 000 farmers in Virginia Maryland Delaware and Kentucky and said suppliers cannot be found after May 31. Some farmers may obtain fuel elsewhere while others will not.
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Washington
Senate Oil Subcommittee
L. A. Taylor
Richmond
Taylor
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Kentucky
IQ Quiz From Newspaper Puzzle Page
The page lists ten questions on memory and reasoning. Topics cover geography history civics and language including Grand Coulee Dam vs Niagara Falls state borders U S Coast Guard peacetime control Independence Day date CIO union head Philip Murray and Philippine archipelago.
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Grand Coulee Dam
Niagara Falls
Alabama
South Pole
Congress
U.S
U. S. Coast Guard
Navy Department
United States
Philip Murray
CIO
Philippine Islands
How a Turtle Breathes During Hibernation
The extent of torpidity during hibernation is so great that breathing is not necessary. Fresh water turtles bury themselves in mud at the bottoms of shallow bodies.
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Winchester Evening Star
H. P. Byrd, Jr
Jehovah
Psalm
Tiger
Omps Funeral Home
Lynchburg News
Richmond News Leader
Clearbrook Woolen Co
Anna Cornelia Whisson
Braddock St. Methodist Church
Memorial Hospital
Adolf Hitler
Vienna
George Washington
Eugene Branch
George W. Scheir
This City
Redkey
Ind
Andrew J. Thompson
John P. Duncan
Boyce
T. Yardly Brown
Mulligan Post
Gar
John Barr
William Snider
PAL, Inc
PAL Bottling CO
Dr. Pepper & Grapette
N. Cameron &T
Oda
S & F Bargain Store
N. Cameron St
Army
the Food Center
N. Loudoun St
Fred Neher
Senators
Wisconsin
Shade Equipment CO
Martinsburg Pike
Firestone Stores
Lady Jackson
Thermo-Matic
Mat-Matic
Thermo Town & Country
Molden
Electric. CO. Inc
Loudoun
Rete Cte
Red
Winchester Seed CO
N. Cameron S
Vewall
Buick
Ana
Henry J. Taylor
Mutual Network
America
Sdeaster Seriad
Fisher
N. Main St
H. W. Ebert
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