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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1960
Page
7
Abigail Van Buren answers readers on clean speech in social groups, teen pregnancy and marriage pressure. A 55 year old wife seeks makeup guidance while a 19 year old considers marriage despite parental disapproval. Abby offers etiquette, dating morals, and personal replies.
Tar Heel voters will see major figures from both parties in a competitive national race. Nixon and Lodge appeal in Greensboro as campaign activity heats in the South while Gavin presses the GOP effort. Democrats announce Kennedy and Johnson plan fall visits to North Carolina.
In Danville the NAACP signals openness to bi racial talks to reopen the city library closed since June amid segregation disputes. Attorney Ruth Harvey Wood says willingness to sit with a biracial commission, Rev Doyle Thomas notes, while local NAACP president calls for a pep meeting to calm street chorus. Grace Pharo becomes New Jersey's first woman mail carrier on a city route delivering an alligator.
Western diplomats view Congo’s path under Patrice Lumumba as a shift toward the Soviet bloc with UN peacekeepers present. Lumumba’s pivot, leftist advisers, Soviet visitors, and calls for UN troop withdrawal echo Cold War tensions amid regional autonomy strains and secessionist currents.
In Perry Florida a lead survey crew uncovered 1829 U S government survey markings carved on the surface of a cypress tree along with three witness trees used to locate a section corner. The six inch deep marks specify township range and section numbers for the region. The article also notes David Glasgow Farragut the first U S Navy admiral achieving the rank in 1866.
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