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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1966
Page
2
Obituary notices for Mrs Moorhead 92 of Berryville Ellis J Fries 73 of Berkley Springs James Shirley Henry 55 of Winchester with funeral details and burial plans. Surviving family members listed and service times set at local funeral homes across Berryville Berkeley Springs Front Royal and Winchester.
Ada Virginia Getts of 215 Buck marsh Street Berryville died Saturday. A funeral will be held tomorrow at 3 30 PM at John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville with Rev Julian Orrell officiating. Pallbearers listed include Linwood Everhart Earl Smallwood Robert Willingham Robert McFarland Hunter Longerbeam and Walter Barr.
Funeral service for Charles Henry Suddith of 19 N Stewart St will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at Berryville Funeral Home led by Rev G Raymond Womeldorf. Surviving with his widow Sylvia are his mother Lena Suddith sister Ann James Margaret Suddith Bertha Suddith brother Elmer Suddith and nephew Kenneth Wayne Suddith. Pallbearers named.
Mrs Goldie Pearl Sheetz 65 of Front Royal Road died today in Winchester Memorial Hospital. She was born June 16 1901 in Licking County Ohio, daughter of James A P Edwards and Mary Ellen Carr Edwards. Survived by husband James Percy Sheetz and children Elaine Lay Isabelle Lewis Charles Sheetz Betty Campbell Roy Sheetz, 17 grandchildren, one brother Lanky Edwards and one sister Myrtle Macneal. Funeral at Jones Funeral Home Wednesday 2 30 pm then graveside Mount Hebron Cemetery with Rev Glenn R Horst and Rev Mark Showalters officiating. Pallbearers Charles Roy William Laye Hugh Campbell James Lewis. Friends may call tomorrow morning until noon Wednesday.
Damascus Radio reported the Iraq Petroleum Co halting oil flow across Syria to the Mediterranean. IPC ordered Banias port valves closed after storage reached capacity as Syria sought higher royalties and threatened arbitration.
Marjorie Farber testified that Dr. Coppolino told her to strike her husband with a bat before administering a lethal drug. She described a trance like state and said Coppolino handed a powder tube to mix with water for injection. The witnesses said the couple lived across from Coppolino and that she feared the hypnotist might target his second wife, Mary Gibson Coppolino.
Highs and lows reported elsewhere as weather bulletin notes general conditions and fluctuations without local specifics. The Associated Press dispatch provides a broad overview of regional trends.
Forecast calls for increasing cloudiness with temperatures in the middle 20s tonight. Tuesday remains cloudy and cold with highs 35 to 40. Winds northerly 10 to 18 mph. The five day outlook shows below normal temperatures and rain Tuesday and later in the week. No major changes across the period.
Rainfall data covers 46 hours ending 8 30 a m today December totals show none for this period and a year to date of 31 33. Averages for 53 years list monthly figures from January to December with values like 2 42 inches in January and 3 11 in October. The January through December 53 year average is 35 25 inches and the January through November totals for the last five years are given as 41 39 75 1962 and 42 73 1963 39 75 1964 30 71 1965 23 72.
A 23 year old woman was charged by Winchester police with reckless driving after losing control at 3 50 yesterday. Her 1956 car struck a fire plug a parked car part of a fence and a vacant building near Louise Burcham Rt 1 turning east onto Millwood off Kent St. No injuries were reported.
The market rose with several major issues advancing including General Motors Du Pont Eastern Air Lines Boeing Douglas Xerox and Zenith while United Air Lines and Goodrich declined. Hess Oil gained on refinery news and higher earnings forecast as large blocks traded. Norton fell after a prior week rally. The AP average rose to 296.9 and prices were generally higher at the New York Stock Exchange.
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