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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1965
Page
3
NORFOLK AP Queen Luci Baines Johnson departed after the Azalea Festival. Rain cut the weekend air show and she attended mass at Christ the King and visited Azalea Festival Chairman John Sears. Her entourage described her energy on the dance floor as unmatched.
Bath County cook George Lawrence Mines 36 admitted striking Mrs Mildred Hite 58 as she walked near her Covington home Saturday night. He is charged with manslaughter and fatal hit and run and held without bail in Alleghany County jail. Mines and his wife were frightened to stop after the accident. He was arrested about 7 pm at the Homestead where he works as a cook.
The Frederick College board appoints Dr. Richard Powers of Williamsburg as president to replace Marion E. Alford who resigns to become Portsmouth schools superintendent. Powers is 48 and has been economist at Technical Operations Inc after leading the economics department at William and Mary and teaching at Clemson Wake Forest and other colleges. Justice Lawrence W. I'Anson announced the appointment.
Archibald A. Campbell a 41 year old Wytheville lawyer from a long political family captured the five county Democratic nominating convention in Dublin defeating incumbent Del. Charles B. Andrews of Giles County. The vote shifted after Wythe and Craig counties converted to Campbell, with other races renominating incumbents in the district. Lt Gov Mills E Godwin Jr spoke in Richmond urging improved education funding for Virginia schools.
Fairfax on Saturday saw a 10th District leader denounce a reapportionment plan as a gerrymander. Augustus C. Johnson, a former congressional candidate, warned Byrd Organization forces intend a shameless map. He cited a district stretching from Annandale to Bath County near Appalachia. In Sunday politics, Del. William Howard Ellifrits said he will not seek re election as his Shenandoah district expands to include Page Rockingham and Harrisonburg. Arlington's James C. Wray announced a Republican bid for one of four House seats.
FT LEE AP A two week LOGEX 65 training exercise begins at Fort Lee with guests imported for the event. The exercise simulates an actual war including Army Navy Air Force State Department and NATO support elements coordinating supplies transportation and administration for a field army under Col Harry A Clark Jr. and Continental Army Command.
In Jamestown Virginia the 358th anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement will be observed on May 9 with ceremonies. Former Republican Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut is slated to be the main speaker.
An advertisement touts a new healing substance called Bio-Dyne, sold as Preparation H, claiming to shrink hemorrhoids, stop itching, and relieve pain without surgery. It cites case results and notes availability in suppository or ointment form at drug counters.
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