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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1937
Page
9
Miss Adams in Bryant Elementary School, Flagstaff, sent a horned toad to two students Frankie and Buddy Ku ebelbeck. The toad soon produced 18Baby horned toads joining the class, one for each member.
In Buhl Idaho farmer H A Robertson watched as a canyon sank up to 200 feet while mining expert L A Tibbs predicted a rich gold vein may be found in the exposed quartzite pegmatite rock. Bluestone contained gold and the creeping rock wall threatens collapse as the land shifts.
On Capitol Hill the Senate debates a tax loophole bill while the House considers a New Hampshire election contest. Yesterday the House passed a housing bill valued at 526 million dollars and the Senate adopted minor amendments to the tax bill, delaying the McCarran Air Transport bill.
The Rev. J. Alger Lollis of Bristol Virginia will preach at the Church of Christ next Sunday in the absence of Rev. George E. Owen who will be in Christiansburg and Tazewell Virginia on vacation. Lollis earned his Bachelor of Divinity from Yale University this spring.
The Virginia Bar Association and Virginia Court Clerks Association begin a joint project to prepare a manual for court clerks. Frank W. Rogers, Roanoke bar association president, calls it a highly constructive undertaking aiming to standardize records across courts and cut printing costs. Local representatives include R. J. Watson Roanoke county clerk Roy K. Brown and H. L. Kent. Bar committee members include Walter H. Scott and others from Roanoke Salem Floyd and Smyth counties.
Americans evacuated from war torn Shanghai are moved by ferry or lighter ten miles down the Wangpoo river to Woosung at the Yangtze mouth where steamers await them.
Joseph Ogden, 36, calmly confessed to killing roommate Oliver Sinecal, 25, an ex convict, and stuffing the nude body into a trunk. He attempted to ship the trunk by rail to Memphis, Tennessee, and was arrested after detectives traced chalked number 839 to his address.
A government study of 352 counties in 46 states highlights farmstead improvements and suggests upgrading crowded quarters lighting and water supply. A six page booklet with plans diagrams and a clothes closet design is available for ten cents from the Washington Information Bureau.
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