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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1957
Page
4
Daily readers exceed 40,000 for the Winchester Evening Star, established 1896, with Sunday editions and optional extras drawing steady attention from local residents.
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson hosts a Pentagon luncheon marking ten years since the Defense Department's creation. Attending will be three former secretaries and successor Neil McElroy, as debates on unification and inter service coordination reflect on progress and ongoing inefficiencies.
Inflation and higher costs push state and city budgets toward deficits. Tax Foundation forecasts total state expenditures at 22 billion this year, up 2.5 billion from last year, while revenues rise 1.3 billion. Municipal debt hits a record 16.9 billion as sessions debate new taxes to balance.
A digest compiling the most interesting editorials from about 40 newspapers arriving at the office daily. The column highlights varied opinions and analysis on current events, policy debates, and public affairs.
A columnist denounces NAACP efforts to purge nursery rhymes folk songs radio jokes and public school reading. The piece mocks removal of Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn from New York curricula and accuses the group of advancing a race based censorship agenda.
The piece argues that men are generally superior to the women they marry, noting men are kinder cheeryier less petty more true to character more loyal and perceptive, with exceptions acknowledged in some cases.
A 1952 Wake Island typhoon battered the atoll, destroying houses and overrunning the coast as official figures counted dead missing and injured. The Justice Department announced plans to indict 18 Communist Party leaders on conspiracy charges. Mr and Mrs Ralph Harry returned from France and Germany and planned to live in Washington DC.
JT notes that a graduate of the Women College at Philadelphia became the first woman to engage in general medical practice in Winchester, with offices at 10 West Boscawen Street. Peyton chosen superintendent of Clarke County Parish to be held Sept 26 at Boyce High School under Pulure Partners of America, 4 H clubs and Pulure Homemakers. Tone River floods near To- shore in Japan reported.
Mr Victor Sims, formerly west of Mr James R DuShane, returns to his home in London England. Messrs Walter and Joseph Plickinger, sons of the Rev F L Plickinger, depart for Williamsburg to study at William and Mary College. Miss Nancy Virginia Eagle, daughter of Mr George Eagle, dies from a lung hemorrhage during a tour of the Endless Caverns.
Gov Curtis Guild Jr addressed ceremonies at the National Cemetery in this city for the dedication of the Massachusetts moromet honoring Bay State soldiers buried there. Forty men dead and a number more severely injured from an explosion on a Japanese warship in Tokyo. a Colorado Springs dispatch reported an automobile traveling sixty mph struck an obstruction, killing four people.
Fred Birkner runs a television animal school in New York training pets for TV and stage. He notes animals can be easier than people to train and cites examples from horse to parakeet learning cueing, lights, and camera presence. Mohammed the white horse leads the pack with 15 years in the business and appearances with Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting. Prices for walk-ons run from 35 to 450 dollars depending on role and risk.
The author contrasts ancient Hebrew and Greek concepts of life. Hebrews see man as a creature who seeks happiness through obedience to God, while Greeks claim man is the measure of all things. Modern life, for Christians, frames human life as a test in which God selects companions for eternity.
The article explains infant and child hearing cues such as responding to sounds and names. It offers home tests like coin taps and watching for differences in hearing distance, urging prompt medical evaluation and audiometry to measure loss.
The passage states that a pair of Mies could produce 191 quin trillion offspring in a summer if all survive and reproduce. It notes uncertainty due to insects, birds, insecticides, and weather affecting survival and reproduction.
A vintage quiz article presents a 100 question daily test to rate memory function with scoring: 9 or 19 correct = Memory Genius, 7–8 = Very Superior, 6 = Excellent, 4 = Good. It lists 10 sample questions and ends with a limerick about a pelican and a query on which President favored it.
Clyde R a 23 year old chemical engineer faces a social problem he calls a weak kidney condition. Dr George W Crane outlines three methods psychology and medicine use to cure the so called irritable bladder by fluid control bladder re education and distraction techniques with social poise training.
AP analyst notes the Vari ety top 10 songs reflecting American values and priorities. The article suggests pop tunes emphasize love and travel over civil rights, citing Tammy Around the World Fascination and others, with a humorous jab at Congress and Tin Pan Alley.
Berryville Bo ee White Post and Millwood will host the Lions Club broom sale next Tuesday starting at 6 p.m. Proceeds go to the sight conservation fund. brooms are made by the blind at the Virginia School for the Blind. Eleven team captains were named at the club meeting. County canvass to follow.
Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand is elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, succeeding Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand. The year long term aims to complete the assembly by December 14 with Munro noted for law, journalism and radio background. born February 26, 1901 in Auckland and recognized as scholar and athlete in school.
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