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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1959
Page
1
Senator Byrd addresses about 3,000 at the Byrd picnic in Berryville praising Dr J R Magness, retired USDA official, for long service in horticulture and apple industry. He criticizes Warren Court decisions on home privacy books taxes and calls for restraint on labor and government subsidies.
A Bermuda shorts clad teen girl cleaned a floor spill after a lunch counter worker dropped orange juice. A city hall bean pole tree on the grounds is noted with one side thriving and the east tree dying behind a bean vine. A fragment from a 1905 Pittsburgh paper was found. weather forecasts predict more showers after a firemen’s parade in Berryville.
Word spread in the Scottish highlands that President Eisenhower may be godfather to Queen Elizabeth's expected child. Royal aides kept silent while locals noted the close friendship between Elizabeth, Philip and the President during his Balmoral visit.
New Delhi and Calcutta newspapers hailed Prime Minister Nehru’s disclosure of Chinese raids across the Tibetan border. They urged a strong stand as “continuing cases of Chinese aggression” threaten Asia. Nehru said several hundred Communist troops attacked a border post, routing defenders and seizing parts of the northeast frontier. The army was ordered to assume direct control of about 35,000 square miles formerly patrolled by Assam Rifles. reports also place Chinese forces in Ladakh in Kashmir since 1957.
Warren County School Board asks Federal Judge John Paul to rescind the injunction admitting 21 Black students to Warren County High School. Attorney William J. Phillips mailed a request for a Sept 3 hearing as the Criser High School for Negroes nears completion, with a 400 pupil capacity. The previous order said Black students were sent to Manassas Regional and Johnson Williams High Schools.
About 250 growers from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania met at the Glaize packing house on Fairmont Ave to back a four point program to shield apple growers from low processor prices. J Kenneth Robinson led the meeting as president of the Eastern Fruit Marketers Co operation which has about 500 members. The plan opposes fruit deliveries without announced prices and last year’s prices as well as investigates discriminatory practices and uses member influence if prices drop or other regions pay more. Last year’s sauce apples were 1.75 per cwt versus a 2.35 target this year based on growers data. One processor said he would start taking apples Sept 1 but no price was named. The report notes continued discussion on page 2 column 4.
In Berryville the John H. Enders Firemen's parade drew 78 units. Reuss Junior Drum and Bugle Corps earned second best drum and bugle honors while Friendship won second largest uniformed company. Miss Donna Burger of Arlington served as grand marshal. Parade route along Main Street and South Buckmarsh Street drew hearty crowds. Officials including Sen. Harry F. Byrd and Rep. Burr Harrison attended as Berryville council awarded $500 and six trophies for best apparatus and best high school.
Moscow says it will extend its moratorium on nuclear weapons tests as long as Western powers refrain. Khrushchev pledged not to be first to test again, but would resume if any Western power tests. France moves toward Sahara tests, potentially ending the Soviet pledge.
The Census Bureau reports the average American paid 568 dollars in taxes to federal, state, and local governments for the 1958 fiscal year, with total government receipts at 98.3 billion dollars. Both figures dipped from 1957 due to the recession, while state and local revenues rose as they enacted new taxes and higher rates. Total government debt climbed to 334.4 billion dollars.
President Eisenhower visits England and meets Queen Elizabeth II before heading to Chequers for talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. They discuss Western strategy in the Cold War, planned talks with Nikita Khrushchev, and issues in Berlin, disarmament, and nuclear tests amid cheering crowds and small protests.
President Eisenhower bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle and jokingly asked for Princess Anne's cooking samples. The exchange included playful remarks about photographs, a moment of sincere eye contact between Ike and the Queen, and light banter about the royal dog and Prince Philip's mood with cameras.
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