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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1940
Page
2
Two thousand two hundred boys in 76 northern Virginia counties study supervised agriculture. The program has expanded from 12 counties in 1924-25 to 25 now, with 53 teachers and 77 schools offering vocational agriculture this year. Enrollment rose from 291 to 2,102 students, plus 475 out of school youths.
In Redondo Beach California workers repairing an old seaside walk encountered amateur treasure seekers. Groping through cracks, hopeful finders reported discoveries of coins and other items dating back many years, with some rewards totaling several dollars.
Answers to test questions printed on page 4 appear here. The text references a horse racing topic and a Norse god Tyr. It mentions a race of one eyed giants of Sicily and notes Louisiana with parish structure. The fragment ends with Tiger and Seven.
Funeral services were held in Roanoke for Benjamin Frank Woodson 48 former Middletown resident who died Friday morning of a heart attack at Fincastle Botetourt County He is survived by his widow the former Bertha Sibert a son William Haller Woodson and several brothers and sisters
Agriculture Department released Virginia beneficiaries of more than $1000 in 1937 farm program payments totaling $53,883.35. The list includes Bayville Farms Lynnhaven W T Bloxom Horsey Lee H Bradley Brookneal 5S A Carson Abingdon and many others across towns such as Machipongo Elk Garden Farm Prod Corp Eastern Shore Canning Co and Union Apple Co Inc.
Interior Department supply bill for 1941 carries a 2.5 million dollar budget for Pittman Robertson act administration, a one million dollar rise from the current year. Revenue from a 10 percent excise tax on sporting arms funds the program, with expenditures capped to annual receipts. Bureau officials cite yearly revenue averaging 2.75 to 3.0 million dollars.
Rome protests Britain for blocking German coal to Italy, calls embargo illegal and an economic war. Italian note to the British embassy condemns contraband controls as abusive and cites US postal secrecy concerns under the Hague convention of 1907, signaling a possible strain in the Anglo Italian accord.
Barbara Bell presents pattern 1929-B for stylish Victorian style pajamas with square neckline and gathered pockets. Sizes 12 to 20 with busts 30 to 38 inches. yardage listed for size 14. Includes suggestion of the Barbara Bell Fashion Book and together pattern and book price.
Dr Zed Copp former townsman and Philadelphia minister presented four World Home Library volumes to Handley Library. The Book of Life weaves the New Testament into a continuous narrative, and Family Altar Faith Primer offers prayers and scripture references for home worship. A reviewer praised The Book of Life as more fascinating than fiction.
In the Fiji Islands the human head is sacred and reaching above another's head is an insult. Women crawl on hands and knees when men are at leisure inside a house. Insults may drive individuals to fatal self harm to erase shame.
Edward Pope a 73 year old farmer died at his home in New Oxford Pennsylvania after nearly a year of ill health and injuries from a bull goring last summer. He was born in Greenwood Frederick County and moved to Pennsylvania in 1927. He is survived by son Harold, daughters Mrs Harry Gibson and Mrs Esten Carper, twelve grandchildren and a sister Mrs I G Hoffman. Funeral will be at his late home on Wednesday March 6 at seven with interment at New Oxford.
Clarke County sheriff confronts a rash of small burglaries as Mike Moreland discovers a break in at the Riverside Rendezvous basement store in Berryville. Loot includes cigarettes beer candy and food items with an estimated value over 25 dollars. Other recent break ins at Jack Russell's store Boyce and a wheat theft from Bob Vorous' barn remain unsolved.
Brigadier General S Gardner Waller announced six appointments and two promotions in the Virginia and United States national guard. Virginia appointments include Harry L Yerbe of Portsmouth and William B Verell of Newport News as second lieutenants, plus William L Decasnos of Portsmouth as second lieutenant. Promotions include John E Wales III of Norfolk to first lieutenant and John W Palmer of Newport News to captain, with U S National Guard appointments for James D Fink of Roanoke Wallace E Stanley of Richmond and Edward S Wood of Richmond as second lieutenants.
The 1865 Mary Mapes Dodge children’s book Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates quickly became a juvenile classic. It earned a prize from the French Academy and has endured through numerous editions.
The committee backs continued Natchez Trail expenditures totaling 700000 to build nine miles with cost 479267 per mile, split between North Carolina and Virginia, plus 9 miles in Alabama and Tennessee. National Park Service reports 305 miles of Blue Ridge Parkway completed or graded with surface treatment across segments and stages.
Berlin reports the escape of two German fliers who, one severely wounded, crawled back to German lines after a forced landing inside France’s Maginot line. The communique notes aerial actions over eastern France and along the British coast with four German aircraft engaging twelve French planes.
Rome warns Rome London ties endangered amid economic and political strains. London faces discontent over wartime leadership after the Domala liner bombing with 108 lives lost. Russians report Viipuri shells and fort captures. Finnish front claims repulsion near Lake Ladoga. German divisions mass near the west wall. Germany apologizes for Belgian pilot deaths. Welles travels to Switzerland after talks with Paris.
D. A. Tucker of the state extension horticultural service and County Agent Fred Stine led a three day visit in Frederick County to boost small fruit production. They urged growers to attend 7:30 p.m. meetings at the Court House and in Stephens City and Gainesboro to learn approved practices and improve profits.
The piece notes adult kidneys measure four to five inches long two and a half inches wide and about one inch thick with a weight of four to six ounces. It also cites Emily Post etiquette advising a formal adoption announcement for Mary aged three months by Mr and Mrs Nuhome.
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