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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1938
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star is published daily except Sundays by The Evening Star Publishing Co of Winchester Virginia. H FP Byrd Jr serves as editor with standard masthead credit and publication details.
A devotional line cites Micah 4 9 asking why the faithful cry aloud and question if a king or counselor remains in them, reflecting on spiritual resilience.
Herbert S. Fairbank outlines a comprehensive highway planning program using state and federal surveys. A road inventory, traffic counts, truck weights, and financial sources will be mapped and updated annually to determine need, cost, life, and public capacity for roads.
A column recalls a Winston Salem Journal fable about two men in a boat to mock the idea that critics must offer a constructive alternative. It argues that demanding an unreal alternative before speaking exposes the flaw in insisting on always providing a fix. The piece reflects on Roosevelt era spending and the role of critics.
Fruit growers in Rufe Woods' county consider replacing aging apple orchards with maple sugar trees. They note current prices are weak but see potential benefit. The note laments reliance on Vermont syrup and imagines buying Yakima maple syrup locally for Sunday breakfasts.
The piece reports a Polish university instructor labeling the late Marshal Piłsudski as a ham actor. It notes sharp Polish and American criticism styles and jokes about a Virginia editor's quip on Shakespeare authorship.
Swarthmore College introduces a blacksmithing course in the engineering program led by George A. Bourdelais. Over 15 women students switch from home economics to hammering, stoking furnaces, and forging ironwork. Husbands and faculty spouses join the trend, prompting amused and perplexed commentary on tradition and gender roles.
Chief Holis announces a one hour parking limit on Loudoun Street in the business section. Andrew Grove wins the public speaking contest representing Handley at the district literary meet in Fredericksburg. Engagement of Miss Virginia Vredenburgh to Lieut. George P. Koch announced in California. Hershey Pints bowling team sets women’s high game record with 530 in Evening Star league.
Miss Helen Bailey played a violin solo with Billy Barnes at the piano during an Open Door Class meeting of the Presbyterian Church. The Girl Scout Fife and Bugle Corps of Everett Pennsylvania will take part in Apple Blossom festival feature parade. Commodity prices rise across U S markets as Roosevelt inflates currency. A 44 man CCC quota is set for Winchester and Frederick counties as new camps begin.
Mary Marshall Hyde is chosen as one of the maids of honor in the fifth apple blossom festival. Floyd Bennett, who flew to the North Pole with Byrd, dies of pneumonia. Holmes Conrad estate sale reports highest local antique prices. Winchester Democratic Woman's Club urges local female voters to vote in the upcoming election.
Twenty five years ago secretary of state William Jennings Bryan submitted his peace plan to President Wilson for consideration. Miss Kate R. Glass sponsors an appearance by Miss B. E. McNemar at Fort Loudoun Seminary in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. E. B. Capper elected head of the Elks Club with E. M. Striet as secretary treasurer. Close orchard inspection predicts a good fall crop despite frost-killed blossoms.
A NOAA era note recalls the Spanish American War with much of the U.S. battle fleet blockading Cuban harbors as hostilities begin. In local news, youths discover a newborn male body in a coffee pot under a bridge near town. The Southern Railroad considers a schedule change that could cripple local business. M. W. Kyle, noted musician, becomes trombone with the Great Southern Band.
A long list of trivia questions and answers covers patents, medical groups, calcium lack, crop reporters, magazine circulation, college graduations, fishing seasons, Mr. Peanut, automobile workers, baseball terms, history of the AEF, cancer clinics, a ghost reward, first woman stunt flyer, criminology studies, Hamlet origins, Western Union kiddiegrams, the American Legion convention, Trotsky's exile, Catholic actors, and Henry Ford's gift to Berry Schools.
Washington reports on administrative delays in New Deal public works funded by Congress. Only two of 388 post office projects have finished despite a 70 million appropriation, with large allocations but tiny expenditures. Similar slow spending marks Houser Straus funds amid broader relief and tax plans.
Barbara Kingsley, Martinsville society editor, visits Natalie Kendall in New York seeking romance with Garry Page the journalist who may sail to England with Hadley. Barbara eyes a possible night of chance while grappling with whether to contact him before his departure and finding work with a children's magazine.
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