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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1962
Page
2
Funeral service for Mrs. Henry N Rogers of 510 Cather Ave will be held tomorrow at 1 30 p m at Jones Funeral Home. Burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
A car fire at Fairfax Lane at 5 30 p m yesterday was extinguished before fire crews reached the scene. Firemen said the blaze started in the breather atop the carburetor. 10 30 a m report notes 71 children attended last week with registrars named as Mrs Melvin Hall Mrs J A Holinger and Mrs W B Price. FAUBUS continued page one details voting results and candidates including Alford McMath Whitten Cofield Cox Fulbright Chandler across 1960 precincts with Faubus leading by a margin but with opposition warnings of dictatorship. Bruno Maine noted art director at Radio City Music Hall died Monday born Bruno Man in Finland arriving in 1909.
Clarke County Circuit Court had been set for trial tomorrow. A summoned jury was told not to report. The decision to press ahead with remaining lie detector test questions rests with Judge Elliott Marshall per defense agreement.
Testimony shows four Richardson Merrell subsidiaries supplied doctors for safety studies of a German drug not approved for commercial use in the U.S. About 1,200 doctors involved. FDA sought more safety data before approval in 1960. Dr. Kelsey traced reports of peripheral neuritis linked to the drug and noted company actions to investigate in Britain and Germany. Licensing reforms urged to require full reporting of testing and side effects by foreign producers. Thalidomide reports prompted warnings to physicians to avoid use by women of childbearing age.
Production resumes at General Dynamics Electric Boat Division after a 13 day strike by 11 AFL-CIO craft unions. Workers accepted a three year contract with 23 cents per hour wage increases and revised layoff rules, ending a dispute over seniority and layoffs and delaying the Polaris Alexander Hamilton launch.
Market list of multiple auction events across Frederick County and nearby areas. Items include farm machinery tools household goods and real estate with auctioneers Morrow Orndorff Buddy Artrip Linwood Newlin and Joseph Newlin. Locations include Paper Mill Road Frederick County Court House Winchester Va Clarke County Gainesboro District and Middleway West Virginia.
Two young female prisoners aged 19 and 20 climbed a 55 foot smokestack at Terminal Island and announced they would stay up there until hunger forces them down. Warden May called it an attention getting device while noting one seeks a Utah reformatory and the other had Nevada and New Mexico cases. The pair, who gave names as Barbara and Betty, waved to reporters and refused to descend, asserting they have not eaten or slept.
Forrest Swanson was named chairman of the Mosby Academy bonds group to finance a new elementary school building adjacent to John S. Mosby Academy. The nonprofit will sell 130000 in six percent first mortgage real estate bonds for a 335000 project, with occupancy planned for September 4.
In Warsaw AP reports the five week vodka case ended with all 16 defendants found guilty. Sentences ranged from 2% to 4 years with fines up to $12,000. The head of the state distillery and local officials were guilty of stealing 2,640 gallons of pure alcohol over five years.
Virginia experiences a clear and cooler night with low temperatures 60 to 65 degrees, 55 to 60 in the mountains. Thursday through Monday will be fair and slightly cooler, temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal, with showers Friday and again early next week.
Rainfall for the past 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. today is none. July rainfall totals to date are 5.38 inches, year to date 27.24 inches for 1962. The 49 year average is 36.86 inches. Monthly averages shown with January 2.11 to December 2.40 inches.
The list includes Spring, Exhausted, No, among various pictures, Stonewall, Woodrow Wilson, Hawaiian Islands, Delays, United States Golf Ass'n, and On board ship Mayflower.
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