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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1939
Page
3
Helsingfors officials plan a 200 million finmarks budget plus 100 million from the city to host the 1940 Olympic Games. The schedule runs July 20 to August 4 with 132 events, 160000 daily guests, and an Olympic Village for athletes in Kapula.
Lancaster county officials called carpenters to repair a large hole in the county jail roof after a massive icicle weighing several hundred pounds fell 80 feet from a water tower onto the jail roof. No prisoners escaped.
Frederick Co-Operative Farm Bureau Inc. will hold its annual meeting at the Court House Winchester Virginia on Saturday January 21 1939 at 1 30 p m. Officers to be elected and business to be transacted as required. Signed J L Jolliffe secretary.
Property listings include a Main street Berryville tourist home and service station for 5250, a 14 room brick investment on Boscawen and Stewart for 12500, a 2 story brick 8 room home on Richards avenue near Morningside Drive for 5300, 130 acre limestone dairy farm west of Berryville, and assorted farms, lots, and household items such as a Stieff piano and walnut bedroom set.
General Juan F. Azcarate sails from New York to Berlin to assume duties as Mexican Minister to Germany. The journey signals expected closer German Mexican diplomatic and economic ties as relations are forecast to improve.
Mary Boyd Agnes Grubbs and Turessa Kitchen judged Stephens City School Days. Reporters Shirley Lillard Mary Frances McAboy Rachel Welsh Betty Hack Betsy Perry Elva Bowers Ferman Perry Cecil Teets and James Yeakley covered the event.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour precipitation at 8 a m 11 inches for January to date 141 inches year to date. Average monthly rainfall for 26 year period 1913 38 lists January 253 February 198 March 993 April 320 May 364 June 358 July 334 August 368 September 236 October 313 November 232 December 240. Average annual rainfall 3509 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
Bloom Virginia residents report snow has halted field work as locals gather at homes by the stove. Several residents visit Miss Daisy Williams, while others attend an agricultural meeting at Gravel Springs schoolhouse. Plans announce move of the Nesselrodt family to Clyde Keckley’s farm.
Editorial notes snow's pleasures for children with sleds and skates while warning drivers to heed icy roads. It recalls John Edward McAboy and lists many Stephens City students with roles in FFA and school activities, plus poems and a six week attendance roster.
Rest Virginia January items note the Missionary Society meeting at the Ridgeways, Rev Fielding preaching at Rest Church, and several Winchester visitors. Local residents report rheumatism and burn injuries, with social visits among the Hanchers Sell Smallwoods and Sagers in nearby White Hall.
The column surveys local seniors pursuing varied paths from law and politics to college and business. It notes Roscoe Edwards following his father, Jack McAboy and Robert Russell entering public life, Mary Frances and Elizabeth McAboy altering roles, and others like Dorothy Herrell and Shirley Lillard seen with companions. It references Florence Messick crocheting, Georgiana Neff as nurse, and Melvin Sandy in Chicago nominating Charles Bauserman, painting a lively mosaic of teen and young adult activity.
List of students in Mrs. Hovermale's room who did not miss a day in the first semester. Beatrice Anderson Yvonne Bayliss Janice Booker Helen Clark Bernice Car per Cora Cutterer May Louise Kershner Hilda Mauck Betsy Perry Zoe Lemley Elsie Painter William Dovell Donald Grubbs Gervis Grim Joseph Jordan.
Mrs Rhodes to teach public speaking to aid Mrs Hovermale and her class. The girls plan to discuss lighting decor and living room arrangements. Miss Mae Goode finishes a sweater, drawing attention to the ongoing school project.
The A section of the English class explores original free verse with students writing bold lines. A poem titled Day 7 expresses a longing to have a name that the world would know.
Louis Travers won first in the Chilean Nitrate Crop Yield Estimate for F F A juniors and seniors in agriculture. Over sixty boys from Stephens City and Middletown chapters competed with untreated yields at 40 percent and treated yields at 473 percent.
Captain J. C. Kelly, former Royal Air Force flying boat instructor, will command the new transatlantic flying boat Cabot. The vessel is set to inaugurate the British American air service for Imperial Airways this year.
NBC sends two vans with a mobile television transmitter to Washington for pickup tests and demonstrations next week, the first use outside New York. Washington lacks a TV station for now. The trip aims to gauge reception and operation on the road amid a busy broadcast slate for Friday and Saturday programs across WEAF WABC and WJZ.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue the Hopkins nomination debate. Appropriations subcommittee studies an emergency relief bill while military and monopoly panels discuss air defense plans and patent law operations. House ends a large deficiency appropriation and Ways and Means weighs a tax modification bill. Earlier messages urged taxes on government securities and monetary powers.
An advertiser touts Creomulsion as the strongest cough and chest cold remedy. It claims rapid action by reaching the inflamed mucous and loosening phlegm, and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Belleair Florida January 20 Owner Clark Griffith outlined a youth centered Washington lineup with 16 players set to report to Manager Bucky Harris in Orlando February 1 for spring schooling. He highlighted Jimmy Wasdell Cecil Travis Buddy Lewis George Case Taft Wright Bob Estalella Jake Early George Weles Joe Krakaukas Ken Chase Reina Montegudo and other young left handed players as the core for the club. He cautioned the team’s success will come when the season begins with the new group.
Mrs Ben Hubbard and Miss Dore Grimes visited last Thursday with Misses Lillian and Minnie Haycock near Clear Brook. Rev Finley B Sapp moved to South Norfolk to head a new church. White Hall Mite Society met at Mrs Roy Bageant's. Northern Virginia Power builds electric line to Welltown area serving about twenty families. Snow fell six inches and roads remained slippery and cold.
Shenandoah County marks progress in livestock quality through a project led by County Agent G. G. Dickenson. Calvin Gochenour and Dick Renalds visited Rocklands in Gordonsville, selecting ten purebred Angus heifers from Charles T Neale, secretary of the Virginia Purebred Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association. Five heifers join Gochenour’s herd, five become foundation stock for a new county herd.
Director Denis O'Brien praises the Shrine Band for its Brahms Lullaby interpretation after the piccolo player dozed off during a concert in Billings Montana.
Washington January 20. Dr. George W. Calver Capitol physician advised the new Congress to spend half an hour daily walking to reduce death rate. He noted nine holes of golf would help similarly but eighteen would be too strenuous for middle aged or older men.
Ocala Florida January 19 Daughters of the Confederacy threaten to boycott the film version of Gone With the Wind over British actress Vivien Leigh being cast as Scarlett O Hara. The Dickinson chapter denounces non native southern casting and vows to withhold patronage. Edward Lee Blackstone urged Florida units to follow.
In Laporte Indiana Charles Karsten 78 told grocer Stanley Pits he feared his death and asked him to check on him if he did not appear at the store. Pits found Karsten paralyzed and later died. Four thousand dollars were found under Karsten's bed.
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