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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1969
Page
2
Mrs. Clara Berry McIlwraith of Richmond died Tuesday at home. A former Handley High School teacher and WWI era Women's Army Corps major, she studied at Mary Baldwin and Madison College. Survived by sister Mrs. Raymond Atwell Adams and brother Thomas Peyton Berry. Graveside services held at Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg.
A chain collision involving about 40 cars on foggy Interstate 64 near Institute, Charleston, W V, left one man dead and 11 injured. Ronald E. Morrison, 45, of Nitro, was killed. Both directions of the four lane highway were blocked.
Six year old Donna Kay Bauser of Nain died in a freak accident at home near a fort trap door. She was trapped by the neck as she climbed through the top hatch two by four feet, four feet above the floor. Her funeral is set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at Fairview United Methodist Church with services at Jones Funeral Home and burial in Wesley Chapel Cemetery.
Clarke County High School juniors stage Night Must Fall under Cornelia Niemann with Nick Sponseller Beth Luffman Gail Headley Robbie Cottrell Peggy Kackley Joette Elsen Greg Levi and Nancy Digges. The reviewer praises the cast and staging as a strong step in local high school drama ahead of Oklahoma tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
Negro students seize Colgate faculty club in Hamilton New York. CCNY president negotiates with 200 protesters as whites sit in at Klapper Hall. Hampton Institute endures indefinite closure while Johns Hopkins and other campuses face arrests and tear gas. American University and George Washington University react to campus seizures amid broad action.
A Warren County mass meeting of Republicans presented a petition with 300 signatures urging John K. Marlow to run for the Virginia House of Delegates. The seat currently held by Democrat Tom Frost covers Warren Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties.
Pyongyang announced an 11 percent rise in defense spending for the year, citing U S spy flights as provocation. Officials put the budget at about 561 million dollars, up from 533 million in 1968, amid tensions over the U S Navy plane downing and North Korea's stated readiness to counter U S coercion.
Wall Street opened mixed in fairly active early trading with the Dow Jones average near 320.8 after Thursday’s gains. Major moves included Questor Corp and Rover Amchem down, General Motors up, and several leaders edging fractional changes in motors electronics and utilities. The AP average rose 1.3 to 330.8.
Edward Dulaney Henry was found dead of a gunshot wound on a rail overpass on Luray Avenue at 1:50 p.m. hours after his wife was shot in a car on South Street during a scuffle. Police had sought the pair since about 9:30 a.m. Mrs. Henry was treated and released from Warren Memorial Hospital.
A smoke stack on a furnace at 1921 W. Boscawen St. in The Bookworm building blew off at 2 50 a m. No fire occurred and smoke caused limited damage, with basement heavily smoked and upstairs lightly affected. Winchester firemen responded to the alarm.
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Saturday with lows of 38 to 45 and highs around 66. Sunday will bring increasing cloudiness and mild temperatures as the region heads toward a full moon on May 2.
The report lists daily and monthly rainfall data ending at 8 30 a m with April totals for 1969 and long term averages. It shows five year January through December rainfall figures and a 56 year monthly average table with overall annual average of 36 43 inches.
Fragmentary note lists items including magic, bowling and a line about On Top of Old Smokey. It mentions 100 named and over 100 exist, along with numbers 9 999-9 and 110.
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