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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1963

Page

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Apollo Moon Trip Will Cost Up to 40 Billion Dollars

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP The Apollo effort will climax the peacetime venture with a total cost estimated between 20 and 40 billion dollars. North American Aviation Grumman Aircraft Engineering and hundreds of firms will outfit the Saturn V rocket and lunar module. NASA plans 800 million for test facilities and nearly one billion for Cape Canaveral launches as construction hires 5000 workers now and 4000 more next year.

Cape Canaveral Fla. AP National Aeronautics and Space Administration North American Aviation Inc NASA Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp Moon Space Ag PLC Grumman Mississippi Alabama Louisiana

Tennyfield News Editors Run Local Weekly Paper

Three young editors Maggie Davis Joanie Lovett and Joanne Baden publish Tennyfield News for residents of Tennyson and Courtfield Avenues with Maggie Davis mother as compositor. Paper circulates about 75 per week and charges 10 cents per copy. A carnival power failure caused a buried man incident and a later reburial after fixes. Navy man Jimmy Farrell received an American Airlines ticket from Washington to Los Angeles for duty in California.

Tennyson and Courtfield Avenues Maggie Davis Joanie Lovett Joanne Baden Tennyfield Maggie Washington, D. C Los Angeles Calif Jimmy Farrell Loudoun St American Airlines California

Fingerprints Added To Train Robbery Clues

Scotland Yard studies 15 fingerprint sets from Leatherslade Farm hideout used by the great train gang to identify more suspects in the $7.28 million robbery. Clues include a Monopoly set, a London house where 12 men held meetings, five men sought for questioning, a trail of five-pound notes in Jersey, a suitcase with $282,520 in a Surrey wood, and an Austin Healey with a dapper man and plump woman.

London Scotland Yard Leatherslade Farm Oakley St. Helier Jersey Channel Islands

Miners Rescued After 400-foot Shaft Collapse

Three coal miners trapped since Tuesday near the bottom of a 400-foot shaft say they are okay after rescue teams drilled through to a gangway. The men, Dav id Fellin 58 Henry Throne 28 and Louis Bova 52, are in contact with outside crews as a 28 inch bore is prepared to bring them out near Sheppton in Schuylkill County.

Hazleton, Pa David Fellin H. B. Charmbury State of Pennsylvania Ralph Ditzler Min Ditzler Fellin Anna Joe Dave Henry Throne Louis Bova Bova Sheppton Schuylkill County Hazleton

Buddhist Monks Prolong Hunger Strike in Saigon Protests

In Saigon Buddhist monks extend a 48 hour hunger strike while students in Hue boycott classes. Police kept watch as about 17,000 demonstrators surrounded the main pagoda voicing anti government chants. Four monks and one nun have previously died in protest against President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime.

Saigon Viet Nam Hue Ngo Dinh Diem

Outdoor Fires Banned in City Amid Drought Probe

Fire Chief Bernard Groves ordered a ban on all outdoor burning in Winchester due to a dry spell with no rain. Incinerators with smokestacks and spark arresters are exempt. A fire at Hoblingsworth Drive among old tree stumps is under investigation.

Winchester Bernard Groves Hoblingsworth Drive J. Thomas Boyd Winchester Golf Club Shawnee Fire Co Friendship South End Friendship Fire Co

Marsh Tells Jaycees Cuba Is Soviet Agent Refuge

Rep. John O. Marsh told 560 Jaycees at a Virginia work conference that Cuba has become an important transmission facility for Soviet espionage and sabotage in Central and South America, and a training area for Latin American communist guerrillas. He warned that Venezuela and Brazil are major Soviet targets and urged local and national development programs through the Jaycee network. The event drew national and state officials including Richard McJilton and L Ward Edwards, with discussion on youth affairs and community growth.

John O. Marsh Valley Cuba Central South America Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce Mar- Marsh Lee - Jackson Marsh Latin America Venezuela Brazil Jaycee Organization Strasburg Jaycees

Rebels seize Mont Organise in Haiti insurgency

Exiled rebels led by Cantave seized Mont Organise as government troops press a concerted drive to recapture the northeast. Airlifted reinforcements and armored units moved toward the mountain stronghold amid reports of clashes and a downed government Mustang fighter.

Robert Berrellez Port AU Prince Haiti Mont Organise Santo Domingo Leon Cantares Mont Cantave Francois Duvalier Duvalier

Meredith First Black Graduate At Ole Miss

James Meredith became the first Negro to graduate from the University of Mississippi in its 115 year history. The ceremony unfolded without incidents as about 2,500 whites and Meredith’s supporters watched, with marshals on hand for security. Meredith shook hands with Chancellor John Davis Williams and received his diploma in a quiet ceremony compared with last year’s riot.

Oxford Miss. AP James Howard Meredith Univerity of Mississippi U.S Meredith Ole Miss John Davis Williams

Picture with Boston great grandmother draws Kennedy clan

Mrs Fitzgerald posed for a Sunday photograph with ten great grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren total. The Boston family includes relatives of President Kennedy, with Timothy Fitzgerald three months old and James G Mullen’s children among the visitors in Dorchester. Kennedy last visited his grandmother in 1962 and keeps tabs on his grandson Jack by television.

Boston United States John F. Fitzgerland Dja A . Grand Thomas Fitzgerald Kennedy Tom Bunny Dorchester James G. Mullen Marion Fitzgerald Joe Kennedy Meyer Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald Joe Rose Milton Mass John B. Value Barbara Fitzgerald Warren, R. I John Fitzgerald Dedham Timothy Thomas A. Fitzgerald Jr Denver, Colo

Surplus Corn En Route To Frederick County

ASCS officials were advised by telegram that two train cars carrying 4,000 bushels of government surplus corn had been shipped from Cincinnati. The arrival time was not specified, with the B&O freight office estimating four to five days. This relief follows drought aid earlier promised to Virginia counties and includes a 3,600 bushel carload ordered to meet livestock producers' demands. Applications for reduced rate corn remain open.

Frederick County ASCS Cincinnati Ohio Virginia McClure The Agriculture Service Winchester Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Virginia

Senate hears support for test ban with safeguards

The Air Force Army Navy and Marine chiefs backed the limited nuclear test ban with safeguards as outlined by Gen Maxwell D Taylor. They said underground testing and modern labs, plus readiness to resume atmospheric tests, are essential for treaty acceptance. McNamara testified safeguards would be provided. Senate debate and ratification plans follow.

Washington Air Force Army Navy Curtis E. LeMay Maxwell D. Taylor Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard B. Russell D-Ga Senate Armed Services Committee

Water Extension To Get Vote In Middletown

Middletown officials plan a vote on extending a town water line under Interstate 81 in a project estimated at 1700 dollars. Major Archie Manuel introduced the proposal in a summer council meeting, but the vote was postponed pending additional information.

Middletown Archie Manuel Manuel

Weather Pattern Drops Virginia Temperatures Overnight

A high pressure system moved off the Atlantic coast and brought a drop in Virginia temperatures last night. A lingering low pressure area to the east produced light rain and showers in parts of the region.

Atlantic Virginia Wee

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