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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1959
Page
7
A reader asks how to handle telling an eight year old about her real father. Abby advises a kind lie may prevent unhappiness and warns against revealing the truth. Other letters discuss faith in God's will and teen relationships with best friends.
An advertisement promotes Johnston's No-Roach as a modern brush on insect control. The product is on sale at Safeway Peoples Grant's Rhodes Martin's Boyd's and other drug stores district distributed by Gilpin District Strother.
A cheerful plea asks Mary to return home so they can visit Eleanor's at 146 N Lou doun St to buy a new dress priced at 5.99, promising lower costs than other stores and appealing to Mary with a special dress just for her.
Roberta Lee answers on engagement intervals up to six months with options to delay announcements. She suggests simple cocktail nibbles like peanuts olives pretzels and cheese crackers and notes varied sandwich ideas from modern cookbooks. She adds no etiquette rule forbids a new father sharing cigars and candy with friends.
In Del Mar California the Liston Posey family claimed a top prize in floral arrangements at the Southern California Exposition and the San Diego County Fair.
President Eisenhower orders a two month extension of the U S self imposed ban on atomic tests as Geneva talks stall. Negotiators gain time to seek an international ban while Ambassador James J Wadsworth returns home for the United Nations General Assembly session.
The seven Mercury astronauts will specialize in different phases of Project Mercury. They are to become experts in their assigned areas, with field trips to fill gaps for the team. Captain Donald K. Slayton leads the Atlas booster phase, the component that will propel manned capsules into orbit at 18,000 mph.
COURMAYEUR Italy AP The youngest cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church Julius Cardinal Dopfner 46 year old bishop of Berlin climbed Mont Blanc 15 781 foot 11 days ago incognito with three other priests Aldo Keil a farmer near Bellevue Iowa has a collection of 10 000 arrowheads and 54 stones all found near his home
In Coachella California Jean Elizabeth Wood 26 stood on Highway 99 facing an oncoming truck and was struck. The driver Fredrich Widmann from Artesia found the body as James Frye 25 of Torrance witnessed the tragedy. Authorities note she had a troubled past and no car nearby.
Attorneys for Negro students filed new actions before Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan seeking immediate admission of 16 Arlington pupils to white schools and 26 Fairfax pupils to segregated schools. The moves build on a prior order forcing 12 students into Washington Lee High Stratford Junior High and Patrick Henry Elementary, while 10 others remain. Reeves urged Bryan to add the 16 Arlington children to the earlier suit and pressed for a Fairfax injunction to end segregation as schools reopen after his European vacation.
In Arlington Fairfax and the cities of Alexandria and Manassas Virginia milk price controls were abolished at a Virginia Milk Commission hearing in Alexandria. A majority of producers and distributors asked the commission to cease operations in the area prompting immediate price reductions to the Washington level. Prices dropped from 23 1/2 cents a quart and 98 cents a gallon to 82 cents for a quart at Highs Stores and similar reductions expected at Safeway Embassy and other distributors.
Mr and Mrs S H Reaves captured first in the weekly duplicate bridge at the Winchester Contract Bridge Club held at the Golf Club. Runners up were Mrs W A Caskaden and John Griffith with several other pairs from Warrenton and area placing in the top six. The next meeting on September 2 will be open to all interested players at the Golf Club.
Virginia highway deaths for 1959 reached 513, five more than last year. Four year old Patrick Patterson died after a truck struck him near his Fairfax County home. Anna Elizabeth Altizer, 60, of Roanoke, perished when her car left U S 221 near Floyd and overturned. Philip Ramsdale, 28, of Portsmouth, died when his tractor trailer left U S 1 near the Rich Bridge area.
A vehicle plunged down a bank and Ramsdale was ejected from the cab. A new 11,500 foot airstrip in Papeete, Tahiti, aimed as the longest in the Pacific, should be completed in June 1961. France reports navigable rivers transporting over 66 million tons of goods annually.
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