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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1947
Page
4
The notice lists By Mail or Motor Ro subscription options for one year six months three months and one month with outside Virginia and West postage. It mentions by carrier rates and weekly single copies and includes the Bible quote You shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind from Matthew 22 37.
Emory University in Atlanta acquired a major stake this week in Asa Griggs Candler’s Coca-Cola fortune and received a second gift of 7 million dollars. Candler, born on a Georgia farm, entered medicine but failed to fund studies and built Coca-Cola through aggressive advertising after acquiring a drug store stake in 1886. He became sole owner in 1890s and sold the business in 1919 for 25 million dollars, proving advertising as the lifeblood of the enterprise.
Allied military zones will allow Germany to produce up to 10.7 million tons of steel annually, a major boost for Europe’s recovery. Production will be directed by the British and American authorities, aiming to utilize Europe’s natural resources while preventing a return to wartime outputs.
The United States will see more births this year than ever before, surpassing 1946 records due to marriages after military demobilization. While unlikely to alarm, school boards must plan as the rising birth rate will push enrollments higher in a few years.
The piece warns that the CIO-PAC in Virginia operates covertly to push a labor faction. It sees the group as aiming to curb state sovereignty over suffrage, increase federal control after lynchings, and oppose anti-labor candidates. The article frames CIO-PAC as a separate party aiming to represent labor interests.
A. D. Payne of Round Hill Loudoun county owned the grand champion hound at the Clarke county Wildlife Conservation Beach Show held yesterday at Berryville high school grounds. A silver serving tray served as the class trophy. The event drew over 2,500 visitors to Rosemont Clarke county home of Senator Harry F. Byrd for his orchard picnic marking a postwar return.
Walter and Wilmer Anderson,White Hall farmers, share congratulations for their newborn daughters. The county posted sixty more Frederick selectees for physical exams and Army induction in Charlottesville on September 5.
Ten years after graduation the Handley High School class of 1932 will hold its reunion tomorrow night at the George Washington Hotel. Superintendent Leslie D. Kline announced a zoning plan aimed at easing congestion in county schools. Students will attend schools according to designated zones.
A 1897 report recounts a mob assault where a woman of questionable character was tarred and feathered and left unconscious on Senseney road. The piece notes a dance honoring James second Mary Reardon by M. H. Reardon and mentions plans to leave for school soon.
President Truman appoints Gen. Albert M. Gruenther as Director of the Joint Staff under the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Roscoe Killenkoetter as CIA Director, Arthur Hill as Chairman of the National Security Resources Board, and Sidney Souers as Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, signaling a major step in forming the new national military organization.
A 1947 medical feature explains erythema nodosum as a hypersensitivity rash tied to tuberculosis streptococcal and meningococcal diseases and certain drugs such as sulfathiazole gold arsenic and bismuth. It notes common age range seasonal trends and joint swelling with possible cure by eliminating the cause or treating underlying tuberculosis or infection.
The article states that about five tons of air must be blown through a blast furnace for each ton of iron produced. It also notes cows perspire little and barns should be built to avoid heat and humidity stress.
The piece reflects on Cardinal Mercier’s postwar choices, noting he funded bells for churches ruined by conflict rather than restoring altars or roofs. It asks readers what they value when spending time and money, and includes a brief Q and A about enslaved African Americans before the Civil War, citing the Negro Year Book. It ends with a stray technical note on inflating aircraft with helium to save weight.
A circa 1947 quiz asks seven questions: prunes are dried fruit. a square foot and a foot square have equal area, yes. Fagin is in Charles Dickens work Oliver Twist. delta is the river mouth. Alaska statehood status debated in first session of the 80th Congress. Civil War veterans living vs dependents pension data with options 97 970 or 9 700 Union veterans. July 27 1947 first Sunday session of Congress since which president.
The term streamliner is not new and traces back to 1906 when Horace Lamb defined it as a line whose direction matches fluid motion. Notes on animal sleep state many higher animals sleep while horses sleep standing. dogs can endure longer without sleep than without food, while guinea pigs apparently need no sleep.
Inspector Grange questions Dr John Christow and wife Gerda as the case deepens. Miss Cray the actress draws closer to Sir Henry and Lady Angkatell while Gerda confronts shock and fear after her husband’s death and the inquest looms.
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