Arthur Krock Honored Again by Pulitzer Prize Board
The Star reports Arthur Krock of The New York Times is cited for the second time by the Pulitzer Prizes advisory board for distinguished Washington correspondence. Krock long headed NYT Washington Bureau and is a well known Clarke County resident who once lived at Limestone on Route 7.
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Associated Press
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Pulitzer Prizes
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Berryville
Shenandoah River
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Scott Wyle
Scott
Landon
Eric
Landen
Changing Order Modernizes the Old Red Barn
The old gray mare and barn lose their traditional role as farm life shifts toward mechanization. Tractors trucks and automobiles gain dedicated spaces while the haymow yields to scientific feeds and baled hay. Barn color shifts from red to greens whites and grays reflecting new farming tastes.
Byrd leads trade bill to flexed liberalization gains
The Richmond News Leader notes Senator Byrd steered the Trade Agreements Act extension through the Senate with tact, producing a compromise bill. The measure adds a safety valve to curb imports threatening strategic industries, aims to boost exports, and marks a milestone in reducing tariff walls while limiting subsidies.
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Byrd
Senate
Office of Defense Mobilization
Congress
Red Barns Fade Amid Streamlining Craze in American Rural
Nostalgic barns endure mainly in stories songs and landscape art while the large red barns give way to a trend toward streamlined, efficient structures challenging traditional rural silhouettes.
Stonewall Jackson Honored for Hall of Fame Consideration
The Stonewall Jackson Memorial in Lexington seeks General Jackson's election to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at NYU. Established to honor him and promote education, the memorial notes Lee and Jackson as early exemplars in Virginia history.
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Thomas J
Stonewall) Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall
Shenandoah Valley
Stonewall Jackson
Lexington
Virginia
General Jackson
New York University
Hall of Fame
Editorial Digest From Four Dozen Newspapers
Editors pick the most engaging editorials from 40 papers arriving daily. Curated opinions span national and local topics, reflecting varied voices and debates shaping public discourse.
Elizabeth Kern to Speak at AAUW Meeting
Miss Elizabeth Kern was guest speaker at the American Association of University Women meeting. Lt. Robert Goodloe Harper visited his mother after two years in the Caribbean. Mrs. Lewis Hodgson stayed in Strasburg with the Coulter Stickleys while Mr. Ray Blosser was a patient at Winchester Memorial Hospital. 25 Years Ago 1930 notes population gains and local visits.
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Elizabeth Kern
American Association of University Women
Lewis Hodgson
Strasburg
Coulter Stickley
Ray Blosser
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Robert Goodloe Harper
Lewis F. Harper
Caribbean
H. Russell Potts
Winchester
Staunton
Brady W. Sargent
Baltimore
John Hopkins Hospital
M. V. B. Snoke
Newburg
8. C. Snoke
Railroad strike cripples nation as mediators lose hope
Government mediators abandon hopes for a quick settlement of the railroad strike while the nation’s rail system is crippled by a firemen’s walkout. Winchester City Council approves the 1950-51 budget totaling 886304 with the unchanged tax rate of 1.65 dollars. Patricia Suzanne Way and Douglas Boyer O’Connell announce their engagement.
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Winchester
Fred H. Way
Patricia Suzanne
Douglas Boyer O'Connell
Army sons recalled and stationed locations noted
Hubert P. Everhart, son of Mrs. Alva Everhart, reports being stationed with the Fourth Armored Division in Germany. A. M. Locke, son of Mrs. Mary Locke, writes his mother that he has returned to the Hawaiian Islands after ten months in the Marianna.
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Alva Everhart
Fourth Armored Division
Germany
A. M. Locke
Mary Locke
Hawaiian Islands
Marianna
Roosevelt Hosts Hunting Party Dinner Speech at Glenwood
Pennsylvania Supreme Court reconstrued the will of late John Handley of Scranton finding beneficiaries to receive named amounts. The Handley Library in Winchester was bequeathed $250000 for its erection.
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Glenwood Springs
Colorado
State Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania
John Handley
Scranton
Winchester
Handley
GOP State Level Feuds Endanger 1956 GOP
Washington dispatch reports intra party strife in New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Michigan and California showing Dewey Harriman Case Duff Williams Knight and other leaders at odds over policy and patronage. The piece argues Ike must run again to hold the fractured Republican coalition together.
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William E. Jenner
George N. Craig
Indiana
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New York
Thomas EF. Dewey
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Albany
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Brownell
Averell Harriman
F.D.R
Herbert Lehman
al Smith
New Jersey
White House
Clifford Case
Case
Jersey
Harmony
Bergen County
Newark
John L. Lewis
Michigan
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
G. Mennen Williams
Homer Ferguson
Philippines
Williams
Adlai E. Stevenson
Harriman
California
Earl Warren
Dick” Nixon
William F. Knowland
Goodwin J. Knight
Nixon
Knowland
Ike
Golden State
GOP
Eisenhower
How's Your I Q Memory Quiz Score Guide
An excerpt details a 100 question IQ style test over ten days with daily scoring bands from memory genius to excellent. It asks sample questions about a proverb Waterloo Iron Duke a phobia and a Canadian city riot plus a biology term monodont and a Supreme Court justice appointment.
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Waterloo
Supreme Court
Rainfall Figures From Historical Monthly Averages
The data list today the past 24 hours rainfall ending 7 am with no May figure, total May rainfall to date is .03 inches, year to date 1955 is 9.20 inches, and the 42 year average is 36.94 inches. Monthly averages from 1912 to 1954 show January 2.50, February 1.94, March 2.95, April 3.11, May 3.92, June 3.89, July 3.73, August 3.82, September 2.66, October 3.24, November 2.59, December 2.51 inches.
Polio vaccination drive aims to inoculate 9 million children
Local health officers will lead school based clinics to give three Salk polio vaccine injections over seven months. Parental consent forms and school meetings precede injections with make up clinics for absentees.
Sick leave counts disputed by postal workers letter to editor
A Winchester Evening Star letter to the editor corrects a report on federal sick leave. It cites actual entitlements: 13 days for most federal employees, 15 days for nonpostal civil service, and 10 days for postal workers, noting Public Law 233 fixed 13 days for all.
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U. S
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Postal
Winchester Evening Star
Associated Press
Social Security admin costs near two cents per dollar
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, reports that the total handling cost of Social Security is slightly under 2 cents from each Social Security tax dollar collected.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
Landon and Maggie Singled by a Quiet Tension
Landon McCrae returns to Windermere to care for Maggie Scartie and her household. Jealousy flares over Landon’s observed closeness with Kay Ireland and Eric, while Maggie faces illness and hopes for Christmas homecoming. The chapter traces quiet domestic tensions, memory, and evolving relationships in a Canadian town.
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Windermere
Canada
New York
Scott Wyne
Scott
Landon
Maggie Scartie
T.B. Cure
Maggie
Merry-o
Kay Irish
Eric
War Widow
Breck
Rowena
Williams
Don
Candon
Kay
Aoe
Eric Landon
Gran
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