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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1965
Page
5
Martinsville’s economy grows with payrolls and new construction, while city finances lag. Unemployment sits near 1.7 percent with 33 500 workers, prompting housing to draw NC workers to fill jobs. Street and sewer projects loom, taxes rise, and a potential retail sales tax may offer relief.
Linwood Holton, Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate, condemns a single party system as stifling democracy. He cites Washington dominance, lack of voter choice, and deficits in schools and mental hospitals as consequences of one party rule.
Advertisement for Shell Stitch pattern 7351 sizes 32 34 and 36 38 priced thirty five cents with mailing add on. Includes order to Alice Brooks Winchester Evening Star Needlecraft Dept New York 10011 with pattern number and address. Promotes Giant Needle Craft Catalog with hundreds of designs and free samples plus paid books and patterns.
Springfield AP reports a one year old Fairfax County resident John Gentzel drowned at home Monday in a wading pool accident.
Mrs. Lennis Thrower Price aged 65, wife of Del. Charles D. Price of Stanley, died when her car skidded on a rain slick highway and collided with a tractor trailer on U.S. 11 near New Market in Rockingham County. She was a former Harrisonburg teacher. The couple had married April 30. Del. Price represents Page and Warren counties.
Charlottesville AP reports Elsie Reed 55 dies of injuries from the Aug 14 spree. Her daughter Elsie F Taylor 24 was killed at the Reed home. Police seek Charles Pate Taylor 25 of Trenton New Jersey, charged with the fatal shooting as witnesses say he shot his wife twice in the chest and then shot Reed in the back while she tried to flee.
The Du Pont Company warns Richmond that annexing its Chesterfield County property with city tax rates would halt expansion and harm the entire metropolitan area. The warning was issued Monday.
Lynchburg College gains 55000 from Everette C. Terrell estate. Dr. Carey Brewer says 15000 funds an E C Terrell Ministerial Scholarship and 40000 goes to the college restricted account for future use. A smaller later portion of the estate will also be given. Similar bequests went to Lexington Theological Seminary and Zion Christian Church at Beaverdam.
A child identified as Boy II was killed Monday night when struck by lightning near Wiseepee. The boy’s father Homer Hart and Kermit Johnson Jr., 26, of Midlothian, were injured in the same event.
In Richmond AP report a black applicant case delays appeal as W Tucker of Emporia says he will await private school actions in involved counties before filing anew. The three judge district court ruling last March upheld grants but barred use in dominantly white schools. Tucker plans to collect evidence to show state participation in segregated education and to press the case again in district court and then the Supreme Court.
Richmond city council voted 7 to 1 to acquire a two-block downtown area for a 12 000 seat coliseum. Funds were approved and real estate agents were authorized to negotiate immediately on properties in the area.
Arlington County school board plans to appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow merging an all Negro junior high with a white school. Judge Oren R. Lewis had issued a ban on the merger and ordered the districts kept separate while an appeal proceeds. Attendance areas will revert to last year pending the appeal.
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