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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1937
Page
5
Washington action looms as Supreme Court opens a new term with more than 400 cases on file. The court will decide by October 11 whether to review or let lower court rulings stand, including challenges to loans for publicly owned hydro plants and seven other major disputes.
Harrisonburg officials and business representative John Crown flew to Columbus with pilot Frank C. Reynolds covering about 900 miles in four hours ten minutes flight time. They returned in five hours ten minutes including ground delays, noting clouds at 6 000 feet and bumpy conditions over Cheat Mountain.
Clarke County Schools official A F Robertson announced Miss Anne Harris as festival queen at Berryville Chamber luncheon. Princesses named from districts include Ada Belle Vowell Chapel Virginia Burch Greenway Alice Cary Polhomo us Longmarsh and Jean Levi Berryville. Festival October 7 8 features a torchlit parade and 71 classes with $198 in prizes plus Clarke Milling Company rolls biscuits and bread contests.
Braddock Street M. E. Church Circle No 1 led by Mrs E E Peer will meet at Mrs W G Hardy 105 Lee Street Thursday at 8 o clock. The gathering is the last meeting before the annual conference and a large attendance is requested.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau released 300 million dollars of gold from the sterilized account and issued certificates to Federal Reserve banks. The move is expected to lift excess bank reserves above one billion by October, with more than 400 million dollars of lendable money anticipated by year end. Reserve Board open market purchases will also inject cash to keep interest rates low.
Roanoke Virginia September 13 Former Governor E Lee Trinkle chair man of the state board of education said the board must give careful attention to naming a successor to Dr John P McConnell president of Radford State Teachers College who resigns November 15 He said a new president is unlikely at the Thursday meeting Correspondence should be sent to Dr Sidney B Hall Others mentioned as possible candidates include Dr M Ledge Moffett Joseph H Saunders Dr J M Hillman D W Peters Dr Thomas D Eason and G L H Johnson.
Shenandoah Valley Academy travels to Alexandria October 9 to face Episcopal High School in a schedule opener. Walter Fraley, a former Shenandoah Valley mentor, will coach Episcopal backfield after last coaching at Randolph-Macon Academy. John Hodgson, hired by Shenandoah Valley Academy, is due in Winchester soon. he played football basketball and baseball at the University of Delaware.
Floyd Williams 47, WSVA announcer and church soloist known as the dream singer, died at Rockingham Memorial Hospital after a Friday heart attack. A Columbus, Kansas native, he moved to Harrisonburg two years ago to open the local station and owned controlling interest in Shenandoah Valley Broadcasting Company.
Subscribers in Winchester are reminded that if the Evening Star fails to arrive, Force Delivery Postal Telegraph offers a no charge service to restore delivery. The notice emphasizes there is no fee for this service.
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