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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1946
Page
4
Winchester Evening Star asks subscribers to report delays for better service. Publishes subscription rates by mail or motor route for one year six months and three months with zones and weekly single copy pricing. Includes a Bible verse at end.
Major General Harry H. Vaughan says war entrants who resign to play college football look like draft dodgers. The Roanoke Times cites West Point’s Shorty McWilliams and Navy’s Clyde Scott among those who left military life after peace.
A Congressional committee tasked with trimming federal civilian staff faces a tough job. Wartime hires now exceed 2.7 million, up from 900,000 at war start. 1933 figures were 500,000. While dismissals rise in War and Navy, non military agencies add staff, and July saw a net 21,000 payroll increases.
Boat owners face scarce high priced craft as markets shift postwar. Builders introduce aluminum canoes magnesium row boats collapsible plastics and plywood dinghies while larger vessels stay wood with increasing plywood use. Inventive materials hint at further metal and plastic adoption despite supply limits.
The piece argues that Sweden's accession to Russia's demands and a bilateral trade deal favoring Moscow halted rockets from Peenemünde. It claims this confirms Sweden would face consequences if she aligned with the Western democracies rather than the Soviet bloc.
Greensboro, North Carolina hires Maj. Gen. James Luke Frink as city manager at 10000 per year, a reduction of 3500 from former manager Henry A. Yancey who left for Charlotte with 16000. The piece compares Roanoke 7200, and national averages from 1942 1944 and 1946.
Rep John J Sparkman and Sen Claude Pepper call for no speeches backing Congressional candidates. They oppose Truman foreign policy and warn any endorsement would force candidates to repudiate Truman or the endorsers, risking votes. The episode highlights strategic silence versus direct positioning.
The Bakers Drug Store in the city, run by the late C A Davis, was sold August 21 to Rands of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Judge Burr P Harrison was named general chairman for the Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts October finance drive. R A Kline elected superintendent of Grace Methodist Sunday School in Middletown at the fourth quarterly conference.
About 10 000 officers and men of the 28th division moved into Winchester and vicinity for a bivouac en route to North Carolina. Clarke County School Board and Board of Supervisors halted plans for a new Boyce school building until conditions improve. E William Argenbright of 301 Parkway named head of the annual financial canvass at Market Street Methodist Church.
Ten years ago in 1936 Winchester voters will cast ballots on September 29 to authorize the city council to issue bonds for a new water supply. A fire company plans a hall at North Loudoun and Fairfax Lane, and Winchester Post 2123 will dedicate its new rooms at 110 North Loudoun Street, announced Commander A. Lee Coble.
1896 report notes the marriage of J. H. Rosenberger and Miss Osceola Windle of Frederick county performed by Rev. James P. Wilson. It mentions Miss Mary Gray staying in Strasburg for the winter to supervise primary schools. I. H. Cooper has rented space near the Star Office to operate a new store after previously keeping a store near Gravel Springs.
The piece critiques a British labor government plan to seize private plants and issue government bonds to buy them. It argues government ownership raises debt, lowers incentives, and boosts prices, leading to a self-defeating economy with no clear U.S. advantages. It notes Britain’s plan lacks public scrutiny and questions its relevance to U.S. labor and industry.
In a sermon framed as a parable, Earl L. Douglas compares lifting a sunken wreck by tied floats at low tide to how divine tides of encouragement and hope lift the human soul. He argues threats and harshness fail. God’s inner tide inspires lasting ascent beyond human devices.
The piece notes that Congress has had chaplains in both the House and Senate since the first Congress in 1789. It states that the thirty-fifth Congress ended DC clergy invitations to alternate in opening days, and that the practice continued into the thirty-sixth Congress before the thirty-seventh Congress restored the old custom.
The Forest Service notes Western yellow pine Pinus ponderosa is called bull pine or blackjack pine for roughly the first 30 years of its life.
The Winchester Frederick County Community Chest invites Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Sacred Heart Boys Club Salvation Army and other agencies to apply for agency membership. The letter notes open membership regardless of race color or creed and outlines the goal of unifying annual fund campaigns to support community needs and improve collaboration.
A regional report shows 52 747 residents live within twenty miles of Winchester with thirty minutes slow driving time to Northwest Virginia shopping center and related traffic patterns.
Readers test their knowledge on wartime topics including beer prices in quart bottles, liberation timing of Paris in 1944, draft registration rules for 18 year olds, the Granite State nickname for New Hampshire, sponge classification, quinine source from cinchona bark, a C 47 crash death toll in 1946, and a stamp portrait question.
In a springtime clash at the Wallace estate in Fair ton Abby Wallace, 22, defies her domineering father Norman Wallace to attend a swimmer party hosted by Madge Duncan. Craig Emerson, the cousin who lives with them and serves as curator, offers support as Abby asserts her independence amid cold scrutiny and family tension.
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