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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1938
Page
6
Aviation researchers unveiled a direction finder produced by Sperry Gyroscope and RCA that uses a radio beacon to show the correct compass point for a plane to reach its destination. Tuned to a beacon or station, the device directs the flight path regardless of the aircraft’s heading.
Luray Virginia October 13 The Luray Chamber of Commerce industrial committee approves a six month ad campaign in the Manufacturers Record to attract new industries. The group also seeks railroad aid from the Norfolk and Western and aims to locate suitable prospects.
A Baltimore report notes a communication endorsed by Bishop Edward T. Helfenstein urging Maryland Protestant Episcopal pastors to urge parishioners to keep marriage above the racket plane and back a 48 hour marriage license referendum. A committee led by Lewis O. Heck drafted the appeal criticizing hasty marriages as livelihood. The license law, aimed at Elkton and Maryland’s Gretna Green, was to take effect June 1 but needed a referendum petition with enough signatures.
Gov James V Allred read a pension roll note from Bastrop County residents asking to be taken off the roll. They stated they could support themselves and signed four names.
A letter urges voters to support a measure altering marriage license rules requiring a 48 hour interval between application and issuance. It argues the reform would end selfish commercialism of quick marriage centers and restore sacredness to marriage, calling for pulpit campaigns and voter contact.
Plans are complete for a Pennsylvania Alcatraz style prison with secret observation cat walks over all buildings. Inmates will be constantly watched from hidden tiers as Major Henry Hornbostel designs the modern maximum security facility partially financed by the Works Progress Act.
Rainfall for 24 hours ending 8 a.m. shows none, and October to date two hundredths of an inch. Year to date total is nineteen and eighty five hundredths inches. Average monthly precipitation 1913 to 1937 ranges from 2.53 inches in January to 3.77 in August, with an average annual rainfall of 35.36 inches over 26 years.
The plan calls for a three million dollar facility at Mt Gretna near Harrisburg. It sits on the former Pennsylvania National Guard encampment reservation in a wooded area.
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