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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1932
Page
2
City Manager P. P. Pilcher presents a special report to Winchester’s Common Council detailing improvements under city manager governance. Highlights include better record-keeping, improved garbage and snow services, enhanced storm drainage, higher morale, and extensive street works with multiple named streets and projects.
The column reviews a bridge hand where one side overbids to save game. It details bidding, play, and missteps, noting how failure to seize the setting trick cost the declarer a likely top score and outlining the final swing from a doubled contract. It discusses strategic choices and penalties for overbidding.
An electrically driven pump at Old Town spring now provides over 500000 gallons daily and is expected to average about 750000 at times, with half that in the off quarter. This boosts reservoir elevation efficiency, allows temporary Shawnee spring shutdown, and offers safer water. A new system would cost about 393100 dollars.
James Allen, after escaping a brutal chain gang, falls for Helen while facing a divorce from Marie who used exposure threats. Public sympathy grows as authorities weigh extradition, then propose a nominal ninety day sentence with a potential full pardon.
The audit notes adequate tank capacity and filtration for 10 12 thousand people, steady finances, and improvements totaling 43074 17. It compares operating costs under managers Hodge and Grant, arguing one city manager is economically superior to independent department controls. The writer endorses careful council action and prudent planning for Winchester's future.
Closing remarks by City Manager P. P. Pilcher accompany a tribute that frames immortality as the enduring bond of those who loved and lost, echoing Coulson Kernahan’s sentiment about love living on after death.
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