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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1936
Page
2
Washington officials draft a long term program with a permanent agency to coordinate federal subsidies for slum clearance and housing projects. Proposals call for 300 to 400 million dollars annually, with means testing and local government administration to bypass federal obstacles and target the lowest income families.
A band member and followers dragged a deceased man’s body to Dr. Howard Burley’s office urging resurrection with adrenalin. The physician refused, gypsies protested, and police had to disperse the crowd after the abortive riot near here yesterday.
Mrs. B. 8. Sturtz of Kansas City has asked County Clerk C. C. Brannon for information to establish the father of Elizabeth Henry born in 1767. She married Thomas Hannan born in Frederick County in April 1756 and died in 1835, hoping Frederick County wills may reveal details.
Peter P Mandich a veteran fire department member spent a busy day off. He helped neighbors extinguish a blaze then his own house spotted by wind ripping off a corrugated roof and attic fire. He called the department and with associates brought the blaze under control.
Officials discuss federal aid to offset costs with an estimated 45 percent covered by the government. The plan aims to eliminate opposition from private industry by favoring those lacking means to operate in private companies. Details of the federal backing remain undecided.
City records show nineteen divorces granted this year with desertion as the leading cause, including twelve on that ground and four on statutory reasons. Two cases were for felony conviction and one for cruelty, with most decrees made public as required by Richmond vital statistics.
Martinsville Virginia reports the sudden death of George A. Brown 64 long serving mayor for 19 years. He collapsed returning home from a council session where a new charter was discussed. He had battled a cold recently and is survived by his wife and five daughters.
King Winter eased slightly as Winchester Research Laboratory logged a low of 14 degrees above zero compared with 3 degrees on Monday night. Snow melted yet road surfaces remain rough where traffic wore it away and city intersections require care due to dug trenches for drainage.
Turner Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy awarded prizes for the best two Robert E Lee poems by Handley High School students, KathErine Rusk first and Betty Starner second. The verses describe stars in clouded skies and the spirit of Lee, connecting courage and the soldier heart to a blameless life.
A reflective verse honors a fallen Southland soldier, recalling the quiet guns, ended warfare, and enduring memory. Betty Starn er signs a dedication praising the hero and marking a birthday remembrance with youthful purpose.
Farmers, breeders and dealers paid about $6,000 at John W. Larrick Jr.s live stock sale near Chambersville on the Northwestern Grade four miles west of the city. Hogs sold by the head around 10 cents. year steers about 60 dollars each. spring calves 40 to 50 dollars. fresh cows 75 to 90 dollars. Weather and bad roads kept buyers away from distant areas. some sheep and cattle were not sold.
Funeral services were held yesterday at Grace Methodist Church in Middletown for Mrs Susan Willey 84 widow of Jacob Willey She died Saturday in Landsowne Md and is survived by sons Alfred of Landsowne and Clifford of Washington D C Pallbearers were six nephews of the deceased Burial was in Mount Carmel Cemetery.
Alison Shipworth and Mae Clarke star in Hitch Hike Lady at Hable's Palace today and Thursday. The queen of the highway saves the happiness of two brave hearts through love and devotion as she thumbs her way across the U S A. Fox News Reel and a Stranger than Fiction screen snap shot accompany the feature.
Ford Motor Company releases Farm Almanac a compact 48 page pocket book with handy tables statistics charts designed for farmers business people and farmwives. It includes a daily sun and moon rise and set calendar and various astronomical data.
STATE CAPITOL Richmond Va Jan 22 A senate bill would grant 25000 dollars for a statue of General Stonewall Jackson and his famed horse Old Sorrell. The statue would stand on the Henry farm at Manassas battlefield now owned by Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park Inc.
Tarboro North Carolina dated January 22 a grand jury in Edgecombe County refused to indict Moses Jefferson a 17 year old who killed his father Wright Jefferson with a shotgun in December The boy said his father was drunk and beating his mother when he killed him The grand jury did not find a true bill.
A high administration official said new legislation is needed before the government can pay southern farmers a 1935 cotton subsidy under Bankhead allotments.
Major Robert R. Neyland Jr. of the army engineers has applied for and been granted retirement. He gained national fame as the football coach for the University of Tennessee and will leave the service with noted achievement.
Hollywood whispers whether John Barrymore has mellowed after a period of sharp retorts. A magazine interview recounts his deflective response to a personal question and notes his famed sharp tongue now quiet in a moment of self reflection.
Richmond Va January 22 The plan of six presidents would place strict faculty control of athletics in the Southern conference recommendations to be submitted in February Dr Frank P Graham president of North Carolina University commented on the shift in naming the proposals away from the national association of state universities.
Lincoln Nebraska January 22 Roads Bureau Chief A T Leddell says sections of Nebraska highways are developing regular rises about every 80 feet as moisture returns after the 1934 drought. Paving laid during the drought has caused the phenomenon at high speeds and up to 60 miles an hour.
A sales directory lists antique furniture at Baker Wholesales Building Winchester on Feb 5 and multiple stock and implements auctions across Virginia and West Virginia in February and March. Entries include W E Cather near Woodstock, J L Nethers near White Hall, C H Fries Greenspring, C M Hurst Millwood, R T Hilleary near Welltown, B V Gore Clark Purcell farm, Kurtz Butler on R T Barton Farm, L Jackson Swimley Station Clarke County, T C Marcus Plotner Clarke County, N votes Pav ille, and Thomas West Jefferson County W Va.
The theft of citrus fruits, previously a misdemeanor, is now larceny in Florida. If the fruit's value is $50 or more, the offender faces five years in the penitentiary or a $1,000 fine.
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