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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1937
Page
2
The Junior Evening Star, a publication by students of Handley High School, releases campus news and student musings. It highlights school events, student voices, and classroom achievements in a period edition.
Monday through Friday events list Yale Navy Harvard Army Tulane Alabama and others with weekly games. Highlights include Red and Blues teams formed from player draw and high scorer Kenneth Patton with 16 points. First game Friday January 22 promises lively action and fan turnout.
Editorial urges timely review before exams while condemning last minute cramming. It contrasts active students who study with coach classes and warns against laziness, noting the impact on a so called black list of failures.
Executive Council met on Wednesday January 13. Members answered roll with numbers of Honor Pledges signed. Minutes read. some reps explained advisees cheating. Cards rejected and disregarded. Signing deadline extended to a later date. Meeting adjourned.
Mary Scully and Joe Ritter explained the honor cards during the Monday assembly. Joe answered questions while a picture depicted Seppi who lived in Altogether, and the event was described as de lovel y.
Bill Huntsberry executes a graceful split as about 20 girls vie for one bench in the gym. Dot Larrick keeps time by calling time out while time in is due. A new freshman on Hal ford Baker's team charms the Senior girls with a heartthrob presence.
A letter from Anthony Taliaferro criticizes cram studying and exam fear while discussing his relationship with Janice, a pencil left on his desk, and a question about Ossie Newcomb of Hanging Rock West Virginia. He signs off as a Esq.
V I P announces on campus honor roll Walden Ressigue Kenneth Robinson Jim my Goode and Harry Diekman. Lor ing Himelright president of last year s class cannot return to Duke University due to eyesight. Welcome Bill Huntsberry new member of the P G s from last year s class.
Formal nomination of Harry E. Watkins a 38 year old Fairmont attorney awaits President Roosevelt action on recommendation by Senator M M Neely. Watkins who met with Neely expressed pleasure at the backing. He graduated from West Virginia University law school in 1923 and has practiced in Fairmont since then serving the Bank of Fairmont's receiver for the past three years.
A well equipped Columbus Ohio school adds a new plant to its botany program naming the rose bush Miss Rose Bush the stenographer.
A shy senior boy endures taunting about Millwood avenue while Notre Dame basketball players draw attention. The junior dance committee rushes about preparing for the upcoming event as girls wander distracted by the young athletes.
Harvard and Tulane opened the season with a fast game that Tulane won by 13 points. Army edged Alabama by 8 points in a Tuesday matchup. Navy narrowly defeated Pittsburgh by 1 point. Notre Dame overwhelmed Yale 50 to 11 with full squad rotation and Notre Dame’s H. Baker credited with 50 points across the season so far.
Officers Keith Griswold and John Albrecht found a duck with alcoholic breath directing traffic at an intersection and arrested it. The duck reportedly honked when told to move on, and at the station was questioned about its drink. Sergeant Thomas Murphy booked the fowl for drunkenness with the cause unknown.
A roundup of past school sports and events notes high scorers Bob Sutton Johnson and Ramey with 22 14 and 13 points. Jokes and quips from assemblies show playful exchanges about circles nitric acid and a missing husband tale.
Mrs Dane Bee Root lost her appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court from a second degree murder conviction carrying a 10 year sentence for the Memphis night club shooting of her husband Brenton Root. The court recommended the governor commute the sentence to voluntary manslaughter. Brenton Root, son of Rev Benjamin Franklin Root, was shot at home in Memphis on November 3, 1935, with a target pistol he had taught his mother.
Shortage of feed forces Bertie A Wright to sell at the home place four miles east of Clearbrook and one mile south of Brucetown on Wednesday January 20 starting at 10 oclock. He offers 33 head of cattle including 15 Holstein and Guernsey cows 7 Guernsey heifers 1 young heifer and 4 young bulls plus household goods such as desks couches tables chairs a Home Comfort range and antiques including books dating to the 17th century. Thousands of other items listed.
Defense witnesses testified a Spokane case involved a 31 year old wife who said she fired in self defense as a man allegedly reached for his gun. Separately a Spokane airport tractor snowplow caught fire from leaking gasoline.
Auction at the late Dr. G. H. Heist residence 125 West Pi street Winchester Va for all personal property including china glassware silver plate furniture and tools. Cash only property not moved until paid for. Gibson Baker administrator and Dunn Duvall as auctioneers.
An explosion sprayed flaming gasoline toward a new hangar as a delivery truck unloaded a load of fire extinguishers. Field attendants opened a box and used extinguishers to douse the flames.
Taylor pulled a buggy from a barn where it sat for years. A nearby corral horse bolted when the buggy shied and jumped a wire fence, scattering the scene as the animals fled.
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