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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1939
Page
2
Six passengers on a Pan-American bus traveling from Miami to New York were injured at 9:45 yesterday when the bus collided with a beverage truck in Luray. State police called the crash unavoidable due to poor visibility and slick streets. Bus driver E B Walters acted quickly to avert a worse wreck. the truck overturned twice but its driver escaped injury.
The Disciples of Christ plan Brotherhood Dinners on Wednesday evening February 1 to exchange fraternal greetings and present radio messages. The Valleys churches including Frederick Shenandoah Rockingham and adjacent counties were urged to observe the event as a second annual observance promoting world wide fellowship. Winchester arch officials note a prior dinner funded church debt and no further dinner is planned on February 1.
Pim A. Hicks, 45, receives 60 days to brush up his painting work or pay a 26.45 fine for drunkenness. He asks for jail time, the magistrate offers 60 days in jail with painting duty. Hicks agrees, the charge then shifted toward vagrancy. The exchange ends with Hicks joking about painting during confinement.
Virginia plans a February clean up removing over 10 000 roadside signs with no cost to owners upon request. Harold J. Neale says 15 outdoor advertising firms authorized tearing down more than 10 000 signs and many more may follow before March 1 license-free removals.
In Atmore Alabama a three year old girl was pushed into an open fire by her mother and saved by her sister Juanita Bradford who pulled her out wrapped in a blanket. The mother Mrs Rosetta Bradford 38 shot herself after the incident and is hospitalized with serious injuries.
Fireman George Grubb slept through a false alarm as sirens wailed distant. He learned later that firefighters from another station had extinguished a fire in his own home.
About 60 residents attended a Front Royal council session led by Mayor Forsyth. Senator Aubrey Weaver warned the situation is critical as the town weighs a $46,000 general improvement bond and a $50,000 water bond to fund highway widening water lines and sewage and electrical extensions for growth and annexation.
The Junior Board of Trade announces a Ping Pong tournament for Winchester to crown separate boys and girls champions. Otis Sargent leads the athletic committee with other members planning an indoor season including track meets, a marble tournament, softball league, Legion pool events, and a six man high school football league.
Steam Laundry defeated Health Club by five pins in the first half, posting 1,567 to 1,562. High games were 130 by White and Licksider of Health Club, while Parrish led Steam Laundry with 334 in sets. Second match featured narrow results with Friendship Fire and Railway Express among winners.
Paris January 31 The provisional committee of the World Council of Churches issued an appeal urging all Christian churches to cooperate against paganism and war. The three day meeting, chaired by the Archbishop of York at Saint Germain Chauteaux, drew Protestant, Non Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox representatives and sought informal Vatican cooperation.
At a Berkeley Springs meeting hosted by the Kiwanis Club committees from Morgan County W Va Hancock Md and the Berkeley Springs area were named to pursue designating Route 522 as Virginia Route 7. The same designation will apply in West Virginia toward Berkeley Springs Hancock and into Pennsylvania. Andrew Bell said the groups will meet the American Association of State Highway Officials in mid year. Virginia Highway Commissioner H G Shirley supported alignment if other states change to 522. W S Campfield of Staunton spoke on apple industry development to area growers.
Sergeant Frank Likar U S Army Recruiting officer will be in Winchester this Thursday afternoon and Saturday night after weekly Monday sessions in town. Eligible regular army personnel with one year service and under 36 may join the reserve for two dollars monthly with no active duty. Members must report address changes. if called, they receive three dollars monthly for each month enlisted, capped at 150 dollars.
Robert Harvey arrested in Hagerstown Maryland faced auto theft charges in Winchester county court. The case was dismissed on payment of costs after the car was returned to owner W D Heatwale. Costs totaled 9.25 dollars.
Fresh from the tree in Florida two small cocoanuts are presented to Trial Justice A. J. Tavenner by his friend Joseph Short, father of Mrs. A. C. Triplett, who lives in western Frederick county. Short brought the nuts from Miami, Florida.
On May 5 1937 Harry L Hopkins WPA Administrator testified before the Appropriations Committee that administrative expense amounted to 4.2 percent. The remaining 95.8 percent funded direct relief measures of various kinds.
President Roosevelt pushes reorganization legislation with his aides studying sentiment and planning a potential series of separate bills. Administration leaders expect varied support as Republicans gain seats and lawmakers debate changes, with an emphasis on economy in the updated program.
John Dixon a colored farmer from the Red Bud area of Frederick County visited County Treasurer Harry McCann to pay a tax bill of 7.38 in pennies. He saves his pennies each year for tax payments, a long standing practice.
Strategists believe centralizing fees will raise difficulty for opponents and push government reform. They argue a reorganization with overlapping and unnecessary agencies could save money, though many favor outsourcing the task to a non Congress body. Some support congressional review of changes, citing jobs at stake for constituents.
Sports round up notes several baseball stars and figures including Gehrig Foxx Gomez and Hartnett as a wave of players ink big contracts. Mentions Ernie Lombardi Glenn Cunningham and Red Ruffing with odds on college figures and Olympic pace plus gym notes on Jim Londos and aging athletes.
Gore Camp Modern Woodmen of America honors Neighbor Daniel F. Kerns who died December 31 1938. He served as camp consul from 1913, taught forty three years, was Gore High School principal for ten years, and active in church and local civic life. He married Virginia Potts and had four children. The camp extends sympathy and mails copies of the resolutions to his family, the Modern Woodman Journal, and the Gore camp.
Treasury figures for January 28 show receipts of 13,158,842.93 dollars and expenditures of 20,241,723.38 dollars. Gross debt reached 39,617,284,186.17 dollars, an increase of 3,305,754.88 dollars from the prior day.
Nellie Lucas of Attica Indiana killed a hen and found two pennies in its gizzard along with fifteen small rifle shells. The odd discovery suggests a hidden stash or past misuse of the fowl. Local authorities advised caution while examining the unusual find.
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