Elks Prize Winners Named In Essay Contest
The Elks lodge hosts an 8 p m awards ceremony at the Elks Home for the B P O E essay contest winners. Rhodes Huntsberry Jr takes first prize of 25 dollars, Charlotte Nelson Meade second with 10, Janet Lovett third with 5. Others receive participation tokens. Glass to speak on Americanism and Nationalism. program includes America chorus led by Floyd Haines and invocation by Rev Robert B Nelson.
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Elks’ Home
B.p.oe
Mane Uncle Sam
Hun
Star
Rhodes Huntsberry, Jr
Charlotte Nelson Meade
Janet Lovett
Eddie Levi
Betty Redfern
Patricia Adams
Jean Butler
Emily Carlisle
Lorraine Fahnestock
Betty Kitchen
Betty Campbell
Lily May Manuel
Lorraine Haines
Winchester Rotary delegates attend 186th District conference
Incoming Winchester Rotary Club president Mr McElligott and senior member H D Puller serve as voting delegates at the 186th District conference from Winchester. Canadian director Mr Oulton addressed Rotary International matters and outlined wartorn regions excluded from Rotary aid. Conference chairman Mr Grim opened the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McElligott
Winchester Rotary Club
Winchester
H. D. Puller
Winchester Club
Oulton
Rotary International
Rotary
Grim
Reverend Grover to Preach in Bhockeysville Friday Night
The Rev. Lovely D. Grover announces preaching services in Bhockeysville at 7 30 Friday evening April 25. Everyone is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovely D. Grover
Bhockeysville
Fire Devours Row of Homes in South Baltimore
A blaze in four houses and nearby sheds in South Baltimore forced 26 people from their homes early today. The fire of undetermined origin started in an alley and three houses were badly burned with a fourth damaged. Disinfectant manufacturers’ sheds and several inflammable tanks were at one point endangered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Answers to the Daily Quiz Printed on Page Four
The page lists quiz answers including Grass, 72, BOYze, Tan Maclaren, Rouget de Lisle, Six, Rue, Boxing, Swine, and Hercules or Herakles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyze
Tan Maclaren
Rouget de Lisle
Hercules Or Herakles
British Ambulance Fund Drive Comes to Winchester
A British American Ambulance Corps campaign seeks funds for airplane ambulances and vitamin tablets for English fliers. A Thumbs Up delegation will visit Winchester on April 28, escorted by police to City Hall for greeting by the mayor and officials. Contributions will be accepted and donors named on a scroll as a declaration of faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RAF
Dr. Anderson
Anderson
Taxpayers Big and Little To Help Raise More Revenue
Washington reports outline Treasury proposals to raise 3.5 billion in new federal revenue through higher rates and new levies. Individual rates would rise to 6.6 percent with a 10 percent defense surcharge, surtaxes would expand, and corporate taxes rise to 30 percent. Travel, gas, cigarettes, and other items see tax increases. bonds tax-exemption would be partly repealed. Critics urge disclosure and oppose secrecy as lawmakers study the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
D-Nc
Coughton
Rep
Treadway
R-Mass
Republican Committee
Morgenthau
County fairball player means a show-off who uses many motions but accomplishes nothing.
The term describes a person who relies on flashy moves rather than effective action, implying useless gesturing without productive result.
Fisher Herd Tops County In Fat Tests
The J. H. Fisher herd of 33 cows led Frederick County Dairy Herd Improvement Association tests, producing 25 537 pounds of milk and 1 142.3 pounds of butterfat. Paul Haldeman’s 45 cows were second with 42 402 pounds of milk and 1 420.2 pounds of fat. Fort Collier Farms’ 20 cows ranked third with 16 776 pounds of milk and 628.9 pounds of fat. Other herds and 60-pound cow listings followed.
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J. H. Fisher
Frederick County
Fort Collier Farms
Robert K. Stickley
Stephens City
H. A. Punk
T. M. Rudolph
Winchester
H. J. Hardesty
Berryville
Haldeman
Farmers urged to apply for Farm Security loans
Frederick and Clarke County farmers may still apply for Farm Security Administration loans for 1941 operations. F. B. Rees Jr. urged early applications to allow time for required farm and home management plans. Loans cover tools seed feed fertilizer livestock and equipment and can be made to groups for cooperative machinery purchases. Applications in person at the County Clerk’s Building Winchester office hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Farm Security Administration
F. B. Rees, Jr
F.S.A
Frederick
Clarke Comnes
Rees
Clarke Counties
Winchester
Ralph Ware Made Chair of Bankers Regional Clearing House
Ralph Ware cashier of the First National Bank was elected chairman of the Bankers Regional Clearing House Association for the ensuing fiscal year. He succeeds Fred D. Maphis of Strasburg. Other officers include W. E. Frank Berryville Roy Potts and W. E. Boyer. Seventeen of twenty banks attended. The group backed the national defense program and pledged cooperation in selling government bonds and stamps. The association serves Shenandoah Frederick Warren Page Clarke counties and Winchester city.
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Oak
Ralph Are
First National Bank
Bankers’ Regional Clearing House Association
Mr. Ware
Fred D. Maphis
Strasburg
W. E. Frank
First National
Luray
Roy Potts
Bank of
Clarke County
Berryville
W. E. Boyer
The
National Bank
Woodstock
Shenandoah
Frederick
Warren
Page
Clarke
Winchester
Rotary Leader Sees Hope Despite War Torn Europe
Rotary head recounts experiences in Italy China and Canada as he laments democracy’s strain and notes war relief gifts. He recalls a $70 check from Chung King Club and compares American Rotarians’ $30,000 aid to Europe.
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Lieves
Rotary
Austria
Japan
Spain
Netherlands
Italy
China
Chung King Club
Rotarians
America
U. S
Canada
Brenner
Munich
Venice
Oulton
Stettinius Spat Silver Spoon Out Early And Went Right To Work
Edward R Stettinius Jr rose from a Charlottesville college student to a key U S defense official He began by organizing a university job placement plan at the University of Virginia Then his efforts led to roles at General Motors United States Steel and top government positions The article notes his Virginia roots and family connections and his resignation from a high paying job to aid national defense now living on a 500 acre Culpeper County farm
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Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Lizzie
Ed Stettinius
Stet
State
Virginia
John Lee Pratt
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Stettinius
United States
Roosevelt
America
Sam
Dun & Bradstreet
United States Steel
Washington
Capitol
Defense
Judith Carrington
Richmond
Virginia Gordon Wallace
Culpeper County
Kenneth Wright In Auto Crash
Kenneth Wright a 19 year old Handley High School senior and Evening Star employee is hospitalized at Memorial Hospital with a fractured nose and other injuries after a car he rode in overturned on 0 S 50 near Paris. His condition is listed as satisfactory. Also injured were John Hughes and Donald Hartman. Hartman the driver.
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Kenneth Wright
Handley High School
Evening Star
Memorial Hospital
Paris
Kenneth
Loring J. Wright
South Cameron
John Hughes
Greenway
Donald Hartman
Winchester
Hartman
Hughes
Clarke Druggists Convene Luray Program April 24
E P Berlin and H B Harris of Berryville headline the district seven Virginia Pharmaceutical Section meeting set for Thursday April 24 at the Mimsym Hotel in Luray. The event opens at 10 am with Brooks in charge and ladies’ entertainment arranged.
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E. P. Berlin
H. B. Harris
Berryville
Ta Sevenginia Pharmaneation Secntion
Luray
8. C. Brooks
District Seven
Mimsym Hotel
Brooks
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Elks
W. W. Glass
Rotary Conference
L. J. McElligott
C. Albert Oulton
Clifford Grim
Silvertown Tires
Silvertown
Mey Oe
Bermanine
Fairfax Lane
British - American Ambulance Corps, Inc
Lexington Ave
New York City
Mervel W. Adams
E. Piccadilly St
Fisher
Martinsburg
Harpers Ferry
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ralph Ware
Bank Group
Danville
England
London
Harry Crim
Strasburg Club
Dowell Howard
George Washington
Jee Glow
Hotel
Jack
U. of Va
Mary Foulkes Lee
Pat Jones
Barr’s Orchard & Farm Supply
Clarke Druggists
Lydia E. Pims
Bufflick Road
Elbertas
Shippers
Hale
C. B. Smalts & Son
National Ave
John W. Rosenberger & Co., Inc
Safeway
N. Braddock St
C. Penney Company. Incorporated
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