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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1940
Page
3
City records show May permits valued at 67350, bringing year to date 165213. Comparisons note April 57786 this year and 301100 by May last year, with 1939 total permits reaching 557340, possibly an all time high for the city.
Evangelists M. Golightly and F. Northridge announce ongoing services to be held at 7.45 each day next week in Meade Memorial Parish Hall. The public is invited to attend these services and the Sunday service.
Glendale Vand—Matin Chapel schools won Clarke Field Days with Glendale scoring 40 points to beat Hout 28 in a Pine Grove School meet in Longmarsh district. Marvin Chapel narrowly topped Riverside for school honors at Pine Grove on the Blue Ridge with final percentages Marvin .295 Riverside .287 Gaylord .266 Pine Grove .225. Field events followed morning activities. playlets and exhibits accompanied picnics.
Berryville Virginia board notes Berryville High School orchestra formed last fall under Miss Mary Roberts Pugh violinist. The group will give its first public concert Tuesday evening June 4 at 8 in the school auditorium with named personnel across strings winds brass and percussion. It will also play at the graduating exercises Friday night.
A large crowd attended Gainesboro High School graduation exercises last night. State Senator Burr P. Harrison delivered the address on wartime problems. Fred Braithwaite introduced him, and Leslie D. Yam presented diplomas to twelve graduates. The class roll was published previously in The Star.
James D. Cooley Jr aged 17 died Tuesday evening at home of his parents east of Middletown. Funeral services were held at 2 PM from the family home with pallbearers and flower girls listed. Interment followed at Mt Carmel Cemetery in Middletown. He was a seventh grade student at Reliance School and had been ill since May 20.
H. G. M. A. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet established the first free school for the deaf in America in Hartford Connecticut in 1817.
At Greendale dairy near Roanoke Virginia the Holstein herd manager J H Saul says electric fly killers curb flies, killing many per week with low energy use. A box style unit with a grid attracts flies to a high voltage grid for instant death, emitting a odor that attracts more pests.
In 1930 seven U.S. cities with 100000 plus population had over 85 percent native white families. The cities and percentages were Wichita Kansas 91 Evansville Indiana 89.4 Fort Wayne Indiana 89.1 Oklahoma City Oklahoma 88.9 Peoria Illinois 86.4 Long Beach California 86 Tulsa Oklahoma 85.6.
The Rev W W McIntyre D D Winchester district superintendent of the Methodist Church will be the principal speaker at Sunday memorial services for Hickory Camp No 34 Woodmen of the World and Madison Lodge No 6 LO C F. The 3 pm service at Mount Hebron will move to the LO C F building if rain. Members of the two lodges meet at 2 30 pm to march to the cemetery with committee members Irvin Carper Dorsey Hottle Stanley Mason Edgar Mason Everett Kline Holmes Newcome.
Very Rev Father Thomas A Rankin formerly pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart Winchester and St Marys Alexandria is made a monsignor by Pope Pius and selected as Vicar General of the Richmond Diocese to succeed the late Msgr Felix Kaup. Bishop Peter L Ireton announces the appointment and Rankin expresses gratitude at a ceremony attended by church dignitaries.
Mrs Katherine Glass Greene is recognized in Who's Who in America for sixteen years and has a biography in Vol NIT Principal Women of America. Notices come from Mitre Press in London and Pentland Book Shop in Kingsway England confirming the publication.
Branson School north of Clearbrook held its first ever seventh grade certificate ceremony. Nine pupils, including Frances Bageant and Robert Dick, received certificates to enter high school. Principal Newton McKee noted Bageant’s high scholastic average. the class presented him a gift.
Associated Press tally counts 72 deaths over the holiday period, 50 from auto accidents and 28 from other causes. New York reported eight traffic deaths, Ohio seven, California seven auto deaths and seven other fatalities, signaling a hopeful but uneven nationwide trend.
wartime dispatch notes Allied troops engaging German forces near the water barrier along the Yser. A French army under Prioux is described as retreating in a solid position as reports continue from the front lines.
Navy and air defenses drive off German planes over Dunkirk. Anti aircraft batteries and British chasers from coast bases repel raids, protecting Allied trenches and incoming convoys while withdrawing troops.
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