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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1935
Page
10
Sugar beets require a temperate climate and cool conditions in the extreme South. They will grow in warmth, but tops keep growing and roots fail to ripen with proper sugar content. Disease risk increases in warm climates.
Noted girl evangelist Miss Weakland will sing and preach at Brad dock Street Church tomorrow, delivering a single service for the congregation.
Evangelist Betty Weakland, a Cleveland resident and noted preacher for twelve years, will sing and preach at Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South tomorrow at 8 pm replacing the midweek service. She has spoken across all states and writes her own sermons. Her brother Roy Weakland Jr. has been a student at Randolph-Macon Academy.
Royal will join her in Winchester and residents recall her Market Street M E Church campaign a year ago. Many will welcome another chance to hear her sing and preach. Her father Dr J Réy Weakland and 16 year old sister Dorothy Lola violinist will assist.
City council passes third reading on an amended telephone franchise ordinance and notes a favorable financial position with 11 404 18 in bank and 3 365 in savings. Delegates discuss repaying cash reserves, jail wall repairs are approved, milk ordinance reading delayed for full member review, and electric franchise readings begin. Bicycle tag plan advances, Shell withdraws application to build 9
City manager J. H. Henry leads a session to study applying for a federal public works grant. Laws for filling station permits pass two readings with John D. Glover seeking a drive‑in at Brad dock and Gerrard. Minnie Taylor and Dr. C. R. Anderson propose drive‑ins at Braddock and Monmouth. Permit to install a gas tank for Hershey Ice Cream at 21 South Braddock is postponed. Dr. Snapp notes Rosenberger letter urging funds for George Washington Headquarters improvements. Temporary repairs planned. next budget to cover permanent fixes. Census of the city to be done by police is referred to committee. A bridge across B. & tracks at Gibbons street requested. Meeting adjourned.
Secretary Ickes told Shepherd College graduates that discussing communism and fascism in schools is acceptable when framed as a comparison to American government. He urged carrying out critical examination to prove the American system as the ideal way of life and urged truth to dispel propaganda.
Ickes argues that free speech is vital in schools, equal to free assembly for the people and a free press for newspapers. He says teachers should teach that constitutional changes occur through orderly means and oppose special loyalty oaths for teachers, stressing their sacrifice and example.
Tit-Bits Magazine notes how common terms reveal origins from far places. It lists cashmere Japan China Galloway Morocco Jersey Arras Savoy Inverness Angora magnolia Bantam and shows disguised roots like Lombardy Corinth Oporto Xeres Tobago India Calicut Candy Worcester Damascus and other place names embedded in common language.
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