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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1938
Page
8
Win chester native Hugh Crisman, a sophomore, chosen for executive cabinet of Richmond Y M C A. He is active in campus life, leads sophomore class, and eyeing varsity basketball. previously starred on freshmen team and belongs to Kappa Sigma.
At 7 30 p m Girl Scouts meet Grace Lutheran Church to sing carols through the city. At 8 p m Madison Lodge I O F F holds its weekly meeting on East Boscawen street. At 12 30 p m Lions Club hosts a luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. At 7 30 p m Winchester Rebekah Association plans a Christmas party at Odd Fellow Hall.
Grace Lutheran Church Men’s Bible Class elects E Homer Harloe as president for the coming year with Grover Rose as vice president M L Esworthy superintendent J R Kremer assistant superintendent and a slate of officers and teachers. A guest vocal solo and carols highlighted the meeting.
Local residents and students from Mary Washington College, William and Mary College, University of Virginia, and other institutions arrive in Winchester to spend Christmas with family. Guests include Eloise Strader, Roy Hockman, Ruth Trimble, Tom Scully, and many others from Baltimore, Lynchburg, New York, Charlottesville, and Clarke County.
Circle Number 5 of Braddock Street M. E. Church South led by Mrs I N Good will meet tomorrow at 3 p m with Mrs C M Colbert at 457 West Leicester Street.
Warren County News reports the birth of Jack David, a son to Mr. and Mrs. George P. Rives, on December 15 at Johnson Nursing Home. The mother is formerly Elizabeth Thompson. Elizabeth Major of Washington, D C, visited Riverside with her parents. J M Biggs stayed at Pleasant Valley with grandparents J Johnson and Mrs. Biggs.
The column answers etiquette questions about paying a date’s streetcar fare, using Please reply in invitations, and oyster fork placement. A man should not press payment if a woman prefers to pay. Respondents say Please reply is acceptable. The oyster fork belongs at the extreme right of the cover.
The Dramatic Club of Warren County High School will stage Dickens Christmas Carol at the December P T A meeting in the high school auditorium. Director is Mr Eugene Taylor from the faculty.
The Winchester Public Schools fourth to sixth grade chorus joined the high school Girls and Boys Glee Clubs for a Christmas Carol program at Handley Auditorium. Notable numbers included The Sleep of the Infant Jesus, What Lovely Infant Can This Be, Good King Wenceslas, and Glory To God in the Highest, with solos by Hubert Kerr and Robert Bridgers. Music director Miss Gwendolyn Haynes earned credit for the performance. staging by Katherine Pannill with Sadie Finkelstein on piano complemented the event.
Roosevelt signals Congress will face a flood of policy questions and proposed laws. Defense lines, neutrality act changes, Wagner Act revisions, four part government reorganization, farm aid adjustments, WPA tweaks, Social Security broadening, and inquiries into practices are all in play with hearings likely, while Garner may offer sharper predictions.
The 61 year old ex convict known as F Donald Coster, once head of McKesson Robbins, lies in a Brooklyn morgue awaiting burial near his son Antonio Musica. Investigators focus on arms smuggling tied to his empire and potential political protection amid hints of blackmail payments. A letter ordering 250000 rifles and 250000000 rounds of ammunition remains a chief clue.
Washington reports a chain of new marriage delay rules moving through Maryland Virginia and finally reaching Arlington Clerks fight to require longer waiting periods after a two day rule in Elkton and Alexandria.
The Arlington Circuit Court indicated it would enter with its commonwealth's attorney about imposing a comparable restriction. The District of Columbia already enforces a three day waiting requirement.
Richard W. Elliott acting comptroller general vetoed three million fifty thousand dollars in Farm Security Administration loans to five cooperative hosiery mills. He called the loans violations of relief appropriations and blocked the funding.
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