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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
12
A local narrator recalls a dawn sequence as a rooster crows while smoke rises from the city, grows darker, lightens, and then clears repeatedly through the morning. The vivid image captures public attention amid ongoing smoke plumes.
Senator Carter Glass turns 82 as Sweet Briar College hosts a dinner and public meeting to establish the Carter Glass Chair of Government. About 250 attendees will hear speeches by Harry F Byrd Jesse Jones and Robert V Fleming. The presentation is by Russell Leffingwell and will be broadcast on WRVA at 10 30 tonight. Fergus Reid will accept the endowment and Dr John Stewart Bryan will preside with the Sweet Briar Glee Club performing.
Washington notes Carter Glass of Virginia, veteran of the Senate, seeks calmer days as he enters his 83rd year. He hopes Democrats cooperate more harmoniously this session and avoids intra party fights in the 1943 political year. Glass hints at possible retirement after his present term if health permits.
On December 30, 1925 a neon light sign was used over the George M. Cohan Theatre advertising the production of Ben ur.
An old advertisement touts Dean's Pills as relief for backaches and kidney issues. It explains kidneys filter wastes and warns of symptoms like puffiness and fatigue. The copy urges readers to ask for Dean's Pills, claiming forty years of use.
A Virginia highway commission led by Senator Aubrey G. Weaver proposes consolidating the primary and secondary road networks to standardize maintenance and speed development. The plan asks for a constitutional shield on highway funds, a $2 million discretionary fund, and outlines costs to upgrade 9,475 miles of primary roads to oil treated surface.
A column argues women shoulder conflicts with daughters-in-law and mothers, detailing how home life shapes tensions between mother, wife, and husband. It contrasts fatherly indifference with a bride’s entrance and urges shared bonds to ease friction, previewing tomorrow’s topic.
Frederick County School Board announces immediate construction of a new colored school at Stephens City to replace the fire damaged building. L. E B. Reynolds will direct the project, with the colored church used as a temporary school. Estimated two months to completion if weather allows. over $1,000 insurance will seed the fund.
The 1938 outdoor advertising regulation licensed signs up to $2, removing over 116000 roadside signs. The highway department spent 210000000 in the decade on primary and secondary roads, funded by rising motor vehicle revenues. Weather and floods in 1936 caused road losses, while miles completed varied with funds. 780.7 miles in 1982 versus 314.8 in 1936, with 527.3 miles completed in the last fiscal year.
Miss Helen Alverson of Danville was named home management specialist for the Virginia Agricultural Extension service and began duties January 1. She succeeds Miss Sallye Hamilton in Augusta county, while Miss Maude Wallace assigns Miss Eleanor Williamson as assistant in Goochland county. Wallace, Alverson, and Hallie Hughes will convene with home demonstration agents this month to plan the 1940 program.
In Roanoke on January 4 Judge John Paul presided over the start of the term. Seven teens charged with violating temporary probation by handling liquor were sentenced. The court criticized able bodied men who traffic in liquor. Twenty eight indictments issued, 30 more await action. Additional pleas of guilty were entered. sentencing set for Saturday.
A market find of pink rhubarb inspires a simple baked rhubarb dish. Select tender stalks and cut into inch pieces, mix four cups sugar with one cup rhubarb, add minimal water, bake slowly until tender and syrupy, with optional lemon rind for flavor.
Tagua nuts also called corogo or vegetable ivory come from Ecuador Colombia and Panama. About 40 million pounds of tagua nuts are imported into the United States each year and made into buttons. Paul McNutt the Federal Security Administrator is a Methodist.
Puzzle card lists numbered clues with garbled spellings such as Foe Keser and Tinktatian, plus terms like Nimble External animal part of a and Goddess of Lower dawn Vedi. Includes pronoun, near myth, participant, distributea, and bull fight kin. Additional entries cover treadle ash colored towards at home pasture and large stream corundum variety entries.
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