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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1962

Page

8

White Frogs and Albino Tadpoles Captured in Zenia

Game wardens in Zenia Ohio observe white tadpoles and frogs in glass containers to study how colorless offspring survive. They report albino birds and squirrels are common, but no documented white frogs in the wild. The transformation from tadpole to frog is described with growing eyes and legs as the tail vanishes.

Poles Zenia Ohio Mabel Slack Shelton

Storyland Puzzle Diamonds and Rebus Charades

Puzzle column hides nursery rhyme and storybook figures in letter rearrangements and word diamonds. Puzzle Pete centers on Hans Brinker as the diamond theme with clues for a feminine under garment to bear a body part and a driving command.

Pete Hans Brinker Silver Skates” Fame

Puzzle Answers Decode From Fractured Phrases

A reader presents a collection of scrambled phrases and ciphered clues including CGNOWVIC GNVTIAUOLS Flom peq 31g yezundey ae15 pue jesuey ZO JO pI ZIM STVSUAATH. The text appears as garbled puzzle fragments awaiting clarification or decryption.

Year Round Fun with Birding Tips for all Seasons

Anne Marvin shares practical birding ideas for every season. Tips cover feeding, housing, water, suet, seeds, and bird baths, plus winter and spring maintenance and observing birds through guest books and feeding spots.

Anne Marvin

Sewing decorative elastic loops on knee high socks

Instructions describe threading studded leather belts or dog collars through colored elastic loops at sock tops to create decorative holding devices.

Holding Skates Properly With Rubber Band Aid

When wearing roller skates on shoes that allow clamp slippage, fit a heavy rubber band over the toes and the skate ends to secure the skates in place. This simple aid helps prevent looseness while skating on footwear not designed for fixed inline clamps.

Space boats and the future of space travel

Walter B. Hendrickson Jr outlines how space boats could serve as small, low power crafts for moving between spaceships and space stations. He explains inertia and mass, cites Carpenter's frost in orbit, and proposes Apollo style three manned capsules as early space boat models without heat shields for cargo or crew.

Newton Commander Carpenter Carpenter Earth Walter B. Hendrickson Jr

The Smile That Melted Mister Crabb

Bobby and Jane overcome fear of Mister Crabb a white haired neighbor by sharing a friendly greeting. The encounter breaks tension at his large white house and leads to an invitation to visit and play together.

Mister Crabb Bobby Jane Crabb White House 467 Mr. Crabb

Brain Teaser: Change OLD to NEW in seven moves

Solve this word ladder style puzzle by changing one letter at a time to convert OLD into NEW. Each intermediate step must be a valid word matching the given definitions left of each clue, ending with NEW.

School Orchestra Portrayal by Ethel Jacobson

Poem style piece depicts a school orchestra with vivid percussion and wind instrument sounds. The narrator notes the violins hum the bass drum booms and tubas roar while echoing through distant rooms.

Ethel Jacobson

Dribble Paintings for Colorful Wet Paper Art

A simple two step watercolor craft uses warm water dampened light paper on an easel. Dip a brush in one color, apply to the wet paper, let colors spread and run to create a background before drying and cutting out shapes.

Pen Pal Requests From Captain Hal’s Readers

A list invites young readers to become pen pals, giving names ages and addresses across Ohio Hawaii and the Philippines. Children like Leilani Muneno Norma Graf Sharon Tellmeth Anthony Alexander and Judy Burke request correspondents aged around 10 to 14 and some express interest in letters from England or the Philippines.

Hal The Philipines Sharon Tellmeth Canal St Canal Fulton Ohio Judy Burke Perry St Kent England

In bad weather roller skate indoors in garage or basement

The note advises skating only indoors during bad weather using the garage floor or basement as a safe area. It emphasizes keeping space clear and wearing protective gear to prevent injuries.

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