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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1961
Page
1
Fidel Castro urged Brazilians to rise in a polar uprising in the style of his revolution to block reactionary militarists from installing an illegal fascist regime after Janio Quadros resigned as Brazil's president.
In Berlin the 1 500 soldiers of the 18th Infantry's 1st Battle Group completed a field test of combat readiness after weeks of lectures and sight-seeing. The maneuver, lasting several hours, followed a welcome by West Berliners and comes amid heavy East-West tensions around the city.
The week warns8 windshield inspections due by midnight Thursday. A Middletown officer cited a dealer's car. In Winchester an officer arrested a suspect for multiple traffic offenses and issued a meter ticket. Shawnee VFD holds a 6 30 p.m. drill at the hall and invites participation. Shelley Mann will perform at Willow Lawn Pool with public seating and a parade marshal role noted for the Apple Blossom Festival.
G Mennen Williams former Michigan governor and assistant secretary of state for African affairs was punched at Lusaka airport by a white man who opposed U S policy in Africa. Williams continued his six week goodwill mission with his wife Nancy and refueled in Leopoldville before returning to Washington.
Virginia localities received a total of 11.6 million dollars from ABC profits for the year, unchanged from last year but 1.9 million below the prior per capita. Per person distribution fell to 2.92 dollars, with a county and town breakdown listed, total counties 6.40 million dollars. The row includes notices on beer distributors closing Labor Day and local ads.
Detroit AP report says the United Auto Workers may strike any of the Big Three at 12:01 a.m. Friday if wage proposals are not met. GM Ford and Chrysler face union action as talks center on wages fringe benefits and profit sharing. AMC reached a profit sharing accord with an average annual wage rise and enhanced layoff pay. UAW demands aim to match or beat AMC terms amid a tense bargaining outlook.
James H. Rand Ill of Rand Development Corp says a Cleveland scientist’s anticancer serum, effective in animals, has been used on human patients in the last three years. He denies claims of proven success at Doctors Hospital and notes evaluation is premature.
Rock wool insulation bags 99 cents each and Batis products 2.99 each offered Friday September 1 from 9 to 2 in the rear of Montgomery Ward Retail Store Winchester Virginia. The sale lists a single day at a specific location with discounted prices.
Frederick County School Supt. R E Ayler announced Kline Elementary will open on schedule Friday. The cafeteria will not be completed, so all pupils must bring lunches until further notice. No hot lunches at Bry ary and Round Hill Schools as they will be served by Kline this year.
The State Pupil Placement Board affirmed its transfer decision relocating two Winches students to Douglas School after denying admission to Handley High. Protests by the girls' parents followed a August hearing in Richmond. Gloria Ann Brown and Harriet Anne Williams, both 15, were affected by the ruling.
The Waynesboro City Council accepted the mass resignation of 25 volunteers from the Waynesboro Volunteer Fire Company, effective Aug 24 after initial Aug 14 notices. City employment will run fire duties with five paid regular firefighters as a new department ordinance is drafted. a referendum on a redevelopment and housing authority was set for Nov. 7.
An 11 year old Harrisonburg boy named Carl Chris Luebben was struck by a passing car while riding his bicycle from an alley. He died two hours later at Harrisonburg hospital. The incident raises the 1961 Virginia highway death toll to 505, compared with 472 the previous year.
City Council votes unanimously to end daylight saving time for city offices and employees at 12:01 a.m. September 24 after a special noon meeting. Merchants and growers urged standard time. officials noted impact on advertising, school hours, fruit picking, and packing houses across Frederick County.
The Frederick County sheriff's office reported a theft at the Winchester Drive-In Theater office where a bag containing $936.40 and a set of keys was taken. Drawers under the screen were ransacked. Sheriff Robert L. DeHaven and Deputy Sheriff Boyd McDonald were away attending a county officials' school in Charlottesville and would return tomorrow morning.
In Chamonix a French jet airlifted passengers failed, a cable car system slackened, cabins swung free, and nine people were killed with others injured. Police and a helicopter assisted as some passengers remained trapped in swinging cabins.
William C. Waters of Erlanger Kentucky spent ten weeks lost near Big Lake Alaska after hiking from his car during a vacation. He described starvation thirst and exposure as aid arrived when two moose hunters from Fairbanks found him and a bear cub nursed him through the ordeal.
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