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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1962
Page
11
Wood slabs offered at low summer prices through September 1st. Call MO 2-2030. Excellent business opportunity a profitable general store and service station must sell owners run it with apartment upstairs and car garage in back. Reasonable terms. Call Charles Town 22 F 032 or mail P O Box 144 Summit Point West Virginia.
Virginia reported six traffic deaths over the weekend raising the 1962 toll to 560 from 504 a year earlier. Victims include Thomas W. Morgan of Arrington in Amherst County, John E. Dillard of Arrington in Nelson County, Curtis D. Fitzgerald of Buena Vista, Alfred Peery Boothe of Roanoke, Lena Johnson of Portsmouth, and James Stowers of Bluefield West Virginia from separate crashes and a hit run.
Two Roanoke brothers, John Lewis Baker and Paul MacArthur Baker, surrendered after a two day manhunt near Covington for the murder and robbery of taxi driver Robert Randolph Rea. Rea, shot five times, was found beside his taxi on U.S. 60. Authorities said the brothers confessed and described robbing him as the motive.
St Paul A M E Church marks its 95th anniversary this week with services Thursday through Sunday. Reverends Scott Irvin Scruggs DeBerry deliver sermons. Mt Carmel Baptist and John Mann Methodist choirs provide music. refreshments served. pastor H A Abney invites the public.
A car in which he was riding left the road and ran over an embankment on Virginia 61 about five miles east of Rocky Gap in Bland County.
Valley Lodge No. 403 of the Loyal Order of Moose captured top ritual honors at the state convention. Strasburg team won the trophy for a fourth straight year as James T. Freeze of Portsmouth was elected president and Cecil R. Leathers vice president. Harry Drinkwater of Harrisonburg elected district president.
Charlottesville report notes that $ from James Madison’s 1836 bequest is now used to buy the first two volumes of Madison papers for the University of Virginia library. Librarian John Cook Wyllie calls the purchase an notable fulfillment of a long-ago gift.
Richard D. Chumney, commissioner of agriculture, has been named chair of the agriculture commission, advancing to lead the panel in state farming policy.
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