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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1946
Page
4
Subscription Rates for Mail or Motor Route Plans
Rates listed for one year six months and three months in advance with zone additions. Prices include outside zones and single copies, weekly and monthly options.
Fear God and keep His commandments quoted on page
A religious verse appears on the page with the Ecclesiastes citation from 12 13, dated Tuesday October 1 1946. The snippet presents a moral exhortation framed as scripture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Milestone Radio Reaches 1000th FCC Licensed Station
The piece marks the FCC licensing of the nation’s 1000th standard broadcasting station as radio marks 25 years of growth. It notes vast expansion from crystal sets to FM and TV, the rise of chains, broader program variety, and the paradox of technical progress with stagnant content quality and excessive commercial plugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Communications Commission
Quarantined Bikini Ships Remain Radiologically Active
Navy reports several vessels involved in the Bikini Atoll underwater atomic test still show radioactive contamination and will be quarantined until thorough cleaning and decontamination are completed. Capt Lyons notes the unexpected persistence of radioactivity underscores test value and broader implications for naval operations and base dispersion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Bikini
George M. Lyons
Lyons
Japan
Profit as mainspring of community life in postwar Sweden
Peter Drucker notes in a U S periodical that Soviet war producers enjoy high profits and low taxes, fueling rapid expansion. He argues profits incentivize risk taking and expansion, countering socialist views. Canadians should embrace profit as essential to postwar job creation and prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Peter Drucker
U. S
Drucker
Town meeting set at George Washington Hotel
The fifth Town meeting will be held Friday October 5 at 8 p m at the George Washington Hotel promising lively discussion. Walter I Cooper retired from Winchester post office after long service as assistant postmaster ending June 1 1926 plus. W L McCarty of Bloomery Star Route brought in a sweet potato weighing 4 1 4 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Walter I. Cooper
Winchester Post Office
W. L. McCarty
Bloomery Star Route
Lodge plans gala for 173rd anniversary dinner
The Hiram Lodge No. 21 set a gala event to observe its 173rd anniversary with a dinner at the George Washington Hotel. Next Sunday marks anniversary Sunday at Winchester and Timber Ridge Congregational Christian Church as Rev. Robert A. Whitten begins his sixth year serving since arriving October 10, 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Lodge No. 21
George Washington Hotel
Winchester and Timber Ridge
Winchester council to discuss airport site and garbage removal
A special Common Council meeting is planned for Friday night to consider a new Winchester airport site and perhaps pass a garbage removal ordinance. Rumsey Slonaker couple welcomed a daughter at Winchester Memorial Hospital on September 24. Mrs. B A Rowland from Stephens City brought a bag containing a 7 by 3 inch egg to the Star Office amid yolk-count speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Winchester
Anl
Rumsey Slonaker
Winchester Memorial Hospital
B. A. Rowland
Stephens City
Star Office
1921 Twenty Five Years Ago Highlights
Expert locksmiths from the National Safe Company of Cleveland install 178 safe deposit boxes at Farmers and Merchants National Bank. Henry W. Anderson the Republican candidate for Virginia governor will lead a Winchester rally on Monday October 3. Mrs H D Puller of Winchester invited to National Red Cross annual convention in Columbus Ohio next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safe Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Henry W. Anderson
Richmond
Virginia
Winchester
H. D. Puller
National Red Cross
Columbus
Severe storm hits Winchester with record rainfall
A fierce storm visited Winchester last night bringing the heaviest rainfall in years. Telephone wires were blown down bridges swept away and many trees uprooted. Miss Sarah P Moyers returned from West Virginia while Miss Maude Diffenderfer departed for Hot Springs to teach this winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Sarah P. Moyers
West Virginia
Maude Diffenderfer
Hot Springs
Religion and freedom in the Soviet state debated
Washington columnist cites a Library of Congress study by Everett Dirksen on communism in action and argues that despite some church concessions under Russia, true religious freedom is absent as the state controls church matters. He warns of spiritual chaos and urges further congressional investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Legislative Reference Service
Library of Congress
Dirksen
U. S. Government Printing Office
Kalinin
Communist Party
Books topple on stenographer in Hiroshima story
An account of the Hiroshima bombing recalls a stenographer under a bookcase who was struck by falling books and injured when the blast shattered her surroundings. The scene is presented as a grim symbol of the impact of atomic age power on human life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiroshima
Penicillin Mist Aims To Treat Respiratory Infections
Dr. Bennie Mecklin promotes aerosol penicillin via nebulizer as an effective breathing treatment for pneumococcus lung infections throat and bronchial infections. The method delivers penicillin directly to air passages using an oxygen powered device in clinics or hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennie Mecklin
Watertown
New York
Mecklin
How's Your I Q Quiz Questions Page 2 Answers
A list of seven quiz questions asks about veterans pensions, POW command, Hiroshima critics, the hair of the dog axiom, beef cattle nations, defense minister Mavromichalis, the first U S treasury secretary, kindergarten origins, army strength as a fraction of wartime peak, and the composer of The Rosary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
United States
Hiroshima
Peter Mavromichalis
Treasury
U .S
Robert Morris
Alexanron Hamilton
Benjamin Franka
State gasoline tax deductions on 1945 federal returns
State gasoline taxes are deductible in computing net income for the 1945 Federal income tax in all states except Alabama California Florida Louisiana Mississippi Utah and Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
California
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Utah
Wyoming
The Songs We Love To Sing Song Book Offer
A 144 page hymns and secular songs collection with Stephen Foster pieces, college chants, cowboy songs and sea tunes. The 6x9 inch book includes words and music in voice friendly keys and pleasing harmonization, fully indexed. Offered for 25 cents postpaid by The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington DC. coupon included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Information Bureau
Stephen Foster
Orier
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Eye St
Washington 2
D. C
Shadow Government For Palestine Led By Mufti
Arab sources report a shadow government for Palestine formed in Alexandria with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin El Husseini as premier and foreign affairs secretary. Separately, police found a dynamite canister at Haifa refueling docks connected to an oil jetty. five Jewish crewmen were arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Palestine
Alexandria
Mufti
Haj Amin el Husseini
Haifa
Botticelli Echoes Drive Abby Wallace’s Supposed Nobility
Abby Wallace, under control of her domineering father Norman Wallace, attends a party at Madge Duncan’s home where Craig Emerson and Barry Lambert notice her Botticelli resemblance. Tensions rise over paintings, family secrets, and social ambitions as Abby’s place in the Wallace art world is tested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby Wallace
Norman Wallace
Fairtom
Wallace
Craig Emerson
Craig
Abby
Madge Duncan
Red Cross
Madge
Robert Duncan
Fairton
Barry Lambert
Val Stanley
Duncans
Val
Air Force
Barry
New York
Duncan
Morris
Met
Europe
Stone House
Miss Wallace
Mr. Lambert
Botticelli
Lambert
Emerson
Botticellis
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