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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1960
Page
11
Garden guidance covers sun exposure for hydrangeas with notes on pruning, soil alkalinity effects, and winter protection. It then shifts to August transplanting for perennials led by Oriental poppy, bearded iris, bleeding heart, and bulbs including Madonna Lily and Crown Imperial, detailing digging depth, division, and bulb depth requirements.
Disabled American Veterans in the Stonewall Jackson Chapter installed officers at the August meeting at the War Memorial. Branson J. Funk was named commander with Richard K. Eddy as senior vice commander and R. M. Laign as junior vice commander. Other officers include M. W. Eckman treasurer and J. B. Luttrell adjutant. Committee chairs cover executive finance audit welfare and relief by Whitlock Orndorff and Eddy membership publicity Laign entertainment hospital and by-laws.
A Duke University Medical Center project seeks improvements for disfigured patients by developing more effective artificial noses ears and facial parts. The report notes a rise in television set sales from 10 000 in 1946 to 7 percent million in 1900.
Norfolk AP 64 year old George Washington Farrow an indicted participant in an abortive Bank of Virginia robbery dies in a Norfolk hospital before trial. He was arrested March 15 after attempting a hold up with a cap pistol. money fell, customers returned it, and Farrow was detained. Police found a cap pistol and whisky.
The Rev William V McCrary of Trinity Lutheran Stephens City and St Paul Lutheran Cedar Creek Grade resigns effective September 28 and accepts a call to Glade Creek Lutheran Blue Ridge effective October 1. He has served since March 15 1957 with church improvements and many new members.
Norman report notes a 7 year old Indian boy at the Cerebral Palsy Institute expressing a wish to be a cowboy to avoid a perceived game of cowboy and Indian. Included are usage notes on the words intimate and intimidate and their meanings.
Jerrie Cobb becomes the first of 12 women to pass Project Mercury like tests designed by Dr Randolph Lovelace. He noted women may join space travels in time and compared female pilot traits favorably to men. Cobb, 29, Oklahoma City executive pilot, weighs 121 pounds, flys crop dusters to jets, and holds multiple records and honors.
In Washington last February Miss Cobb stated she would be willing to wait in line if offered the award, indicating ongoing consideration and public interest in the recognition.
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