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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1932
Page
5
A 120000000 federal highway aid bill would hire about a quarter million men for thirty hours weekly for eleven months. States must match funds, doubling or tripling road projects in many areas while governors estimate up to 40000 workers per state. Other jobs in manufacturing and equipment follow, boosting local economies nationwide.
Seven new 33 passenger Atlantic Nine parlor coaches were delivered July 23 at Ashington and placed on the Shenandoah Valley route U S Highway 11 between Washington and Bristol via Winchester and Roanoke. Built by General Motors Truck Co they feature 170 HP engines 16 brake blocks all steel bodies tilting seats with extra leg room improved ventilation and hot water heating for enhanced safety and comfort.
The page presents a mixed list of across and down crossword clues with entries such as metal bearing veins inquire absent without leave chief signal officer abbr and several others including a girl s name and a tree. A note at the end implies a cartoon caption about a movie star rather than a starving Chinese person.
Sunday social visits feature Mr and Mrs Bauserman and family, Bob Grim and mother with relatives, and Martinsburg visitors at James Orndorff home. People drop by Vaucluse and local homes as Hawes illness and threshing season note farming activity and haymaking.
Boy Scout Council Camp at Camp White Rock Capon Bridge West Virginia closed with a Field Day featuring a land and water meet. Results include 50 yard dash F Jones G Hillyard D Stewart. hop skip and jump F Jones G yard B Stewart. baseball throw B Stewart F Jones G Hillyard. horse shoe throw G Hillyard B Stewart F Jones.
The water meet results show first Harry Stewart second George Hillyard third Forrest Jones fourth Paul Hunter fifth John MacMillan and sixth Donald Stewart. Camp White Rock will host Girl Scouts for two weeks then Troops 1 and 2 for two weeks as part of Council Camp totaling four weeks. Troops 3, 5 and 9 camp at Capon Lake West Virginia for two weeks at Camp George Bowly with over 40 boys taking part.
A historical note quotes Thomas Hughes on friendship as a divine blessing and social virtue. The piece contrasts this ideal with a brief, curious tale of a mouse snared by a spider. It describes the spider’s silk loop lifting the mouse from the floor into the air beneath a table.
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