Page Plans Addition To Hospital In Luray
Bids opened for the Page Memorial Hospital addition with Phil Dinges at 42446.82 and Vaughan Construction at 54980.00. The hospital board will award after review at the next trustees meeting.
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Luray
Page Memorial Hospital
Phil Dinges
Vaughan Construction Co
Hospital Building Committee
Stanback and
Scribner
Charlottesville
Fred Walker
Warren Moyer
Earl Brock
Stanley
E. W. Gilbert
Fire Trucks Right of Way Urged in Rockingham County
The Rockingham County Firemen's Association urges the public to yield to fire trucks en route to blazes. President William Willis stressed the time element is crucial and that a few drivers fail to grasp the urgency, potentially turning a minor fire into a disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockingham County Firemen’s Assn
Assn
William Willis
Willis
Valley Deaths and community notices in Virginia paper
Valley deaths list William L Rubush Sr 77 of Port Republic and Mrs Lelia Snyder 84 of Woodstock details page 10. Office closed Saturday June 22 to Monday July 8. Poultry ad seeks yearly floor for broilers contact F Early 896 1191 Broadway. Cherries orders booked Montmorency Sour Cherries 75c per gal Orchard C M Will Orchard Quicksburg Va phone New Market 422 3388.
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William L. Rubush Sr
Port Republic
Lelia Snyder
Woodstock
Wm. E. Reish
Broiler
Broadway
Montmorency
Orchard
C. M
Will
Quicksburg
Harrisonburg HHS Summer School Sees 337 Attend
Over 300 area teens join Harrisonburg High School summer session as enrollment reaches 337 students across 22 subjects taught by 14 teachers. Most enroll in English with enrichment and remedial tracks, and students travel from Page County and Luray High School to participate. The program runs through August 3 ending with exams and report cards.
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Harrisonburg
Rockingham
Page County
Luray
Lowell Koontz Heads Va. FFA
Lowell L. Koontz of Elkton high school Future Farmers Chapter was elected president of the Virginia FFA Association at Blacksburg. He led the Rockingham FFA Federation as president and won an Elks State scholarship. he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Koontz of Elkton Route 1.
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Lowell L. Koontz
Elkton
Future Farmers
Virginia’ Ffa Association
Blacksburg
L. M. Koontz
Elkton Rt. 1
Rockingham
FFA Federation
Elks
Sit-In Breakup by Troopers Ends Eight-Hour Protest
State troopers dispersed about 350 Negro demonstrators from the Etowah County Courthouse lawn before dawn after an eight hour sit-in. Injured and noninjured participants described head wounds while officials denied club use. Police enforced a city county curfew amid a court injunction restricting protests on public streets.
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Gadsden
Ala
Etowah County
Bernard Lee
Albert Lingo
Lingo
Dewey Colvard
Lesley Gilliland
A. B. Cunningham
Virginia Music Camp at Massanetta Reports Record Enrollments
The Virginia Music Camp at Massanetta Springs this week reaches a record 840 participants from across the state. Students study under noted choral and instrumental leaders led by Dr. C. J. Hesch, with Festival Day ending the sessions. Dr. Albert G. Edwards delivers the morning sermon and, on Sunday, three large choruses and an orchestra perform sacred and classical works conducted by Roger Wagner.
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Virginia Music
Massanetta Springs
C. J. Hesch
State Board of Education
Virginia
Albert G. Edwards
Edwards
First Presbyterian Church
Raleigh
N. C
Roger Wagner
Famed Civil War Locomotive The General to Visit Friday
The 102 year old General will arrive Friday at 6 45 p m and be displayed until 9 p m on the Chesapeake Western siding north of Rockingham Farm Bureau Grace Street. The Louisville and Nashville locomotive also appears Saturday and Sunday with tours aboard a museum coach pulled by The General.
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Robert E. McGuire
Chesapeake- Western Railway
Rockingham Farm Bureau
Grace St
Louisville and Nashville
Norfolk and Western
Elkton
Harrisonburg
N. W
Shenandoah
Tiros 7 joins Tiros 6 in orbit over Cape Canaveral
The Tiros 7 weather satellite joined Tiros 6 in orbit, boosting hurricane monitoring. The Delta rocket delivered the pair in a 90-foot launch, marking its 18th consecutive satellite success. A serpentine vapor plume lit the predawn sky as dawn neared.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Space
Atlantic
Caribbean
Thos 7
Delta
Soviet Space Duo Lands Safely After Historic Orbit
Valentina Tereshkova, 26, the first woman in space, and Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky completed a multi orbit mission in the Soviet Union. Tereshkova logged 71 hours and 48 orbits, with 1.24 million miles traveled, while Bykovsky racked up 119 hours and 81 orbits over more than 2 million miles. They landed safely in Siberia near the Kazakhstan border, contacting Premier Khrushchev by telephone shortly after descent.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Siberia
Valentina Tereshkova
Valery Bykovsky
Khrushchev
Tass
Bykovsky
Valentina
Central Committee
The
Communist Party
Secret Conclave of Cardinals Chooses Next Pope
In Vatican Sistine Chapel 80 cardinals enter a sealed conclave to elect the 262nd pope. Giovanni Montini of Milan, 65, is seen as the likely choice with about 39 to 40 votes as Spellman of New York advises him. May elect Montini on first ballot amid secrecy.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Sistine Chapel
John XXIII
Montini
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini
Milan
Cardinal Montini
Spellman
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Turin
la Stam
Mott Gives Away $128 Million to Flint Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott transferred 1,826,421 GM common shares worth over $70 each to a nonprofit foundation he created in Flint Michigan in 1935 with the city school system as administrator. The move, disclosed in an insider's filing, follows his long tenure as a GM director and reflects his philanthropic priorities.
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New York
Charles Stewart Mott
General Motors Corp
Mott
Flint
Mich
Flint Board of Education
New York Stock Exchange
Securities and Exchange Commission
Pleasant Grove Church Lawn Party and Fish Fry Event
An all you can eat lawn party at Pleasant Grove Church features a fish fry for $1.00. The event is scheduled near Howard Johnson's in Harrisonburg, three miles from Mt. Crawford, with notices of staff out of office June 22 through July 2.
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Pleasant Grove Church
Howard Johnson's
Harrisonburg
Mt. Crawford
Kennedy urges passage of sweeping civil rights bill
President Kennedy appealed to Congress to end racial strife by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1963 and other anti discrimination measures. He called for staying in session until action is taken and asked broad powers for desegregation and federal aid remedies, signaling a major legislative battle ahead.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Senate
Congress Leaders Welcome Kennedy Civil Rights Proposals
Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress welcomed President Kennedy's civil rights proposals with unity, though some Republicans signaled opposition. Southern Democrats denounced them as unconstitutional and vowed to fight, potentially via a Senate filibuster. Vice President Johnson indicated the measures would go to the judiciary committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Senate
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Judiciary Committee
Johnston
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mansfield
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Commerce Committee
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Ernest Herring Jr
Hose Co
Page
HHS
Lowell Koontz
FFA
By Don McKee
Massanetta
Locomotive General
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Harrisonburg-Rockingham
JFK
U.S
Communist Party of the Soviet
Red Square
J. S. Huffman
Poarl
By Stanley Meisler
Integration Suits
Congressional
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