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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1941
Page
7
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The Alsatia Club sponsors the twenty first Nummers Parade in Hagerstown Maryland on October 30 with patriotic defense themes. Thousands are expected to attend from nearby Maryland towns and West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Cash prizes totaling 2500 dollars will be awarded to top entrants bands drump corps and floats. Parking police and review stands will prepare for an eight thousand plus crowd if weather holds. A rain date is set for October 31 at 8 pm.
Lebanon Church Virginia notes list William Windle and Frank Cleaver visiting Strasburg on business. Others report illnesses, visits, and returns including Charles Cooper sick, Mildred Pence staying with Mrs Borden, and Cecil Miller returning from Camp Croft. Army training and high school entries are noted.
In Portland the opening city league game saw opponents threaten to punch police players during the match. The police huddled and withdrew from the league as law guardians, unable to respond with force.
The Virginia Music Teachers Association annual meeting shifts to Roanoke at Hotel Roanoke on November 21 22 with Hollins College Little Theatre hosting a concert and lectures by prominent musicians and educators. Donald Bolger notes emphasis on applied music credit and uniform standards with Dr. Luther Richmond attending. A second forum will feature two Virginia private piano teachers discussing National Federation of Music Clubs contest compositions.
E W A notes a playful exchange estimating the count of turniple in a pound. The reply asserts a range from 180000 to 190000, reflecting a humorous or speculative measure rather than a standard unit.
State Auditor L McCarthy Downs released the first audit of the Medical College of Virginia since 1936. He questioned discounts on hospital bills given to state employees lawmakers firemen policemen ministers nurses pharmacists dentists and students totaling 6036 dollars for the year ended June 30 1940. Dr W T Sanger supported the auditor and said recommendations would be considered and some already put into effect.
The article states that Christopher Columbus was released and exonerated before his death. No record shows imprisonment at death.
Former Supreme Court justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis died in Washington at age 84 after a heart attack. He had suffered ill health for several years.
Dayton Ohio traffic disrupted as about 3 000 fans protested night football games by local scholastic teams. School superintendent Emerson H Landis said the Saturday night demonstration grew from an earlier incident and extended downtown.
The article states Lake Placid lies about 2 000 feet above sea level. This places the lake’s elevation near two thousand feet, highlighting its elevated setting in the region.
Richmond October 7 The Virginia State Chamber will hear progress reports from committees on taxation and government business standards publicity and advertising education and other topics at the quarterly board meeting planned for October 14 at Virginia Beach. Committee chairmen include J Vaughan Gary Thomas C Boushall Eary L Valentine and Rodney M Coggin.
The reader lists Tishri Chesvan Kislev Tebet Sebat Adar Nisan Iyar Siván Tammuz Abh and Etul as the twelve months of the Jewish year.
At a Virginia Advisory Budget Commission hearing on October 7, H M Davis urged cutting hospital staff to 10 hours daily six days a week to improve personnel and care. Senator Aubrey Weaver argued against limiting women to 48 hours a week when 72 hours are possible elsewhere, referencing the state hours law establishing nine hours a day and 48 hours weekly for women.
The Black Patch tobacco growing area lies in the extreme southwest corner of Kentucky where a black heavy leaf is produced.
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