Winchester Evening Star Editorial Note
The Winchester Evening Star editorial page credits H F Byrd Jr as editor emeritus and acknowledges the newspaper staff, reflecting on community reporting standards and the paper’s role in local affairs.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1941
Page
4
We Can Give One Day at a Time to Humanity
Publication date hidden in the ad section and religious quotation from John 3 16 is presented alongside classified ad rates and subscription prices. The page notes ad deadlines and advertising formats for the Winchester Va newspaper dated Monday March 17 1940. The message urges readers to reflect on charitable action and brotherhood.
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Rochester
Atlanta
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God
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Oklahoma Approves Constitutional Amendment to Halt Deficits
Oklahoma voters approved a constitutional amendment proposed by Governor Leon C. Phillips in a special election by a two to one margin. The measure bars appropriations beyond the state’s average income of the prior three years unless new taxes are levied, creating an automatic spending brake patterned after Virginia’s 1928 reform.
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Oklahoma
Leon C. Phillips
Virginia
Governor Price Invited To Explain Reorganization Plan
The Moore Committee invites Governor Price to testify to his reorganization program to clarify a confusing situation. Price proposed a far reaching plan mid-session without hearings or expert input and the committee, led by E Blackburn Moore, held hearings to gather views from department heads and others. The Governor’s presence could reconcile conflicting testimonies and illuminate the proposal’s aims and effects.
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Moore
Price
General Assembly
E. Blackburn Moore
Plight of Paris Under German Occupation Reported
Private letters from Paris describe a city living on needles and pins as German forces occupy the capital. Parisians show disapproval by turning away on streets and avoiding German venues while enduring food and fuel shortages amid a severe winter. Hope rests on British victory over Hitler.
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France
Paris
Hitler
Draftees Get Jobs Push from National Selective Service
The national selective service headquarters outlines steps to provide jobs for draftees after service. It aims to reemploy those pulled from work and to place currently unemployed inductees, using enhanced federal and state employment services to cushion postwar industry disruption and reduce civilian unemployment.
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National Selective Service
Reprinted Editorial Claims Ireland Must Aid Britain Now
The Richmond editorial questions President De Valera’s stance toward England and Nazi Germany. It highlights a 129 American Irish descendants’ cable urging Ireland to allow British use of western ports to strengthen convoys, arguing Ireland’s freedom depends on England’s survival. It cites scholars and officials as signatories and weighs Ireland’s long struggle against Nazi pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Byrne
New York University
Marc Connelly
James J. Walsh
Fordham
William M. Agar
Columbia
Christopher T. Emmett Jr
John F. O’ryan
Ireland
England
Free State
Britain
Local sport groups press for June 15 bass season opener
Sportsmen from five counties urge the state to open the bass season on June 15. The notice appears amid other items including engagements, retirements and local civic events from Winchester and surrounding areas.
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Dorothy Stouffer
Sam. Scott Hansbrough
Sumner Wells
Things and Thoughts magazine debuts in Winchester
Forty years ago the Eday Press released Things and Thoughts edited by R Gray Williams in Winchester. Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, dies from careless exposure. Floyd Eaton, a boy shot in the back while playing in West Frederick County, mistaken for a stray dog.
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Eday Press
R. Gray Williams
Winchester
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Little Floyd Eaton
Frederick County
Answers To Questions By Frederic J. Haskin
A compendium of quick facts from Frederic J. Haskin's information bureau. Topics include top dressings for winter, the first U.S. dairy school in Madison, the Gifts of the Magi, Heifetz’s match violin, wedding invitation timing, Harry Kellar, Benjamin Franklin's salary, and kibitzer origins.
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Frederic J. Haskin
O— Q
Kellar
Harry Kellar
Erie
Pennsylvania
Painesville
Ohio
Ava
Davenport Brothers
Mexico
South America
Africa
United States
Relief that Radford brings to powder supply
The Radford smokeless powder plant, a $44 million project, is three months ahead of schedule with initial capacity of 100,000 pounds daily from 300,000 planned. Army officials cite relief after shortages following Kenly’s destruction, stressing Radford’s immediate importance to rifle, machine gun, and artillery propellants.
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Radford
Charlestown
Ind
Childersburg
Ala
Hercules
Kenly
N. J
National Defense Program
Washington
War Department
Army
Public Speaking Booklet Promotes Confidence For Club Members
An ad from The Winchester Evening Star promotes a 32 page booklet titled Successful Public Speaking to help average people overcome nervousness and develop poise. It urges club members to order a copy for ten cents postpaid and provides mail instructions to Washington D C with name address and payment.
Quiz questions from Star Almanac page 2
A list of seven test questions covering U S presidential history skating records league of nations labor holidays geography and biology. Includes inquiries on Levi Morton old Virginian song author and Adolf Hitler birth month with a final question on spider food.
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Levi P. Morton
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
United States
League of Nations
Europe
Old Virginna
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Today s Common Error Do not say We entered the house omit into
A concise note on a common grammar error showing the correct form without the preposition into. It highlights that the verb entered already implies movement so the preposition is unnecessary.
Neely Notes Could Decide West Virginia Senate Fight
A cache of memos in which former Senator and Governor Neely is described with harsh terms may affect the West Virginia senatorial contest. Governor Holt argues a constitutional rule prevents holding two offices, prompting the Gov to appoint a successor candidate, Clarence E. Martin, while Neely remains in office.
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Jay G. Hayden
Washington Star
Matthew M. Neely
West Virginia
Neely
Senate
Homer Holt
Holt
Clarence E. Martin
Martinsburg
Joseph Roiser
Fairmont
Tom Connally
Privileges and Elections Committee
Neelyites
James E. Murray
Montanna
Rules Committee
Capitol Hill
Byrd
Martin
Rosier
American Bar Association
Congress
Meriwether
Dixon
Clay
Gov. Holt
Curator Finds Slight Error in Disney Fantasia dinosaur sequence
Pittsburgh March 17 Curator J Leroy Kay of Carnegie Museum says he found a slight error in Walt Disneys Fantasia. He notes a tyrannosaurus rex from the Cretaceous period fighting a death battle with a stegosaurus of the Jurassic period. The expert says the periods are about 0 million years apart in the film.
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Pittsburgh
J. Leroy Kay
Carnegie Museum
Early signs of bodily deformities spotted by posture cues
An orthopedic expert explains that many deformities and posture related conditions can be recognized early through facial expressions and movement tests. Simple posture checks reveal spinal curvature, shoulder symmetry, knee space, and leg strength, enabling more effective early treatment.
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