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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1949
Page
11
Miss Joyce Sutton senior class sponsor and English teacher returns after illness. Doug Cochran also comes back after a hospital stay.
The Glee Club elected officers with secretary duties assigned to Wheeler and Donald Seabright serving as librarians, completing the administrative team for the group.
The Shenandoah Valley Manufacturers Association will sponsor industrial classes at Handley with tours and lectures open to selected vocational students. This week features Woolen Co. lecture by L G Liostrom and a tour to the Woolen Co. plant. Next week includes lectures by D E Leatherman and C E Bass with tours to Grove Lime Co. and National Fruit Co. plants and a final session with R J McNally Jr J A Massie and D W Watts. O Sullivan Rubber Co. plant tour Monday concludes the schedule.
Rain fouled the early game as Handley defeated Clifton Forge 27 0 before a damp Esplanade crowd. After a wet first quarter the sun returned and Handley added 27 points in the second half while the band performed and alumni cheers lit up the hall.
The Executive Council leads school legislation and sponsors events. President Jimmy Clark. Vice-president Holmes Bayliss. secretary Ann Weatherholtz. Members include Jane Sowers Gayle DeHaven Elizabeth Browning Marilyn Hamburger Patsy Levi Donald Grove Patricia Cleven ger Wade Emmert Virginia Wentz Susan Sowers Dorothy Lichliter Alan Oates Ann Weatherholtz Phyliss Molden Lynn Cooper Marvin Fleet and numerous home room representatives. Faculty reps are Mrs Peery and Mr Frye with Mr Browning as principal.
Mr Bennett remains a figure as Miss Snider serves as treasurer. New monitors Helen Hershman Martha Robinson Dorothy Dick Patsy Clevenger Marilyn Hamburger Seabright were chosen for citizenship and willingness to improve school conduct. They keep order in corridors supervise lunchroom procedures and maintain cleanliness.
The Thespian Players require a 500 word paper on staging and makeup by the first November meeting. A committee will select 35 new members from submissions. Plans for a one act play before Christmas are under way with Miss Rinehart joining as sponsor.
In northern New York during a drought a man used a slender ten inch weather forecasting device to predict rain. He placed about 100 dollars in bets at fifty fifty odds and rain came the next day, marking a small but notable win for a new forecasting gadget. Weather Bureau notes such devices rest on meteorological principles though none is highly accurate.
A unique device ignores pressure and humidity and relies on eight wind directions and seven cloud pictures from clear to nimbus. The user matches a cloud formation to wind direction, then reads a forecast from a small slit.
Irving P. Krick, a meteorologist who aided wartime weather analysis for the strategic air forces in the European theater, developed a new gadget to help solve weather riddles.
The DuPont Company says it has 7000 competing chemical rivals, all of them active in the industry. The statement frames intense market competition and positions DuPont amid a crowded field of competitors.
J McD explains that zone time and standard time are nearly the same. Zone time is used at sea and has a 24 hour day with no A M or P M. Standard time ashore divides the day into forenoon and afternoon with A M and P M.
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