11 Apr 1935
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1935
Page
1
The Roosevelt administration seeks to employ 3.5 million relief workers under a 4 billion works fund. Plans favor local projects to avoid costly camps and barracks. Officials push concentrated work in populous states while building dam, forestry, conservation, and rural electrification projects.
Writer urges citywide painting projects to improve appearance ahead of the Apple Blossom Festival. Observes decay in Loudoun street backyards with rotted roofs, fences in disrepair, and unsafe yards. Proposes tearing fences down, planting hedges, and turning plots into grass or gardens for safety and beauty.
A prisoner is seriously ill and two others are recovering after eating candy sent to Middlebourne jail by Mrs Franchion Light. Light aimed the treats for her husband John Light awaiting transfer for robbery. She was arrested after a revolver was found, and later moved to Martinsville.
Wheat prices jump 314 cents per bushel as dust storms trim expected yield. Washington faces job program challenges affecting 3.5 million workers. In Stresa, Italy and Santiago, Cuba, Jose Gustavo Angulo Oterry, convicted of bombing a government residence, is executed by firing squad.
At the Winchester Golf Club annual meeting 15 of 20 shares were represented and a board of directors elected unanimously. A 1934 financial report credits a successful membership drive and new swimming pool for stabilizing finances. Patton declined reelection as president and was made honorary president with Nelson Page filling the post. Page led the club from 1923 to 1930 and chaired the meeting due to Patton's illness.
The AAA will pay full benefits to drought area farmers who plant no wheat due to adverse weather. The administration earlier allowed spring wheat plantings up to 165 percent of base acreage, above the prior 90 percent limit. Secretary Wallace waives the 54 percent minimum when drought makes planting wheat wasteful.
The Senate takes up a bill authorizing HOLC to issue more bonds to refinance home mortgages while the Interior Department appropriation and economic security measures progress. Hearings cover Navy policy and proposed separate air force, TVA expansion, and merchant marine and shipping bills.
Organizations from Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia West Virginia and New York apply to join a large parade event at Handley Group. The listing emphasizes regional participation and group involvement.
West Virginia and Virginia bands including Victory High School Bend from Clarksburg with 45 members plan to stay for both festival days. The group led by A. E. Kember will appear in the children’s parade and the grand feature parade. Winchester’s fete draws top groups from neighboring states and beyond.
Dust and sand storms devastate Kansas and neighboring states with abandoned winter wheat, barren fields, and drifting soil. Dust pneumonia worsens in children in Baca County, Colorado as relief actions by President Roosevelt are pledged after a drought delegation meets him.
Jefferson street improvements approved on first and second readings may become an FERA project. The plan includes a sewer main from Handley High School and paving from near Valley avenue to Handley School, extending about 3 700 feet. Underground drainage would reduce winter nuisances and aid school lunchroom use.
Major Richard Messer of the State Health Department visited Winchester and said city property near the east limits is unsuitable for a slaughterhouse due to drainage danger from flies and odors. The council deferred action, though a permit for a modern sanitary slaughterhouse near the site has been applied for and could avoid nuisance if properly built.
Wanted a good home for a friendly small dog described as white and tan. Call phone number 41-1 for details and adoption inquiry.
W B O Nealon, former bank director and Farmers Exchange member, faces a civil suit over a note. The courtroom action centers on a loan obligation and the defendant's involvement with the old bank.
Evidence finished around 3 20 this afternoon as rebuttal witnesses were questioned and arguments move to chambers with Judge Williams. Jurors ordered back Saturday at 9 for further arguments as the Benham receiver suit to collect a $3 000 note continues through its fourth day attracting local interest.
At the April 11 meeting the Warren County Board of Supervisors discussed the 1935 budget allocating 100 dollars for the clerk and trial justice salaries and approving 9 dollars to the Health Association for diphtheria toxin. They authorized farm improvements, bridge changes over Passage Creek, and the possible retirement of 10 000 dollars in 1914 bonds. The levy for town and Front Royal district road sinking fund was cut from 25 to 20 cents for 1935, with other actions including sheep claims and incident expenses in Clarke County.
Winchester honor surrounds Mr. Stryker praised as a longtime pillar of the community. He began at 18 with Capt. George W. Kurtz in a Cameron and Boscawen streets furniture and undertaking shop and continues guiding the firm’s policies today.
The Consumers Utilities Company will spend about $6000 in Winchester this year led by manager E. C. Goss. The total two year spend reaches $19000 with most funds for extending gas mains including a new main from Senseny to East street and into National avenue. A leak survey using a small tube aims to cut daily gas loss by 25 000 cubic feet and lower maintenance costs while improving pressure on old 70 mile pipeline system across streets and neighborhoods.
Funeral services for Omer Edward Heskett set for Friday at 2 30 PM from Bennett's Chapel with Rev Moorman and Rev Canoles officiating. Burial will follow in the church yard. Pallbearers named Raymond Steed Audrey Steed Lyle Carron Marlon Carron Carson Priest and Author Burke.
At Stresa Italy on April 11 France urged Italy and Britain to defend treaty sanctity against Hitler in the Geneva league council debate. The three nations opened talks on Germany's Versailles breach, with Britain seeking peace plans while France pushes league action and Italy aiming to curb rearmament.
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