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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1948
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star publishes daily except Sundays with advertising and subscription details. It lists display deadline, transient and contract rates, delivery notes, and subscription prices for in and out of state readers. A biblical verse closes the notice.
Current Opinion mocks Presidents Truman’s message as an anti climax and warns against turning the nation into an armed camp. It challenges the use of force as a permanent policy and questions the conduct of democratic nations in postwar affairs.
The Richmond News Leader urges that the United Nations has split Palestine by hate more than ever, a division that may endure for centuries and shape regional conflict for generations.
Washington Post notes Budget Director Webb says over 200 million taxpayer dollars fund so called educational pursuits under the GI bill for pure hobbies like sport flying and ballroom dancing. More than 118000 veterans take flight training at government expense and Webb estimates 90 percent unjustified. Ballroon dancing courses cost over 400 dollars and promise social cachet. Congress should review charges to protect veterans time and public funds.
A two year trial with ten children compared exclusive margarine use in place of butter for fat, pastry, and frying. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports the margarine group grew as well, stayed healthy, and showed similar red blood counts and hemoglobin as the butter group. The note suggests politics drive margarine restrictions to please the Butter Bloc.
The item recounts past events by year and era. It lists 1947 milestones such as the WPI Alumni Assn planning a Winchester chapter in April, Earl Lee Cather named county game warden, Arthur F. Streit elected exalted ruler of Elks, and other notes from 1943 1938 1923 and 1898 including robberies, fatalities, and local civic shifts.
A fragmented IQ test asks if a centimeter is a coin or an insect invites memory and monthly average checks. It ponders bananas versus avocados value and GM shifts. It asks Roman numerals CCC Arabic value and nests as food in a country. It questions Florida snow false, reptile derived adjective for cracking films, ventriloquist Charlie McCarthy, German Denmark occupation, and ASPCA as American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Winchester Camera Club meets to elect officers with Bucher newly named president and Talmage Bucher as vice president. Cham berl in treasurer. Chamberlin continues as secretary. Murphy previously president. April theme Springtime, May theme Apple Blossom Time. Kenneth Snyder to lead April 16 gathering. An exhibit of salon prints discussed. date to be set. Captain Sprinkle USA Reid spoke on World War I aerial photography. A bylaws committee formed to prepare adoption at April meeting.
Hal Boyle recounts a whimsical episode about borrowing a five year old's freckle and seeking a way to return it. readers across the country offered odd ideas from transforming it into chocolate to fairy interventions, while a Maine girl sent twelve fake freckles to help. The little girl ultimately accepts the offered freckles and the episode ends with a cautionary note: never borrow a wart.
The Conrad Hoover American Legion post executive committee will meet at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the home to decide whether to submit a bid for using the city baseball park this summer.
When female eels mature their color changes and they swim downstream to the Sargasso Sea. There they lay about 10 million eggs and die after fertilization along with their mate.
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