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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1962
Page
5
The Jefferson County Board of Education approves a 10000 appropriation for a new Wright Denny School cafeteria. The project totals about 18000, with 8000 to be donated by the Wright Denny Helpers Club. Equipment reuse and existing facilities will supply the rest.
Kernstown brief notes an Aug 26 picnic at Randolph Macon Academy Front Royal hosted by the Francis Asbury Sub-District MYF. The column also lists local social visits including families from Grottoes Norfolk Lutherville Hyattsville Cookeville Richmond Rockport Needmore and Needmore connections with Stines Ritters Richards and Steeles among others.
Henkel Harris Furniture Manufacturers offers kiln dried cherry walnut mahogany and poplar free kindling and firewood. Located at the rear of the plant 660 N Loudoun St residents may take wood for personal use while supply lasts. Carry away in car or truck and don t take more than your share.
A field fire burned over 10-15 acres along the Norfolk and Western Railroad on Farnley Farm at White Post yesterday. Boyce firefighters fought the blaze for about two hours before bringing it under control using a 112 inch line off the tank track and two booster lines off the pumper. Some fence posts burned but no other damage reported near the Warren County line.
George Jones of Luray directs the laboratory now housed in the county office building in Luray.
Norfolk and Western Railway bids 1.5 million cash for the Atlantic and Danville line long in receivership since 1960. If accepted and approved, N and W plans to operate the 207 mile route from Danville to Norfolk linking with main lines at Norfolk, Suffolk, and Denniston. The line serves multiple Virginia towns and Milton, North Carolina, with the road under trusteeship since 1960.
West Norfolk Churchland Boone Va Aramaic, the original tongue of the Sermon on the Mount, is being added to the language curriculum of Montreal's McGill University. Last week saw the breaking of the record sailing day set in 1928.
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