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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
3
The city of Winchester received 346,? wages and 6? materials from the Works Progress Administration last year totaling 41,978.46. About 20,000 went to wages for public works labor, with the rest for sewing clerical and administration. Of materials, around 5,000 funded public works. sewer water and street projects reduced city construction costs.
Charlotte Hall Military Academy will march in Baltimore's Stand By America parade led by Cadet Captain O R Guyther and Color Sgt B D Green. Major M D Burgee announced the march as the first of its kind in the country, with a rifle company and color guard from the academy.
The Rev Charles Beard announces services for Sunday April 2 at Mount Olive Church. Services at 11 am and 7 30 pm with Sunday school at 10 am. The public is invited and there will be special singing.
Eddie Brink outpointed Tony Canzoneri in New York and Wesley Ramey beat Maxie Berger, with Jackie Cullura and Mickey Gamiere drawing in Rochester. Floyd Flyer won in Los Angeles, and Ceferino Garcia knocked out Paris Allune in Stockton. Yesterday exhibitions across Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Lake Charles, San Francisco, Sebring and Plant City reported varied scores and rain interruptions.
Pupils at Gore Consolidated School will present the operetta A Rose Dream tomorrow evening with about 50 participants. Costumes were prepared under the supervision of directors Mrs Ernest Shook and Mrs Lawrence Weaver of the faculty. Cast includes Garland Good Charles Hoake Roy Hoake Albert Orndorff Ernest Pugh Charles Householder Elda Triplett Agnes Sweeney William Berryhill Billy Dunlap Charles Hodson Beverley Loflette Margel McKee James McDaniel Harry Wingfield Roland Wingfield Roy Lee Smeltzer Ann Berryhill Ferris Lupton Blanche Roe John Bunner Jennings Constable Hayes DeHaven Junior Link Burley McDaniel Lloyd Michael Robert Lee Smith William Wingfield Landon Kerns Lena Allanson Genevieve Roe Elsie Whitacre Betty Jean Pugh Billy Good Alice Fox Mitchell Good Douglas La Follette Granville La Follette Harvey Pugh Charles Williams Roy Wingfield Betty Jane Anderson Margaret Mauzy Wanda McKee Elmer Kerns Walter Pugh Rosa Lee Fox Evelyn Fox.
Washington county received 3,980 of 30,000 trout distributed in Maryland streams this year. Fisheries officials reported the allocation and said 40,000 more were held in reserve in hatcheries. The trout were brook, brown, and rainbow varieties ready for catching.
Opequon Va March 29 Mr Gus Pierce with Russell Sager fished Cedar Creek on Saturday. Margaret and Grace Newlin visited Theresa Malone Sunday. Mrs Robert Bywaters visited mother Mrs Maynard Bayliss Sunday. Miss June White and Virginia White bought a new Ford. The Rev Mr Allen of Winchester visited Mr Charles Derflinger. Clarence Derflinger visited Mr Mrs Charles Nicodemus and daughter with Mrs Nicodemus sister Mrs Loring Funkhouser. Eva Lowe and Perry metered to Maryland Sunday. Effa Link visited sister Mrs Edwin Marker. Mrs Williams of Fawcett Gap visited daughter Mrs Ropert.
Old cedars and oaks across Weston are tied to local history. A Virginia planted red oak in Hill Cemetery dates 300 years, a 70 year old spruce on Center Avenue came from Winchester, and the famed 1858 Heath Red Oak linked to survey origins of Weston State Hospital.
Irene Wicker plans to star on two NBC broadcasts this Sunday at 1 p.m. Her own WEAF music drama Jack and the Beanstalk will share time with WJZ-NBC great play Blue Bird in which she has three roles. She will alternate between studios to perform both shows before resuming the great play.
More than 100 Shenandoah Valley Military Academy cadets will return to Winchester on April 12 after wintering at Lake Wales Florida. Two new students Jordan Silva Honolulu and Mark Kirkpatrick Billings Montana enrolled while south. Two new faculty Miss Nancy Ackerman Urbana Ohio and Dr Manuel Rose Cornell University join to teach commercial studies and languages plus ancient history.
James Kirkwood a 50 year old Cleveland grocer was robbed of 45 dollars and assaulted when thieves dumped 500 pounds of sugar and flour on him after the hold up. File details unknown.
Joe Reyes, 34, faced despondency over domestic troubles and attempted self harm by biting his wrists. Police jailed him after the incident in San Diego, California.
In Oroville Butte County California the board bought an artificial leg for Norman Mason in 1935 to aid rehabilitation and earning capability. It also paid his grocery bills. Mason died leaving $4000 estate. The board sues for $168 the leg price.
Isle of Wight farmer W Stallings sells 200 pounds of the first certified wilt resistant watermelon seed from Hawkesbury stock developed by Dr Harold Cook. Wilt costs Virginia farmers up to 40 percent yield loss and up to 1000000 dollars regionally.
Mrs Caroline Roebling Hraegner wife of Alexander B Hagner announces residence in Reno Nevada with intent to divorce her Chicago Tribune Press Service reports. Heiress to about 20 million dollars and mother of two, she left Warrenton estate Broad View with a large dog and engaged Brown and Belford as her attorneys. She is a noted horsewoman and skilled airplane pilot who flies her own plane.
The PA 20 flying boat began the first large commercial passenger flight to Bermuda from Baltimore at 9 09 a m BST with five passengers and a 14 member crew. About 50 more passengers will join in New York for the over water segment as Pan American gauges the Yankee Clipper’s Azores inspection flight progress toward Lisbon.
Real estate listing offering farms along the Shenandoah River near Winchester. Mentions apples farm and general sales pitch with visiting the seller by horse or coach, inviting any part of the city to inquire.
William Orville Douglas rose from Yakima high school and janitorial work to Yale and Columbia law, then to Yale professor, SEC head and finally the Supreme Court. The profile notes his early poverty, education at Whitman and Columbia, and his Downeast Don Quixote streak with reformist views and sharp wit.
The Garber Ice Cream Company invites citizens to a banquet on Thursday March 30 at 8 PM to dedicate the new Front Royal Road plant. The $10,000 facility near the city now produces 600 gallons daily under manager C. E. Garber with wife Nora L. Garber and sons Lee Julian Eli Archie involved.
Dr William Atmar Smith of Charleston S C will headline the Virginia Tuberculosis Association annual gathering in Roanoke with a paper on evaluating patient services The program includes State Health Department talks on outpatient work and tuberculosis among youth coal mine workers and elderly moon workers and the race group auxiliary meets at First Baptist Church with 200 to 300 delegates from across Virginia.
A Roman physician Galen is credited with inventing cold cream. His formula resembles the modern preparation still used today.
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