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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1961
Page
12
In Dayton Ohio a deputy U S marshal recalls a girl who forged many checks and cashed them. She was placed on probation with her parents and given a ticket to California and a $40 meal allowance on the train.
Virginia communities wrestle with daylight saving trials as Richmond stays on DST until Oct 29 while many counties revert to standard time in early September. Schools plan varied start times and transitions reflect differing cutoff dates across towns like Charlottesville, Staunton, Augusta, and Louisa.
The Morgan Acres Herefords dispersal in Bunker Hill West Virginia sold 53 lots with a gross of $20,045. Top bull MA Silver Star Tone sold for $1 025 to Midland Farms Churchville and Fincastle VA. Top female WF Domino Pat 54 brought $550 with two other top females at $500 each. Fifty cow lots averaged $352 and included twenty bred heifers calving in spring. Sale overseen by the Virginia Hereford Association with A W Hamilton as auctioneer.
In Chatham New Jersey Curtis Spratizar one of the nation’s youngest amateur radio operators learned to contact others before reading. At seven he earned his ham radio license while brothers Stephen fourteen and Tamper twelve also operate radios. Parents Ivan and Mrs Spratizar say they must learn to intercept those messages at dinner talk.
Douglas Dean Riddle the third a student pilot dropped 1 500 birth announcements over Greenville South Carolina with the line mother Tommie Garrison Riddle and baby doing fine and father up in the clouds. He received nearly a hundred congratulatory calls. Honolulu survey warns Oahu beaches risk crowding hurting Hawaii tourism and suggests peak time limits. Waikiki averages 44 square feet per person and Ala Moana Park expansion is studied.
A Buffalo zoo issues a weekly grocery list listing horsemeat 1600 pounds smelts and mackerel 200 pounds eggs 30 dozen apples seven bushels carrots and spinach six bushels oranges one crate grapes 50 pounds green peppers 18 sweet potatoes 250 pounds bananas 80 pounds. The tab runs about $1000.
All Sir ls Akron Ohio reports machinist Frank Marchand’s wife gave birth to a girl, joining seven daughters and a niece who live with his family. Marchand says a boy isn’t in the cards. Mrs Marchand jokes she won’t have daughters in law. The Pueblo Indians flourished for centuries before vanishing 700 years ago.
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