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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1960

Page

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Six for Council Nomination in Winchester Primary

Winchester voters nominate six candidates for the City Council in two wards with three seats each. The June 14 general election follows the Democratic primary on Tuesday with six contenders in the second ward and four in the first ward. Incumbents vie for re nomination alongside new candidates. Mayor Claude B Smalts Jr seeks reelection without opposition.

Winchester Im. Io Claude B. Smalts, Jr Smalts Vicemayoree Boscawen St William F. Schenck Schenck Hoye L. Riley J. Ben Cather Cather William M. Battaile Boscawen Charles M. Zuckerman Zuckerman

Allen Sirbaugh Sets New Record In Eating

The Gown Crier reports Allen Sirbaugh ate 29 in a sitting, breaking Tommy Crenshaw’s 26 record. Gardner Phil Lips ate 28 and Louis Eye 27 for second and third. John Bennet of 348 W Whitlock Ave noted birds flying over at 8 30 a.m. and Mrs Chapman observed multiple blue jays at her feeding station. The Aurora Borealis appeared March 31 seen by Chapman and two Virginia Avenue School sixth graders described colors and shape. Vote Tuesday for Carroll H Henkel City Council Second Ward on Page 3 Cp-4-2-11.

Allen Sirbaugh Tommy Crenshaw Mr. Sirbaugh Gardner’ Phillips Louis Eye John Bennet W. Whitlock Ave Roy Chapman Carroll H. Henkel Second Ward

31 Persons Arrested On Gambling Counts

Richmond vice squad raids a downtown room above a business, arresting 31 people on gambling charges. 28 face gambling charges and others on related offenses. Henry Headen Stinnett and two others held on various counts with bonds set. The raid began when an officer joined a dice game and summoned the team via inside telephone.

Richmond Vice Squad Ahd Henry Headen ‘Stinnett Lindsey Stewart Hanks Welford Clayton Clayton Alfred Wilson Creighton H. L. Mullins

Khrushchev Links Berlin Rights to Soviet Treaty

Khrushchev told a Paris news conference that if the Soviet Union signs a peace treaty with East Germany the Western rights in Berlin would be nullified. He backed UN drawn guarantees for a free Berlin and warned disarmament talks must progress to avoid danger to world peace. He noted France and the USSR agreed to scientific cooperation and atomic energy use. Khrushchev returns to Moscow, plans to rejoin May summit.

Paris Nikita S. Khrushchev Soviet Union East Germany Berlin Charles de Gaulle Russia Hitler de Gaulle United States Eisenhower Sahara France Khrushchev United Nations Ergy Eise Moscow

Negro Marchers On Cape Town Turned Back

Several thousand Negro demonstrators massed outside Cape Town marching on the city. Police and armed forces cordoned Nyanga and Langa settlements as clashes reported elsewhere in South Africa. Reports say white sailors killed a baby outside Nyanga. authorities offered no comment.

Johannesburg South Africa Cape Town Nyanga Langa Negro Durban Port New Cape Town Star The Red Cross Hospital Paarl

Dag Hammarskjold calls South Africa envoy in protest

United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold named South Africa's chief U.N. delegate and set up talks with Bernardus G. Fourie after the Security Council passed a resolution urging peaceful coexistence with Negroes. Britain and France abstained as the measure blamed white supremacy policies for deadly violence against Black South Africans.

United Nations, N.Y Dag Hammarskjold South Africa U.N. Delepeypene Bernardus G. Fourie Security Council South Britain France

National JCC President to Attend Local Jaycees Fete

The national president of the Jaycees will be guest at a luncheon hosted by the local Jaycees led by Del Sewell. He plans to ride in the Grand Feature Parade at 1 30 p m on Friday April 29 at the George Washington Hotel with the event continuing on page 2 column 4.

Ice An Se States Junior Chamber of Com Jaycees del Sewell George Washi Clark

Virginia Governor vetoes four items trimming budget

Governor Almond Jr vetoed four appropriations totaling 278 000 and a five million dollar conditional grant for the State Literary Fund. The move reduces the 1960 62 general fund to 497 875 250 while totals reach 1 264 310 514 with non tax funds. Also vetoed were continuance of an educational television study commission and Charlottesville charter amendments to allow annexation referenda and urban service districts.

Richmond Virginia Lindsay Guv Almond Jr. Buthe Almond General Assembly Assembly Charlottesville

Vast Storm Brings Snow and Flood to Midwest and East

A mammoth spring storm spreads snow and freezing rain across the Midwest with heavy rains into western Florida. The Red Cross tallies about 14 000 homeless in eight states and many evacuated in Iowa Nebraska Illinois Wisconsin Missouri New York Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Deaths numbered at least 10 across several states as rivers rise and levees hold back floodwaters.

Midwest Florida South Dakota Nebraska Mississippi Valley Red Cross Iowa Kansas Missouri Illinois Wisconsin Michigan West Virginia Pennsylvania New York New Orleans

Perfect Global Orbit Satellite Sends Cloud Pictures

The first weather-eye satellite TIROS I launched from Cape Canaveral reached a near circular orbit 450 miles up delivering cloud images of the earth. President Eisenhower called the pictures marvelous as scientists hailed a historic step toward global weather forecasting.

Washington U.S F Eisenhower Earth Gulf of St. Lawrence U.s.canadian Tiros Eisenhower Pictures House T. Keith Glennan National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Wallops Island Hugh Dryden Ccan

Kennedy Humphrey Pace Hot Wisconsin Presidential Primary

AP dispatch from Milwaukee notes the Democratic primary in Wisconsin with Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy campaigning across farm areas and meeting workers. Voter turnout is expected to exceed one million, with both candidates avoiding religious debate and focusing on price supports and medical insurance amid lingering controversy sparked by Charles Greene.

Milwaukee Wisconsin Hubert Humphrey Minnesota John F. Kennedy Massachusetts Hum Kennedy Oons Charles Greene Renmints Humphrey Greene Gaylord Nelson Madison

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