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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1961
Page
12
A frame house and lot two miles east of town on Route 7 sold for $1,925. The sale occurred Saturday in front of the courthouse with Peter K. McKee, special commissioner, and E. T. Sni er listed as clerk.
Mrs Holmes Harper and Richard Bowers placed first in the weekly duplicate match of the Monday Contract Bridge Club at the club venue.
A group event at the George Washington Hotel lists participants including Robert Sutton Lewis Boyer Richard Demorest and Mr. Peffer with runners up Mrs. James P. Reardon Sr and Mrs S C Richmond and others placing per a future meeting notice. The next group meeting is August 7 at 8 pm at the George Washington Hotel.
Special Events planned for Clarke Fair at Raritan Park include calf scramble drawing area boys and sale of last year’s calves. Free act, Western Horse and Pony Show, English Style Show by Lewis M. Allen Riding Club, Clyde Smith Shows operating day and night. Admission 50 cents 13 and over, 25 cents under 12, exhibitors receive special passes. Jack Hardesty chair, Tommy Polhamus co chair, J C Huffman secretary, Richard Bromley treasurer.
County Agent John T. Wolfe R. Lee Barney and Elmer Venskoske of Gainesboro District travel to Blacksburg for the 28th Institute of Rural Affairs at Virginia Tech. The event runs through Thursday with sessions on business and election plus entertainment in the evening. Tomorrow covers Agronomy Economic Forestry Horticulture and a joint meeting headlined by Charles Nutter of Hallmark Foundation on Counter Attack. Thursday includes Agriculture Economics Clothing Dairy Science Animal Husbandry Fruit Vegetables Soil and Water Conservation.
About 55 attendees gathered at the George Washington Hotel for the second session of the Area Development and Public Relations Committees of the Public Utilities Assn. of the Virginias. Mayor Claude Smalts Jr. opened the program with remarks.
In Peoria area a chemical ammonia odor prompted officials to order evacuations as winds carried fumes into North Pekin and East Peoria. About 6000 residents left the region while 10000 evacuated to shelters including Bradley University and high schools. Crewe Cover police said repairs ended further leakage and fumes posed serious inhalation danger.
Two separate accidents last night left four people with minor injuries and two cars demolished. At 8 p m a northbound 1953 Ford station wagon collided with a southbound 1956 Ford sedan on page 340 near Berryville injuring William Heflin 18 of Boyce and totaling the Sergeant vehicle. Heflin sustained a minor knee cut and about $300 damage to his car. Three O Neal family members from Richmond were treated for minor cuts after a crash on Route 11 at Old Mill Storage around 8 30 p m and released from Memorial Hospital.
A two car crash at 7 45 this morning at Cameron and Boscawen Street caused five hundred dollars in damage. The Chrysler operated by Hilda H Cover of 210 Bellview Avenue ran a red light and struck the Dover station wagon driven by Strother R Shiley Jr of 427 Shenandoah Avenue. Damages were 300 to the Dover car and 200 to the Shiley vehicle.
A Richmond man driving a 1948 Lincoln collided head on with a northbound 1958 GMC tractor-trailer owned by Swain Supply Co of cyalse NC and driven by Monroe Comer of High Point. O Neal and two children were treated for facial injuries while the car was a total loss. Truck damage was $100.
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