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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1946
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star publishes daily except Sunday under editor H F Byrd Jr and the Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia with subscription rates listed and a biblical motto from Acts 26 19.
State Highway Commissioner Anderson states three lane highways will be abandoned except in special cases. He argues three lanes are dangerous and uneconomical, with two added lanes boosting capacity far more than a single extra lane. Virginia will build four lane roads where two lanes are inadequate to improve safety and traffic flow.
Benjamin H. Gordon of the Commerce Department told the Rotary Club in New York that the business outlook remains optimistic beyond the 1946 rebound. He outlined reconversion progress, potential full employment by fall, rising retail profits, and the need for tech gains, distribution and advertising, plus a surge in foreign trade to $10 billion.
The text argues that promotion for private enterprise hinges on industry returning to normal function, predicting substantial progress across realms once normalcy resumes. It stresses that with restored industrial operation, private businesses should push ahead in multiple fields.
Current Opinion argues Virginia should boost corn planting to relieve pressure on wheat and cattle feed. Labor shortages, tools, fertilizer, and distillery shifts affect output. A bumper corn harvest could stabilize prices and feed supply, with Virginia white corn in high demand for cornbread and meal.
The essay discusses tire maintenance noting spares deflate when unused and wear quickly. It argues daily use preserves tires while unused spares degrade. It contrasts loafers as an unhealthy class carried by society with a man in his fifties who aged prematurely due to unutilized potential.
The saying links activity to wellbeing suggesting staying engaged aids mood and physical health. Being occupied with purposeful tasks can reduce stress and improve daily energy.
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The Petersburg Progress Index argues Toledo follows Philadelphia in a local income tax covering wages, salaries, commissions, and corporate profits. It notes Norfolk approved a 10 percent theater tax and warns such taxes burden the public. The piece cautions against expanding local taxation as many states already have similar levies.
Schools in Winchester closed this afternoon for the Easter holidays while county schools confirm no holiday this year. Simon R. Whitlock of Sharp Street, long ill, took his life this morning with a 12 gauge shotgun. Mrs Evva Stouffer Noel married Sgt Edwin M. Deckey yesterday.
Briscoe Parker a colored man was convicted yesterday of breaking into Ben Craig's home and was sentenced by Judge Philip Williams to 12 months in jail. Mrs Morton C Mumma and children Morton Jr and Anne of Berryville traveling from San Francisco to Honolulu to join Lt Com Mumma.
Flooding in Buck and Isaac creeks in Western Frederick county leaves 121 children marooned for a night at the Gainesboro school. Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey pledges to grant a reprieve to Bruno Hauptmann, convicted in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
Twenty five years ago pupils of Winchester Public Schools exhibited about 60 bird houses at the John Kerr building. The Blue Ridge Hunt Club at Millwood has been revived and will hold an exhibition at Carter Hall Grove on Saturday April 30. The Robert E. Lee School of Journalism will be established at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in memory of the Confederate general.
Mrs Rosa V Lewis is honored at her Apple Pie Ridge home on her birthday in a party marking the forty five year anniversary. Mrs Lydia R Hardesty receives a ten thousand dollar life insurance check from J B Russell of Maryland Life Insurance Company, named as the insurer for her late husband Charles. Editorial notes from Roanoke Times on Virginia orchard acreage growth are reprinted and discussed in the Star.
In Dallas on March 28 Mrs Dee Scruggs sought a sirloin steak but found the butcher idle at an empty counter. She offered to buy the knife in exchange for no meat, making a knife for meat deal and leaving with the knife.
For 1946 the black and white combination has been chosen by 20 states and aluminum and black by five others. The next most popular color scheme is black and yellow.
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