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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1940
Page
6
Rec 61 of the Motor Vehicle Code states that a person who passes a school bus while students are boarding or disembarking, traveling in the opposite direction at more than five miles per hour, is guilty of reckless driving.
A prayer service will be held this evening at 7 30 in Grace Church. The service resumes in the Men's Bible Class room and will be followed by a choir rehearsal.
New York reports a bi weekly broadcast salute to the Byrd Exposition from Virginia with Dr John Stewart Bryan and Douglas Freeman featured. FCC order prompts reduced TV advertising in New York while program plans remain on a five day week. Listings for listening tonight and Thursday are given with stations and time slots.
The record lists present and past rainfall totals, March to date 2.47 inches year to date 6.37 inches, and monthly averages from 1913 to 1939 led by June 3.79 and May 3.53 inches. It credits Winchester Research Laboratory for the data and notes a separate trivia item on the origin of the phrase plain as the nose on your face referencing Shakespeare Burton and Cervantes.
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