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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1946
Page
4
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President Truman is set to address the nation about proposed actions to tackle the meat shortage. The editorial urges direct, candid talk and a clear plan rather than half measures like temporary decontrol before the election, noting limited control over many factors and emphasizing a firm course.
Henry A. Wallace will become editor of The New Republic on December 16 after thirteen years in roles misaligned with his talents. He is described as a zealot and purveyor of half baked ideas, likely to maintain the magazine’s controversial liberal stance and appeal to intellectuals.
The piece reviews fluctuating forecasts on the 1.9 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year. It calls for a unified statement from President Truman and Secretary Snyder to clarify prospects for balancing the budget and control of government outlays.
District of Columbia coroner rules Mrs Evelyn McLean Reynolds died of acute congestive heart failure due to habiturate poisoning. He notes insomnia led to sleeping drug use and warns against dependence. The article urges self reliance and proper medical guidance for sleep.
A Southwestern university coach reveals that recruiting favors players with perks such as new cars or mortgage payments on their property. The practice varies with school size and player value, with education sometimes offered only as a minimal consolation.
The Patrons League of Boyce warned Clarke County School Board they will pull children from the school on November 1 unless a contract for an "adequate" building is let within 90 days. Winchester residents Ken Cather James A Seabright and Jack Boyd are among many drivers entered in the second annual modified jalopy claiming race at Williams Grove speedway in Pennsylvania this Sunday.
J N Ochs Handley High School football coach praised Kiwanis Club members for promoting good sportsmanship between Handley and Martinsburg high school students during a regular luncheon address. Heinz Company Winchester plant tops local industry as apple harvest peaks, announced by General Manager George Dieckman.
1921 twenty five years ago reports announce the formation of a law partnership in New York between Judge A. C. Carson formerly associate justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals at Manila and Mr. W. Davis Conrad of Winchester. Mrs Wright Beverley and others visited Waynesboro to see Beverley, a student injured in a football game. Winchester men met at the Elks Club to discuss forming a Winchester Rotary Club chapter.
A reader queries a seven item quiz from a vintage page, asking who led the West Coast seamen's union, the parasitic host for mistletoe, Briges Manufacturing Co auto parts plant city, who succeeded Wallace as acting commerce secretary, a homonym for way, the men who served as VP under FDR, countries with initials USA, chairman of the Democratic National Committee Speakers Bureau, the Mili island group, and whether Christmas and New Year’s share the same weekday each season.
Captain John Callender of Massachusetts faced a court martial for cowardice at Bunker Hill and was cashiered, then rejoined as a private. At Long Island he earned Washington’s pardon and resumed captaincy, showing that one can redeem a fallen life through difficult courage.
1896 report notes Mr. C. W. Hansell departing for an extended Eastern trip and Mr. J Sota Coe traveling to Carroll County Virginia where he has been appointed gauger. Cooper Brothers plan another oil tank at the C V R R with storage buildings. The county clerk issued a marriage license to Colonel I. Bohrer and Elizabeth Crosen of Frederick County.
Nearly 50 000 pounds of beef on the hoof were sold at auction at the Atlantic Rural Exposition at an average price slightly above 42 cents per pound. About 50 fat steers up to 1200 pounds were bought by Richmond hotels restaurants and markets and from outside the state. A grand champion steer of 800 pounds from Highland Farm Roundhill sold for a record 65 cents per pound. Many offerings were fat steers bred and sold by 4 H Club members across the state.
Federal Judge Sterling Hutcheson ruled that a railroad brotherhood cannot enforce a collective bargaining clause that bars Negro fireman Tom Tunstall from promotion due to race. The Eastern Virginia District Court orders Tunstall restored to passenger run assignments between Norfolk and Marsden, N. C. A permanent injunction bars the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers from acting as bargaining agents for Tunstall and other Negro firemen so long as race remains a factor.
Lord Beveridge, defending liberal ideals, said democracy cannot be taught in Germany by repression and proscription. He accused the Potsdam Agreement of nullifying the Atlantic Charter and warned of a return to wartime rhetoric.
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