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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1938
Page
3
A 967 mile high exploratary rocket plan was presented at a convention. The three stage design would use a 600 200 and 100 pound motor sequence with a goal of reaching 5 100 000 feet and 11 000 mph. Launch from a mountain top to reduce fuel use and coast after passing dense air to study upper atmosphere conditions.
In Berryville Virginia on Monday the first syphilis control clinic in northern Virginia opened in Clarke County. Five physicians and county nurses staffed the clinic with 147 Wasserman tests administered, marking the start of the Clarke county anti syphilis campaign.
A regional school for water works operators and officials will be held at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington February 3 and 4. Harold I. Baumes, director of personnel training for the League of Virginia Municipalities in Richmond, announced the event. The Virginia section of the American Water Works Association sponsors the school with the State Health Department the League of Virginia Municipalities and the State Division of Trade and Industrial Education. Curricula, lecturers and instructors are being prepared.
A sequence of local sales with dates and listings for stock and implements or household goods. Sellers include Harry McKeever Near Cross Junction O R Brown near Berryville J W Baker Arthur Wright estate and others at farms and towns in Clarke Jefferson counties with sale times around 10 a m and items described as stock and implements or household goods.
SLAIN MATRON'S MOTHER IN COURT AT WRIGHT TRIAL charged with shooting and killing his wife and his best friend when he found them at the piano to gether. At the right is Mrs. McBride's daughter, Natalie. An unidentified spectator is in the center.
E. C. Rogers of Winchester buys Sambo 219380 from E. A. Nicodemus of Waynesboro Pa. Sambo is a coming three year old black Percheron stallion by Sir William 168 112 out of French mare Flesque 202517. Sir William, son of Laet, was grand champion at the 1933 Chicago Live Stock Exhibition.
Tecin Kercher testified that the robber had onions on his breath during the holdup. Alex F. Arkaki, 29, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob after being arrested ten minutes later.
The Winchester Evening Star highlights Uncle Sam's Almanac by Frederic J. Haskin as a high quality government sourced reference. Readers are invited to mail ten cents for a copy, with name address and city state provided for delivery to Washington DC.
The Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission began mailing benefit checks to nearly 15 000 Virginians qualified under state and federal social security acts. First payments go to registrants who filed January 3, the first working day after the benefit sections of the state law took effect. Only those in industries within the unemployment insurance tax scope qualify. Registrants not placed in other jobs through the employment service receive six weekly checks per year. The law requires all jobless to register at the nearest State Employment Service office.
Weather statistics from the Winchester Research Laboratory show present and past rainfall data. For the 24 hours ending 5 p m yesterday there was no precipitation. January to date totals 0 96 inch year to date 0 36 inch. The table lists typical monthly averages ranging from 2 33 to 3 77 inches and an average annual rainfall of 35 36 inches over the 25 year period.
E. Clay Rogers announces that the thoroughbred Sambo will stand at his farm between Gainesboro and Hayfield for the season. Rt. 3 Winchester Virginia. January 27, 1921.
Ad touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to ease nervous tension and functional disorders in women through life stages. Claims three generations endorse the product with over a million grateful users.
Berryville Va January 28 John Elliott of Culpeper found guilty in Judge Philip Williams court of entering Dr A P Osborne smokehouse October 22 and stealing 24 old hams He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary The first trial was a mistrial on a technicality Larkin Pete Elliott leader of the gang is at large Enoch Dodson turned state's evidence
H L Moore of Virginia Tech notes U S Department of Agriculture tests show artificial lights start turkey hens laying 30 to 45 days earlier. Lights on at 4 a m or 6 30 a m, starting early February, produced eggs by June 1 with about 50 eggs per hen. four-year tests at Beltsville Md and other centers demonstrate consistent early laying when combined with vitamin rich laying rations.
In Richmond on January 28 a bill by Senators W Stuart Moffett and Charles E Burks calls for shorter hotel bed sheets. The proposal lowers new sheet length to 99 inches and laundered sheets to 90 inches, a change aimed at practicality for tall guests.
John Elliott was represented by Bernard Miller of Culpeper and the Berryville firms Moore and Williams as the local jail term proceeded.
The article notes a change reducing overall garment length by nine inches to provide ample room for tucking and fit. It discusses adjustments to measurements and cautions on maintaining proportion while ensuring comfort and mobility.
Secretary Morgenthau said a plan for loans to small business men was among ideas under consideration. He would not discuss details. The administration was believed to be weighing methods to ease access to credit and possibly reopen Reconstruction Finance Corporation lending programs.
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