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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1959
Page
7
A compilation of Dear Abby inquiries about marriage deceit fear and jealousy. Readers seek guidance on leaving abusive partners handling old flames and carrying keepsakes amid relationship tensions. Abby advises seeking help reporting threats and avoiding harmful situations.
An air conditioned salon at 19 N Brad dock St MO 2 5815 offers beauty services highlighting careful hair, eyebrow, makeup, and lipstick work. The ad urges daily grooming if customers are pleased with their look.
Sevent h Day Adventist Vacation Bible School director Mrs J C Dean presided as 34 pupils received certificates after a two week program. Juniors listed include Roger Nicholas and Michael Link among others. Primary pupils include Tom Patrick Billy White and Iris Nicholas. Kindergarten graduates include Ronnie Arnold Brenda Arnold and Darrell Derflinger.
Gainesboro Fire Company schedules a labor party for August 18 to finish plumbing and spouting on the new fire hall. President Frank Whitacre urges all members to attend and help with the work. Fire Chief Red Williamson notes no fires in 15 weeks. Frederick County Volunteer Firemen's Association will meet Monday at the Gainesboro hall with Gainesboro as host.
The Files Chapel reunion on August 2 was well attended with Jacob Files descendants including Lafayette Files of Cherry Run and great granddaughter Lena Hottel of Martinsburg. Local ministers Rev Daniel Agnew and Rev L L Shreck officiated among numerous relatives and attendees.
A long list of property conveyances in Frederick and surrounding counties shows transfers to numerous buyers. Notable entries include William Danley and wife taking a Whitlock Avenue lot, James Parke acquiring land in Burn ing Knolls Subdivision, and multiple parcels near Winchester on U S Route 11 and Hunting Ridge. Several properties carry implied improvements and rights of way, with values cited for some parcels.
Curtiss-Wright Corp announced plans to produce cars that travel on air at its South Bend Indiana plant, starting in November with no public sales. The two-engine vehicle, rated at 300 horsepower, carries four passengers and travels on a cushion of low pressure air. It lacks wheels, transmission, or clutches and can reach up to 60 mph.
Mar A Bayliss sells two tracts about eight miles northwest of Winchester in Gainesboro District. Mary Strosnider Buterakos transfers all interest in a lot and improvements about two miles south of Winchester in Shawnee District to Thomas G Buterakos. Joseph A Orndorff transfers a lot and improvements in Shawnee District on U S Route 50 about four and a half miles southeast of Winchester to Lawrence R Orndorff and wife. Ethel Loy and others sell a lot and improvements about five miles north of Winchester on Virginia State Secondary Highway 664 to Ralph W Brown. S Hammond transfers 375 acres about two miles east of Mt Falls in Back Creek District.
Hanover Circuit Court Judge Leon M Bazile ruled state law allowing towns to impose motor vehicle license taxes unconstitutional. He held town as a separate district for taxation violates equal protection and towns cannot exempt residents from county levies. Ashland proposed a $10 per vehicle tax with county share. court action halted the levy.
Today's term is pungent meaning caustic and biting in speech. The sentence shows a tart witty remark as in He possessed a pungent wit.
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