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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1946
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices by mail for one year six months three months and one month with carrier options and notes delivery issues should be reported to maintain a reliable service. The page also includes a Bible verse, What God has cleansed call not thou common Acts 10:5.
The disclosure that fissionable materials can be denatured may ease sharing atomic energy benefits but not bomb control. A Senate session heard Dean Acheson outline State Department ideas for an international licensing system, UN oversight, and worldwide inspections while keeping some bomb secrecy early on. The plan aims to bar war use through treaty and place existing weapons and plants under UN control, though its completeness and public release remain uncertain.
The Army and Navy Munitions Board will survey stockpiling of critical war materials and dispersal of American industry. It will also explore moving key plants underground to guard against atomic bomb attacks. Executive chairman is Richard R. Deupree of Cincinnati.
Current Opinion in the Petersburg Progress Index critiques an Oxford don's plan to import 500,000 European war widows to work in England, arguing the idea distracts from reading and teaching. It notes American workers sharing kitchen duties and questions what Oxford wives are doing as education suffers.
Analyzed like a small venture, John Smith and two veterans raise 16880 for capital and reflect U S Steel in 1945. The firm sells 17473 in goods with 38.4 percent for materials, 47.2 percent for wages, 7.1 percent for wear, 0.2 percent for interest, and 3.8 percent for taxes, ending with 580 in income and under 4 percent return on raised capital.
Mrs B M Roszel announced 335 books were secured for the Victory ship named in honor of the city and sent to the U S Winchester Victory Library. Pfc Garland F Seabrgiht of 231 Millwood Ave and the 254th Engineer Combat Battalion with the V Corps in Belgium received the Bronze Star per today’s dispatches. George Rosier named manager of the Stephens City Baseball team.
The Rev. Ronald Wilson announced at services that Rev. W. Andrew Wilkerson a Senior at Union Theological Seminary Richmond has accepted a call to be assistant pastor in Winchester. Also announced was the engagement of Miss Louise Eutsler to Mr Benjamin Belchie at a Liberty Hall Tea Room event. State troopers B. E. Williams and E. B. Mitchell will be assigned to work out of Winchester per police department briefing.
Simple funeral services were held here for Fred L. Glaize who died while traveling in San Francisco. The report notes his death occurred on a trip and lists surviving relatives.
Mr L Marshall Baker entertained at a dinner party honoring Miss Isabel E Baker whose marriage to Paul C Gay is set for next Saturday at Christ Church. H F Byrd used smudge pots at Berryville orchard Monday and Tuesday to ward off frost damage. Charles Theodore Murray, journalist and author, long resident of Wardensville West Virginia, was a guest for several days at the Siberts on Peyton Street.
The Star notes a surge in divorce filings with three initiated in a single day and seven more in the past five days. The report also recounts a 16 year old girl and an elderly widower with eight children eloping from Gaylord to Winchester in Clarke County.
A Winchester Fire Department letter responds to criticism over the Earl Shade farm fire. Officials cite state fire marshal support, discuss county cooperation, and defend staffing costs, training, and hydrant knowledge while defending the city’s fire protection as among the best in the state.
Earl L. Douglas argues that true religion must spark personal and societal revolutions. He credits religion with inspiring democracy, ending slavery, and overturning worldly ideals, urging Bible reading under this transformative conviction.
The query notes several schools provide piano tuning instruction. It cites a wartime shortage, estimating fewer than 3,000 tuners to service about six million pianos, underscoring demand for training programs.
A reader can request answers by mail. Q What year did the Olympic Games begin A not exact but considered a religious festival revived early BC. Q Why can an ant do work beyond its size A insect uses nearly all its strength due to tiny muscles. Q How much does US pay Panama for Canal use A treaty of March 2 1936 raised annual payment to 430 000 balboas equal to dollars.
A quiz page lists questions about fruit value food value per pound social security tax rate cabinet members who became presidents lead softness royal curse wage increase in packing industry Senate Military Committee action on drafted fathers Jade hardness Jewish day starts eve of holiday sunset or midnight paper usage for currency and 1945 currency production total 2800 tons.
Jane Applebee confronts a tangle of jealousy and intrigue in New York and Elmpoint estate as Neal Tarrant's flirtations stir conflict with Deane Kennard and Margot Case-Ingalls. A missing guest, a gray envelope, and a designer’s chummy supper deepen the mystery centered on Margot’s disappearance and hidden motives.
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