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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1935
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star publishes subscription prices for mail and carrier delivery, listing annual and short-term rates. National advertising representation is provided by Devine Tenney Corp across major cities.
A brief引用 of Proverbs 23 29 30 cites woes and sorrows from those who tarry long at wine and seek mixed drink.
Shakespeare described the schoolboy of three centuries ago, but today conditions differ as students are transported quickly to well equipped schools with engaging teachers. The piece praises Winchester’s facilities and urges parental involvement, noting that success requires hard work and home support.
The National Youth Administration with a 50 million dollar appropriation aims to educate and train ambitious youths aged 16 to 25. It will place half a million young people in part time jobs from six to thirty dollars a month and remove fifty thousand youths from transient camps, offering practical education and creative opportunities.
Officials plan to hire workers at security wages on relief projects and seek placements in business firms, plants, and government agencies as apprentices. The initiative is described as a difficult but promising effort requiring careful administration and wise oversight.
A Cumberland Times critique questions Santa Rosa Vigilantes who attack agitators and force kisses of the American flag at gunpoint. It argues such coercive acts offend the flag and undermine patriotism, noting long standing doubts about this method of persuasion.
Roanoke Times reports Director John Q. Rhodes of the Motor Vehicle Division credits safety publicity from Virginia newspapers and vigilant police for cutting last year’s Labor Day death toll in half. He says ongoing campaigns show growing public safety awareness and should steadily improve street conditions statewide.
A reflection on Will Rogers noting his unique achievement of avoiding punning. The piece highlights his preference for ideas over wordplay and suggests his humor lay in concepts rather than clever phrasing. It questions whether he spoke or wrote any deliberate pun during his career.
The text asks where Cape Disappointment lies, noting its name from failed European navigators until an American, Robert Gray, reached the Columbia River in 1792. It also poses a question identifying Florida as a low dairy state and defines a vole as an English name for several small rodent species in the rat family.
Dr J S DeJarnette proposed two special appropriations totaling 215000 for a new alcohol addict unit and a Western State Hospital addition in Staunton. He urged funding from liquor profits, noting a 16 percent rise in alcoholic patients last year and a 30000 need for the hospital expansion.
One year ago union leaders announced plans to attend the funerals of six workers killed in violence during South Carolina textile strikes. The Evening Star featured a map of major fire hazards and officials sought elimination of those risks. J O Miller was elected president of the Tri County Odd Fellows Association. The Frederick County Council of Religious Education held its 26th annual session and adjourned at Braddock Street Methodist Church. Park and O Sullivan faced a five game series to decide the city baseball championship.
Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, famed trans Atlantic pilots, are guests of President Hoover. The entry notes other political and sports items including Democrats opening in Clintwood and the World Series set for October 1 in Philadelphia.
Martinsburg residents face a fatal crash on the Martinsburg Winchester road involving two local men. The report notes a victim from Rappahannock County and lists implicated parties and surrounding details.
Short vignettes tell of Burdis Smith walking 45 miles to court after a summons for driving without lights brakes or plates. Hapless Hank Oldfield, Henry Ford in disguise, recalls his bicycle race win. Two elderly women seek old age pensions in St Louis with a family twist. Ray Noeller buys a bar boards to patch a trailer in Wichita. St Mary's in Oakland weighs co education amid campus protest by editor Philip Quittman.
In Ravenwood Missouri a scheduled baby-decorating contest drew no male entrants. Citizens joked that men are still men in this neck of the woods as the event fell flat.
Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl is portrayed as the pivotal GOP figure with authority to blue pencil New Deal expenditures. Born 1879 in Iowa, he rose from lawyer to secretary of Senator Norris, then to national GOP committee secretary before his 1921 appointment as comptroller general.
Central Press columnist Charles P. Stewart outlines four congressional probes starting before the new session. Nye and Black will push antiwar and anti lobbying inquiries, while Sirovich and Granfield pursue patent monopolies and election inquiry, highlighting key committee chairs and interests.
Representative Granfield won his seat largely as a wet in Calvin Coolidge's home district, a Republican stronghold since the Civil War. He has not stood out much but backed Joseph W. Byrns for speaker, which helped him secure the chairmanship of a key House committee.
A report notes electro chemical nerve impulses travel about 400 feet each second. It lists leading Indian cities including New Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Lahore Rangoon Benares Allahabad and seaports Bombay Calcutta Karachi.
Janet waits as Nita seeks help for Miss Boissevain. Nita returns exhausted and reveals she has been digging a grave for the dead woman, prompting Janet to follow to the fresh grave in the garden. The scene ends with a looming continuation of events.
The report lists rainfall data: past 24 hours ending 8 a.m. none, September to date 3.95 inches, year to date 28.03 inches. It cites Winchester Laboratory’s 22 year average annual rainfall 34.61 inches and monthly averages for the year.
Mme Sisseretta Jones rose to prominence around 1890 and led her company on major tours across Europe the United States the West Indies and Central America for 19 years. Paisley Scotland is noted for the Paisley shawls with thread first made there in 1722 and handkerchiefs produced beginning in 1743 near Glasgow.
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