Extensive Virginia highway landscaping program outlined
Virginia officials described a broad WPA highway landscaping effort in more than five counties aimed at streamlining and improving roadsides. The plan includes drainage stabilization, erosion control, and wayside retreats with amenities for motorists, funded by WPA and state matching funds totaling about 326 thousand dollars.
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Ud Eon
May Sgineere
Gifte
Virginia
Works Progress Administration
Highway Department
WPA
Neale
Virja
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior
State Highway Department
Safford Courthouse
Richmond
South Hill
Altavista
Amherst
Pulaski
Draper Mountain
Hable's Palace Show Features Rio Grande Ran and Jungle Jim
Bob Allen appears in Rio Grande Ran at the Palace along with Grant Withers in Jungle Jim in a double feature. Top Of The Town musical comedy arrives Monday for Apple Blossom guests with a lineup including Murphy Hush Herbert Gregory Ratoff Gertrude Niesen Ella Logan Henry Armetta Mischa Auer and a new dance sensation. Fox News also joins the program.
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Eee
Olan
Rege Urphy
Hush Herbert
Gregory Ratoff
Gertrude Niesen
Ella Logan
Henry Armetta
Mischa Auer
Fox News
Plans Shaping Up for Teachers Retirement and School Reform
Plans outlined for a Winchester educators meeting to discuss retirement law for teachers a larger public school fund to support a minimum eight month term with goal of nine months. Also proposed are a revised school code and continued legislative program from 1936. Officers to be elected include Jennings and spillman with Strickler as secretary. Russell A Joyce presides Winchester chapter and R A Wall leads Frederick County Teachers Association.
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Winesbhie
Parent-Teachers Association
General Assembly
Jennings
Ethel Spillman
Harrisonburg
R. B. Strickler
Broadway
Russell A Joyce
Winchester
R. A Wall
Stephens City
Frederick County
Teachers’ Association
Wigher-Ups and the Postmaster General Create Open Forum
The postmaster general and Democratic National Committee chair Farley hosts informal sessions in his mahogany office where reporters gather for off the record exchanges. He acts as a keen listener and interviewer, remembered by many as a reliable news source, while admirers shower him with agricultural gifts and he predicts future southern barbecues at his office.
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Farley
Democratic National Committee
Rey
Purchasing Agent Arrives for Exposition Shows in Winchester
Joe Mannheimer, purchasing agent for the World’s Exposition Shows, arrived in Winchester and registered at the George Washington hotel. He contracts for supplies for the week long exhibit benefiting the Sarah Zane Fire Company and the Apple Blossom Festival.
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Joe Mannheimer
Sarah Zane Fire Company
Winchester
George Washington Hotel
Sky's the Limit In Little Matter Of Renting House
Chicago May 1 tenants face rising rents as building slows and materials cost soar. Experts say nationwide rents remain 66 percent below 1926 peak. Chicago sees rent strikes and probes into increases totaling about 50 million dollars. Single family rentals approach 90 percent of 1926 peak.
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Sky
Chicago
Nelson
Illinois Senate
Nation's lawmakers on Capitol Hill in recess
In recess on Capitol Hill the House Military committee considers private bills while the Senate is also in recess. The House passed a 416 million dollar military establishment appropriation as the Agriculture committee and Secretary Hull address sugar concerns and related matters.
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Nation
Capitol Hill
The
Associated Press
House Military Committee
Senate
House
House Agriculture ‘Committee
Retary Hull
Sugar Amnion
Mt Pleasant Notes From Mt Pleasant Virginia Social Roundup
Mt Pleasant Virginia reports visits and family updates with names such as Bessie Rosenberger Raymond Racey Gough Milhon Fawcett Dyke Russell Fawcett Orrndorff Haynes Racey Mithon Lamp Racey Taylor Barr Williams and others. Community events include Sunday School at 2 and church services at 3 with Christian Endeavor at 7 30 p m.
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MT. Pleasant
Bessie Rosenberger
Raymond Racey
Clifton Gough
Winchester
Vennor Milhon
Robert Fawcett
Fawcett’s Gap
Edson Fawcett
Altha Dyke
James Russell
Red Bud
Elmer Christian
Wilda
Robert Haynes
Washington, D. C. R
John Perry
Harry Lamp
Bessie Smith
Hazel Racey
Hales Rosenberger
Jeanette Racey
Ollie Taylor
Opequon
Paul Wolvegton
Conley Barr
Mountain Falls
Misses Blanche
Deena Williams
Christian Endeavor
Queens Grand Jury Calls for More Officers at Fair
The Queens county grand jury urged adding extra officers during the 1939 world air fair to handle potential troublemakers and protect loyal citizens from persons of evil disposition at the event.
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New York
Queens County Grand Jury
Queen's Own
Auto registrations rise across district as economy strengthens
The Fifth Federal Reserve District reports a 31 percent rise in automobile registrations year over year with a shift toward higher priced models. Retail trade, payrolls, and building activity also gain, while Easter timing boosts department store sales and cotton consumption hits new records in March.
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Jele Mose Ba
Federal Reserve District
Tates
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
R. L. Polk, and Company
Maryland
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Colorful Flower Display From George Washington National Forest
The George Washington National Forest showcases a spring bloom of sassafras, redbud, mayflowers, violets, and trailing arbutus along valley slopes and roadsides. Dandelions brighten the Valley Pike as a roadside floral feature and early spring tonic and salad greens are noted for sassafras and dandelion.
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Washington National
Wabera Ie
Friend
Old Valley
Virginia
National Forest
Ground broke for 47 bell Page Carillon in Luray
Ground was broken today for a 47 bell carillon tower to be erected by October. Col Theodore C Northcott, 93 year old donor of the $100,000 memorial to his wife, played a leading role in the ceremonies. The Belle Brown Northcott Memorial will be dedicated with a deed transfer from Col Northcott to Emmet C Berrey, Carillon committee chair, and then to Dr Vincent Spitler, Luray mayor.
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Carillon
Vincent Spitler
Luray
Berrey
Col
Northcott
Will Rogers Humorous Story On Telephone Service
A Will Rogers anecdote humorously explores frustrations with telephone service. A manager claims progress but a caller insists nothing works, highlighting broken lines, missed messages, and the endless bills that accompany faulty connection.
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Roanoke County
Hable’s Palace
Bob Allen
Palace Today
Charlottesville
Elizabeth Farrar
Kernstown
4-H Club
Greenwood 4-H Club
Gore
C. R. Anderson
Miller 4-H Club
Miller School
White Hall
Northern Virginia
Gene Ahern
Dog Squaw
Danc Ludge
Nora
Nell
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Rattler
You
Loco
Terry
Ludge
Linn
Wes
Puffle
Pine Motor CO
Brad
Ueei Sts
Cecil Sts
John W. Rosenberger & Co
Winchester, Virginia
George Washington National Forest
Page Carillon
Hughes
Square Deal
Hughes’ Used Car Dept
Loudoun
Cork Streets
Will Rogers
Ing
Bickers Motor Co
Hevrole
O. K
Chevrolet
Shenandoah
Ford
H. W. Ebert
Cammer Tire CO
Winchester’s Tire
Boscawen & Braddock
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