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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
2
Walter Lippman argues travel narrows judgment and urges choosing a single viewpoint. He contends Atlantic and Pacific mindsets shape views of isolationism, world affairs, and the Nazi era, warning against forming deep convictions amid censorship and upheaval.
Roanoke Virginia reports indicate peach blooms escaped serious harm from recent cold weather aided by sleet and rain, with gradual warming seen as a mitigating factor. Apple trees remain unbloomed and undamaged, while notes mention wood ribs in some aircraft askew by minor weight shifts.
Local residents report relief after trying Natex the new triple strength prescription from Peoples Service Drug Store. Mrs. M. E. Stinson of Madison Heights describes long constipations and indigestion improving after treatment, with steadier bowels, better sleep, and regained strength.
National Park to open camping sites along Skyline Drive with budgets for maintenance guard rails and post construction. Engineer W M Austkn to begin work with twelve to fifteen workers. First ten miles surveyed from Front Royal in April. Two sites planned at Black Rock and Sexton’s Shelter with cabins by concessionaires. more sites likely. concessions not yet granted.
Governor Pollard announced Browne Garnett of Arlington county and University of Virginia alumnus has replaced Judge A. C. Carson as a member of the university board of visitors. Garnett, native of Mathews county, was assistant attorney general 1914 to 1916 and later joined the State Corporation Commission before entering the army.
Jud Tankins argues that finance requires precise calculation and warns that speculation amounts to fortune telling. Australia, with a population smaller than London, supplies goods valued at 1.5 billion dollars annually, including wool, agricultural products and mining.
The University of Virginia reports rising graduate enrollment for 1931-32 as the graduate studies department publishes the 1933-34 catalogue listing 298 advanced courses across 21 schools. Summer courses add 80 more, duplicating some long-term classes. Last session 92 graduate degrees were awarded: 16 PhDs, 34 MS, 42 MA, with 487 total taking graduate work including summer quarter.
The first clocks used a single indicator and did not feature a minute hand until 1670. The glass watch cover appeared about the same period. Before the 1700s Boston staged dramatic recitations to avoid conflicting with stage play laws.
Camera experts at Hollywood studios confirm Ginger Rogers’s red hair photographs well. The note accompanies a still from the film Gold Diggers of 1933 showing Rogers during production.
James M. Doran commissioner of industrial crime and agricultural cooperative groups has been conducting tests for some time and handling the product on a non denatured basis. He asked oil companies to conduct similar experiments and said if possible withdrawal of alcohol could occur this week under a permit and supervision with only denatured alcohol used and no relaxation of restrictions.
The Washington and Lee High School of Clarendon Virginia will appear on the second day of Winchester's spring festival. Fred A Read, head of the parade committee, received word that Clarendon will come almost en masse with two companies leaders. They will compete for prizes in the parade and have previously won top prizes for their appearance.
Ignatius Bjorlee of Frederick Maryland will speak at the Winchester Rotary Club luncheon at 1 pm tomorrow at the George Washington Hotel. Attendance is urged by program chairman J Victor Arthur. Geologists note Chicago rests on 35 foot Silurian dolomite layer. one square mile of rock one foot thick could hold about 290000 barrels of oil.
W. T. Pollard, 70, died at his Falmouth home after a long illness. A Fredericksburg carpenter and union member, he was well known in Fredericksburg and the city. Survived by three daughters and three sons, plus two sisters. Funeral held Tuesday at Falmouth Baptist Church.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, famed for multiple marriages, smiles at the amber beer as it nears nationwide reception. She appears in Los Angeles where she is pursuing motion picture work amid renewed public interest.
A holophrastic language combines entire thoughts into a single long word. American Indian tongues illustrate this by compressing an entire sentence into one remarkably long word.
Mrs Jonathan Barrett thanks friends and neighbors for kindness after the sudden death of her husband Jonathan Barrett and notes appreciation for floral tributes and funeral cars. Also, a family thanks neighbors for sympathy during illness and death of Philip M Tevalt and for cars and flowers. An engineer cites aluminum’s early use atop the Washington Monument in 1846.
In a bulletin from Evanston Illinois the W C T U warned that repealing the 18th Amendment would bring more drunkenness crime and poverty in the United States mirroring Finland. The bulletin argued every wet promise failed in Finland and temperance progress would suffer.
The text notes that active tribes and headhunters exist only in Borneo Brazil Celebes and the Philippine islands. It highlights a regional pattern of headhunting in these areas and marks the concentration of such tribes in these locations.
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