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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1937
Page
4
Winchester Evening Star newspaper page from August 4 1937 lists mailing and carrier subscription rates, advertising rates for classified memorials and display ads, policy on cash with copy, and national ad reps. Includes Associated Press note.
A religious quotation adapts Jeremiah 17 10 highlighting divine scrutiny of hearts and rewards based on actions. The text emphasizes God as judge who rewards every person according to their conduct and choices.
Health authorities in Chicago will survey one million residents to gauge support for free secret venereal disease blood tests by family doctors. The United States Public Health Service sponsors the program, led by Dr. Louis Schmidt, aiming to census syphilis in the city and push for funding of laboratory tests if support is high.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes Senator Byrd’s critique of the Resettlement Administration projects. It cites Hightstown New Jersey costs over 20 000 per house Greenbelt Maryland 16 182 per unit and Newport News Virginia 9 233 for colored families.
A distressed citizen faces a $4,400 lease and a government scoop that spent $20,000 on a landscape project for an indigent individual. Senator Byrd calls for halting the rest of the construction to avoid wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.
A reported plan by Notre Dame coach Elmer Layden and Illinois coach Bob Zuppke to let officials record substitutions, freeing officials to focus on other duties. The idea aims to speed play and reduce disputed calls while inviting questions about maintaining sportsmanship and game integrity.
A Georgia State Board of Education bought a million copies of a book to place in every Georgia school. The article contrasts this with Gone With the Wind selling over a million in about a year and notes the Bible’s vast reach, suggesting the Bible’s sales dwarf modern titles and would need centuries to match.
Capitol Hill activity sees the Senate continuing debate on the Wagner housing bill. Finance and banking panels press housing measures while committees study wage and hour amendments and tax loophole closure. The House passed the Mille-Tydings Price Maintenance Bill along with minor measures yesterday.
Washington August 4 The Democratic national committee seeks to replenish funds by offering bound stenographic reports of the Phil- article as campaign material and fundraising appeal.
Berryville Virginia notes list visitors and guests in area households. Edward McC Moore and wife from White Plains New York visit Goodwin H Williams and family, with further visits to Norfolk and Lynchburg. Numerous others host or visit relatives in Berryville, Woodstock, Washington and surrounding counties.
Police in Benedict Maryland investigated a message found in a bottle that drifted offshore. The note on a flattened drinking cup read Beatrice Thornton needs help 20 miles off Point Lookout and had no date.
Charles Michelson, director of national committee publicity, said sales of convention reports may reach $5,000, far short of closing a $216,000 June deficit. Profits from the sale will go to the party treasury, with reports offered at $5 a volume.
A survey of trivia and facts where readers mail questions to The Evening Star Information Bureau. Answers cover taxis in London, the Byzantine Madonna, meanings of litotes, Pacific clipper flights, Captain Courageous filming, hostess etiquette, world automobile totals, and other historical odds and ends.
In San Diego on August 4 a nervous whistle from Bing Crosby revealed his four year old son Gary was to undergo a tonsillectomy. Crosby denied the procedure was for preparing Gary’s throat for singing, saying a crooner never would be his son.
City engineers report on Fay and Wright springs as a potential additional water supply for Winchester. The piece notes related civic activity including public figures and a forthcoming Boy Scout encampment, with ancillary references to local crime and labor concerns.
Ten years ago Rev Dr S L Flickinger is formally installed as pastor of the Centenary Reformed Church. Councilman Henry contends the $1.20 tax rate passed recently was premature and urges repeal until a public hearing. Metropolitan newspaper comments on Byrd's Antarctic expedition.
Forty years ago Edinburg leaves the field in a half inning against Woodstock in the Valley League as umpire Williams makes several disputed calls. The score was 10 to 3 in favor of Woodstock when play ended.
President Woodrow Wilson announces U S neutrality on August 4 1914 amid the early stages of World War I. He warns against entangling alliances while urging American readiness and peaceful trade with all belligerents.
Marcia earns executives’ trust at Garrett War ren’s firm while a growing bond with him tests her focus Browbeaten by desire, Marcia seeks friendship as Garrett confesses love Paula pressures Sandy with a bold vow and a cliffside confession ends with a cliffhanger.
The superior judge explains his failure to pay $6 weekly to his ex wife Ralph Lucarelli by describing two grouse hunting trips that cost him money. He says he lost five $500 bills in one trip and later, with friends, spent $2,500 on wine and spaghetti.
A thief entered the Nebraska statehouse office of Attorney General Richard C. Hunter and stole a purse from Miss Josephine Goodman the stenographer containing a voucher for 8100 dollars. The incident disrupted operations as investigators pursue leads.
In Sparta Georgia Rev John R Lewis retired 28 years ago due to ill health and now at 85 tends his own small farm and looks forward to a good crop. The North Georgia Methodist Conference originally retired him.
County commissioner Tom Haywood installs a wheel with four shoes on spokes in the public square. The contraption attracts crowds who donate cash as they crank it, though there is no charge.
As the National Labor Relations Board hearing closed on the eight week shipyards strike spokesmen warned of a general strike in the port of New York unless shipyard owners settle with the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers CIO affiliate. The board planned to send its hearing report to Washington immediately. Shipyard officials would not comment until the report became public.
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