Obituaries from Winchester Star August 23 1968
Obituaries notice for Alfred C. DeMazzon 78 of 133 Hawthorne Drive dies after long illness at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Born in Italy January 8 1890 he was a restaurant operator WWI veteran. Survived by widow a daughter and one grandchild. Funeral at Jones Funeral Home with burial Mount Hebron Cemetery. Other notices list Elsie Lee Cooley 68 Middletown and Reuben Clark White Post with services, pallbearers and burial details.
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Alfred C. DeMazzon
Hawthorne Drive
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mr. DeMazzon
Italy
Jeanne Vallet
Paris
France
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
United States
Charles A. Pine
Winchester
Gulf Stream Moderates Great Britain Climate
The climate of Great Britain is milder than the United States despite higher latitude due to the Gulf Stream's warming influence.
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Great Britain
United States
First Aerial Photos Taken by Eduard Schweizer in 1890
The first aerial photographs were captured in 1890 by free balloon pilot Eduard Schweizer. This historic feat marks an early milestone in aerial imaging and balloon aviation.
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Eduard Schweizer
Kennedy Flows Through Platform Fight At NationalConvention
Amid a fractured Kennedy bloc the convention plays out as Unruh blames McCarthy for not treating the Czechoslovak crisis as a major world event. Maddox and Bond share Georgia seats while Connally challenges McCarthy on foreign policy before a possible floor appeal. Wallace predicts a third party victory on a law and order platform.
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Kennedy Bloc
California Assembly
Jesse M. Unruh
McCarthy
Unruh
Los Angeles
Czechoslovakia
Fidt
Humphrey
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Julian Bond
Texas
John Connally
Stephen A. Mitchell
Lawrence F. O Brien
Mitchell
Mrs A L Place dies at 87 in Winchester area
Mrs Sallie Omps Place aged 87 of 1200 Berryville Ave died at her residence. Born June 20 1881 in Morgan County West Virginia she was daughter of Benjamin and Delilah Omps. Survived by four children Lillie Estella Mowery Lee A Place Ray B Place Glenna Place and others with five grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Funeral held at 2 pm Monday at Omps Funeral Home.
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Sallie Omps Place
Berryville Ave
Mrs. Place
Morgan County
W. Va
Benjamin and
Delilah Unger Omps
Presbyterian Church
Bloomery
Lillie Estella Mowery
Lee A
Winchester
Ray B
Clearbrook
Glenna
Littlestown
Funeral service set for Leslie Heishman in Sunnyside
Leslie Lee Heishman of Sunnyside Station died Wednesday at Winchester Memorial Hospital. A funeral will be conducted 2 p.m. Saturday at Sunnyside Presbyterian Church by Rev. J. Thomas Nash. Pallbearers are Sammie Shade Cecil Peer Charles Frye Richard Frye Lowell Harmison and Ronald Place. The body remains at Omps Funeral Home with visitation 1:30 to 9 p.m. tonight. The body will be taken to the church an hour before the service.
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Jones Funeral Home
Robert Ruth
Clarence F. Schenck
Ralph A. Cain
Charles A. Dorton, Jr
Randolph M. Gaunt
Carl M. Lewis
E. W. Payne
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Elsie Lee
Middletown
Cooley
Charles B
Mary A. Hummer Legg
F. Lovell Cooley
Mary Marget Shaffer
Falls Church
Dorothy Henderson
Chicago
Katherine Kline
Lillian Clark
Washington
Jack L. Cooley
Alexandria
Martha Hottle
Mamie Headley
Anna Beatty
Ruth Gordon
Silver Spring
Earl Legg
Grace United Methodist Church
Josiah A. Andrew
John J. Pickeral
Harold Nichols
Lester Miller
Robert O'Neal
Romeo Stickley
H. Irvin Grim
James Beatty
Francis Richard
James Kline
John Hall
Denver Shiflett
Carlos Keister
Harold Cooley
Richard Cooley
R. V. Martin
Raymond Bly
Leon Walker
William Headley
Mt. Carmel
Stover
Strasburg
Leslie Lee Heishman
Sunnyside Station
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Sunnyside Presbyterian Church
J. Thomas Nash
Mount Hebron
Sammie Shade
Cecil Peer
Charles Frye
Richard Frye
Lowell Harmison
Ronald Place
Omps
Fire destroys aircraft and damages Mart isburg airport hangar
A 5 am blaze at Martinsburg Municipal Airport destroyed one plane valued at 925000 and damaged another aircraft and the city hangar. East Coast Flying Service reported its Convair 600 Turbo-crop plane as a total loss while a Convair 240 damage fate is undetermined. A Martin 404 was moved away undamaged. About 5000 bales of hay and aviation parts inside the hangar were ruined. Fire crews from Martinsburg, Inwood and surrounding areas battled the flames as bulldozers cleared debris midmorning.
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Martinsburg
W. VA
East Coast Flying Service
Hagerstown
South Berkeley Fire Company
Inwood
West Virginia National Guardsmen
Clearbrook
South Berkeley
Worker Suffers Minor Electric Shock at Plant
Kenneth Hershman, an employee of O'Sullivan Rubber Corp., was treated and released at Winchester Memorial Hospital for a minor electric shock. The Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad transported him from the O'Sullivan plant at about 9:20 a.m. today. company spokesman calls it a minor on the job incident.
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Kenneth Hershman
O’sullivan Rubber Corp
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
O’sullivan
Furlong Answers Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Quiz
The questions cover topics from finance to literature and history. Answers include Furlong for question one and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp for two, with Chinese and Longfellow's Evangeline among others. Andrew Johnson, Ann Arbor Michigan, and Angora goat appear in the list.
Wall Street rises as autos gain. GM slips slightly
The New York market moved higher early with gains outpacing losses on the NYSE. The Dow rose nearly 3 points as autos advanced on booming car sales, while GM fell a fraction. Chrysler forecast 1968 sales above 7 billion dollars. Other names showed fractional changes amid an ongoing upswing following Thursday’s selloff.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
General Motors
Chrysler
Czechoslovakian News Had Been Weathered, Thiewine
INA Corp
Polaroid
Pan American World Airways
Raytheon
Welbilt
International Nickel
New
Jones & Laughlin
Alcoa
Martin Marietta
Livingston Oil
American Telephone
American Stock Exchange
Waltham Precision
LTV Aerospace
Commonwealth United
Data Processing
Dixilyn
Cinerama
Crystal Oil
Reeves Industries
Eisenhower Doctors Say Condition Still Critical
Walter Reed Army Hospital doctors reported encouraging signs but stressed General Eisenhower remains in critical condition with the outlook guarded. The bulletin noted a comfortable night, reduced heart irritability, and alertness, while noting the critical period after a myocardial infarction and uncertainty over ventricular fibrillation.
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Washington (Ap
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
Weather Outlook for Virginia Heat and Sun
Mostly sunny and hot through Saturday with highs 92 to 98. Fair tonight with lows 70 to 78. Sunday remains hot with a chance of thunderstorms later Friday. Sunset 7:58 p.m. Sunrise 6:34 a.m. New Moon 7:57 p.m.
Rainfall Totals and Averages Across Years
The report lists 24 hour rainfall to 8 am today as none and August total 2.64 with 1968 year to date 22.49. It shows five year monthly totals from 1963 to 1967 and 55 year average monthly rainfalls. It also provides the January through December average across 55 years at 36.50.
Winners Named at 4 H Club Eliminations
Frederick County 4 H members gathered at James Wood High School for county eliminations in demonstrations public speaking and style revue. Demonstrations included foods electric and entomology with multiple blue red and white awards awarded to 4 H members.
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Frederick County
James Wood High School
Barbara Fogle
North Mountain
Vickie Michael
Deirdre Triplett
Sallie Douglas
Mt. Airy
Jerry Ann Brill
Gravel Springs
Franklin Fogle
Diane Brill
Lila Triplett
North Mountain 4-H Club
Whitacre
Lu Ann Lizer
Debbie
Tommy
Prague turmoil as Czechs seek release of liberal leaders
Czechs move to Moscow talks while calling for a noon work stoppage unless occupation troops withdraw. Dubcek is reportedly kept by Soviet forces as delegates elect Venek Sithan to lead the party amid curfews and martial law in several cities. Sporadic firing continues and the death toll rises, with reports of arrests and Soviet-led enforcement.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Venek Sithan
Dubcek
Soviet Union
Prague
Kosice
Prescov
Assassination Plot Probe Affects DNC Prep
A federal grand jury opens an inquiry into alleged plans to kill Vice President Humphrey and two senators and disrupt the Democratic National Convention. Sixteen subpoenas were issued to South Side gang members and peace march participants from the Pentagon event last October. Senator McCarthy and Senator McClellan named in the plot context.
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Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
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F. L. Cooley
Clark Service
Reuben Clark
White Post
John H. Enders
Berrysville
Arthur Carper
Fred T.cooke
Robert Sandy
John S. Carper
Glen Cornwell
Clark JR. Cornwell
Charlie Sandy
Macedonian
Alfred C. DeMazz
Jones Funeral Home, Inc
Aarl
Bernard F. Groves
Boscawen St
Oomds Funeral Home
N. Loudoun Street
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US Student Press Association
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