Obituaries from Winchester and area deaths noted
Funeral services are set for Edith F. Taylor of Lewisville and Asa L. Smoke of Mountain Falls, with burial in local cemeteries. Mamie Belle Sours and William G. Massie also noted as died recently, with services planned and burial arrangements underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith F. Taylor
Lewisville
Berryville
Fielding Davenport
James Robinson
David Grimes
James Grimes
Edward Jones
Issac Johnson
Clarence Coleman
Franklintown Cemetery
Jefferson County
W. Va
Asa L. Smoke
Winchester Memor Hospital
Holmes D. Smoke
Mountain Falls
Mr. Smoke
John W
Sarah E. Smoke
St. Johns Lutheran Church
John W. Smoke
Baltimore
Harry Glynn
P Smoke, Jr
David A. Smoke
Frank Walden
Washington
Lucy Smoke
Edgar C. Smoke
Winchester
Sarah Campbell
John Smoke
Frances Billman
Philadelphia
Omps
Harold F. Fuller
Mt. Olive Cemetery
Mamie Belle Sours
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Sours
Page County
Edward and
Susie Dwarf Fox
St. John’s Church
William McKinley
Robert W. Sours
Mt. Williams
Ralph J. Sours
Auburn
Wash
Virginia Burns
New Market
Charles Fox
Clarence McFarland
Culpeper
Floyd Fox
Wesley Fox
Luray
Omps Funeral Home
Wind Storm Drops Trees and Knocks Out Power
Winchester and environs endured a powerful storm around 9 p.m. with gale force winds. Downed trees and utility lines blocked roads in Clearbrook, Brucetown, and near Rest Church. C P Telephone Co reported light overall damage with service restoring today. Rain and lightning caused localized fires and one large walnut split by lightning. no major fires reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Spring
Rest Church
Clearbrook
Winchester
Washington
Stewart
S. Cameron
C & P Telephone Co
George Riggs
Stephens City
Riggs
Walter E. West
Clearbrook Fire Co
Martinsburg Pike
West Virginia
State Agencies Told To Curb Spending
Gov. Godwin orders Virginia state agencies to cut proposed expenditures and review personnel and equipment needs. He directs agencies to avoid new or expanded programs without prior approval as the state faces a budget gap and a $20 million shortfall against the 1966 General Assembly's appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Godwin
Virginia
General Assembly
Cost-of-Living Formula Under Fire From GM
General Motors pressed for changes in the cost-of-living formula in new union contracts. GM stated the current arrangement is treated as extra gains above those for most workers and filed its 1967 bargaining demands. Talks cover three-year pacts with about 750,000 auto workers at GM Ford and Chrysler, expiring Sept. 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Wall Street Advances After Mixed Friday Open
Wall Street opened with gains as market activity stayed robust in early Friday trading. Blue chip shares led the gains with Du Pont rising about two points, while Industrial stocks posted modest advances amid a broad list of rising issues including Gulf & Western, Fairchild, McDowell, Douglas, Motorola, Studebaker, and Control Data. Opening blocks showed mixed moves across major issues as traders weighed the tax message from the president and the unsettled questions about surcharge timing and amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Foor
Byenas
Gulf & Western Indusies
Fairchild Camera
McDowll
Douglas
Motorola
Studer
Control Data
du Pontich
Cbs
Flintkote
Woolworth
American Telephone
Congress
Tax hike sparks Senate debate on policy and deficits
Senators criticized the proposed surtax as a response to budget deficits linked to war financing and domestic programs. Figures show a $174 increase for a $10,000 single earner and $492 at $20,000 income, with exemptions for the lowest brackets and calls for targeted exemptions or corporate tax adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Jack Miller
Johnson
Miller
Vietnam
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Senate Finance Committee
Weather Today Forecast Storms and Cooler Weekend Outlook
Weather today shows thunderstorms developing by afternoon with a high near 85 to 90. Tonight will be cooler and less humid with a low around 60 to 65. Saturday will be partly cloudy and cooler with a high 80 to 85, and Sunday remains partly cloudy with little temperature change. Winds today from the southwest 10 to 15 mph. The five day forecast from Saturday through Wednesday calls for below normal temperatures, highs 83 to 88 and mountain highs 78 to 83, with night lows 62 to 67 and 56 to 62 in the mountains. Rainfall expected to average more than half an inch early next week. Sunset today 8 22 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6 15 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 5 19 a.m. New Moon Aug 5.
Rainfall totals and averages for year 1967
Rainfall during the past 24 hours ending at 8 30 a m today 1 33 August rainfall to date 1 33 1967 rainfall to date 20 38 Average rainfall per month for the past 54 years Jan 2 44 Feb 2 10 March 3 07 April 3 16 May 3 64 June 3 76 July 3 78 Aug 3 72 Sept 2 80 Oct 3 10 Nov 2 54 Dec 2 30 The rainfall from January through December for the past five years is as follows 1962 39 73 1963 33 46 1964 31 63 1965 26 85 1966 33 32
Government Buying Frozen Chickens to Support Poultry Prices
The Agriculture Department will purchase an undisclosed amount of fresh and frozen cut-up young chickens for donation to the school lunch program. The move aims to bolster sagging poultry prices after a year of higher production and declining prices, which has strained some producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Curb Market to Open Tomorrow at 6 A.M.
The Farmer's Curb Market at Kent and Bosca wen Streets will reopen tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock. A larger produce list is offered including green beans bird-egg beans corn cucumbers cabbage beets squash onions baked goods and cut flowers. Tomatoes are the No 1 truck crop in the United States with lettuce second.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent and
Boscawen Sts
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winchester Evening Star
Taylor Service
Gibraltar
Spain
Asal
Mrs
William Sours
Massie Service
William G. Massie
S. Purcell Ave
Jones Funeral Home
E. T. Clark
William R. Barr
Dale W. Stickley
J. Alva Sirbaugh
Harry G. Fox, Sr
Clyde B. Mauck
Marvin C. Fleet
Frank Bolyard
Reid Lunsford
Carl Brown
J. H. Yost, Sr
Lawerence Cole
William Cornwell
J. William Hollis
Roscoe
Bowers
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Raymond Boden
Brucetown
Brucetown Road
Highway Department
Rt. 50
City
WINC
Philip Whitney
Ste
Phens City
Clarke County
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Featherbed Lane
Millwood Ave
Howard Braithwaite
Cross Junction
Eer
Sea
MDS Funeral Home
Loudoun Street
Asa Larrick
Sun
Mamie B, Sours
Memaee Theo
Bernard F.groves
Boscawen St
H. W. Ebert
Buick
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Corvier
VOLVA
SAT
H.W. Ebert
Loudoun St
U.S. Weather Bureau
Plateau
Ohio
Tennessee
Northeast
Arkansas
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
mid-Mississippi Valley
America
C. F. Dunlap
I, Q
Phillippines
Dept. of State
Seashore
Bamboo
North
FDIC
Wall Street
N. Cameron St
Pittsburgh Paints
Colt
Winchester Skies
Crete
Crider & Shockey
E.d.s.t
State Line Road
Hardy County
C.Y
L.F
Forest Service
Forest
U.S. Forest Service
Federal Building
George Washington
National Forest
Harrisonburg
Virginiae
West Virginia State Line
Mathias
Cutterhead
New Holland
Lupton Equipment Company
N. Loudounst
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