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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Sep 05, 1947

Page

4

United in Defense: Inter-American Conference´s Military Echoes

The article stresses the Inter-American conference in Brazil and its military significance for world politics. It notes Latin America’s 20 nations, strategic seas near Panama Canal, historical naval actions, and calls for standardized Western Hemisphere weapons for united defense and coordinated planning across all American theaters.

Europe Panama Canal Graf Spee Montivedo Curacao Caribbean Quitandinha Coronel von Spee Chilean Faulkland Islands Americas Canada Marshall Western Hemisphere

Atomic energy advance signals peacetime plutonium use

The AEC describes a new type of controlled plutonium reactor that taps energy over time rather than an explosion. The plant yields small overall energy with intense concentration, producing many neutrons and radiation. Safeguards against weaponization remain essential as science leads the way.

United States Atomic Energy Commission Hiroshima Nagasaki

Government controls alter chicken output in Britain

In Britain the government imposes a rule that flocks of 50 or more hens must be reported, while smaller flocks fall outside oversight. The piece argues price controls backfire by rationing eggs and nudging farmers to keep 49 birds, reducing overall food supply.

Mr. Gingold Britain

Virginians in National Leadership Honored by Commonwealth List

The Commonwealth magazine lists Virginians heading major national groups including Earl Bunting, Edgar Hastings, Dr Ralph McDaniel, Mrs J L Blair Buck, and A Herbert Foreman. The Progress Index notes pride in Virginians by birth or residence holding influential roles and anticipates further additions to the list.

Virginia The Commonwealth Virginia State Chamber of Commerce General Federation of Woman’s Clubs A. Herbert Foreman Norfolk National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

Why editorial honesty beats personal enmity in politics

The editor defends writing truth with public trust, inviting opposing views for publication. He argues differences do not imply anger and cites Lincoln’s tolerance as a model, urging broad frankness without personal hostility.

Lincoln

Which king abdicated for love in a famous tale

A reader quiz asks which British king abdicated to marry the woman he loved. The item notes page four holds the correct answers and lists ten questions about history geography and notable figures.

Jesse Jones Neva

Nursery Songs And Singing Games

A compact advertisement for a booklet titled CHILDREN'S FAVORITE SONGS listing 118 nursery songs and games with music, arranged for children's voices. Includes Little Boy Blue Ring Around a Rosy and others. price twenty five cents postpaid from The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington DC.

Little Boy Blue Little Miss Muffet Rosy Bo-Peep Black Sheep Baby Bunting Jack and Jill Hickory Dickory Dock

Handley football prospects surge in practice sessions

More than 50 players showed up for Handley football drills with Coach Hunter Naddex noting twice daily sessions this week averaging around 40 candidates. A new Fog Jive Fighter truck is available for county fire calls day and night per McSherry Lupton.

Hunter Naddex McSherry Lupton

Apple Pie Ridge Social Notes Fade Into The Past

Sept 5 notes from Apple Pie Ridge recount visits by Rufus Reed Bluemont Marie Spring Washington and others with A W Adams Dory Miller families and a Berryville watermelon festival. A side paragraph recalls steamships vanished across the Atlantic including City of Glasgow Tem pest United Kingdom City of Boston and City of Limerick with no wreck clues.

Apple Pie Ridge M. C. White Rufus Reed Bluemont George Miller Ohio A. W. Adams Homer Whitacre Martinsburg Walter Jackson Frances Jacob Hansenfluck Berryville Mary Myers Pittsburgh Dory Miller Atlantic Ocean City of Glasgow Liverpool United Kingdom City of Boston Limerick

Ear Canal Infection And Treatment Infections In The Ear

Public health explainer on external ear canal boils called furnuncles. Causes include ear picking swimming diabetes fatigue and poor diet. Symptoms include ear pain worsened by jaw movement and pressure with possible swelling but hearing often spared. Treatment involves cleaning with gauze soaked in glycerin or magnesium sulfate, daily gauze changes, and possible penicillin injections if severe.

Crossword Puzzle Answers and Clues Row Review

The page lists a daily crossword with Across clues from 1 Velvet black mineral to 39 A ridge and a long Down section. It includes usual entries like 7 80 Am republic 8 Wicked and ends with 41 Finnish seaport plus a reference to yesterday’s answer and an evergreen tree clue.

Republic A Ridge Finnish Seaport

John Handley Public Schools to be built at once

In 1922 J L Crouse of Greeksboro North Carolina contracted to build the John Handley Public Schools for not more than 546758 dollars. Jacob D Funkhouser 17 son of Mr and Mrs Loring Punkhouser near Pawcett Gap died at Memorial Hospital from injuries from a horse kick sustained last Saturday.

John Handley J. L. Crouse Greeksboro N. C Jacob D. Funkhouser Loring Punkhouser Pawcett Gap Memorial Hospital

Middletown Ticket Office Robbed. Heating Plant for Valley College

In Middletown the B and O ticket office was robbed with a colored suspect noted. The Valley Female College installs a steam heating plant, a rare city facility. City schools enroll 587 white pupils after the fall session, per the board.

B. and O Middletown The Valley Female College

Strength For The Day REAL VALUE OF DOLLARS

A compact meditation contrasts dollar value over time with personal wealth. It notes that wealth rests more in wants than bank balances and cites Sir Joseph Rotherton's quote in Manchester: wealth consists not in means but in fewness of wants.

Manchester England Sir Joseph Rotherton

Do Panama hats weaved under water

This belief is popular but incorrect. Weaving occurs mainly in the evening when the air is damp. Weavers moisten their fingers as needed to keep the straw pliable.

T.R.W. A

Machinists First To Meet TH Act Confirmed

The International Association of Machinists becomes the first union to notify the labor department that it has fully complied with Taft Hartley act requirements for filing financial reports and non communist declarations. The independent union claims about 625000 members.

Washington International Association of Machinists Labor Department

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