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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1940
Page
10
More than 200 officers have been examined by three doctor boards under Governor’s re program. Only eight were below standard. several may qualify after re inspection. About 300 officers in the Virginia Guard are undergoing strict medical board examinations directed by the Governor through Brigadier General Gardner Waller.
Directors of the Virginia Independent Food Dealers Association met in Lynchburg and endorsed forming a state preparedness council to advise government agencies if war involvement occurs. A Richmond meeting will organize representation from manufacturers processors jobbers wholesalers and detailers. Plans for the Roanoke convention October 6-8 were finalized with a bylaws revision committee appointed by President Reid.
ELKTON Md July 13 A tour of heavily infested Japanese beetle areas in Cecil county will be conducted July 25 by the University of Maryland department of entomology leading the fight against the pest. State entomologist Dr Ernest N Cory said the latest control methods and results of experimental work will be viewed by a crowd expected to exceed last year s roughly 200 attendees including state officials legislature members and county commissioners.
A stork tale ends in Boise when Thomas Truman Dodds was born in a hospital elevator after a jammed door trapped him and his parents and a nurse inside the lift. The incident left the obstetrician locked out of the delivery room.
A steer escaped a truck in Denver on July 13 and plunged into Sloan's Lake. A cowboy rode a bucking motorboat to lasso the brahma while four more cowboys and five police squad cars assisted to pull it to shore.
Winchester Milling Corp announces it will buy all local wheat and corn offered to its mill, expressing a desire to help local farmers and merchants in the area.
The Virginia Masonic School of Instruction No. 1 will be held July 15 18 at Augusta Military Academy Fort Defiance under Ben W Beach with Masons and wives from across the state. Thomas J Traylor and Dr A M Showalter will speak at 8 p m Monday. A memorial service for Dr R L Page will follow. John T Cochran and Clarence D Freeman will attend the school.
The Medical Society of Virginia and the West Virginia State Medical Association hold a joint convention at White Sulphur Springs July 29 31. Governors of Virginia and West Virginia are invited to speak at a banquet. Dr Hugh H Trout of Roanoke and Dr Frank V Langfitt of Clarksburg will address the July 30 night program. Women's auxiliaries meet concurrently under Mrs Henry A Latane of Alexandria and Mrs W E Holcombe of Charleston W Va.
Cape Girardeau Missouri July 13 The police are searching anew after Mrs Tom Carctrust who asked them to locate her missing husband ten days ago located him in Flint Michigan and then disappeared herself leaving investigators to reexamine the case.
Frances Winwar offers a candid portrait of Oscar Wilde in Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties. The book replays Wilde’s trials and prison years with sympathy, noting the public’s moral indignation and Wilde’s decline in Europe. Borrow it from Handley Library.
Figures compiled by a large insurance company show that approximately one half of the women confined in maternity hospitals are addicted to smoking.
Governor Price reappoints Dr. I. C. Riggin as State Health Commissioner for four years at 7500 dollars annually. Dr. J. Bolling Jones of Petersburg named to the State Board of Health for seven years, succeeding F. W. Darling. O. C. Moore and George L. Wadsworth of Norfolk reappointed to the State Apprenticeship Council for three-year terms.
Miyake volcano near Tokyo erupted today. Seventeen to nineteen people were reported uninjured while about thirty more were missing as lava hissed toward the sea. Rescue ships and a warship aided islanders and relief supplies were rushed to the scene.
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