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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1959
Page
3
The production features Iris Allen James Marsh and Jane Casper in a play set for this week at 8 15 at the Bark Mill. Tickets are available at the door.
In Richmond a man found dead in the Kanawha Canal was identified as Edward Marr of Sandston, about 30. Detective Lt. Kelley said a brother-in-law confirmed the identity at the city morgue. Marr had been in the water roughly 24 to 48 hours. no money or papers were found, pockets turned inside out, and an arm bruise was visible.
Yakima AP report says 65 year old Philip Lombardo defended himself by singing operatic arias loudly at home. Justice of the Peace Thomas Grady found he created a public nuisance but suspended the sentence for four months.
Baltimore stage work by Ray Hamby unfolds over three weeks on the summer theater circuit. The play centers on electronic shoes that let dictators influence wearers thoughts. Hamby calls it a restrained comedy of 20th Century manners.
Advertises Printed Pattern 4602 for Misses dress with size 16 needing fabric details. Mentions patterns, yardage, and mailing instructions to Anne Adams in New York. requests name address zone size and style number.
Federal prosecutor suggests the murder of Frederick Evans may ignite a Chicago gang power struggle after Pong Ricca's exit. Ricca, a Capone era boss, began a three year tax evasion sentence July 1. Evans, 60, was killed Saturday, the fifth recent gangland style killing, though police see no direct link.
A Royal Canadian Air Force search party found the wreckage of a United States Neptune bomber and 11 skeletons on Mount McCreight near Campbell River B C. The plane was believed to have crashed in 1951 with 11 aboard and identifications awaited from Comox base.
In the quake area near Hebgen Dam 39 persons remain unaccounted for a week after the Pacific Northwest earthquakes. Nine are dead with a tenth missing. Army engineers from Omaha assess whether to relieve flood threats and consider using the rock slide as a dam core or to carve a channel. The near town is Ennis about 45 miles downstream.
Thieves damaged the 10 room residence of Bernard Goldfine during the family's absence in Brookline. Mrs. Goldfine found the home ransacked on Monday night after returning from a summer home in Plymouth. They looted valuables and sought hidden money or securities while forcing a rear door. Goldfine, a textile magnate and real estate owner, later linked to the Washington controversy surrounding Sherman Adams.
Comedian Arnold Stang aged 35 suffered severe facial cuts and head injuries when his car rammed into a cherry tree in Washington. No charges were filed.
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