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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1939
Page
5
The Shenandoah Valley apple festival draws crowds, boosts Winchester's economy, and publicizes regional agriculture and scenery. Nine county events culminate at Geneva with youth themed pageants and regional cooperation. Local businesses report strong visitor spending and housing demand.
Diver Martin Sibitsky descended to the sunken submarine Squalus and reported that life could not possibly exist inside. He helped in the raising operation off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where twenty six men were trapped.
May 31 Cross Junction Virginia residents hosted and visited relatives and friends from Pikeside West Virginia Winchester Martinsburg New Jersey and Berkeley Springs. Guests included Dr and Mrs Noble Whitacre and children Mrs Paul Braithwaite and two daughters Mrs Zeilon Baker and others. Talks covered recent weekend stays and family hospitality.
Present and past rainfall figures show May to date at .81 inches and year to date at 13.86 inches. Monthly averages run from January 2.53 inches to August 3.68 inches, with the 26 year average annual rainfall at 35.09 inches. Statistics courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
White waves roll onto sands near Torre del Greco in the Bay of Naples. The beach features sands as black as coal, described as pulverized lava from Mount Vesuvius.
The Public Health Service warns the small ticks carrying Rocky Mountain spotted fever pose serious health risks this summer. About one in 300 ticks is infected. 97 cases reported this year show fatalities possible, including pharmacologist Dr. Dana Manners. Prevention centers on vaccine use and careful tick removal from skin and pets.
Rosenberger May 31 report notes Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bean of Washington DC visiting their summer home, along with multiple local guests including the Bradfields, Brewer, Brannon family, Shook, Good, Dorsey, Tucker, and Rosenberger, many staying or visiting Sunday. An Armel Memorial service is listed for Sunday at St Johns Lutheran Church near Mt Williams.
Green Spring residents report business caller W L Graham in Reynolds Store area. Families Rose Runkeles and children Mary Margaret Dorothy Wanda Lee Nancy and Dave travel to Johnsontown West Virginia. E P Nagley family visits relatives in Middleway West Virginia.
Six people including three women escaped death after the 37 foot cabin cruiser Wild Duck exploded and burned three hundred yards from shore in the middle branch of the Patapsco river. Co owner William Rickert 30 was blown overboard with his wife Helen 25 and others leaping into the water.
Four engineers from the State Road Commission are stationed in Moorefield for a six month survey and layout of Hardy county highways. The Baker prison camp nears completion and will be ready by June 1. Initial surfacing will run from Baker to Wardensville, then Moorefield to Baker, followed by Baker to the Virginia line by Mathias. The project plans 65 miles of hard surfacing, more than double the current county total.
Shenandoah College and Shenandoah Conservatory of Music at Dayton Virginia hold the sixty fourth annual commencement events from Friday June 2 to Monday June 4. Seniors perform class night Friday and 28 graduates hear Dr J Ruskin Howe speak. Alumni Day is Saturday June 3. An adjacent North Loup Nebraska ad jokes for rain. the next day 1 42 inches fell.
New York May 31 four commencement talks blend national affairs and education with figures Frank Murphy Hoover Parley and James Angell. Highlights include programs on WJZ NBC at Georgetown Lincoln Memorial Hendryx Conway and Duke University. Also Olsen and Johnson return to radio on CBS while Abbott and Costello are absent in Boston.
Evangelistic services are held nightly at 8 o'clock in a tent on East Bond street opposite the Sac red Heart Church Cemetery. William Trotter and Alexander Dougal lead the series with the theme Jesus the way to walk the truth to speak the life to live. Large crowds attend each night, with Sunday crowd especially strong.
In Ja pan and across social strata, women prepare dowries before marriage, a practice persisting even among the poorest, pushing cost burdens onto brides who must secure marriage-ready assets.
The inhabitants of Papua the Dutch part of New Guinea are described as Polynesian in type and declared to be cannibalistic, reflecting a dated ethnographic stereotype.
A pharmaceutical claim touts a method to stimulate liver bile flow improve digestion and relieve constipation. Marketed as a prescription by a renowned specialist, the remedy is sold at Miller's Drug Store in Winchester Virginia with druggist availability advertised.
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