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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1946
Page
4
Admiral Strauss Named to Atomic Energy Commission
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss of Richmond appointed by the President to the Atomic Energy Commission. He will join four others, including David Lilienthal, to tackle issues Truman called pivotal to civilization. Strauss, a reserve officer, aided Navy procurement and serves as a Kuhn, Loeb partner active in cancer research. He lives near Culpeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Strauss
Lewis Strauss
Secretary of the Navy
Navy
Army and Navy Munitions Board
New York
O F Kuhn, Loeb & Company
Culpeper
Coal crisis shows Lewis leverage in labor battles
The article argues that John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers hold government and industry in sway amid a coal dispute. It cites Truman and Krug denying surrender to Lewis, while Steelman is depicted as steering concessions through political traps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
John L. Lewis
John Lewis
Lewis
Roosevelt’s Mediation Board Replaced By Steelman Lewis Fairless
Roosevelt repudiated the mediation board and named a new panel of Dr. Steelman Mr. Lewis and Benjamin S Fairless president of United States Steel. Steelman’s deciding vote forced mine workers to join the United Mine Workers before mining coal, marking early Lewis triumph over the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zens
Roosevelt
Mediation Board
Steelman
Lewis
Benjamin S’. Fairless
United States Steel
Steelan
United Mine Workers
Opinion on election odds for Congress and Senate control
The piece weighs Republican chances to win the House and Senate, noting difficulty gaining Senate control requires defending current seats and flipping nine Democratic-held seats outside the South. It cites past misfires of midsummer odds in 1888 1916 and 1936 and critiques polling methods from Gallup and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House
Senate
Kentucky
South
Arizona
Maryland
New Mexico
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Cleveland
Hughes
Roosevelt
London
Gallup
Willkie
Moon colonization plan raises life on other worlds doubt
A Post-Dispatch reader asks about the Rocket Society’s moon colonization proposal. The reply notes that it has not yet been proven life is possible on any planet, including Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocket Society
Moon
Winchester-Frederick War Memorial Drive elects Grant Pollock chairman
Grant Pollock, commercial manager of WINC, was elected chairman director of the Winchester-Frederick County War Memorial Drive by the executive board. Dr Howard James and Arthur Seabright said the VAM rifle club will start weekly shoots tonight. Cpl and Mrs Lehring Anderson, married in Winchester, attended a miscellaneous shower Monday at Mrs Tyler Wood's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Pollock
WINC
Winchester-Frederick County War Memorial
Howard James
Arthur Seabright
VAM Rifle Club
Cpl
Lehring Anderson
Winchester
Tyler Wood
Bubbles Signal Mass Fish Die‑off in Opequon River
Miss R R Pidgeon observed hundreds of dead fish surfacing late yesterday afternoon in the Opequon. Dr R O Bryant arrived in Winchester to begin duties as superintendent of the Winchester Methodist Church succeeding Rev W W McIntyre now pastor at Petersburg. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Leighton Adair to Mr William Snyder of Berryville on October 18 in Lynchburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. O. Bryant
Lynchburg
Winchester
Official ballots to be used in Frederick County election
Ballots for the upcoming Frederick County election were distributed at the county clerk’s office today to commissioners or judges assigned to receive the tickets for the various voting precincts. Miss Isabelle Mayo Cameron, recently in Europe, arrived in New York this week aboard the steamship Georgia. A group of ten Winchester businessmen may join the Shenandoah Valley motorcade to Gettysburg on November 5-6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Isabelle Mayo Cameron
Europe
New York
Georgia
Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Gettysburg
Winchester High School Routs Chambersburg for Third Straight Victory
The Winchester High School football team earned its third consecutive win by defeating Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, at Chambersburg in a Saturday game. City Game Warden W. E. Jones announced fines of five dollars plus costs for John North and Douglas Green for out of season rabbit hunting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Chambersburg
W. E. Jones
John North
Douglas Green
Residents Headed to Washington for Winter Visit
Mr. T. H. Gosorn, once of this city and now in Takoma Park, will move back here in a few days. Messrs. J. B. Haines Luther Windle and Godfrey Cooper have returned home from a two day trip and will depart tomorrow for Washington to spend the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. H. Gosorn
Takoma Park
Messrs
J. B. Haines
Luther Windle
Godfrey Cooper
Washington
A Divine Compass for Life by Earl L. Douglas
The piece likens navigation of Ambrose Channel to life guided by Bible truth. It argues that human cleverness fails without God given guidance and reason conscience and spiritual capacity enable understanding. Life is a serious voyage requiring divine direction beyond human power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Harbor
Ambrose Channel
God
Energy from radium vs coal
During its life radium gives off about 1,000,000 times as much energy as burning coal. A gram of radium equals roughly 3,000 pounds of coal in energy content.
Quiz questions and hints from a 1940s issue page
A reader’s list of quiz prompts covers science history and wartime topics. Questions address water freezing points, AVC stance on WWII veterans bonuses, Washington’s Farewell Address delivery, displaced persons in postwar camps, a 1940s bonus march state, Kempeitai role in Japan, Tacitus’ role, refugees voyage nationality, and the ex-Marine Corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Veterans Committee
AVC
George Washington
Congress
U. S
Germany
Japan
Kempeitai
Caius Cornelius Tacitus
Soviet
Russia
America
Florida
Christopher Columbus
ex-Marirtie Corps
Wisconsin Senate Candidate Leads Republican Ticket
Captain who defeated Robert M. La Follette Jr. for the Republican nomination appears as the party’s Senate candidate in Wisconsin. Also notes Bible reference about Noah's Ark wood and explains Russian wedding crowns blessed by the priest symbolize the Crown laid up in Heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Senate
Wisconsin
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Bernard M. “Baruch
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National Defense Mediation
Government Board
Newport News Daily Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Earl L. Douglas
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