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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1949
Page
4
A brief aphorism contrasts wisdom with knowledge, noting wisdom is charitable and helpful while knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies. The message cites a Biblical verse from Corinthians to emphasize practical virtue over mere accumulating facts.
After Shanghai falls to the communists, American business faces limited profits with many firms likely to withdraw or adjust to the regime. Since Tientsin fell, American banks mostly closed. Shanghai could follow. Americans hold $120 million in Shanghai, 80 percent of China bets, while British investments dwarf this. There are 200 American firms in Shanghai, mainly corporations, with numbers down since wartime strains.
The University of Wisconsin launches a course to graduate professors of driving, aiming to teach motorists the fundamentals of operating cars. It treats traffic safety as an educational issue and hopes the experiment yields safer roads for all.
A piece notes that absolute safety is impossible and every option carries risk. It cites 1948 industrial injuries at under two million, the lowest eight year total, with fewer disasters and lower rates in manufacturing, railroads, and mining. It urges continued safety emphasis.
A fable contrasts two hounds chasing a rabbit with citizens debating tax hikes. The piece uses a parable to critique taxpayers pursued by tax boosters and warns against unnecessary tax increases in troubled times.
The piece likens taxpayers to a rabbit fleeing for life, arguing against unwarranted tax increases. It warns that if boosters succeed, they will take from the taxpayer what he earns and spends, making the fight for public money grim and vital. The message urges resolve and determination to oppose higher taxes.
Senator Battle urged Virginia to raise annual tourist advertising funding at Chester, noting current $100,000 appropriation returns via highway taxes. He echoed Governor Darden’s 1946 proposal to divert highway funds for promotion, arguing a small tax share could yield large returns as tourism grows toward a billion-dollar industry. Virginia should align with rival states to capture the expanding travel market.
Virginia beekeepers face a severe run of damp cold weather that leaves bee colonies listless and many dead or starving. Virginia Tech bee specialist George H. Rea advises feeding bees sugar solution to revive colonies and notes that proper timing could boost honey incomes. pollination from gardens adds value beyond honey production.
DeHaven belts two homers but Stonewall loses 7 to 6 to Stephens City. A girl is born to Mr and Mrs Robert Wiley of Park View Ave.
British nerves tense as Allied invasion intensifies from the Anzio beachhead. In Winchester, bowling teams win at Waynesboro. Handley board pays tribute to the late Russell Cather.
In 1939, Miss Ann Kerr Russell is chosen to represent Winchester at the Nova Scotia Apple Blossom festival. The issue is dedicated to W. R. Legge with Vance Bourjailly as editor and F. L. Largent Jr. announcing candidacy for Commonwealth Attorney.
In 1924 Penney Co. accelerates building a new department store as William Jennings Bryan plans a speech in Harrisonburg. Capt. George W. Kurtz is elected to an officer position in the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Virginia.
In 1899 James M. Haymaker J P Haddox Charles A Heller and E Holmes Boyd ran for city council pledging to vote for public power. A fire destroyed the depot grain elevator warehouse store and post office at Clearbrook. J J Harmer rescued 40 sheep stranded on a flooded Back Creek island.
A humorous essay extols mirrors as universal friends and honest critics. It contrasts human vanity with dogs and notes mirrors flatter, bolster morale, and reduce loneliness, while warning against breaking a mirror that sustains self image.
Maggie Teyte, daughter of a hotel owner, was born near Wolverhampton in England on April 17, 1889. She studied in Paris with Jean de Reszke starting in 1903, first appeared publicly at 17, married W. S. Cottingham in 1921, spent nine years in semi retirement, and returned to triumph at Town Hall New York in October 1925.
A medical piece on xerostomia explains that persistent mouth and lip dryness affects mostly middle aged and elderly women. Causes include fever diabetes kidney inflammation thyroid deficiency anemia mumps X ray therapy fear drugs and dental factors. Treatment depends on the underlying cause and may include glycerin rinse pilo carpine alkaline water zinc and vitamin-rich diet.
IQ test snippet asks 10 questions on topics from a Yankee Stadium memorial to Pitman and Gregg systems. It queries coffee producers, a federal agency, St. film star, a Pacific Northwest disaster, and authors like Oliver Wiswell, Northwest Passage, and Lydia Bailey.
A devotional piece recalls Thomas Cranmer and Sir Thomas More facing execution for their beliefs. It notes Cranmer’s act of burning his recantation with the hand that signed it and More’s steadfast choice of death, then ends with a reflection on those who stand for truth rather than personal gain.
The Home Doctor Book offers guidance for over 50 common ailments across 40 pages. Includes Care of the Sick Diet for the Sick Personal Hygiene Home Medicines and Care of Infants with an order form for 15 cents postpaid from the Ninchester Star Information Bureau in Washington DC. The text closes with a reflection on martyrs and values beyond worldly calculation.
In a tense confrontation Mrs. Ramey compiles a list of ten women owed or bound to her, while Beatrice accuses the matron of exploiting vulnerable women to feed vanity. Beatrice denounces the control, declares independence, and ends the arrangement with Mrs. Ramey.
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