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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1937
Page
7
The South reports a record valued cotton and seed crop for 1936-37 at 1.113 billion dollars per the New Orleans Cotton Exchange annual statistics. Southern members of Congress fear price declines due to the vast harvest.
The Winchester public school system lists teachers for Ridgeley Jackson and Douglass Colored school and announces the opening of all city schools at 9 A M on September 8. Teachers meet at Handley Building on September 7 to discuss plans. registration requirements include birth certificates vaccination records and official transcripts for high school entrants.
President Roosevelt tours Washington seeking a site for a new naval hospital. In the car with him are Representative Carl Vinson, Senator David Walsh, and Rear Admiral P. S. Rossiter, the surgeon general of the U S navy.
President Roosevelt has told Congressmen that no special session will be held in October to pass farm aid. The farm measure will be the first and only business when Congress reconvenes on January 3 led by Marvin Jones and Speaker Bankhead. Cotton district lawmakers urge session to regulate prices amid a large crop and falling prices after the AAA was struck down.
Phyllis M. Cassford and Clarence Schram of Niagara Falls New York wed on the deck of the Maid of the Mist steamer as Niagara cataracts roar. The ceremony occurred in the bow of the boat with spray from the falls on the participants.
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