Winchester Evening Star staff and masthead details
The fragment lists the Winchester Evening Star masthead with editors and managers, mentions the business office Mohawk 2-3424 and News Room 662-3575, shows the H. F. Byrd Jr. naming, and notes postal and AP affiliation along with Newark address lines. The text identifies the newspaper as a second class matter and a member of the Associated Press.
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Winchester Evening Star
Busines
Mohawk
H. F Byrd, JR
H. D. Koon FZ
Eugene Miller
Winchester
Gallagher-DeLisser, Inc
Fast 44H Street
New York City
Associated Press
U S Toops To Vietnam Aims and a Suicide Mystery
Analysis of U S strategic debates shows the Kennedy administration wary of committing troops in South Vietnam while Diem requests more aid and training. Gen Taylor’s mission signals pressure for possible direct aid as rice harvest and North Vietnamese moves loom. The piece also recalls Poul Bang Jensen’s unresolved 1959 New York Park death linked to UN refugee lists, amid cold war tensions and a separate commentary on family togetherness.
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South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Kennedy
U.S
Laos
Johnson
America
Maxwell D. Taylor
Taylor
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Mekong
U. S
Poul Bang-Jensen
Budapest
UN Secretariat
Bang-Jensen
New York City
Senator Dodd
Internal Security Subcommittee
Wood receives Distinguished Flying Cross for Korea missions
Staff Sgt. Marvin L. Wood of Route 3 Winchester earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for night combat missions over North Korea as a veteran Fifth Air Force 3rd Bomb Wing Gunner. Mr and Mrs Douglas Cather and Mr and Mrs Harold Potts drove to Charlottesville to attend the VMI Virginia football game.
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Marvin L. Wood
Route 3
Winchester
North Korea
Fifth Air Force
Douglas Cather
Harold G. Potts
Charlottesville
VMI
University of Virginia
Frank Merriwell’s rise from dime novels to enduring hero
Gilbert Patten created Frank Merriwell, first appearing in Tip Top Weekly on April 18, 1896. The character powered Yale athletics and global adventures in a vast 20,000 word weekly saga, influencing generations of readers and inspiring many to pursue college, while Patten’s life mirrored the rise of the dime novel era.
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Gilbert Patten
Frank Merriwell
Frank
Tip Top
Patten
Merriwell
Maine
Gilbert
Biddeford
Bedle
Adams
Pittsfield
Academy
Dickens
Hawthorne
Stevenson
Beadle
Pattens
Alice Gardner
Corinna Owl
Rustic Lad
Ma'ne
Wilder
Cowboy Chris
Street
Smith
Ormond Smith
Heer
Yale University
Burt L. Standish
Fardale
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Dartmouth
West Point
Inza
Bart Hodge
Elsie
Dick Merriwell
Ford Academy
Tip Top Weekly
Eli
Street & Smith Publications, Inc
Seidman Americana
Street and
Daily Meditation on Inspiration and Breath of Life
A meditation traces the word inspiration from two parts meaning to breathe into. It notes inspiration gives power and skill to a person or thing and cites biblical moments when God or the Holy Spirit breathes into beings. The piece reflects on teachers who inspire us.
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God
Pene
Inspiration and its continual flow through minds and hearts
Earl L. Douglas reflects on inspiration as a constant process that elevates the lower to the higher. He argues literature, readers, and the Bible gain life when touched by inspired insight and urges readiness to receive God’s loftier influence.
Refugees Stream Into France as Socialist Rule Crumbles
Twenty five years ago in 1936 Spanish refugees fled to France amid a faltering socialist government. Anarchy reportedly spread across the war torn nation as tensions rose. In Frederick County schools 2,618 pupils were enrolled according to Superintendent Leslie D. Kline. Dr. Leon Slavin was entertained informally at Gray Gables Inn.
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France
Frederick County
Leslie D. Kline
Leon Slavin
Gray Gables Inn
Chestnut gift highlights 1911 Frederick County crop
The Star received a box of improved chestnuts from J. H. Cooper of Chambersville. A front page cartoon shows a farmer surveying vast orchards with a caption predicting 250 000 barrels of Frederick County apples. Emily Powers of Berryville attended the Allen Osbourne wedding in Charles Town as Rebecca Trapnell's guest.
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Star
J. H. Cooper
Chambersville
The
Frederick County
Emily Powers
Berryville
Charles Town
Rebecca Trapnell
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U. S. Toops
National Ywca
Helen Southard
Fr Merriwell
Frank Eee
New Haven
Elsie Bellwood
Inza Burrage
Fife
Pate Ten
Culver Pictures
Earl L. Douglas
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