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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1940
Page
10
The annual Carper reunion will be held Sunday August 25 at Bolightly's Park on the Opequon off the Millwood pike. Friends and relatives are invited to attend and bring basket lunches A program will be rendered in the evening.
It was announced that regular services will be held Sunday morning at Christ Episcopal Church. In the rector’s absence, the Rev. R. B. Nelson, Garland R. Quarles superintendent of the Handley Schools, has been invited to speak.
Senate attendants said no move would be made to end the death watch protest by women opposing compulsory military training. The demonstrators in mourning veils gathered in the reception room outside the Senate chamber identifying as Congress of Mothers of the United States of America.
A weight loss ad promotes Kruschen with a 30 day plan. It promises fat reduction from hips and chin by morning hot water doses, diet changes, and regular weigh ins. It claims a four week supply costs little and offers a money back guarantee.
Winchester Loyal Order of Moose Lodge No 1267 schedules a Saturday picnic at Rock Enon Springs with a 1 30 start and an 8 pm square dance on hotel grounds. Contests prizes softball swimming and free refreshments offered for all attendees.
Engineers predict the Savage River dam will regulate water flow on the Potomac between Hagerstown Maryland and Westernport Maryland and enable seven riverside communities to dispose of sewage more easily. The dam, 32 miles southwest of Cumberland, is not expected to be completed until 1943.
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The Social Security Board reports 827 494 Virginia workers had Social Security account numbers as of June 30 1940. Through June 1940 1 582 monthly benefit claims were approved totaling 25 452 dollars. Lump sums of 57 725 paid to 509 workers dying since 1939. Public assistance covered 28 420 persons including 17 700 old people 1 030 blind and 9 700 dependent children. Unemployment coverage reached 450 000 workers with weekly benefits paid since 1938 totaling 13 266 000 dollars.
Baltimore August 23 The melancholy politics of being in two places at once forces Harry Nice to campaign by air. The ex governor and GOP senatorial candidate explains he accepted air travel after many invitations and mental anguish. Mrs Nice objected but he notes his diet loss of 35 to 40 pounds allows him to fit the definition of a gentleman as per Thomas Reed.
White Hall Maryland August 23. State officials farm leaders and conservation experts toured Baltimore and Harford counties to study soil erosion costs. A 50 person caravan visited six farms to show topsoil loss raises dredging and highway clearing expenses and harms navigable waters.
In Tulsa on Friday a benefit concert offers soloist opportunities for $5, with $10 for hums if words fail. O P Edickson of the International Barber Shop Quartet notes the quartet will perform to help the orchestra amid a deficit write off. The piece asks for Henry A Wallace's religion and notes Secretary of Agriculture is Episcopalian.
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