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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1962
Page
9
A reader seeks abortion guidance about a relationship with a 17 year old office boy and adoption options at Booth Memorial Hospital. Other letters cover proper phone introductions, aging expectations, a 14 year old’s dating pressures, and whether to send a wedding gift to a cousin remarrying.
Lonnie Waugh 81 reported missing from S. Rowan Memorial Home Sweet Springs West Virginia August 2 was found dead in Potts Creek about 28 miles south of Covington. Dr Edward Bowles listed accidental drowning time of death August 4. Raymond Waugh identified the body. Survivors include widow and eight children. Authorities had searched six counties across West Virginia and Virginia without success.
A local apple contest in Frederick County gathers growers for three classes with total prizes of 400 dollars. Walter Anderson and peers enter the Apple Production, Processing, and Apple Show divisions. The event runs through National Apple Week with a December banquet to award prizes.
The Associated Press reports a North Carolina man, Robert Hendricks, 31, of Norlina, died in a single car crash on Virginia Route 712 near Palmer Springs, raising Virginia’s highway death toll to 531 for the period. The driver was identified as William Wallace Haskins of Norlina.
A Washington AP piece explores space jargon, defining terms like parameter, definitize, and interface. It cites hearings before a House space subcommittee and notes the evolution from military to space parlance and the opacity of the jargon to lay readers.
In Spotsylvania County a grand jury indicted two men on grand larceny and embezzlement tied to surplus civil defense property. The panel urged removal of Board of Supervisors chair Buford Carr for oversight failures. Commonwealth's Attorney Coleman outlined ouster steps and potential jury trial.
The belief that all things have a spirit remains alive in certain Indonesian regions despite the spread of Hinduism and Islam. In the United States the annual pulp and paper tonnage exceeds that of automobile production.
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