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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1940
Page
6
Chicago barber Frank Whipple, a self described city seller, farms in his wife’s flower boxes and shows 100 cars of unusual corn varieties at the International Livestock Exposition.
Readers of The Star are cautioned that news from most of Europe is subject to censorship before it is transmitted to the United States. The country faces wartime information controls affecting reporting from abroad.
Crochet rug in three colors using the easy shell stitch. Pattern 6822 offers instructions, materials, and color schemes, with ten cents to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York. Also includes daily and year to date rainfall totals and average monthly rainfall figures for 1913-1939.
The Army lists vacancies in Infantry Hawaii Air Corps Hawaii 26th Infantry Plattsburg Barracks Maxwell Field Ala Engineers School Detachment Q M C Motor Transport School Detachment Q M Depot Maryland Infantry Panama. Previous service men are wanted for cooks and bakers school at Fort George Meade Md. Clerks and typists needed. Qualified men may advance to sergeant. Report to local recruiting station daily except Sundays and holidays. Sgt Steven Zahareff assisting Recruiting Sgt Harry T Smith. Zahareff from Hagerstown.
Obituary for William Lee Brown buried at Refuge Cemetery after dying December 1 at his Macedonia section home. Local society mentions include Minnie Rouzee visiting Winchester sister, Bartlettsville and Martinsburg trips, and a Florida orange trip by Phil and James Bowman. A quiz provides details on the 1924 U S Army round the world flight by four Douglas planes.
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