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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1956
Page
2
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Frank Nixon 77 father of Vice President Richard M. Nixon is in critical condition in Whittier California after suffering a ruptured vein in the stomach. He has been bed ridden with reported arteriosclerosis and earlier ulcers. The elder Nixon broke his hip in 1954 and later received transfusions but is not hospitalized per his request.
Dr Sadao Murayama of the Tokyo National Science Museum reports a huge yellow cloud on Mars. The cloud measures about 1,400 miles long and 300 miles wide and was first seen six days ago in the planet's Southern Hemisphere. He suggests it could be a gigantic sandstorm.
The world uses more than 50 million television sets. About 39 million are in the United States, around 6 million in Great Britain, and roughly 2.2 million in Canada.
The East Coast traveler's dream nears reality as work on a tunnel under Baltimore harbor progresses. Scheduled to open in December 1957, the double barreled tubes carry eight lanes and connect Canton and Fairfield shores. The project costs about 130 million dollars with a 35 cent toll for passenger vehicles to repay funds from other regional bridges and byways.
R L Warwick J Savage danced a jig and enjoyed a televised moment on his 104th birthday. He ate roast pork baked potato blueberry pie ice cream and birthday cake. Gifts included two quarts of brandy and a pint of gin.
Gift clubs that specialize in foreign merchandise do not pay import duty. Items mailed from overseas to members are limited to $1.00 or less in the foreign country, arriving duty free, with only a small postal service fee charged upon delivery.
James Dean estate faces a $100000 lawsuit from Rolf Wuetherich, the racing mechanic seriously injured when Dean’s sports car crashed near Paso Robles, California on September 3. Wuetherich alleged Dean drove too fast with wanton disregard for passenger safety. Harold Turnupseed’s car was involved but not named a defendant.
A U S Air Force transport plane banked away from a cluster of houses to an open area where it crashed and burned, killing three crew and critically injuring three others. None identified pending family notification. Cause not determined though at least one engine was not operating.
Santa Monica California reports film director Anthony Kenyon Mann's wife wins a 65,000 cash settlement in divorce proceedings. She will receive 3725 monthly alimony for the rest of the year and 15,600 annually thereafter. Mann pays 416 monthly support for daughter Nina, 12, who will live with her mother. daughter Toni, 18, will live with her father. The couple was married 24 years.
Traffic deaths in Virginia this year run near 517, close to the 1955 figure of 815 on the same date. The latest fatality is O'Daney Nickens, 56, of Lancaster, who died when his car crashed near Merry Point on State Route 604 in Lancaster County.
A Drug Trade News survey shows total retail vitamin sales reaching 303 million dollars in 1955, up from 284 million in 1954. Over two thirds of sales occurred through drugstores, and a leading firm sees a potential billion-dollar yearly market as demand grows quickly.
A medium B 26 bomber ferrying to France with two Americans aboard disappeared after leaving Keflavik Iceland en route to Scotland. Capt Gray and navigator D Jarvis of Burbank were aboard. another group piloted by Capt Keyes and navigator Cairns followed. Icelandic control and Fleetway Inc. reported no contact since takeoff. ships were alerted.
A dense sales directory lists numerous auctions on August 25 and later dates in Kernstown Berryville Mt Airy Charles Town and Winchester with items including household goods furniture farm equipment livestock real estate nursing home equipment and dairy cattle. Auctioneers E T Snider K K Cavalier D Orndorff James Mason B O Brumback and others oversee bring-your-own-bids and locations span Virginia West Virginia and Maryland regions.
In 1910 Dempsey worked for a Logan County coal company in West Virginia. He was born in Manassa Colp where his father, a Mormon teacher, had migrated from West Virginia before the family moved westward, then later returned to the state.
George M Kandarian, an unemployed window washer, turned in a woman's purse with $131 at the university police station. He explained his honest rule by saying he would want his money returned if he lost it.
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