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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1940
Page
7
The Frederick County School Board and faculty receive thanks from the student body for extending the Christmas holiday. The note mentions the school closing December and reopening January 6. The piece includes local notices, marriage announcements, and a Home Economics Club event with prizes, hosted by Miss Flickinger at the Northern Virginia Power Company.
The text describes Christmas basket preparations led by class sections and chairmen for needy families. It notes a holiday celebration planned as a program and party, a tree ready for trimming, and playful anecdotes about students and minor classroom mischief.
The Stephens City F F A lists fifty three paid up members with thirty one beginners and twenty two seniors. Ten chapters form the Northern Virginia Triangle Federation including Sperryville Boyce Berryville Witham Front Royal Luray Gainesboro Handley Middletown and Stephens City. A Federation meeting in Berryville on December 10 set a joint Future Farmers and Junior Farmers meeting at Handley on February 11, 1941.
A group from Stephens City High School plans to send Lucille Perry a fruit basket after sending yellow chrysanthemums last week. They note Lucille should be able to leave the hospital on Saturday December 14. The list covers perfect attendance from October 24 to December 4 1940 across several grades with many named students.
Richmond December session of Fifth District bankers approved three aims to expand defense financing. Banks will seek more vendors for armed services contracts and pledge active district support. J Harvie Wilkinson Jr urged district banks to spread defense loan information and mobilize resources.
A long list details pupils by grade with names from Baugh to White, including many families and local surnames such as Barham, Cornwell, Ewing, Huffman, and Stout. The notice also records perfect attendance in primary grades from October 22 to December 4, naming students in First, Second and Third Grades.
Rudolph Mangold of Springfield Massachusetts denied involvement in subversive work as a member of the American Fellowship Forum at a secret Dies Committee meeting in Washington. He hoped the committee would exonerate him of fifth column activities and said he resigned his engineering job at American Bosch under pressure due to the charges.
In Chicago on December 13 Frank Ferrera planned a venison dinner at his tavern and displayed the deer carcass on a sign above the door. The deer disappeared by delivery time, and the event was cancelled. A long pole with a knife tied to its end lay on the sidewalk beneath the sign.
Rehearsals for the Christmas service are underway at Rest Church with Esther Ridgeway in charge and the Sunday School assisting. William Dailey will host the Woman's Society of Christian Service on December 14. Rest Church Young People joined with the Bunker Hill Methodist group for a shared service last Sunday with the Rest group leading. William Gent, working at Camp Meade in Maryland, spent last Saturday night with his family. Q and A note recalls Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock burials with Buffalo Bill placed in a vault above Lookout Mountain near Denver and Hickok buried first at reside then Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood.
Washington December 13. The war department said remaining National Guard units will be mobilized between January 6 and April 1 under a revised forward schedule. Secretary Stimson cited about 96 000 men delayed by weather labor water shortages and other causes and noted 40 posts or camps are being built nationwide with dates still tentative and subject to further delays.
Treasury figures for December 11 show receipts of 22.72 million dollars and expenditures of 37.43 million, lifting gross debt to 44.295 billion. The daily increase stands at 8.78 million.
The Speaker was first elected by ballot but has been chosen by viva voce vote since 1839. Earlier decisions set that a majority of those present may elect the Speaker if a quorum exists, while later rulings required only a majority of those present, not of all members.
Consumers Coal Mining Co advertises Blue Flame coal equals city quality. Egg and Stove per ton 6.50 run of mine 70 percent 5.50. Five ton lots 50 percent off per ton. Phone 139. 24 hour service.
Virginia conservation officials consider a reduced upland game season with an earlier close for quail in eastern and western regions. The curtailment, announced after an executive session, would apply to quail only, with closing dates Jan 4 in the east and Dec 26 in the west, though later modified to limit the move to quail. The public hearing drew sportsmen and farmers voicing mixed views while editors noted broad hunter impact.
Mrs F Gordon of Grimes Virginia received a notice from Paebar Publishing Co New York that her recent letter on Sabbath Day Observance published in The Winchester Star has been selected for the 1941 We the People year book. Her poem entered for exhibition at the World's Fair will be included in a national volume bound in official fair colors. A copy will be placed in the Library of Congress and in every state library as a permanent reference record.
White Post Va December 13 Mrs George Haymaker and two daughters visit relatives in Front Royal. Mr and Mrs W D Burmer visit White Post relatives. Roy Shifflette and Max Dearmont work in North Carolina for Republic Oil Co. Charles R Rowe US Navy on furlough visiting family in Winchester after four years service aboard U S S Tennessee. Charlotte Armel birthday party with many guests and gifts. Q G Where was the treaty signed which ended the Russo Japanese War A G In 1905 at Portsmouth New Hampshire.
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