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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star is a daily publication except Sundays produced by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia. It records its post office entry as second class matter and coverage details.
Classified and display ad rates listed with per word and per inch charges. Memorials and Cards of Thanks priced per line. Display ads due 9 PM prior to publication. National reps noted with Tenney Woodward. Subscriptions shown for carrier and mail with varying terms. Dated Wednesday March 29 1939.
A reflective biblical quotation fragment cites Proverbs 20 29 about youth strength and old age gray hair, framing virtue as timeless. The snippet presents a moral meditation rather than a news event or narrative.
The Senate passed what is described as the largest peacetime army appropriation in U.S. history at 513,188,000 with near unanimous votes. Advocates urge strong defense while calling for major financial reforms to eliminate waste and inefficiency across government, balancing national security with fiscal restraint.
Virginia voices strong opposition to Interior Department plans for a 1 dollar annual toll or 25 cent per entry for Shenandoah National Park. The measure, seen as a nuisance and unjust, could depress traffic to the Skyline Drive and harm Virginia’s tourism and pride in the park funded by state and private contributions.
Do and don'ts from Rotarian Magazine offer advice to minimize headaches on car tours. Eat light. rest frequently. carry an emergency gas can and duplicate keys. avoid fatigue. keep a tire gauge. use a wood block under the jack on soft ground.
The Our Dumb Friends' League in Britain proposes a cat license tax similar to dogs to improve cat status. It argues ownership laxness and stray cats harm towns, and that requiring name and address on collars would help police trace strays and benefit taxpaying owners.
The fifth annual camellia show by the Garden Club of Norfolk highlights the area's suitability for growing flowers and suggests turning Norfolk into a national draw for tourism. The article argues beautification benefits residents and could attract new households, urging civic bodies to pursue this kept idea.
The Cumberland Evening Times argues Germany's gains under Hitler and the Anschluss and the occupation of Czechoslovakia threaten long term losses. Key trade deals with Britain and France have been cancelled or postponed, hindering exports and foreign exchange. The Reich widens a southeast free trade area but at a potential, costly price.
Col E M House a confidant of President Wilson during and after World War I dies in New York. Mrs Dora Waldeck wins a spelling bee sponsored by the Boy Scout organization in Charles Town West Virginia she teaches at Stephenson.
Five years ago preparations begin for a Passion Play at Handley auditorium featuring a few local cast members. Clifford D. Grim submits a festival fund list now totaling over $4,000. The Senate weighs overriding the President's veto on the soldier's bonus bill.
Ten years ago Charlotte McKown and Anne S. Harrison of Martinsburg West Virginia were named festival princesses for the coming spring. Lieutenant Governor Julius B West retires from the race for governor of the state due to ill health.
Twenty five years ago George Levy and Anna Thomas members of a show troupe playing here are married on stage of Empire theatre by the Rev. Dr. J. H. Lacy. Justice A. C. Carson of the Philippine Supreme Court undergoes an operation in Manila for appendicitis.
Forty years ago Monroe Wright colored was arrested by officers Hollis and Seabright with much stolen property found in his house. Samcee H. N. Kern now lead The Star's contest for most popular volunteer fireman.
Readers could write to The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau for fact answers with a 3 cent reply. It lists questions and answers on medical emblem meanings, golf term origins, city air quality, shorthand history, Troy laundries, first US composer, Bible digests, department store distinctions, and DuPont chemist counts.
A promotional note for a booklet titled Our Presidents And Their Wives with biographical sketches of all U S presidents and first ladies. It invites readers to send ten cents via a coupon to Information Bureau in Washington D C to receive the pamphlet by mail, asking for name address and route.
An editor Cameron Shipp recounts a Macon county mountaineer case in which a father faced a chain gang for arson. His fiery daughter fought the sheriffs and helped win his release, earning praise from Shipp for backboned courage and mounting pride for the county.
Elsie and Mac recount how Horace staged his crime to hide his guilt. Horace shot himself with a hidden gun in a glove, then died by his own hand after being trapped. Reginald survives a staged danger, and Della’s motives are explored as Mac explains the evidence based plan.
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