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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1939
Page
10
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Miss Blair's program lists meetings for Whitacre 4-H Club Middletown and Stephens City Home Demonstration Clubs with demonstrations on Meat Substitutes Budget Canning Cards and Personal Grooming Sessions run April 17 to 22 at various locations. Notables include Miss Iva Byrd Johnson and county staff attending.
The Frederick County Musical Festival is tentatively scheduled for May 10. Miss Anne Preston Starling, supervisor of rural schools, announced the plan after the Teachers Association was informed this morning. The first festival at Winchester Park last spring was a success despite difficulties. this year promises a diversified program. The date may be changed if needed.
In Kansas City eight year old Sylvia Mack explains she cannot stand cottage cheese after scraping it from her salad. Six year old Jackie Marshall seizes the moment and quips I just can't eat asparagus. Mrs L J Marshall Jr asks what the children would do if given only asparagus and cottage cheese. Sylvia replies she would give Jackie the cottage cheese and eat the asparagus.
Caroline Chatfield argues that family celebrations and home fun create emotional security for kids, fostering confidence, good sportsmanship, and social ease. She notes how calendars, decorations, and shared laughter anchor memories, while a lack of joy harms children whose parents fail to laugh and play together.
In New York on April 17 RCA NBC plan a Thursday transmission from World’s Fair grounds to Radio City for the dedication of the RCA Exhibition Building housing television and radio exhibits. The schedule lists numerous NBC CBS and local programs including talks sports concerts and plays with names such as S K Ratcliffe Guy Gillette Woodring Eddie Cantor and Joe Louis. Opening baseball matches Yankee vs Boston and Brooklyn vs Giants are noted for WABC WOR stations.
Arthur E. Hungerford former state director of the National Emergency Council urged Eastern Shore County Commissioners to push a well rounded conservation program to restore natural resources. He said real conservation will save and increase wealth in oysters fisheries forests wildlife soil and water.
Gore Virginia residents report weekend visits and departures to Philadelphia for future residence. Local residents welcome Mrs. J W Parish back after wintering in Winchester. Several patients and ill individuals receive updates and care at Memorial Hospital and from area physicians.
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