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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1947
Page
4
The notice lists subscription terms in advance for various durations with an outside Virginia and West surcharge of $1.00 for postage by carrier. It mentions one year six months three months and one month options and notes weekly issues and single copies. An inserted Bible verse from James 5 16 appears.
Henry A. Wallace said Harold Stassen may win the Republican Presidential nomination, noting Stassen has moved toward his program. The piece questions whether Wallace in Stassen’s clothes would appeal to either party and hints at a possible Wallace Stassen party.
Census data show urban residents rose from 56.7 percent in April 1940 to 60 percent in July 1946. Migration kept city populations steady through wartime expansion, while many country buyers now originate from large East and Midwest centers. Rural areas lose residents as urban dwellers seek country living despite city growth.
American port authorities report Bremen Hamburg and Emden unloading one million tons of food to Germany between May 1 and July 18 as the Allies push facts over claims of excessive sacrifice. British official Sir Sholto Davis argues Germany has no right to demand continued sacrifices from Britons and Americans. General Clay plans counterpropaganda with clearer Allied food efforts.
The Department of Commerce cites peak business in April while steel mills run at 84 million tons per year with 93 percent capacity ingots. John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers threaten a strike, risking auto construction and overall industrial life unless Congress acts. President Tower ties steel fate to coal and congressional courage amid this labor crisis.
Dallas Times Herald urges urgent soil conservation as soil loss harms the nation. It notes soil worth hundreds of billions has vanished and oil may offset depletion, but all resources are exhaustible. Texans and others must act to conserve and rebuild soil to avert national decline.
One year ago in 1946 Senator Carter Glass died in Washington DC ending a long public career. Trooper Fant was recovering in Fredericksburg Hospital after injuries from a motorcycle crash. Izaak Walton League endorsed E Blackburn Moore for appointment to the Virginia Water Control Board.
In 1942, W. Erle Edwards was appointed Frederick County Trial Justice, succeeding the late A. J. Tavenner. The George Washington Hotel board voted to close the kitchen and dining room until travel on roads returns to normal.
Ten years ago Rev. Emerson J. Rohart resigned as pastor of the First Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue. Col. B. M. Roszel was guest speaker at the Leesburg Rotary luncheon.
1922 report notes Rev. Nelson P. Dame delivering the baccalaureate sermon at the Fort Loudoun Seminary Presbyterian Church. A wind affected a shooting match won by R. C. McDonald with 64 to 75. Other results include J. B. Beverley Jr 63 75 Arthur Seabright 44 50 C. Oates 35 50 F. W. Pingley 24 25 and L. M. Lamp 16 25.
A 1934 Stockholm cholera episode describes an artist denied food as nurses perish. A mysterious tray of food arrives, later retracted as a mistaken delivery to a higher floor. The narratives frame the event as providential, not chance, illustrating belief in divine guidance.
Diet based on high protein and reduced starches to limit pregnancy weight gain to two pounds per month. Dr. Ralph Luikart’s program reduced toxemia risk by controlling weight, with careful diet planning, hygiene, rest, and exercise. One thousand women followed the plan and none developed toxemia.
The sheet lists ten trivia prompts and a Q and A section. It asks about wartime groundings in 1947, a UN founder, a Florida senator, Doberman dogs, fascinator use, Ford executor, prison uniforms, Truman’s pitch, sentence parts, and UK prime ministers before Attlee, plus the first ice hockey game historically cited as 1875 at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal.
The banjo is believed to have been brought to the United States by Africans from Senegambia in Western Africa. It is likely not an aboriginal African instrument but a modification of the Arab or European guitar.
Classical writers including Herodotus and Thucydides treated the war as history though they criticized epic tales. Egyptian records hint at sea raids toward the Levant resembling Homeric scenes. Recent views shift from doubt to recognition of possible historical foundation.
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