Handley Library Sees Attendance Drop Amid Funding Strains
Winchester’s Handley Library reports declining patronage tied to reduced funding for 1934. The city’s population at about 11,000 contrasts with ten and twenty years prior, while the library’s support funds, book and periodical allocations, and a shrinking book fund contribute to fewer borrowers. 24,171 books remain in the collection with 724 added, 367 purchased, 321 donated, and 46 bound newspapers replaced. Donations support continued growth, with 321 books placed in the permanent collection from numerous contributors including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and the Lions Club Local Chapter, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Handley
Handley Library
Ite
Florence Allen
B. F. Arthur
William Atwell
Goodwin Frazer
General Motors Corporation
Powell W. Gibson Martin S. Glaize
W. W. Glass III
E. G. Grab, Jr
Dorothy W. Green
Melvin Greer
J. W. Haines Rishard W. Hale Herman G. Halladay
W. G. Hardy Vreces Burton
Harrison
Hartman
A. D. Go
A. D. Henkel
Joseph Hodgson Byron Barnes Horton
R. Hurst
J. P. Hutchins Co
A. Jamison Siace
Lucy
Aieed Kerfoot Leslie B. Kline
G. W. Kurtz
Congress
Josiah K. Lilly
Lions Club
Bebe
Trans Continental Flight Sets Record
Major James Doolittle, famed speed flyer, achieves an 11 hour 5 minute trans continental record. Governor Earle urges tax and constitutional revisions in a New Deal message to the legislature. Hitler congratulates Saarlanders on returning to the Reich as Saar plebiscite results loom.
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Newark
N. J
James Doolittle
Chapman H. Howards
Altavista
Richmond
Uptmann
Milwaukee
New York
Arthur Johnson
Europe
Plemington
Hartburg
George H. Earle
Washington
Clayton Hill
Baltimore
Atlanta
Georgia
House of Representatives
Congress
Berlin
Winchester Library 1934 Annual Report Highlights Attendance and Loans
The Winchester Library records 60 647 visitors in 1934 with an average of 196 daily. Home book loans totaled 64 250, with January 2 as peak borrowing day. Four hundred sixty nine new borrowers signed up, 60 non residents paid deposits, 21 deposits withdrawn. Eleven three meetings were held in Trustees Room and Lecture Hall. Story Hour ran eleven Saturdays totaling 315 attendees. Douglass School Branch served adults with 418 circulated books in 1934. most children’s graded books worn out. A $1 875 CWA grant funded December 1933 repairs including rotunda and reading room painting and roof work. The staff’s loyal effort and board support under constrained resources sustained progress.
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Winchester
Melvin Green
Irene Mathews
Georgia Conrad
Daniel C. Buchanan
E. T. Clark
Virginia Ann Huntsberry
W. O. Bell
Lilian Oakes
Mary Sartelle
Ann Margaret Cammer
Nancy Lee Butler
Douglass School
Hattie Mitchell Inc
CWA
Board of Trustees
Munitionists Head Of Racket Nye Tells Senate
Senator Nye charged the munitions industry has become a national defense racket driven by profit. He urged $100000 to continue the committee's investigation into the world war era munitions business and called the industry reckless and indecent.
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Nye
Senate
Washington
Inmerica
North Dakota Independent Republican
Brief Filed In Supreme Court On Gold Question
Washington January 15 government brief argues NRA blue eagle codes constitutional under congressional power over interstate commerce. Administration plans for unemployment insurance old age pensions and medical aid aim to translate Roosevelts new order social security program into law with Wagner and Lewis drafting required legislation.
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Washington
NRA
Congressionalileaders
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Wagner
Lewis
D.-Md
Supreme Court
Former Actress Lillian Kolker Found Dead on Bay Beach
Brooklyn police identify 32 year old former actress Lillian Kolker from cards and letters in her handbag. She was found on the beach at Bay Twenty eighth Street with a liquor bottle and unidentified substance beside her. Death listed as self inflicted pending autopsy.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lillian Kolker
Bay Twenty-eighth Street
Boyle
B Beach
Asks Extension of Glass Law
The Federal Reserve Board urged the Senate Banking Committee to extend the loan-closure period under the Glass bank law from two to five years after enactment of 1938. Senator Copeland had proposed four years. The board recommended adding one more year to reach five.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Banking Committee
Glass Bank
Copeland
Reserve Board
Three Die In Harbor Dynamite Blast
Three men were killed instantly in Miami today when dynamite they were laying from a rowboat exploded during harbor dredging work. The blast occurred as the group prepared charges for blasting in the harbor.
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Miami
Fla
Georgia House Votes to Seek Immediate Soldiers Bonus
The Georgia House of Representatives voted to urge Congress to pay the soldiers bonus at once, then reconsidered the action and opened the issue to further debate in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Georgia House of Representatives
Congress
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Western Virginia Motor Club
Mrs
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World News
Woman's Christian Temperance Uniony
Pps
Willard Whitehead
Hauptmann
Respectlu
C. Vernon Eddy
Bay Beach
Georgia Assembly
von Fin
Heil
Hopeuretth
Me Heney L. Brack
Reaty
Pan
Soni
Ava
Ter Richaedl
Het Fein
Children’s Wool Union Suits
Children’s Union
Chinchilla
All Shades
P. Klompus
N. Loudoun St
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