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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1936
Page
5
Weather and illness delay the Tri County Odd Fellows meet originally set for February 11. Frederick Clarke and Warren counties will still send members and state officers were expected as guests before conditions were deemed too severe for the event.
Front Royal and Warren county schools will remain closed until roads are cleared after heavy snow. Pupils will be notified of reopening by a signal on the fire alarm, following an arrangement with the Front Royal fire department.
Randolph-Macon Academy cancelled a basketball game with Manassas High School and a swimming meet with Augusta Military Academy. The local high school and Little Washington Va. faced call offs of basketball games. Contests are expected to be rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
Troubadours will perform at the Royal Night Club in Front Royal tonight for dancing concerts announced today.
Jenkins' Bus Line operating Winchester to Fredericksburg canceled trips yesterday and today no bus arrived from Fredericksburg. As a result the office could not publish the usual Front Royal Warren county news budget.
FRONT ROYAL VA Feb 8 The coldest weather of the winter was recorded with unofficial readings from 15 to 20 degrees below zero. Front Royal reported 15 below and Riverton 20 below. Readings came from advertising thermometers and accuracy could not be confirmed, but it was colder last night than at any time this season.
Front Royal February 8. The Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department fought a late night blaze at Lowell Mauck’s home on Blue Ridge Avenue. A hot brick placed in the son's bed by Mrs. Mauck ignited the bed clothes, setting the mattress on fire with limited loss.
The Lewes coast guard station received a message from the sixth district at Chinco Teague Virginia to search for the trawler Anna and Ella missing since January 23 with seven men aboard. The vessel left Cape May New Jersey January 21 and was last seen six ty miles east of Delaware Bay.
The Chicago report describes a catastrophic blizzard paralyzing the northwest with deep snow and zero chill sweeping the nation. Railroads, highways blocked from the Rockies to the Mississippi, schools closed, mines shut, and temperatures dropping as fast as forty degrees in an hour to 52 below zero at Hill City South Dakota. Twelve children were snowbound in a northern Colorado school, while thirty-seven pupils spent the night in another school.
Warrants were sought for Officer Jack B. Bailey and Deputy City Sergeant Maurice Brant after Police Chief Virgil B. Grow investigated a kangaroo court in the temporary jail. The charges allege aiding and abetting in an assault and battery on prisoners.
Reports say Count Covadonga Prince of Asturia son of former King Alfonso XIII lies dying at the home of his bride's parents in Havana Cuba. His condition includes a leg abscess worsened by hereditary hemophilia, a fatal bleeding disease in the Bourbon line.
The News-Leader reports a powerful lobby forming to defeat the unemployment insurance bill, aimed to be voted on in the State Senate next Monday. A call is issued to many sections of the state to persuade the senators against the measure.
The condition of Mrs. J. M. Steck Jr. was reported as unchanged at Memorial Hospital this morning. She had been gravely ill for the past week.
The Winchester Research Laboratory documented a zero reading between 5 and 6 this morning and 29 degrees by 3 pm. Elsewhere, Riverton, the Northwestern grade, Opequon, Gainesboro, and Stras ure reported 20 to 12 degrees below zero marking the coldest spell of the winter.
Admiral Cary T. Grayson head of the Red Cross informs Virginia Governor George C. Peery that no immediate emergency exists on Tangier Island due to ice closure. The Red Cross can address any food shortage with supplies by Coast Guard boats or Army planes and has authorized Rev. Harry Bailey to collect local stores for the needy.
Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament for William C. Reilly 170 a prominent retired Harrisonburg businessman who died Wednesday after months of illness The service had been postponed by a Shenandoah Valley snowstorm Survived by a widow Margaret Sheehy and six children Reilly had lived in Harrisonburg since 1890 and earlier worked in Winchester before entering local business.
Governor Peery announced after a call with Admiral Grayson that the American Red Cross would immediately take steps to relieve ice bound families on Tangier and Chesapeake Bay Islands. The Red Cross pledged to do what is necessary to save people from distress, with Virginia offering any needed aid. A blimp service to Tangier was discussed as a possible aid method.
The trial of Cedar Creek Valley farmer Jack Wetzel was postponed from this morning to Monday February 17 in Woodstock. Trial Justice M L Walton Jr will hear the case. Wetzel faces charges of resisting arrest and attempting to shoot an officer after Sheriff Carl Godenour and two Shenandoah deputies attempted to arrest him at his home. Wetzel was peppered with gunfire when he refused to surrender.
London Feb 8 The United States delegation at the International Naval Conference pressed its stand for 35,000-ton battleships and 10,000-ton cruisers amid competing British French and Italian proposals for smaller vessels. Informed sources doubted a compromise among the powers.
The annual service of worship for the Friendship Fire Company will be held tomorrow night at 7 30 at the Church of Christ with Rev W L Dudley presiding and Rev George Earle Owen preaching the sermon The service includes processional call to worship words of welcome by Dr C R Anderson a memorial for departed members of the company and special music by Rev George Bens and brother
Mrs Hattie Lampkins wife of Charles Lampkins a well known Black resident of Winchester died at her home 1015 South Loudoun street after seven days of illness She was 70 and had suffered a heart ailment influenza followed a cold She was native to Loudoun county and had lived in Winchester many years Survived by husband two daughters Sally James Grace Lampkins and sister Mrs Jenny Magruder Funeral at Mount Carmel Free Baptist Church Monday 2 30 pm with Rev S B Spriggs officiating and interment in Orrick Cemetery Pallbearers named Andrew and George Cook Turner Alexander Davis Moten and William Quigley
Weather across the country deepens hardship with subzero temps from Amarillo to Spokane and heavy snows in Colorado and Nebraska. Heat cuts fail in several eastern towns. at least six deaths linked to the cold are reported, including a state trooper aiding marooned islanders.
In Richmond on February 8 the legislative committee discussed old age pension costs in executive session. Chairman Senator Henry T. Wickham said no conclusion yet, with a report expected for the General Assembly next Thursday. The panel will reconvene in executive session Monday and all pre-draft meetings will be executive.
The Virginia League of Women Voters plans to oppose the Ambler Wright veterans' preference bill in the House after Senate passage. Leaders call the measure class legislation subversive to democracy, fearing a privileged veteran officeholder class and constitutional concerns.
Special prices for winter months include shampoo and finger wave 40c and permanent 1.95. Prices on all other work greatly reduced. Colonial Beauty Shop, Phone 1110.
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