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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1961

Page

3

Government Forest Service Job Openings Announced

The U S Civil Service Commission announces a new examination for Entomologist and Plant Pathologist with starting salaries from 6435 to 8955 dollars. Most openings are with the Forest Service across the United States including Alaska and Puerto Rico. Applications and information available from Joe Haines at the Post Office.

U.S. Civil Service Commission Forest Service Department of Agriculture United States Alaska Puerto Rico Joe Haines

Thieves Target Airport Shops. Fakes Hidden in Stock

At Miami International Airport liquor and tobacco shops, operators reveal the stock is fake. The real goods are bonded in a warehouse for tax free travel purchases. manager William Taylor notes they miss some fakes daily, mainly cigarettes, while distributors supply the fakes.

Miami Miami International Airport William Taylor

Fall Pattern Catalog Ad Seeks Misses Sizes 10 to 18

Anne Adams pattern advertises two skirt styles and a boxy jacket for Fall, with Misses sizes 10 12 14 16 18. Details include jacket length yardage for size 16 and separate full and slim skirt yardages. Order information asks readers to send fifty cents per pattern plus ten cents extra for first class mail to Anne Adams Pattern Dept New York.

Anne Adams Winchester Evening Star Pattern Dept West 17Th St New York N.Y

Foster child Lola Lucas meets First Lady at White House

Seven year old Lola Lucas, a foster child with muscular dystrophy from St. Louis, receives an autograph from Mrs. Lyndon Johnson in the White House East Room. The Vice President's wife stands in for Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy in greeting the youngster.

Lola Lucas The Muscular Dystrophy Association Lyndon Johnson White House Lola St. Louis Jacqueline Kennedy

Federal School Aid Split Into Two Separate Bills

The House may vote on the administration’s school aid package split into two bills to bypass the Rules Committee. Two elements, aid to impacted areas and public school construction, go into one bill, higher education aid into another, with the science and math teaching act attached to one.

Washington House House Rules Committee Sam Rayburn Kennedy Education Committee Adam Clayton Powell D-N.y Powell

Measures Cut Costs After Meeting Discussed

Powell outlined a $2.2 billion compromise package versus about $8 billion in the original proposals. The piece also notes a kitchen tip about reheating leftover rolls by wrapping in a paper bag and warming in a hot oven for ten minutes.

Powell

Bogus African Diplomats Dine in Style

In Baltimore three men posing as African diplomats dined at Miller Brothers Restaurant then left in a funeral home limousine. The leader, claimed as Gabon finance minister Sorfa Adiwba, wore royal robes. Gabon’s actual finance minister Francois Meye was in Africa. A man named Herbert Mangrum rented an African outfit billed to the Afro American newspaper, which the paper denied employing him. police noted a press card issued in his name.

Baltimore Miller Brothers Cook Sorfa Adiwba Gabon Washington Francois Meye Africa Charles Eckardt A. T. Jones and Sons Herbert Mangrum Eckardt James D. Williams Mangrum

Four Virginia Doctors Awarded Cancer Society Fellowships

In Richmond four Virginia physicians received $3,600 fellowships from the American Cancer Society. The awards go to Drs. James A. Wilkerson III, Thomas N. Rucker, and Donald P. Stacks of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Dr. William Hollister Jr., surgery resident at the Medical College of Virginia. The grants fund a year of additional cancer diagnosis and treatment training.

Richmond Virginia American Cancer Society James A. Wilkerson III Thomas N. Rucker Donald P. Stacks University of Virginia School of Medicine William Hollister Jr Medical College of Virginia

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Government Forest Service Lone Sealoms Floyd W. Lofton Texaco Hutton’s Waterloo Floyd Essentials Shenandoah Valley National Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Leggett Legge Winchester Theodore Cook State Department Adiwba NORD Gixt Palestine Khrushchev Eagie’s Nest Forest Wicked Young
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