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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists editor HL F Byrd Jr and publication details including post office delivery and subscription rates. It provides annual, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly mail options and carrier prices for the Winchester Va edition.
Classifieds cost 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Name and address required. Displays with border must arrive by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient ads 45 cents per inch. Rates available on request. Woodward and Company, Inc. affiliated with Associated Press. Thursday December 15, 1938.
A religious quotation from Isaiah 55 6 7 urging seekers to call on the Lord while he is near and promising mercy and abundant pardon to the repentant.
Dr Harry E Barnard urged the American Pomological Society that apple juice can become a major national beverage through extensive and continuous advertising. He contrasted growing juice variety before 1929 with 1937 sales reaching thirty four million cases and urged Virginia horticultural leaders to push outlet development and public education.
The piece critiques University of Chicago president Robert M. Hutchins and his stance on college football. It argues football funds other sports and sustains athletic programs, noting revenue, stadium debt, and the fluctuating fortunes of teams while mocking Hutchins as antisport and nonchalant about the game.
In Boston on December 10 Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and Gov.-elect Saltonstall are slated to speak at the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations. The piece discusses federal reorganizations, past court packing battles, and hopes for a compromise amid shifting postures among New Dealers, critics, and moderates.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes winter fogs are mostly smoke from home fires but are lower than twenty years ago due to smoke consumers and gas use. Scientists forecast a future with no smoke as coal powers shift to electricity and gas, promising cloudless skies and cleaner cities.
The Petersburg Progress Index questions the lantern myth and places the fire’s start on spontaneous combustion of green hay. It notes the son of the second man at O Leary shed says his father claimed no lantern and that Mrs O Leary was absent.
American survivors recount the Panay disaster saying the little boat opened fire until it went down. City Council approves a $1.20 tax rate and schedules a public hearing on the 1938 budget for December 30. Roy A. Larrick is chosen to succeed Claude Grim as master of Hiram Lodge of Masons.
Polly Harrison and Harry Hanst lead Kempy in the initial Little Theatre presentation this fall. Frederick County fruit growers decide to destroy cedar trees. Winchester and Frederick schools top the nation for a U S Public Health dental clinic with local dentists. A J Kramer among 62 young lawyers who passed the bar exams.
Ten years ago over two thousand influenza cases are reported in the United States with physicians fearing a general epidemic. Mr. E. R. Branch of Asheville arrives to manage the George Washington Hotel. Cattle owned by J. M. Fishpaw and sons of Clarke County win high prizes at the Chicago Live Stock Show. Federal prohibition agents arrest three people here on liquor-law violations.
Twenty five years ago Winchester benefited by $750 after a court declared the rolling stock act unconstitutional. A large barn on the Jacob and Harry Warden farm near Gaylord in Clarke county burned for a loss of $10,000. Groomsmen included R. T. McGuire W. Nelson Page Kenneth Gilpin and David Allen Holmes at Millwood.
A colored man narrowly escapes death as a fast train misses his body on the right of way near Clearbrook. George Bushnell J. P. Haddox and R. M Henry agree to contribute 125 to fund Main street sewer construction while other merchants are urged to contribute. Miss Mary Hawkins and John Gough wed by Rev L Fox at the bride's Round Hill home in Frederick county.
Q and A style page listing questions and concise answers on topics from philanthropy to science and history. The entries cover the Raskob Foundation, air density, asparagus production, heating by anthracite, literacy in Soviet citizens, Hobson's choice, mosquitoes, water hyacinth, women executives, dancing lineage, disease deaths in wars, Jim Londos, genius personalities, and a Scotland Yard detective taking an FBI course.
Plan ahead to get ahead and maximize income with the Household Budget book. Learn where money goes and how to save, avoiding poverty in old age. Send ten cents postpaid to Information Bureau in Washington, DC for a copy, with name and address details.
This piece profiles Gregor Mendel, noting his austere life in a monastery and posthumous fame after a 1938 syndicate paper. It explains the Mendelian law, dominant and recessive traits, and how inheritance in sex cells with 48 chromosomes shapes why people are tall or short, blond or brunette.
Sara Sue Davis, a young widow, runs a cottage scheme advertising romance coaching to students for a fee. She wrestles with loneliness after a late-night talk with Dr. Holgate and spends the day at Hermann Park, playing tennis with Roxie Powell while contemplating her next move.
In a cottage gathering Sara Sue shares romance gossip and personal trials with Roxie. The two discuss admirers, including football hero Bob Towne and a freshman, while Bounce provides comic relief. Sara Sue values honest friendship and gains strength from the talk.
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