Improvements For Airport Are Planned
City Manager Lee Grant reported that improvements for the airport are planned with the state willing to fund sanitation facilities and a ladies lounge if work is done by the city. The council accepted the offer and noted other city finances and street projects including surfacing Piccadilly Street with premixed asphalt and a Town Run wall completion costing $29.69.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
Lee Grant
Perry
Raymond Carper
Cecil H. Peer
Euclid Avenue
O. L. Jamison
Hawthorne
Weaver
Virginia
Jobless Youth Threatens Jump From Hotel Utah Roof
In Salt Lake City a 22 year old man from Kansas City Kansas named Jack Page stood for hours on the 10 story Hotel Utah roof above midnight dancers threatening to leap. Patrolman E J Barnes saved him and promised job options. Page said he could not find work and hinted at jumping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
E. J. Barnes
Jack Page
Kansas City
Kas
Attend Rites For Mr Venable
Among those from Winchester who attended the funeral of the late George Venable in Lynchburg Virginia yesterday were the Rev H J Womeldorf the pastor of Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church J Henry Moling Cr Stewart Bell Sr John Lupton John Hott le and C M Martin Mr Venable's son in law the Rev Ronald Wilson is pastor of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church here
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
George Venable
Ronald Wilson
Lynchburg
H. J. Womeldorf
Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church
J. Henry Moling
Stewart Bell
John Lupton
John Hottle
C. M. Martin
Venable
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
They Must Put Up or Shut Up They Must Put Up or Shut Up
Mrs Angela Kaufman of Newport Rhode Island gives neighbors 48 hours to buy her mansion The Castles for 40000 or let Father Divine and 1000 angels take it The mayor says Kaufman notified him of the plan and Father Divine would visit Monday if unsold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I
Angela Kaufman
Father Divine
Henry S. Wheeler
Sunday School Picnic Announced by Congregational Church
The Congregational Christian Church will hold its annual Sunday School picnic on Thursday July 13 at Golightly's Bottom on the Boyce road. Members are urged to attend bringing lunch and those without cars may ride to the event. gathering at the church is set for 2 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Christian Church
Golightly’s Bottom
Boyce Road
Council Urges Early Start On Rt 50 Trunkline
City officials, business leaders and state highway representatives urged construction of the trunkline highway. A roll call passed a resolution urging the State Highway Commission for early work and pressed for completion despite location debates. Citizens favored Boyce route with funding by local effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hable
S. Lee Grant
Chamber of Commerce
State Highway Commission
Waterloo
Boyce
Millwood
Allen Hawthorne
Clarke
Road Commission
Percy Miller
O. L. Jamison
C. R. Anderson
Virginia
Venable's Final Rites Held in Lynchburg Church
Funeral services for George Vernon Venable real estate dealer and Lynchburg native were held at Rivermont Presbyterian Church with burial in Presbyterian Cemetery. Survived by widow Jane Moseley Venable two daughters Mrs Ronald S Wilson and Mrs William C Lyle a son Captain Bennett Moseley Venable four grandchildren and a sister. Venable was a longtime real estate figure in Virginia with ties to Hampden Sydney College and local clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Vernon Venable
Lynchburg
Ronald S. Wilson
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Rivermont Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Cemetery
Venable
George Carrington Venable
Margaret Moseley Venable
Wheatland
Mecklenburg County
Bay View
Jane Leyburn Moseley
Bennett William Moseley
New London Academy
Ise
Jane Venable Moseley
Captain Bennett Moseley Venable
Janesville
Winchester
William Calvin Lyle
Salem
Jane Carrington Lyle
Ronald Samuel Wilson, Jr
Mary Carrington Wilson
Bennett Moseley Venable
Thomas H. Gordon
Birmingham
Ala
Samuel Woodson Venable
Prince Edward County
Hampden-Sydney College
Paul Carrington
Mulberry Hill
Charlotte County
Oakwood Country Club
Kiwanis Club
Masonic Order
Virginia
Church Street
Lynchburg Real Estate Board
State Real Estate Board
W. N. Brown and Company
E. H. Hancock and Company
Hancock Brothers
Carrington-Stevens
Kiah T. Ford
Florida
Fire Threatens Pactola Silver City and Mystic Villages
Wind shifts pushed a Black Hills forest fire toward Pactola Silver City and Mystic near Rapid City. The blaze came within about a mile of Mystic and two miles of Pactola and Silver City before shifting southward, sending smoke over the tourist camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pactola
8. D
Rapid City
S. D
Black Hills
Bernice Musekamp
Silver City
Mystic
Doodlebuggers Treasure Hunt Spurs Odd Claims and Heat
A Oklahoma gathering chased legendary treasure at an ancient mound. Spirit mediums pointed to sites while Luther Woody claimed a ghostly lead south of the hill crest, Rebecca Tempey located treasure beneath a hackberry tree, and Y E Posey claimed a needle indicated a boulder. The hot day drove workers to shade and wild plums as the convention ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menno Duerkson
Luther Woody
Skedee
Okla
Rebecca Tempey
Guthrie
Y. E. Posey
Watonga
Handley Library Notes on locating and using resources
Library tips describe Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and Book Review Digest tools for locating magazine reviews and quotations. It lists references like Granger's Index to Poetry and Bartlett's Quotations, plus recent acquisitions such as Guns of Burgoyne and Here Lies, with a selection of design and home decor books available for borrowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortune
Reader's Guide
Dean
Shaw
Pygmalion
Rebecca
New York Times
Book Review Digest
Granger
Bartlett
Stevenson
Handley Library
Bruce Lancaster
Burgoyne
Saratoga
Dorothy Parker
Byers
MacFadyen
Phillips
Dana
Koues
Eberlein
Singleton
County News Briefs from Green Spring Area
Miss Florence Harshman and nephews Gene Barnhart and Jimmy Harshman plus William Nagley drove to Capon Lake Inn on the Fourth of July. The Stuckey family from Pennsylvania visited Mr and Mrs Ray Wilson and family. Ernest Milburn and children Ruby Patty and Gene visited Mr and Mrs Guy Webber of Sunnyside. E P Nagley and children toured Capon Lake Inn to visit J R Kerns, Rose Runkel and family Wanda Jean Dorothy Margaret Dave and Nancy, Betty Sensel and Lucille Dix attended Johns town yard party last Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Spring
Florence Harshman
Gene Barnhart
Jimmy Harshman
William Nagley
Capon Lake Inn
Stuckey
Pennsylvania
Ray Wilson
Ernest Milburn
Ruby
Patty
Gene
Guy Webber
Sunnyside
E. P. Nagley
Robert
William
Catheri
Marilyn
J. R. Kerns
Rose Runkels
Wanda
Jean
Dorothy
Margaret
Dave
Nancy
Betty Sensel
Lucille Dix
Albert Luttrell
Bob Sensel
Johnstown
Canterbury Notes from Canterbury Virginia
Local notes list visits and weekend guests. Frances Ewing and Audrey White host and visit relatives, with extended family members from Cumberland Maryland and nearby towns. Jean Painter and Helen Ritenour are among visitors, with several Painter family relatives mentioned. Audrey White plans a stay in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterburg
Frances Ewing
Audrey White
F. C. Hauser
Cumberland
Nellie
Mae Painter
Emma Fleming
Luray
Guy DeHaven
Fred Cook
Grimes
Jean Painter
Cyrus Eversole
Howard White
Oleda
Mary DeHaven
Helen Ritenour
Leesburg
Painter
J. C. Hauser
Floyd Idson
Floyd Jr
Cam, Francis and
Lewis
U E
Mary Ann
Alene
Marvin Painter
Loyd Allen
O. D. Perry
Carrie
Agnes Lee
John Clevenger
Winchester
Rosenberger Notes Social Visits and Bible School
In Rosenberger Virginia Daisy Williams and the Millers joined the Adamses for dinner at Gainesboro. The Brewers and Bradfields visited the Rosenberger family. New York residents Mr and Mrs Rosenberger visit C M Rosenberger's parents. St Johns Lutheran Bible School opened with sixty five attending and continues nightly. Junior Rosier Colleen and Betty Lou stay with grandmother W W Brewer and attend Bible School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Johns Lutheran Church
Rosier
Colleen
Betty Lou
W. W. Brewer
Reporter Scores A Hole In One
Chester B. Goolrick Jr a Fredericksburg newspaper reporter scored a hole in one on the 128 yard eighth hole at Mannsfield Hall Country Club. He played with Wilbur Jennings and Frances Key Howard who had an ace on the same hole weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Chester B. Goolrick
Mannsfield Hall Country Club
Goolrick
Wilbur Jennings
Frances Key Howard
New Post For Italian Diplomat
Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador to Britain, is recalled to replace Arrigo Solmi as Justice Minister after Solmi’s resignation. Grandi, a key Fascist leader, has served as London envoy since July 20, 1932, with no reason given for the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Dino Grandi
Britain
Bene
Arrigo Solmi
Grandi
London
Masquerade as a Man Ends in Jailed Confession in Pasadena
In Pasadena California a 46-year-old woman admitted to posing as a man for 23 years after a traffic stop led to questioning. She worked 20 years as a chauffeur and had two marriage ceremonies, first in Santa Barbara in 1926 and a later one to Mabel Phipps in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
James W. Phipps
Samuel W. Bailey
Minerva Phipps
Mabel Phipps
Los Angeles
Katherine Murray
Phipps
Miss Phipps
Bailey
General Harbord Opposes War Referendum at UVA Talk
Major General James G. Harbord, chairman of RCA, urged Congress to reject a referendum before war and to enact a selective service act immediately. He argued delay could harm national defense and said elected leaders would authorize war when needed, contrasting democratic liberty with totalitarian states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
James G. Harbord
Radio Corporation of America
Congress
Harbord
Sudde
America
Balance Sheet Fragments Show Loans and Cash Details
The readable items include Loans and Discounts 6. Furniture and Fixtures 8-9. Cash and due from banks and All other items of resource. A total of $130,580.61 appears with 523.00 and 2,184.20 as additional figures. The text resembles a partial bank statement segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pemba Bad Ee E Res
Ceetrhydadabidseeat
Train crash kills soldiers in Transylvania near Clodul Mare
Twenty two people die when a freight train collides with two lines of wooden cars carrying Romanian troops at Clodul Mare near Dez in Transylvania. The accident occurred today as the train plowed into the troop cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Transylvania
Clodul Mare
Dez
Three Military Planes Collide Killing Pilots in Romania
In CLAJI Romania on July 12 a mid air collision among three military planes killed all three pilots. Poor visibility blamed for the fatal crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claji
Romania
Prayer Service Tonight At Grace Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran Church hosts a mid week prayer service led by Dr. S L Flickinger pastor of Centenary Reformed Church. The service begins at 8 o'clock and the public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Lutheran Church
S. L. Flickinger
Centenary Reformed Church
Answers to Today’s Quiz Listed by Page Four
Answers to the quiz printed on page four are provided. Items include Canada, the International Longshoremen's Association, Charleston, University of California, Atlanta, score 12-3, Virginia, Pa-ro'-ki-al, not pa-ro'-shal, Tennis, and a defn of a member of a military police unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
International Longshoremen's Association
Charleston
University of California
Atlanta
Virginia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Messioner of Revenue
Macedonia
Front Royal Road
Mmercial Small Loan & Finance CO
E. Boscawen St
Hmervel W. Adans
Mr. Venable
Doodlebuggers’ Treasure Hunt
Handley Library Notes
American Library Association
Margery Sharp
Lequin House
Stefansson
Greenland
Thomas Simpson
Andree
Milten Brand
Oswald G. Villard
Canterbury
Rosenberger
Parlett Funeral Home
Gainesboro Road
University of Virginia
Virginia Loan & Thrift Corporation
Frederick
State of
State Corporation Commission
Atte Tenes
W. Alan Peery
Cashier
Hove Riley
Percy D. Miller
W. E. Edwards
County of
Elener Notary
Rosenberger's
John W. Rosenberger and CO
Braddock St
Cary Prea
I Oe Va. Power Co
C. I. Brumback
Frederick County
Board of Supervisors
Poutica
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