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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1940

Page

6

Sidelights On Big Draft For Defense

AP report highlights oddities from draft registration across states. A Kentucky registrar faced a suitor asking marriage to avoid service, and a man in New Jersey used his sister as the address contact. In Shreveport a registrant arrived with a case ready for camp, while in Seattle a man denied having a nose chose a sample nose. A Kentucky registrant could not print his full name on the card. In Little Falls and Herkimer eight brothers enlisted from one family.

Citizens face stricter age verification at bars nationwide

Reports from Baltimore Rochester New York Columbus Georgia Fort Collins and Pittsburgh describe new enforcement ideas and registrations. Bar staff and circus workers register ages and exemptions while temperance groups push protective measures for boys at camps and federal prosecutors pursue unregistered clergy draft cases.

Divine students and Socialists face federal grand jury

Eight divinity students and two Socialists are summoned to a federal grand jury today for refusing to register under the selective service act.

New York

Home Economics Winners At Stephens City Fair

Winners in the Stephens City Home Economics Department at the Student Fair are led by sweepstakes Mary Gay Marker with 29 points, Anna Marie De Haven 23, and Frances Ewing 19. Several 8th and 9th grade contenders show a probable tie among Maxine Ridgeway Emilie Huffman and Heath Adams.

Stephens City Mary Gay Marker Anna Marie DeHaven Frances Ewing Maxine Ridgeway Emilie Huffman Heath Adams Paul Rhodes Betsy Perry Winifred Walker Virginia Willis Janice Bucher Ld Marie DeHaven Virginia Frances Cooley Louise Sager Ruby la Follette Hilda Edwards Carmen Luttrell Ruth Sperry Peggy Pangle Maxine Baker Etheleen Henson Dorothy Smith Afgahms Mildred Grim Anna Lee Grim Martha Keeler Audrey Hunt Naomi Shiley Hilda Newcome Eileen Clark Anna Marie Dhaven Irma Clem Cora Dutterer Ella Rae White Helen Clark Evelyn Jones Ruth McGolerick Edna Rosenberger Beatric

Local Fair Class Winners Listing Pickles and Pastries

The excerpt lists prize classes 28 through 40 with names of exhibitors in each category. Entries include watermelons, cucumbers, jellies, cookies, cakes, confections, sea foam, peanut brittle, rolls, miscellaneous items, and pillows with multiple participants such as Mary Gay Marker, Dorothy Tevalt, Neva Yates, and Frances Ewing among others.

Anna Marie DeHaven Maxine Baker Winifred Walker Lillian Snyder Rhodelle Whitacre Edith May Whitmore Dorothy Willis Mary Gay Marker Neva Yates Sacks Janice Bucher Frances Ewing Dorothy Simmons Dorothy Smith Dorothy Tevalt Hildd Edwards Gertrude Kettlewell Ruth Sperry Pauline Hopewell Helen Carver Charlotte Wyant Maggie Murray Betty Lee Ritter Beulah Snyder Gertrude Eittlewell Rachel Long Louise Tevalt Evelyn Easter Heath Adams Louise Sager Mildred Grim Marjorie More Martha Keeler Anna Mary Thompson Betty Lee Perry Etheleen Henson

Treasury Update Receipts and Debt Figures

Treasury data for October 15 shows receipts of 7.54 million dollars and expenditures of 28.53 million, bringing gross debt to 44.0605 billion dollars. The daily increase stands at 660 thousand dollars.

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