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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1940
Page
6
Silk wool or cotton transfer pattern panel 15 by 20 inches with color chart and materials. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept. 259 W 14th Street New York NY with name and address clearly written.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour precipitation none. September to date total 4.88 inches and year to date 24.55 inches. Average monthly rainfall from 1913 to 1939 details January through December with a 35.53 inch average annual rainfall over 27 years.
An examination is announced and open until further notice for the Materiel Division at Wright Field Dayton Ohio. The Civil Service Commission cites urgent need to fill positions with three grades pay 2300 2600 and 2000 dollars yearly. The test covers six inspection branches aircraft engines instruments parachutes aircraft propellers and tools and gauges.
Cumberland Maryland reports a 33 percent rise in building activity for the first nine months of 1940 compared with 1939. City Engineer Ralph L. Rizer records show 80 building permits totaling 285 350 for homes and apartments this year versus 68 permits totaling 219 450 last year.
St Johns Lutheran Sunday School at Mt Williams will hold Rally Day services Sunday at 9 45. The Sunday School has 120 on roll and organizers hope for 100 percent attendance that day. The Rev E B Smith, pastor, will speak. New members and visitors will be welcome.
The Division of Motor Vehicles reported $2,009,386 in gasoline taxes for August, the highest monthly total on record. This figure is $199,602 more than August 1939. Year to date receipts reach $13,404,351, about $900,407 above the prior year’s tally of $12,503,943.
In Canton Missouri on September 27 the Culver-Stockton College team felt a quirky superstition when coach Paul Scott found nuts under a hickory tree before games last season and the team won four times. This year campus squirrels raid the same tree raising concern.
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