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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1932

Page

8

Senate budget bill passes with officer pay cuts and reforms

Legislature adopts a state budgeting bill cutting officer salaries by ten percent and enacting penalties for treasurers and revenue officials who misappropriate funds. The package includes reforms to tax tickets, malfeasance, and required revenue controls, plus salary rules for treasurers and commissioners.

Senate Layman Patnaey Hall Commissioners of Revenue Sam Rodgers Dan Porter Fee Commission Moffett Boards of Supervisors House Adams House

Three Ford Contest Winners Revealed at Capitol Theatre

Capitol Theatre and Bickers Motor Co. announce three correct answers in the Ford display contest. The car will be awarded Friday March 25 at 9 o clock. Also featured is the Blue Ridge Kamputers vaudeville act from Virginia to Kentucky and Tennessee with banjo music and square dancing.

Capitol Theatre Bickers Motor Co Ford Capitol Bickers Blue Ridge Kamputers Winchester

Legislative session passes reforms and charter bills

The legislature enacted amendments returning to new election laws and charters including Harrisonburg. Facsimile ballots become lawful and defeated primary candidates are barred from the general election. Some bills not engrossed tonight may pass tomorrow with constitutional reading suspensions. The Fowler Bruce highway commission bill increases members to nine.

Harrisonburg Fowler-Bruce Highway Commission

Aged Colored Man Leaves Estate To Market St Church

William R. Washington, a longtime janitor in Winchester, leaves the residue of his estate to Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church after debts are paid and a monument is erected for him and his wife. The will dated August 22, 1930, names M. M. Lynch as executor with a $2,000 bond.

William R. Washington Winchester M. M. Lynch Lynch American Bonding Company of Baltimore

Bud Walker Receives Additional Ten Years for Habitual Criminal Status

William Bud Walker, a negro desperado, was sentenced in Henrico County Circuit Court to an extra ten years in the State Penitentiary for habitual criminal status. Warden Rice M. Youell presented him on the charge after Walker had already been jailed for attempting to shoot Sheriff Pannett. Walker remains under indictment for the alleged burglary of the Wayside Inn.

State Penitentiary William “Bud” Walker Desperado Pannett Henrico County Richmond Virginia Walker Rice M. Youell Henrico Court Wayside Inn

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