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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1972
Page
2
A sequence of obituaries reports deaths of Minnie Keffer Price 82 of Front Royal and several relatives. The notices list birthplaces dates and survivors including children grandchildren and siblings. Funeral arrangements are noted with locations in Front Royal Martinsburg and Winchester and services held at Maddox Jones Turner and Brown funeral homes.
Funeral services are held for Mrs Dale Ellen Keller of 137 Wood Ave who was killed in a Wednesday accident. The Wardensville United Methodist Church in Wardensville West Virginia hosts the service at 2 PM led by Revs T J Keegan and Charles Andrews. She belonged to Fort Loudoun Chapter DAR with pallbearers Lynn Chapman Joe Haynes Eddie Kerns Clifton Teets Jr Kenny Lowman and James Orndorff Jr. Burial follows at Hebron Cemetery Intermont West Virginia.
Mrs. Virgil L. Miller 49 of Sunnyside died at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She had been a patient at the NIH in Bethesda and is survived by husband Virgil, two children, a special son, two half-brothers, nieces, and uncles. Funeral services were held at Jones Funeral Home with burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Also reported, Thomas Edward Fowler 56 of Winchester died at Winchester Memorial Hospital. he leaves a widow Irene Tinsman Fowler, a daughter, two grandsons, sisters, and brothers. Funeral services were held at John H. Enders Funeral Home with burial at Green Hill Cemetery. Salvador Guardiola, 71, Spain’s noted bull breeder, died at home in Seville.
Town crews cleared streets and catch basins as limbs blocked routes and water covered sidewalks. Police and sheriff officials reported no major auto accidents or deaths in Front Royal or Warren County during the storm.
The Rev. Bob Harrington of New Orleans will headline Sunday night at the Winchester Area Crusade for Christ. Known as the Chaplain of Bourbon Street, he tours Bourbon Street bars nightly and aims to uplift rather than condemn. Services run at James Wood High School auditorium at 7:30.
Evangelist Jim Nealis former Winchester resident now Maryland Eastern Shore missionary will speak at College Park Church of Christ Sunday evening service. Nealis leads the Eastern Shore Christian Association working to establish churches on the Delmarva Peninsula and is helping plant a church in Berlin Maryland. Cecil Styons, the local minister, invites the public to attend.
Elmer M. Jackson III, 42, editor and general manager of the Anne Arundel Times, died Friday after a brief illness. He was formerly managing editor of The Annapolis Evening Capitol and chaired a group of southern Maryland weeklies.
Rep. J Kenneth Robinson urged equal opportunity for women in politics during a Charlottesville speech and at a Mount Vernon Motel kickoff event for Kit's Kaboodle. He invited Seventh District women to join the campaign and noted women’s growing political participation to improve national life. He also spoke in Steeles Tavern on farm economics and anti inflation, citing farm earnings at about 80 percent of nonfarm incomes, and praised farm family efficiency.
School fire reportedly salvaged most records. Two TV sets, desks, projectors and supplies may be damaged but repairable. Fire units began leaving about 2 a.m. Round Hill remained until 4 a.m. two firefighters stayed on to guard against flare ups. Dense smoke hampered operations but no injuries reported.
Norton Virginia APDonald P Schlick deputy director of health and safety for the US Bureau of Mines outlined an eight point plan to tighten underground coal mine inspections. The program runs October 1972 to March 1973 with no vacations for inspectors and more time underground. Enforcement will rely on data from new computer injury and fatality tracking systems.
Variable cloudiness with a chance of thunderstorms tonight and Sunday. Lows mid 60s to around 70, highs low to mid 80s. Mountains see 60s at night. Extended forecast calls for rain Monday and Wednesday with fair, less humid intervals. Rainfall data and education estimates included.
DeWolf Hopper gave the first public recitation of Casey at the Bat at Wallack's Theater in New York City on May 1 1888.
A compact list presents ten trivia items: 1 Abraham Lincoln 2 120 3 The press 4 Denmark 5 Washington Irving 6 North 7 John Paul Jones 8 Sleep-walker 9 New York 10 Philip II of Spain.
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