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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1940
Page
2
Babson argues 1940 tax law favors companies earning under 25 000 a year aiding small firms. He cites decentralization trends, fear of monopolies, and better prospects for small businesses, predicting banks will shift to lending to small firms and new investment companies will diversify portfolios.
A distance Columbia report notes a recruit at Fort Jackson Army officers ask if his parents are living. The recruit answers yes, but says his half-brother, who lives two doors away, is his nearest relative. The exchange highlights family ties in a military setting.
A restaurant window in Omaha Nebraska displays patriotic prices with boiled spare ribs at 30 cents baked squash at 5 cents and Hungarian goulash at 15 cents along with God bless America.
Autumnal coloring along Skyline Drive reaches peak per Shenandoah National Park Headquarters. The display begins on the mountains then slides to hollows and valleys. Rangers urge visitors to hike foot trails to best view the colors, reachable from many overlooks and work areas.
Pope Pius XII will urge all American Catholics to enroll in a world wide missionary support reserve on October 19. In Richmond diocese, enrollment will take place in all Catholic churches under the Society for the Propagation of the Faith with local director Rev. Arthur J. Taylor. A pastoral letter from Bishop Andrew J. Brennan will reinforce the appeal.
Local notes report visitors at Bettie Fletcher’s home from J B White and McKee families. Line and Hicks families call on friends at Capon Bridge. The Loom West Virginia funeral of Clarence Whitacre scheduled at Fairview Church Sunday afternoon. R N McKee and family of Winchester visit his mother Jennie McKee.
Isadore Weintraub, delicatessen owner, cut his finger and left Patrolman Carl E. Palgett to run the shop. Palgett sold two herring for 20 cents and pumpernickel bread for 10 cents, despite Weintraub's absence and the pinch of prices causing lighthearted business.
Mary Lou Bullard of Wheeling West Virginia selected as All-American College Queen for the Harvest Festival at Martinsburg November 8 9 10 11 she will reign with Henry Miller Jr as king. The pageant parade dances apple show contests and a nation wide radio appearance mark the four day event.
The article lists questions for men aged 21 to 35 at the next registration. It asks full name, address, telephone, age and birthdate, place of birth, citizenship, a address contact, and relationship and address of that contact person. It also requests employer and workplace details and a minute physical description for registrar records.
The Yorkville city council, in a move prompted by 135 dog interments last year, voted to stop allocating a dollar for burials. They concluded funds mainly aided youngsters and suspected repeated ceremonies for the same dogs.
R E Ayler announces a kick-off meeting for the Boy Scout campaign at 2 PM October 14 in Red Men Hall over the post office Stephens City. Following the meeting, funds will be solicited by Ayler and a local team including Richard Venable Charles Lemley H L Ritenour Mildred Grove Nettie Argenbright Dorothy Herrell Mary Tevalt Edith Orndorff Eldridge Lemley Harry Carbaugh and Joe Clevenger.
Glen Hinson, 20, began an automobile trip in Iola Kansas on October 12. He ran out of gas and, while flagging a passing motorist, was struck by another car. En route to the hospital, his car was stolen by an unknown person.
The Sunday edition of the Washington Post will expand with two comic sections eight pages and a tabloid of 13 pages. A novel is published complete in one issue and rotogravure content doubles to eight pages. Full news coverage, sports, columns, editorials, features and the feminine readers department continue as before.
Salisbury Maryland reopens its shipyard under Harry Spear to build destroyers torpedo boats mine layers and submarine tanks within 60 days. Spear and Walter Ballard of Washington head the Salisbury Shipbuilding and Yacht Company with yards in Portsmouth Virginia and naval architecture ties. The venture will also repair and build wooden yachts while expanding to defend contracts with plans for four destroyers two mine layers eight torpedo boats and ten submarine tanks concurrently. The 60-ton submarine tank features underwater travel with two cannons four machine guns two flame throwers a 60 mph land speed 200 mile cruising range and a cost of 125000 each.
Miss Hughes the State Girls Club agent from Blacksburg will visit Frederick County on Monday. Tuesday the Middletown Home Demonstration Club meets at the Middletown School for officer elections and 1941 plans at 2 p.m. Wednesday the Stephens City Home Demonstration Club meets at Mrs Cara Grove's home at 2 p.m. Thursday Armel 4-H Club meets at Armel School at 1 30 p.m. Friday Mount Airy 4-H Club meets at Mount Airy Schoolhouse at 10 a.m. Gore 4-H Club meets at Gore Schoolhouse at 2 p.m. Friday evening Friendly Grove 4-H Club meets at the eee Grove Club house at 8 p.m.
The funeral of Clarence Whitacre of Loom, West Virginia, who died Tuesday, will be held tomorrow at 1 PM from the residence with services at Fairview Lutheran Church. The Reverends C. H. Anderson and S. J. Goode will officiate.
Dr James A Miller will leave Sunday October 13 to attend the Medical Assembly in Cleveland Ohio and the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago He will resume his practice October 28.
Wilbur Tidler principal of Lu ray High School regained consciousness at University Hospital after an automobile crash in Page county on August 31. He spoke for the first time since the accident when visited by Dr. A M Jarman of the University.
Property destroyed by fire cannot pay taxes. Prevent fires and keep property on the tax rolls by observing National Fire Prevention Week and cooperating with public safety efforts.
Earl F. Lindstrom explained he stood on the seat to flee a dog snapping at his ankles. Municipal Judge John Finehout agreed the reason was decent but fined Lindstrom one dollar.
A compact list presents quiz items: 1 Mineral, 2 Ten, 3 Warm weather, 4 Doorn in The Netherlands, 7 Without a day, 8 October 31, 9 Deny, 10 Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones.
Ten thousand small mouth bass distributed in the North Branch Shenandoah this season with 4 thousand between three and eight inches released yesterday below Strasburg. About 3,000 last week between Strasburg and Edinburg plus 3,000 in the South Branch Front Royal to Luray and 2,000 more in the main river from Front Royal to Berryville. Release from Front Royal hatchery began August 30 and will end next week.
Thursday quotations from Winchester and Martinsburg West Virginia show light demand and steady tone. Carloads and barrels pricing cover Ben Davis Grimes Delicious Staymans Yorks Jona thans and related U S Utility varieties with listed minimums sizes and car prices. bundles of boxes wrap the market with noted color and size standards.
Turkish Ambassador Haidar Aktay returns to Moscow after a two month absence. Sergo Gradoff named new ambassador to Ankara. German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner Von Der Schulenburg also heads back to Moscow after a three week vacation.
Italian planes bombed British positions in Egypt while Britain hit Italian bases at Sidi Barrani Bardia and Bengazi in Libya. Bengazi reportedly damaged. Northern Africa operations also noted with Italians claiming capture of two British tanks.
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