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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1941
Page
3
A school note warns girls to respect others in the dressing room avoiding stealing or moving belongings. It cautions about slippery floors when wet and says hair grooming should not disrupt classes. It urges discretion for both girls and boys and emphasizes decorum in private spaces.
Jeanie Whitham wears Vic Arthur ring as Bill prepares to leave. Students cheered by sunny practice and hints of spring. Senior hall crowds disperse for Doris to manage. Monogram Club plans a dance. Dowell Howard riffs on Love Thy Neighbor. Shryock heals after leg injury from Butler incident. Senior Play postponed to March 28 as Nancy Quarles tours the campus.
Courtney Fall Doris Register were chosen as the three best speakers after the elimination contest at Carter. They will compete in assembly on March 28 with the winner advancing to the district contest. Fifteen girls entered the eliminations, five performed: Betty Forrest Helen Gatewood Brenda Carter Doris Register Courtney Fauver. Judges were Mrs Thresh Mrs Peery and Mr Sipe.
Senior play Spring Dance debuts Friday March 28 with Charles Mudd as a Princeton style guest. Senior president Butch leads a cast including Bobby Green Bill Miller Lester Arnold Duell Glover Ann Williams Frances Bickers Ruby Landacre Dottie Moore Nancy Gano Jeanne Shade and others as promising student performers. Tickets cost 25 cents for students. sales through Seniors.
Faculty members wore pads and helmets while Mr Legge donned a catcher's outfit. The lively game featured crude behavior from Mr Yates and Mr Ochs and a playful clash as Gale Robinson and Jimmy Huyett were involved. The varsity delivered a solid showing and optimism for next year.
A Handley student notes the risk of narrow crowded halls with doors that jut into the walkway. The speaker urges doors to be opened fully and rested against walls to prevent injuries and avoid eye injuries from accidental contact.
Two new adventure titles arrive at the library. White Isle Caroline by Snedeker follows a Roman family fleeing to the British Isles, likely appealing to Latin students. Drovers East centers on a boy driving cattle east, with vivid travel details and challenges along the journey.
Mr Joyce's room presented a brief high school program on Wednesday afternoon. Hubert Kerr sang two numbers, Earl Charnock offered impersonations of Ned Sparks Rochester and the Professor, Eugene McIntyre played two piano selections, and James Thomson served as master of ceremonies. The event, though organized in 15 minutes and entirely unrehearsed, was greatly enjoyed.
A playful look at school fashions at Handley noting jerkin wearers of all sizes and styles. The piece highlights all day wear with puddie dashers and boots, the big snow season, and a revival of middy blouses and jumpers with wide collars.
The report describes a midweek dance practice in the school gym. Bill Butler danced alone as Shryock watched. Ber dyn is asked about being a girl. Thursday featured a minuet with Dick Rhodes bowing poorly. Friday Mrs Barr demonstrated the Skater's Waltz.
Betty Miller urges after school Juniors to join class meetings for the class and sponsors' success. She argues meetings benefit the whole class and emphasizes cooperation for next year.
The Quill returns with second semester editors led by Betty Hendrie aiming to deliver engaging reading and detailed news. Betty Edmonds contributes, including It All Depends on the Viewpoint. Leslie Carper's Junior Bowling Champion piece offers bowling tips, while other features reveal teachers ambitions and Handley counts.
A new three way traffic signal with an audible bell at the foot of Handley Boulevard alerts pedestrians and drivers to light changes. The feature is welcomed by Handley students and local motorists for improving safety and awareness.
The executive council allows seniors to go first in the lunch line this week to test the idea. Mr Quarles approved the motion after passage, granting seniors priority for a trial period to see how it works.
Report from a social dance event noting two Monogram Clubs first to show a profit for the year. Jimmie Huyett fires up the crowd with Irene, while Philip Barnhart and Elien perform jitterbug. Senior boys charm Doris Agnes and Peggy as Judy Light juggles moods.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox urged Baltimore Hibernian Society that national defense requires drastic changes in daily life and work. He warned that partisan politics must be set aside and labor disputes in defense industries restrained through conciliation and arbitration.
The Star reports press time across time zones with 9 P.M. in London 10 P.M. in Berlin and Rome and 11 P.M. in Alexandria and Bucharest indicating late edition schedules.
Ten years from now Bobby Green Dotty Moore sent Shryock Billy Clark Ryland Peery Natalie Browne Jacqueline English Lester Arnold Handley are pictured in a public anticipation piece. The article imagines careers in business stage arts journalism education nursing and music.
Shenandoah National Park announces 1941 entry permits go on sale March 15 with 25 cent daily, 1 dollar annual private auto rates and 5 dollar per trip for commercial buses. Park expects 1,000,000 visitors as peak season arrives with spring bloom across Skyline Drive.
A. Guy Hope former attorney for the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Board assumed his new post as assistant director of the division of securities at the Virginia State Corporation Commission. He previously practiced law in Richmond in 1939, succeeding Blake T. Newton Jr. who became director after C. M. Chichester joined the governor’s statutory research and drafting division.
The text explains the heart does not work continuously but only one eighth of the time. It takes eight times longer to fill with relaxed heart than to contract and eject blood. Muscles function only during contraction.
A planning board report to Congress urges an urgently needed link between Washington and Baltimore via a 400 foot right of way. It also calls for a flat highway connecting Washington and Annapolis built on a consistent principle.
Edwin Franz, 59, dashed to police headquarters to report a robbery that took eighteen dollars, a parrot, two love birds and a pound of bolégas. He still carried a parrot on his shoulder a tiny dog in one arm and a box of white rats in the other.
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