Easter Sunday Activities Bring Warm Weather Fun
Easter events mark a sunny weekend with sunrise and church services and an egg hunt hosted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the War Memorial Building grounds at 2 p.m. Prizes include radios watches a camera flashbulb and blinkers for flashlights. The Youth Activities Committee sponsors the event open to children up to 12. The Clarke County JCC also hosted an Easter Egg hunt at Berryville Elementary for children up to 10.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
War Memorial Building
JCC
First Evangelical United Brethren Church
Winchester Ministerial Association
Clarke County Jcc
Berryville
Linda Curtis
Citizens Get Reminder on Tax Deadline
Area citizens were reminded of an upcoming tax deadline. Winchester treasurer Marvin D. Weaver and Frederick County treasurer Harry McCann urged residents that May 1 is the last day to file and pay state income taxes. Businesses must file and pay by May 1 with penalties for late payment or late filing.
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Winchester
Marvin D. Weaver
Frederick County
Harry McCann
Historic Garden Week Opens With Sunshine and Blossoms
APRIL sunshine and warm weather kick off Historic Garden Week running through April 28. Deaver Carr reports finding a 1962 SCC 20826 Virginia license plate on Front Royal Road and notes the owner may call him at MD 28378. Ivan Jackson boasts about a duckpin match with wife Shirley who then rolls three strikes and leads by about 50 pins in four frames.
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Deaver Carr
Virginia
Royal Road
Ivan Jackson
Evening Star
Smungly
Shirley
Ivan
Fire damages 10000 square foot Crestliner addition
A 10000 square foot addition to the Crestliner Boat Division of Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co. was damaged by fire at 7:45 a.m. today when a spray line broke in the molding department. No injuries reported and production may resume after evaluation. Fire crews from Strasburg Woodstock and Toms Brook contained the blaze.
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Strasburg
Crestliner Boat Division
Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co
Woodstock
Toms Brook
Athens Enforces Tight Security After City Riots
Athens braces for after riot clashes as police wield armored vehicles and tear gas to disperse protesters. About 80 injured, over 240 arrested, and 7,000 army reinforcements deployed while Premier Caramanlis blames leftist extremists.
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Athens
Greece
Constantine Caramanlis
President Opens Space Age Fair in Seattle
President Kennedy officially starts the Century 21 Exposition with a gold key ceremony as gates open for a six month Seattle World’s Fair. Gov. Rosellini, Sec. Hodges, Mayor Clinton, and entertainers attend while ticket sales and anticipated attendance promise a major cultural and scientific showcase through October 21.
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Seattle
Kennedy
Washington
Albert D. Rosellini
Gordon S. Clinton
Danny Kaye
One Way Ticket From New Orleans Sparks NYC Arrival
A ten member Negro family sent north by the New Orleans Citizens Council arrived in New York City. Welfare officials called the move cruel and vicious while the family received assistance from Urban League and Travelers Aid. Louis Boyd and his wife with eight children planned to seek better work and living conditions, aided by $50 cash and hotel accommodation for the weekend.
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New York
New Orleans
Citizens Council of
Boyd
George Singelmann
Council
South
Citizens Council
Boyds
Manhattan
Edward S. Lewis
The
Urban League of Greater New York
White Citizens Council
Travelers Aid Society
Louis Jr
Taylor
Wanda Lee
Nather Lee
Vivian
Tony
Verna Mae
Minda Lee
Travelers Aid
Philip Sokol
New York City
Ex Gen Salan Captured Amid Secret Army Crisis
Paris AP Ex General Raoul Salan, once a top leader of the European Secret Army Organization, faces a military trial and probable death sentence after his capture in Algiers. The arrest shocks European extremists and alarms Algerian nationalists in exile, with riots and clashes at Sante Prison as supporters protest.
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Paris
Raoul Salan
Secret Army
Salan
France
Algeria
Algiers
Tunis
No. 2
Edmond Jouhaud
Paul Hardy
Charles de Gaulle
Gunfire and tear gas flare at Berlin wall clash
West Berlin and East German police exchanged gunfire and tear gas today near Bernauerstrasse as Western visitors observed the wall. No injuries were reported as both sides reinforced. East guards fired from a second story window and West patrolmen returned fire with Tommy guns after being ordered to shoot if fired upon.
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West Berlin
East Berlin
Army to decide Maj. Roberts case says Stennis
Senator John Stennis says the Army, not the Senate, will handle Maj. Arch E. Roberts case. Roberts was suspended after giving a speech without Pentagon clearance while defending anti-Communist views. Thurmond also backs deferring to Army for now.
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Washington
Sen
John Stennis
D-Miss
Army
Senate
Maj
Arch E. Roberts
Roberts
Edwin A. Walker
Walker
Pentagon
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sen. Stennis
America
Stennis
Strom Thurmond
D S.C
Rival Generals Call Out Tanks And Artillery In Argentina Crisis
President Jose Maria Guido won a truce with embattled army chiefs after a standoff that saw tanks and artillery deployed around Buenos Aires. Cavalry Gen. Enrique Rauch, who led a brief rebellion, said the accord disperses rebel troops and names a new war secretary, ending the immediate crisis over Peronism.
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Buenos Aires
Jose Maria Guido
Enrique Rauch
Army
Raul Poggi
War Ministry
Guido
Juan D. Peron
Rauch
Poggi
Marino Bartolome Carrera
Campo de Mayo
Argentina
Navy
Air
U S Proposes 13 Nation Control of Berlin Access Routes
The United States suggests an international authority of five Western, five Communist and three neutral nations to oversee Berlin access routes. East Berlin and East Germany would have representatives. The plan aims to resolve the city’s dispute, but the Soviet Union has shown little interest.
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Washington
United States
Berlin
U.S
East Berlin
East Germany
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Czechoslovakia
East the West
France
Germany
Switzerland
Sweden
Austria
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Plax
Willard
Bill) Lenton
Lenton
E. Queen St
President
Space Age Fair
Palm Beach
Fla
Luther H. Hodges
Ily
Hodges
Moses
U.S. Science
Detroit
Minoru Yamasaki
Washington State Coliseum
Show Street
Louis Boyd
New
Ft. Lee
Barry Kelly
Maj. Roberts
Stennis’ Armed Services Subcommittee
Good Samaritan Bible
E. U.B. Church
Wender’s, Inc
Baker & Anderson
N. Braddock St
U. S
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