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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
5
A reporter in Highstown New Jersey recounts a first flight in a Cub trainer with instructor Al Bennett. The lesson covers takeoff, banking, and landing, with the student slowly gaining confidence and logging forty minutes toward solo flight while noting others begin their own training.
Present and past rainfall averages in inches per month over the 1913 1938 period. Monthly figures list January to December with values and an annual total of 35.09 inches for 26 years. Data credited to the Winchester ae Laboratory statistics.
Paris observers view Berlin’s peace talks on the Danzig issue as Nazi strategy to detach France and Britain from Poland. The press sees Berlin bluffing for a war won without actual fighting and notes Warsaw would resist, while Germany seeks a September Nazi Congress victory.
Joseph Walters of Winchester was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Willard Reid aged 21 from Lehew in a crash with a truck Walters drove. Constable W A Baker of Capon Bridge was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and faces up to a year in jail and a $1000 fine for alleged DUI. Reid had been arrested for a minor traffic offense by Baker before the fatal collision.
Fred A. Motz agricultural commissioner for the U S D A in Europe and former Virginian will be principal speaker at the Winchester fruit men meeting on Wednesday night July 26 at the Court House beginning at eight o clock. He will discuss Apples and the Export wage. Other speakers include A H Teske of V P I on Todays Production Society Staunton on Packages This Season and Carroll R Miller of Appalachian Apples on Increasing Apple Consumption.
The Eleventh Annual Session of the Institute of Rural Affairs opened in Blacksburg Virginia with Dr Burruss presiding at 7 30 p m. Miss Ella Gardner led group singing and J H Quisenberry gave invocation. Dr I D Eggleston spoke on Twenty five Years of Service and certificates were presented to pioneer extension workers. Delegates and ladies from home demonstration clubs gathered in the memorial building as sessions began and continue daily with discussions on land use and man soil relations. About 1900 delegates from 100 counties attended with 80 percent new faces.
The army recruiting office in Winchester offers two vacancies in the air corps at Panama. Applicants must have a high school education or equivalent and qualify. Enlistment-eligible individuals should visit the basement recruiting office between 10 30 a m and 1 p m on Monday.
In memoriam notice for Byron Franklin Sine who died July 20 1929. The notice mentions Mrs. B F Sine and Reverend Chas Rush Sine as related individuals and dates.
The text describes a so called Mongolian idiot with short thumbs and little fingers a flat skull and slanting eyes resembling Mongolians. It notes they rarely reach maturity and are usually institutionalized though they have a happy disposition and are lively imitators.
Garnett Edward Affleck of Winchester Virginia has been adjudged bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will be held at the Winchester Corporation Court on August 2 1939 at 1 30 PM to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct related business. Dated Harrisonburg Virginia July 18 1939. Edward C Martz Referee.
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