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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1950
Page
6
More than sixty reservations have been made for the dinner meeting tomorrow night. Additional reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Stewart Bell. The meeting will be at 6 40 p m.
Funeral services for Mrs Latta H Smith were held yesterday at 11 a.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Rev S D Sawyer of Terra Alta officiating. Burial followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Hymns included Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere Whispering Hope and Rock of Ages. Pallbearers were Wade Whetzel Brent Billmyer Morris Hiett Russell Peppers Ellis Haines and James E Duff.
Distant relatives and friends gathered for Easter Sunday visiting across several towns. Gore Ross and family hosted guests including Vada Roe Kitty and Margene Sirbaugh, with Myrtle Garvin also joining. Additional gatherings featured Arlie Triplette hosting Miller and Sirbaugh families, and Shell Stotler entertaining Olinger Jr. Sirbaugh Wilson and Hobby groups. The Rev S J Goode led Easter services at Rock Enon.
Mrs Haz el Foreman and son Michael spent a weekend with the Evans near Moorefield Virginia. Irene Holliday, formerly a patient at Winchester Memorial Hospital, is convalescing at the home of Walter ser. Guests at Raymond Bradfield's home included Stanley Watkins, Charles Carver, and George Rosier Jr. Russell Feelys dinner guests with the Williams family. Brooks Evans and M A Evans visited the hospital patient M A Evans. Hugh Anderson and spouse announce the birth of a daughter.
Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fiddler included Amous McCarty and family Ed Harmon and daughter. The Fiddlers attended the funeral of Mrs. Holmes Owens. Russell Fiddler is on the sick list but improving. John Adams is recovering from flu. Marie Hunter Lee and daughter visited Anna Smoke. Earl Whitacre family and Ben Bailey visited Lee Whitacre. Carter Luttrell hosted Marvin Shaver Eva Luttrell and Albert Luttrell with Gary Lee. Clims family moved into Mr Strother’s tenant house.
Lt Comdr Frank G Morris Jr testified in his own defense at a court martial over the January 17 grounding of the Missouri in Chesapeake Bay off Old Point Comfort. Comdr Chester Steele and Comdr George Peckham supported his case as Millett, the former operations officer, earlier pleaded guilty.
The Gettysburg College Choir under Prof. Parker Wagnild performs a 30 piece program of sacred masters on Sunday April 16 at 8:00 pm in Grace Lutheran Church West Boscawen Street. The fifteenth year conductor leads a group noted for precise attack pitch blend and faithful interpretation.
The State Highway Department schedules plant mix resurfacing across Virginia with bids to be opened April 27 at 10 a.m. The work targets heavily traveled interstate routes using pre mixed blacktop material for a smooth ride. In Heathsville, the Wolff murder trial resumes after a five day recess due to influenza.
More than 100 highway engineers and geologists from 10 southeastern states will meet in Richmond for a symposium on geology as applied to highway engineering. Sponsored by the State Highway Department, the event highlights papers by the US Geological Survey and other specialists. the meeting will be at the State Highway Building.
Gladys Meadows Blankenship admitted she awoke with a gun in her hand at her Narrows home and found her husband Drewey Blankenship dead. The 41-year-old plant employee was shot in bed and died three hours later in Bluefield Virginia. She is jailed on a murder charge and is nine months pregnant with her seventh child.
The Lexington Presbytery urged the General Assembly to dissolve the Negro Snedecor Memorial Synod covering the southeast. Churches and ministers would be absorbed into local Presbyteries and Synods. The 329th meeting named Crab Bottom Church Blue Grass as summer session site and Rev. R. W. Heven er as moderator nomination.
Former Arlington policeman Francis E. Dodson, 31, withdrew his appeal of a conviction for entering H. Jack Bartels home and making improper advances to Mrs Bartels last month. He was sentenced to a year in prison.
A seven hour forest blaze burned over 750 acres on Mutter's Mountain near New Castle in Craig County. More than 130 firefighters, including 65 Virginia Tech students, fought the flames discovered at 2 30 p m from a lookout tower. Officials feared spread to New Castle before control. Cause not yet determined. A separate 400 acre fire was reported in Clarke County three miles away.
Two fires in Albemarle County burned for more than 35 acres on the county border with Green and Orange. Foresters cite illegal brush burning, a discarded cigarette, and an unknown cause. A Bottled Gas Company plant in Lynchburg was destroyed, injuring Calvin Evans, 22, who suffered first degree facial burns and was treated at a Lynchburg hospital.
Friday is the deadline for candidates in 21 Virginia cities to qualify for the June 13 councilmanic elections. Levin Nock Davis, state elections secretary, ruled yes yesterday. The law requires qualification no less than 60 days before the election.
Governor approves Alexandria DST after city seeks permission following Washington DC practice. Alexandria council asked for fast time under code requiring the governor’s approval before daylight time can be used in the district area. Only Alexandria has made the request so far.
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