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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1940
Page
3
Monitor campaign starts inside the building to curb unruly conduct and noise. Students seen smoking will be named to the Honor Court after a monitor stationed under the esplanade begins this week. Cooperation urged with a word to the wise.
A compiled list shows readers noting letter substitutions for several proper names with playful replacements such as Argues for Quarles and Hump for Campbell, plus Waiter for Porter and Bud for Bloom, plus others like Kill for Slaughter and Finished for Dunn.
A collage of student profiles lists Margaret Orndorff Maggie Colleen Racey and Charles Smith with nicknames hobbies and ambitions. Edison Spaid appears as Cipher with tiddleywinks and marble tournament aims to lead the Tid dleywink Club within General Organization activities.
The column teases a date between Earle Quarles and Jean Shryock, noting she refused the invite. It jokes about socialite Virginia dancing with Glenn Miller and teases gossip for readers.
A breezy roundup of local rumors and social questions about Billy Groff Charlie Patton Earle Quarles Bill Sullivan Jackie English Colleen and others. The piece mentions Ball Dance attendance at Charlottesville and a past Fredericksburg event with playful speculation on relationships and social antics.
Readers glimpse a faculty play with Miss Martin and Mr. Coe praised for stealing the show. audience comments note Beulah Cline returning to compare versions, Bennett’s romance knowledge, and various couples dating, including Harold Anderson with A M Baker and Roland White with Charlotte Schlack, plus Burgess with Rowe and Jimmy Huyett with Isabelle Larrick.
The column lists teachers and students with pointed traits and quirks. Names include Bill Taylor Gregory Norman Carol Rowe Ann Klimes Irvin Zuckerman Marion Hurst Snider Dorothy Fauver and Bill Sullivan. The piece mixes jokes about character and hobbies in a light schoolhouse tone.
The balcony buzzed with spectators during the Eastern practice as dancers rehearse. Lunchroom activity rises with Hungry Damsels. Hawthorne starts late in the Blossom Ballet while the Gang hosts a Bull Session outside the gym alcove. Stage-door Romeos grow exasperated by late rehearsals. Mrs Barr heckles pets loudly. Miss Carbaugh’s fingers numb from nonstop playing.
A cheeky guide asks readers if they are a movie pest and lists disruptive behaviors. It highlights seat kicking, talking loudly, crunching peanuts, chewing gum, and late arrivals as annoyances that disturb other patrons.
The Handley team defeated Fredericksburg with winners on the Affirmative and Negative debate sides. Margaret Smith Betsy Porter Howell Rivers led the team on Government Ownership of Railroads. The one act play Red Carna tions directed by Mrs. Betty Thresh also won. Cast members Mildred Smith Sam Rhodes Bill Louthan praised. Ansell Baker won aviation talk and Walter Bailey clinched the spelling contest for a second year.
Readable fragments describe a Fredericksburg visit with Alonzo Bennet handing out gum and others socializing. Howell Rivers offers love advice to Bridgers while Sam Rhodes smokes a pipe. Bridgers loses money to a woman as Mrs Thresher sighs in relief at a fortunate moment.
Spring brings romance to Handley halls as couples linger in public spaces. The writer criticizes seniors and juniors for public displays, urging a more businesslike atmosphere and less like Central Park on a spring night.
The text lists curious claims about dogs shedding, arterial blood spurt from a glass tube, a student’s lunch costs, a broadcasting station rule, a French height limit, remaining school days, and distances between cities and oceans. It reads as a collection of disparate trivia notes and questions.
In Greenville on April 24 an inspector explained goat keeping rules to a resident. The goat wandered over and ate the printed regulations from the health department, illustrating the odd enforcement moment.
The Navy disavows Rear Admiral Taussig's warning of an eventual war with Japan. Taussig testified before the Senate naval committee that a naval war seemed unavoidable, while Navy Chief Stark and Secretary Edison stressed his remarks were his personal opinions and not the department's policy.
Cumberland Maryland April 24 a defective 25 calibre rifle used in slaughtering cattle was blamed for the death of Joseph Frederick Stitcher 49 Cumberland meat dealer. Dr Linne H Carson Allegany county deputy medical examiner gave a verdict of accidental death after Stitcher was found with a bullet in the head behind his meat shop. The body was discovered by William McCall a meter reader and Dr Carson estimated the death occurred about 30 minutes earlier.
Philip R. Christian of Buckroe Beach Virginia was sentenced to one year in Kent County jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter in a March 4 school bus crash near Dover Elwood Williams aged 14 was killed and twenty children injured when a truck rear ended the bus The court denied parole but he may apply after serving half the sentence
CHICAGO April 24 Edward Buttgen is a stickler for detail. During a divorce hearing his wife Mary presented a letter detailing a money deduction from support totaling 41 cents. Items listed include carfare 14 cents money order 15 cents postage 2 cents and a 10 cent service charge.
Troops One Three and Nine held meetings at local churches and schools with pledges, oath recitations, and plans for festival stands. Troop One discussed turning in houses and Wilkie Hunts Tenderfoot progress. Troop Three noted a 14 Scout attendance and a hunger for games after a student play. Troop Nine postponed hikes due to rain and map delays while recalling Chesapeake Bay camping.
Troop Forty members led by Scoutmaster Billy Brown conducted a First Class instruction session. Dan Saxe Richard Stine Sonny Wheeler Edward Clark Beverly Jakimier and Herbert Shutte earned First Aid. Sonny Wheeler earned First Class signaling. A Chinese tag game, a snappy warm up drill and a prisoners base game followed. The scoutmaster introduced a new game Navy On Maneuvers using Semaphore and Morse Code. Plans for an overnight hike and a fourteen mile hike are in progress.
Judge Joseph Sabath orders Butigen to refund 41 cents and pay a $35 support arrearage by Bay 2 or face jail, showing a strict enforcement stance in the case.
Atlantic City N J April 24 A 23 year maximum age limit for membership in the National Council of Methodist Youth was approved by the Methodist Church joint conference on religious education. The rule would remove officers over 23 including president Herman Will Jr of Chicago. The General Conference opens with the issue amid debate over the organization deemed radical by some ministers and laymen. Also to be considered is the Epworth League once 4 000 000 strong, now dissolved in the south but retained in the north after its re uniting conference in Kansas City last year.
The Salton Sea in California sits about 246 feet below sea level as the nation’s deepest lake.
The text states that no serious effort was made toward her education until she was seven years old. At that time she was placed in the care of the late Sullivan of the Perkins School for the Blind, who began guiding her education.
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