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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
10
Grinnell Iowa June 15 Secretary of Commerce Harry L Hopkins surveyed his 338 acre farm today leasing the property from Aetna Life Insurance Co. He plans to establish his home three miles north of Grinnell and to grow crops on the land he once worked as a boyhood farmhand.
Charlottesville Virginia June 15 Professor Frederick Deane Goodwin Ribble will succeed Armistead M. Dobie as dean of the University of Virginia law department. Dr Harvey E Jordan elected dean of the medicine department succeeding the late Dr James Carroll Flippin Dr Ribble joined the law faculty in 1921 and has been acting dean since 1937. Dr Jordan has served 32 years at Virginia and holds degrees from Lehigh and Princeton and a PhD from Princeton University.
Kermit Roosevelt Jr., grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, will join the California Institute of Technology history staff as an instructor next fall. The announcement came today in Pasadena.
Officials from the State Conservation Commission and State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond face mounting complaints over the Virginia exhibit at the New York World’s Fair. The literature fund of about $4,000 remains unspent as requests for Virginia material are few, and distributing literature by mail is proposed to avoid waste from handouts.
Winchester Gun Club hosts Saturday practice sessions at 3 PM for men and women interested in trap shooting. Regular shoots continue weekly until the state meet on July 3 and 4. Visitors are asked to avoid driving over trap stands and the pipe to the puller stand to prevent damage to three readying traps.
The dispute over flood control between New England governors and the federal government appears near resolution. Federal engineers are at work in Connecticut while New Hampshire and Massachusetts have land acquisition permission for dams and reservoirs. Vermont lags as Governor George D. Aiken resists federal involvement.
Permission from the Harlan County Coal Operators Association for its 21 member companies to contract individually with the United Mine Workers CIO clears the way for resumption of deadlocked negotiations. George Titler, secretary treasurer of the UMW district, said companies were invited to negotiate for separate contracts.
An applicant for citizenship in San Jose California on June 15 knew the capital was Washington D C but could not name who lives there or who runs the government The examiner asked who lives there and runs the government The applicant answered I know the Democrats The court granted citizenship
Washington June 15 Finland sent its full share of the current wartime debt payment due to the United States. Hungary made a token payment of 9828.16 this week on its 1 685 000 debt and urged Congress to favorably consider last year’s settlement offer.
West Virginia pan handlers from the Eastern Panhandle Association left Martinsburg at 7 am on their fifth annual tour toward Romney. About 75 men from Martinsburg Berkeley Springs Harpers Ferry Charles Town and Shepherdstown travel pay as you go to showcase eastern panhandle sights. Luncheon planned at Graf ton and dinner at Clarksburg with stops in Morgan town and Fairmont.
The Irish setter Elcho was the first recognized champion in the United States. He was listed in the inaugural 1878 stud book and owned by Dr. William Jarvis of Claremont New Hampshire.
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