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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1962
Page
3
North English towns along the Tyne and Clyde report steep job losses as 8.54 million Britons are out of work overall. Scotland and Wales show high rates, with youths joining the Labor Exchange amid shuttered shipyards, coal mines, and steel overproduction.
Toronto AP reports Arthur Lucas, a Detroit Negro, and Ronald Turpin, age 29 of Toronto, were hanged back to back for murder. Pickets protested outside the jail as Canada’s 14th and 49th death sentences under PM Diefenbaker’s government were carried out since 1957.
The piece argues unemployment weakens the Conservative government, noting by elections losses in Scotland and northern England. It says government steps may not quickly curb unemployment and stresses that directing new industry depends on actual growth, with firms reluctant to build where growth does not exist.
The Virginia Skyline Co has paid current year taxes on Shenandoah National Park concessions into Page County treasury. Madison County officials had claimed several concessions were in their county. after a boundary meeting the issue was dropped.
Shenandoah County board of supervisors granted Edinburg permission to proceed with annexation. Town attorney Kermit Racey described the proposed area as extending in all directions from the town except for a boundary line on the southern edge, with exact acreage yet to be determined.
A special committee to study air pollution was named by the Waynesboro-East Augusta Chamber of Commerce board after mayor and council endorsement last month. Mayor W. Clerk Jordan will serve on the group.
A New York AP report cites Steel Facts from the American Iron and Steel Institute predicting a busy year for canmaking in 1962. Families of five are expected to open about 1,250 cans each, with U S per person reaching 250 cans as soft drink tinplate containers drive up demand. A 5.2 million ton steel total is projected, fueled by rising soft drink can use and a 1.7 billion can tally for the year, up 45 percent.
Eleven people are ordered to report at 9 50 a m Thursday for jury duty in City Court. Names listed include John Ven us L Veatras Cornelius and Jeanne Armel Delis Chalmers Nelson Leonard Riley. Additional potential jurors and others are named for future reporting.
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