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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1952
Page
3
Angna Enters born April 28 1907 in New York is a renowned dance mime known for silent sketches and self designed costumes. She began by borrowing 25 dollars to rent a theatre and print handbills. later the Metropolitan Museum bought one of her paintings and she wrote a book and a play.
A U S Thunderjet fighter slammed into the main street of St Peter's England yesterday collapsing a bank building and igniting flames. An American pilot was killed and an elderly British couple severely burned while a housewife cooking Sunday dinner was critically burned.
Mrs. Pauline Buffalari began the second leg of her Norfolk to Washington horseback journey as rain fell. She rode with her pinto Bing from the Richmond police department stable along U S Route 301, after a delayed start following an April 19 departure and a rest stop in Richmond.
Funeral services for Beverly Ann Baker 11 of Bunker Hill West Virginia were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o clock by the Rev T J Kerfoot at the Assembly of God Church. Pallbearers were William Homer Denny Shackleford Ned Kerfoot Beverly Gardner. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.
Over the weekend Virginia records 11 more fatalities raising the 1952 toll to 258. Victims include William Ruddlph Corvin 16 Crockett Wythe County Daniel Hobbs 51 Norfolk Robert Louis Aultman 19 Portsmouth Mrs J H Brooks Ewine Jimmy H Drennan 21 Collins Miss Bobby Eugene Killespie 25 Augusta Ky R W Gallison hometown unknown Mrs Sylvia Iva Smith 21 Clemon Ernest Weakley 52 Elkwood Charles Henry Durham 56 Newport News Cornelius Franklin Shifflett 69 Dyke Hobbs a Norfolk police veteran killed en route to a wreck in the southside collision with a patrol wagon. Three killed Saturday Drennan Gillespie and Gallison in a U S Route 58 crash near a bridge abutment Mrs Smith dies in head on Route 11 collision Weakley drowns after car goes off road.
A driver died Friday night on State Route 672 in Culpeper County after a collision in a creek. The following day Shifflett died in a single car wreck near Green on State Route 18 in Greene County. Sunday night Corvin was killed on U S Route 11 five miles west of Wytheville when he was struck at the scene as an onlooker, according to State Trooper E T Keister.
Prewar nations were placed at 73 by leading North American experts in international law. Today there are approximately 84 political entities recognized for most purposes as sovereign states, though agreement on what constitutes a nation varies.
The Supreme Court upheld New York’s released time program for religious instruction for public school students by a 6-3 vote. Chief Justice Vinson led the majority with Justices Reed Burton Clark and Douglas. dissenters Black, Frankfurter, and Jackson criticized the ruling.
Local firemen responded to two weekend fires. The primary blaze at Cecil Painter's Stevenson home occurred around 4 p.m. when an oil furnace exploded. Painter tried to douse the flames with a garden hose before firefighters arrived and contained the fire. the joists under the floor were scorched but the furnace was the main damaged item. Insurance was reported. A second alarm at 6:15 p.m. on Saturday tackled a smoking sofa at 605 S Cameron Street, with no further damage.
In pistol duels the usual distance was ten paces about 25 feet, though many duels occurred at shorter ranges and fewer at longer ones.
About 200 delegates at a Virginia Beach dental health education conference recommended schools stop selling soft drinks and confections to curb tooth decay among children. The vote occurred at the Cavalier Hotel where the meeting was held.
In Williamsburg, the local Democratic meeting elected four delegates for the First District Democratic Convention at Old Point on June 24. They adopted the unit rule and instructed delegates to vote for incumbent R. E. J. Robeson Jr. If released, the stance could shift. delegates to the Roanoke State convention were also chosen, but a plan to back the national nominee failed for lack of a second.
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