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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1946
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists delivery and advertising policies with guidance to report delays. It details subscription and display ad rates for mail, motor delivery, and carrier service, plus weekly and single-copy pricing and a Bible verse.
Friday November 29 1946 report notes the Chester Frederick County Community Chest has not met its goal with only five dollars needed to surpass the target. The piece urges contributions and recalls long standing local support for charitable causes while linking consumer debt trends to broader national economic context and White House public access after Pearl Harbor reopening.
The White House closed to the public during wartime to protect the president and staff, a necessary step given the building as war command center. Lincoln welcomed crowds, but most presidents faced limits. The article urges continued public visits to Washington to view the historic residence.
In facing the coal strike, John L. Lewis is only one man though he leads the United Mine Workers. Four hundred thousand miners are on strike, and their action could be undermined if they fail to see Lewis as their hired negotiator. The piece warns that Lewis’s demands threaten mass unemployment and ghost towns, urging industry to resist monopoly and consider long-range plans amid ongoing conversion.
The article argues that inflation harms workers and that prosperity comes from maximum production. It explains labor’s role as owner, producer, and consumer of a commodity, labor power, and warns that money is not wealth. It uses a wage example to show income can rise while real purchasing power falls.
In New York the Big Four foreign ministers work behind sealed sessions to finalize the European satellite peace treaties. Byrnes Molotov Bevin and Couve De Murville agreed to limit press detail as the negotiations continue on Trieste and related issues. The Young Men's Christian Association of London started in 1844.
More than 250 students were absent from Winchester schools today due to sickness. Mrs. Henry B. Pitzer Jr. of Clearbrook was severely injured in a late yesterday automobile collision. Harry F. Byrd Jr., editor of the Star, announced the appointment of David W. Landis as circulation manager.
City Manager Grant says word indicates repairs to the town clock may be completed and in operation by January. Engagement announced for Virginia Boyd to Peyton L. Kerns of Roanoke. Admiral Byrd and family arrive to visit Mrs. Byrd and Mr. Byrd.
Dr. L M Allens horses won the principal prize at the hunter trials of the Blue Ridge Hunt club held at Farney Argentina. The event coincides with a tour entertaining President Roosevelt on a South American goodwill mission. The international battalion aided Loyalist forces in the Spanish civil war.
The piece contrasts clingy to novelty with valuing antique furniture. It warns against chasing shiny new philosophies, economies, and fashions while urging appreciation of intrinsic quality and lasting standards.
The article notes the world’s largest passenger liner completing its first civilian voyage to New York since World War II clo sings. It discusses naval honors and postwar civilian service ending, with references to commemorative marks on the ship.
Miss Mary E. Bageant and Mrs. Arthur C. Carpenter wed at United Brethren parsonage. V. A. wrapped up its 1921 season with a 48 to 0 loss to Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Winchester Rotary Club bills a new modern hotel project as its main effort.
ANTIQUES AND OVERSTUFFED It used to be said of certain antique dealers that they secured some of their best pieces of furniture by trading new furniture for old. They loaded wagons with chairs sofas tables and beds and then offered pieces that were more comfortable than the old items in homes. Many traded museum pieces worth thousands
The excerpt asks seven questions about trivia from a historical page. It mentions Stella Pajunas with unclear speed options, 1946 World Series receipts over one million dollars, Python snakes killing by constriction or venom, Kurt Daluege and the Lidice Massacre, and Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug speaking last month.
Gulf Oil Corp. announces a December bonus for US employees on the payroll November 1946, excluding directors, officers, and bargaining unit foremen. The bonus equals one week of base pay for hourly staff and one fourth of a month for salaried staff, capped at 100 dollars.
The Marine Department reports a bonus for eligible workers. Guy F. Brown, a former Detroit halfback, received a 15 to 28 year prison term for an August incident involving a 21 year old white woman. The case was reported as a state prison sentence.
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