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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1956
Page
10
Proposals for mandatory motor vehicle liability insurance failed in twelve states. Massachusetts remains the only state with such a law.
Adlai Stevenson warned Tampa audiences that U S foreign policy faces a perilous era unseen since the last war and urged strong leadership and high integrity to maintain U S prestige. He criticized Eisenhower policies while campaigning with Estes Kefauver, rival for the Democratic nomination, during events in Florida as they vie for Florida's 28 convention votes in the May 29 primary.
Sen. Estes Kefauver assailed what he called Hooverization of the Veterans Administration and shortcomings in veterans hospital facilities. He criticized high veterans home loan rates and delays before medical treatment, pledging to expand facilities and secure proper care if elected. He campaigned in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area seeking Florida’s May 29 Democratic primary votes, and urged formal action to defend Israel.
Funeral services for 67 year old Mrs Harriet Hattie Larrick of Albin will be conducted Monday at 2 p m at Omps Funeral Home with Rev John E Oliver Rev Martin G Seitz and Dr Carl W Hiser officiating Interment will be in Mt Hebron Cemetery Pallbearers are Harold Campbell Warren Larrick Bruce Dorsey James Dorsey Smith Dorsey and Woodrow Moore The body will remain at the funeral home until the service date Survivors include a sister Mrs Roy Campbell of Wadesville Donations to the Cancer Fund are requested by the family John F Anderson treasurer 33 E Boscawent St Winchester.
A worship service will be conducted at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church tomorrow at 11 15 a m. The Methodist Youth Fellowship will meet at 7 30 p m. No evening worship is scheduled.
A Harvard Law School debate on segregation turned chaotic when a Ethiopian student Sevoum Haregot challenged Gov. Marvin Griffin. Griffin and Atty. Gen. Jacob Javits defended state rights and civil rights aims as police kept order in the packed auditorium with 1,500 attendees.
The Round Hill Community Fire Company approved a plan to construct a one story fire hall on land donated by Mr and Mrs T Newton Cather on Woodchuck Lane near Route 50. A committee led by David Gunn will obtain cost estimates while 50 firemen and auxiliary members attended the April meeting.
A 23-year-old man weighing 640 pounds married his 340 to 360-pound sweetheart in a traveling show bus. W. D. Cowland of Erie, Pennsylvania wed Mabel Ruth Watkins of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania with blood tests and license issued on the bus due to the groom's size. The couple plans to join the show and travel for their honeymoon.
The Hermitage Guild of the Winchester District Methodist Church will meet Sunday at 2 30 pm in Woodstock. Mrs H B Garber district president calls the meeting to discuss a $75000 chapel project for the Hermitage Richmond home for the aged, aiming to recruit Virginia conference women during Hermitage Guild Month in May.
A service will be held Sunday at 7 30 p m at the Free Pentecostal Church two and a half miles north of Route 50 Rev Robert Sites will be the speaker.
Four destroyers based at Newport Rhode Island will depart tomorrow to join the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. A Navy spokesman said the ships forming one destroyer division are not being sent due to international tension.
The division is being assigned to the 6th Fleet to broaden training in the area and enable occasional cruising in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The four destroyers are the McNair, the McGowan, the Lewis Hancock and The Sullivans.
Charles H. Lanhan, a Louisville salesman, swerved to avoid a rooster in Indiana yesterday. About six hours and 130 miles later, he stopped at a service station and the bird leaped out from under the hood as the hood was raised.
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