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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1939
Page
4
A compilation from The Winchester Evening Star offering readers Q and A on topics from vitamin C in apple peels to unemployment figures, the Victory Bell at Annapolis, display of currency, whaling ships, brown and raw sugar differences, fever treatment, literary quotations, literacy rates, and the meaning of Xmas and the German word kitsch.
The piece argues publishers hear the public's duty and resist presidential lecturing. It asserts many papers oppose privilege and corruption, challenging Roosevelt and the New Deal. It notes reporters and editors scrutinize power, citing the Pulitzer slogan as a guiding ideal for progress and reform.
The Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee reports widespread political activity connected to the Works Progress Administration. It faults the Hopkins administration and Aubrey Williams for coercive lines on relief workers, while declining to name individuals responsible in the many misconduct cases.
Former Attorney General Homer Cummings in his final Congress report urged a constitutional amendment to require compulsory retirement at 70 for federal judges. He noted current law permits voluntary retirement at 70 with full pay and specified the measure would not apply to judges already on the bench or newly confirmed before adoption.
In a sixteenth anniversary message, President Roosevelt suggests readers be heard on whether the press should be free through a referendum. The idea is viewed as likely a dig at the press rather than a serious proposal. He notes the strong self examination within editorial rooms.
Richmond Times-Dispatch discusses Dr. Arthur J. Barton of the Anti-Saloon League and its push for national prohibition in some form. It notes past predictions, evolving legal routes, the saloon’s return in many states, and calls for federal action under Roosevelt to prevent dry states from flooding wet ones.
Edmund P. Hunter of the Winchester family dies in Washington shortly after returning home. Mrs. W. D. Field is elected president of the Winchester Memorial Hospital auxiliary. Frederick county farmers have received from the Federal government almost 200000 in the four years prior, per Fred Stine's report.
President Roosevelt speaks to a joint session urging continuation of the recovery program. Miss Mary E Chapman weds E Lyle Herrell on New Year’s Eve at her Atlantic City home.
Col M Kennedy vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad addresses the local Rotary Club. City park commissioners report pin oak trees on Clifford street have been mutilated and uprooted. Mrs Ida Kern aged 68 dies in Lynchburg from shock when her son's home catches fire while she visits and lives at Relief. George F Norton sells his interests in the publishing house on North Loudoun Street.
Twenty five years ago three Winchester banks distributed more than $14 000 in dividends to stockholders. Carson Spillman elected captain of the Friendship Fire Co to succeed Hunter B Grim, youngest officer in the company history. Mr and Mrs Marvin B Larrick host a New Year party at Willow Lea near Hayfield.
The Star reports R. W. Heymaker and John Woomen elected officers of the South End Hose Co. at their annual meeting in the first issue of the merged paper with the Winchester Times. The city receives $60,000 as another large installment of Judge John Handley’s will bequest to Winchester.
The Winchester Evening Star offers a Household Budget Booklet 1939 with a monthly budgeting page, thrift tips, savings and insurance guidance. Priced at ten cents, mailed by the Information Bureau under director Frederick J. Haskin, with an order form included.
A 1939 McNaught Syndicate column presents Dr Harold A Namer headmaster of Friends Academy Locust Valley Long Island offering eight guiding principles for parents dealing with boys aged 14 to 17. He urges high expectations honesty private criticism interest in hobbies admitting mistakes giving responsibility and letting youths make decisions to learn from outcomes.
Sara Sue Davis establishes the Cottage Plan near Rice Institute to guide students in social affairs. Thornton Holgate, a new faculty member, dives into dangerous surf to rescue a drowning child as a frantic mother and onlookers watch. The scene ends with Holgate struggling in heavy surf, the rescue incomplete and continued next issue.
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