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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1962
Page
5
Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. asks Virginians to observe May 1 as Loyalty Day urging reflection on the benefits of democracy and the need for eternal vigilance to preserve it.
Advertisement for a sun filled cotton dress pattern 4806 with a saucy pleated swing skirt and a high or scooped neck. Available in sizes 6 14 with 35 inch fabric yardage for size 10 and priced at 35 cents plus 10 cents postage. Send name address zone size and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept New York. Summer catalog offers 100 styles for sun sport day dance work travel all sizes.
In Dekalb Missouri eight homes a post office a dance hall and a lumber yard were destroyed when high winds fueled a block fire. Firemen battled for three hours with two minor injuries reported and most mail saved before the post office burned. The blaze began in a shed and spread rapidly through the town of about 400 people.
The National Council of Churches Broadcasting and Film Commission produces the Freedoms Foundation award winning program Christianity and Communism. It will be made available to local radio stations nationwide for broadcast.
Pittsburgh AP report notes two Virginia men received a $500 cash award and a bronze medal for bravery. Freddie D. Garrett of Bristol rescued a mother and child from a sinking car April 15 1961. The other rescuer entered a burning building three times March 24 1961 to save a two year old and an 82 year old woman.
Two workers trapped in a 19 foot sewer trench on the William and Mary campus were buried by a cave in. Charles S. Taylor 55 of Saluda died from asphyxiation. Roy Bailey 54 of Williamsburg was hospitalized with internal injuries after two hours beneath debris.
The United States and Japan jointly fired a Nike-Cajun rocket from Wallops Island Virginia carrying separate ionosphere probes. The launch, supported by NASA experts and two Japanese scientists Dr. Kunio Hirao and Toshio Muraoka, reached about 75 miles altitude before splashing into the Atlantic.
NASA noted a Japanese instrument for the upper atmosphere can measure electron temperature and density simultaneously. If effective, it could let space scientists obtain both readings with a single instrument instead of two.
About 1 000 college students will take part in volunteer work projects in needy areas around the world this summer under auspices of the United Presbyterian Church.
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