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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1940
Page
11
The Common Council adopts the 1941 budget subject to a public hearing at 7 30 P M December 17 1940 where any citizen may protest items in the budget Final adoption awaits vote on non protested items and possible reopenings by a councilman The document lists estimated revenues and allocations from various sources
Rel iance notes a mix of visitors from Singers Glen and Front Royal and Middletown events. The community hosts a Christmas gift exchange revealing secret sisters at the Home Demonstration party, notes a death, hunting sighting of a large red fox, and reports on Red Cross rolls and Christmas seal sales.
Modern quilters will enjoy this easy quilt titled Double Wheel bright and gay created from three materials. It includes block chart pattern pieces directions yardage chart and color schemes. Send ten cents and name to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York for pattern 6851.
Edward L. Reed, charged with affairs at the U S Embassy in Rome, was refused a transit visa by Germany while planning to fly from Stuttgart to Lisbon en route to the United States. German officials advised he should not pass through Germany.
Ramon Novarro, 41, actor, was injured in an auto accident in Hollywood. Doctors reported chest injuries concussion and cuts but said his condition was satisfactory and he was moved to a private hospital.
In Stillwater area, J C Cox reports crows cracking pecans by dropping nuts on fenceposts and hammering them with their beaks. He notes piles of hulls around posts, indicating frequent crow feasting on pecans.
Turkish papers report nearly 400 refugees bound from Bulgaria to Palestine were drowned when a motor ship, flying the Uruguayan flag, broke in heavy seas in the Sea of Marmora west of Istanbul. Seventeen victims were children, per L Orient.
Textile Workers Union No. 371 of Front Royal elects officers this week led by A. J. Woodford as president. Other officers include Garth Payne as first vice president Richard Chappelle as second vice president W. A. Richards as financial secretary Thomas Overstreet as recording secretary E. F. Santmyers as sergeant at arms Preston Lichlider as chairman and Francis Slaughter E F Santmyers and Thomas Overstreet as trustees.
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