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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1949
Page
4
The Administration pushed a Senate bill to require registration of all with espionage knowledge and to abolish time limits on espionage prosecutions. It allows wire taps with Attorney General approval and makes intercepted messages admissible in national security cases. The Espionage Act of 1917 remains the baseline.
The Idaho House witnessed a flirtation that ended in a marriage proposal from Rep Edwin Snow to Rep Edith Miller of Ada. Miller accepted on a personal privilege after a brief pause, with no filibuster or hedging, and both are from the same party, prompting broad favorable reactions nationwide.
Governor Tuck warns Norfolk Bar Association against submitting a single candidate for a vacancy. He urges multiple recommendations to reflect the General Assembly’s role in selecting judges and clarifies that interim appointments lie with the Governor. The letter critiques the pattern of lawyer groups trying to name judges locally.
Sgt. Joe Ritter and Officer Robert Lowery report a break in at the Checkboard Feed Store with the cash register looted. Frank Armstrong Jr. named treasurer of Apple Blossom festival committee. Local fire damages a barn near Stephens City. Gasoline ration cut to two gallons weekly per family. Pfc. W. M. Grapes reported killed in action in Italy. Gavin Binner says school scrap drive will be monthly.
A retrospective notes Hitler’s invasion of Bohemia and division of Czecho Slovakia, Germany advising Paris to stay neutral, and the New York kidnapping of Charlie McCarthy as Edgar Bergen frays. Also mentions 1924 theatre, deaths, and travels.
Obscure 1897 farmer John Nobody dies by mule near Peculiar Missouri. He visits heaven for a vacation, asks to return to Earth, and sees cars, a tractor, and wars from a distance. Eventually he stays in heaven forever, forever strumming his harp without looking down.
A 10 day brain test with 100 questions rates accuracy levels from 9 10 correct to 1 4 correct. Questions ask about Veterans Administration branches ships Tarzan actors fruits Hawatha wife rib count H2O buoyancy and a Postmaster General confirmed Feb 7 1948.
Medical guidance on improving leg artery circulation outlines judgeable measures for seniors. Advice includes stopping tobacco, moderate alcohol, leg exercises, warm baths, outdoor activity, diathermy, papaverine under doctor supervision, and bed rest if night pain worsens.
New Delhi reports India plans to be self sufficient in salt by 1951 if production and transport improve. An official committee notes annual salt consumption at 2.5 million tons while output lagged by about 20 percent, with 1947 output 1.8 million tons and 1948 at 2.4 million.
In a tense Beechcroft study the investigation tightens around Stella and Mortimer Dane as McGregor questions their alibis about a glint from a gun found on the Danes’ property. Professor Romney arrives as the inquiry shifts to who visited the front door yesterday.
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