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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1934
Page
8
The city manager P P Pilcher announced Berryville avenue is being treated with a temporary asphalt surface. The coating will control dust and protect the rock base from disintegration as part of eight blocks seal coated in the city maintenance program.
Mrs Owens of this city was a recent visitor at Meadow Brook Farm during a day trip.
Carl Tony Renner of Frederick County displayed a four foot rattlesnake he killed on a Rock Enon area mountain road. He struck it with a car and finished with a club then returned from Virginia Beach where he won the state championship in trap shooting. Renner is a member of the Winchester Gun Club and noted as a skilled marksman.
A July crop report shows overall gains in Virginia except the Shenandoah Valley with dry spells causing declines in some counties. Wheat yields average 14 bushels per acre, corn production near 34.68 million bushels, hay up modestly, but pastures and oats retreat. Milk output remains steady at 12.7 pounds per cow, while egg production dips to 35.8 per hundred hens.
Dr. W. D. Ennis of Stevens Institute of Technology told engineers at a summer camp that Herbert Hoover helped lay the groundwork for the national recovery administration. He noted Hoover's trade practice conferences promoted a partnership of business and government and pointed to standardization and cost accounting as early NRA influences.
Satisfactory progress is being made on the FERA town diversion project with about 30 men employed. The project diverts surface water from Rouss Spring, one source of the city water supply, extending roughly 2,200 feet to Abrams Creek near the sewerage treatment plant.
A special meeting of the board of public welfare was held this morning. Members attending were Mrs. Robert T. Barton, chairman, C. I. Brumback, M. M. Lynch, Logan Fay, Nelson Page and Miss Margaret Hurst, superintendent of public welfare.
H. G. Shirley, highway commissioner, says engineers from the highway department will come to Winchester soon for the Millwood avenue project. About 15 400 dollars has been allocated from the federal road appropriation after the CWA halt left the street unfinished. The city manager prompted the inquiry that yielded Shirley’s statement.
The Winchester Lodge of Elks funded and dedicated a highway first aid station at Long's garage near Middletown, a first for Elks lodges nationwide. Present were Amron Bell and others. the Red Cross accepted equipment, with Rev. C. C. Bush and Norman Carper speaking. the station is Frederick County’s second on Route 11.
The government reports HOLC holds mortgages on over 430,000 American homes with potential growth toward 1,000,000 as the agency exchanges bonds for mortgages totaling 1.3 billion dollars. The HOLC has 1.7 billion in bonds available, with 400,000 homes already aided and another 400,000 nearly ready. Nearly 700,000 more owners have applied for loans, many facing possible rejection. Total relief sought reaches 5.13 billion while the fund stands at 3 billion.
C E Tiffany 58 longtime president of Fauquier National Bank Warrenton Fauquier County Va died after emergency operation at Fauquier County Hospital where he served as treasurer Funeral set for Warrenton Baptist Church 3 p m Tuesday He was born in Fauquier in 1876 led bank since 1911 survived by widow three daughters sister and brother.
In Havana on August 13 Col Fulgencio Batista the army leader known as the strong man of Cuba launched a bitter attack on opponents amid a postal and communications strike. He accused the Central Council of the ABC Secret Society of trying to break army discipline after proposals for a fascist army. Dr Miguel Suarez secretary of communications ordered striking workers to return to work by tomorrow or lose their jobs and police arrested more than 50 strikers during the night.
The Treasury disclosed certificates will be printed against silver held in the general fund at full monetary value of 1.39 an ounce for about 62 million ounces with a face value around 80 million dollars. Silver certificates will also be issued against silver under the silver purchase act at 1.29 an ounce while issued presently only to the metal's cost. Seigniorage profits will be kept by the Treasury but may circulate later.
More than 100 branch managers salesmen and station supervisors from Virginia Maryland West Virginia and the District of Columbia attended a Baltimore luncheon and promotion meeting launching American Oil Companys new New Action gasoline The Texas City refinery built for this fuel is billed as the worlds largest employing over 2600 daily during construction and introduces new processes for the gasoline Also noted is a social visit by Mrs Jane Edwards Violette Mrs R L Petrie and two daughters Ruth and Esther to Mrs William H Huber near Stephens City.
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