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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1939
Page
10
In Paris on June 23 the Duke of Windsor turned 45 while the Eiffel Tower marked its 50th birthday. A joint party on the tower’s first platform featured the duke and the American-born duchess as guests of honor.
Charles H. Harper announced that Mrs. Margaret A. Ashby has resigned the registrar post in Rouss Precinct due to ill health. Harper expressed regret and said she had been very efficient. The electoral board will meet next week to name a successor and primary election officials.
The summer work and play school led by Rene McNally returns for a third year for eight to twelve year olds. Ten 3 hour sessions run Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays from July 10 to August 4 with activities in arithmetic spelling crafts games and swimming at Mrs. McSherry Lupton's pool. Past attendees include Olga de Sparre Isabelle de Sparre Dan Saxe Jim Saxe Herbert Schutte Stuart Headley Jacqueline Eagle Nancy Bond Margaret Cammer Johnny Moling Gene Rose Billy Duncan Bryan Minnege rode and Leigh Rosenberger.
Vacation schools on the Ridgeway Methodist Circuit will close with a picnic on the twenty third. The schools have been a remarkable success with over 125 pupils attending regularly and more than twenty instructors and helpers contributing time and talent to benefit the church and community.
The Treasury report shows receipts of 18,502,500.03 dollars and expenditures of 28,782,201.76 dollars for June 21. Gross debt stands at 40,372,042,653.28 dollars, with a daily increase of 6,697,723.63 dollars.
Prices for apples and pears fell at London auctions as early domestic fruits boosted competition. Apple supplies were moderate, pear receipts light, with Australia as the chief shipper. next week’s shipments expected to rise. California plums competed with English soft fruits. New Zealand Stor mer Pippin and other varieties listed with specific price ranges. About 486000 bushels of apples expected to UK ports in 7 days, vs 420000 this week and 387000 last season.
H C Reynolds, a well known aged resident of Cross Junction Frederick County, was found by family lying on the ground after a fall. He suffered a head cut and could not rise while it was raining. Neighbors carried him indoors. Initial fears of a stroke were ruled out. no paralysis detected, and illness likely caused the fall.
Five men arrested in a northeast Baltimore marihuana farm raid were held for grand jury action on charges of growing cultivating and possessing seed of the narcotic weed. Sergeant Ralph Amrein led the detectives after a police complaint. Enough marihuana seed to supply plants for the entire east coast was seized. Thirty five plants were uprooted for evidence.
Advice column notes many prosperous families subsidize a relative who won t work while the wife bears the burden. Caroline Chatfield argues husbands who tax wives for kin obligations risk straining marriages, urging couples to live within income and insist kin support.
New York reports the heavyweight bout will be described in an NBC broadcast next Wednesday night. Sponsorship lined up by a non automobile sponsor. WJZ will carry the program at 9 o'clock with announcers still to be decided from Clem McCarthy Bill Stern or George Hicks.
A party of 35 boys from the Young Men's Christian Association of New Orleans, after a World’s Fair trip to New York, will arrive late today at the Appleway Cabin Camp in Kernstown for one night. They plan to tour Shenandoah National Park Skyline Drive and other Shenandoah Valley sites as they travel through the state.
Scott Curtis chief of detectives of Springfield Missouri and his wife Mrs Curtis were slightly improved at Memorial Hospital after a collision 19 miles east of Romney West Virginia on the Northwestern Grade. The 1937 Oldsmobile driven by Curtis struck a westbound 1937 Chevrolet truck driven by J How ard Leigh of Leesburg Virginia on Cooper mountain. The truck driver was uninjured but passenger Billy F Hottle of Leesburg sustained a severe head injury and shock. Romney State Police investigated with property damage estimated at 500 dollars.
Starting Early reports Mrs. Mary Miller becomes a great grandmother at 52 through the birth of a daughter to 15-year-old Mrs. Mary Ellen Reiser, who wed at 13. Concurrently, Mrs. Eva Collins becomes a grandmother at 32.
Columbia police blotter shows rising complaints from citizens in an anti noise campaign. Chief W. H. Rawlinson notes a case where a man complained about a neighbor with seven roosters. The roosters were noisy but the neighbor would remove them only if the neighbor’s snoring at night ceased.
Senator Homer T. Bone from Washington and Dr. Thomas Parran surgeon general will speak at the dedication of the new National Cancer Institute building in Bethesda. The event includes cornerstone laying and remarks by Bone and Parran.
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