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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1940
Page
6
Forest receipts for the period July 1 1939 to March 31 1940 totaled 3 785 512 dollars, up 760 385 from the prior year. Timber sales brought 2 806 155 dollars, up 928 109. grazing returns 515 465 with a 607 cent decrease. special uses 78 dollars up 4. Twenty five percent is returned to the forests location for school and an additional 10 percent for road and trail purposes.
At a Milwaukee dinner Alfred Mitchell, 74, coughed and cried that his upper teeth were missing. Relatives called a rescue squad after 20 minutes of coughing fits. Doctors found no lasting injury and symptoms subsided with treatment.
Question about whether season names should be capitalized in text. States seasons are not capitalized unless personified.
New York May 6 Tele vision at a national political convention may be feasible at the 1940 Republican gathering in Philadelphia with NBC relay links from New York to Philadelphia and Empire State Building transmission. Official details await announcement as engineers assess coaxial line feasibility and audience reach in Philadelphia and nearby cities.
The 4th annual Tri- State Educational and Vacation Tour will be conducted by the Pennsylvania Railroad in cooperation with extension services of Berkeley and Jefferson counties West Virginia Frederick county Virginia Washington Frederick and Carroll counties Maryland. The tour week of June 17 targets farm people and will visit the World's Fair with features for an inexpensive educational vacation.
Present and past rainfall data show a 24 hour total of none ending 8 a.m. May total 0.60 inches year to date 11.47. The 27 year average monthly rainfall from 1913 to 1939 lists January 2.56 February 2.04 March 2.90 April 3.23 May 3.53 June 3.79 July 3.59 August 3.69 September 3.19 October 3.19 November 2.35 December 3.53 with an average annual rainfall of 35.53 inches. Statistics courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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