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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1936
Page
9
The state highway group defends oil surfaced roads and stage construction, citing yearly savings of about 33.5 million dollars and a 4 percent interest burden avoided by not using more durable surfaces. It notes 8,500 miles of surfaced roads, 14 years of resilience, and the 1932 law shifting county road burdens to state funds.
A report outlines five cents gas tax allocation with three cents for state road maintenance and two cents for the primary system. It notes shifting highway funds to the secondary system, reorganizing the department to focus relief work and local material use in unemployment relief projects, and using federal aid funds to build modern durable main trunk highways while awaiting additional funds to alter the current plan.
Doctors at a New Orleans charity hospital closed a heart wound with three stitches and repaired the pericardium with twelve more after a stabbing. The patient, Eugene Branch, 30, received a blood transfusion and told staff he felt well afterward.
Paul Litchfield, president of the Rideau Zeppelin Corporation, announced plans for a dirigible larger than the Hindenburg. The proposed airship would be about 1,500 feet long and 145 feet in diameter, surpassing the German craft by 75 feet. He did not disclose sale negotiations, but cited three cities Philadelphia, Alexandria Virginia, and a third as potential hubs for a transatlantic service to round out offerings.
Travel reports from Mexico City describe a bloody revolt in Honduras with rebels attacking Tegucigalpa and disrupting the government. Ania Lagos de Lopez Gutierrez, widow of former president Rafael Lopez Gutierrez, is said to be in the city amid the turmoil.
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