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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
5
Classified display ads in bordered columns cost 1.75 per column inch per day with a minimum charge. Cash payment required for all out of town ads. Closing hours are 10 a.m. for same day issue processing at the Star Office.
Classified notice seeking a high school graduate to learn a trade. Apply via Write Box 30 at The Winchester Star with reference to the 12 18 51 issue.
Advertises sales position for live prospects and a in demand product. Requires age 25 to 60 and own car. Visit Mr Hardy Cofer at 139 N Loudoun St on Friday December 21 between 9 and 12.
A dairy farm seeks a man for work duties with a furnished house and bath. Other furnishings provided. Good salary. Contact Ed B. Lee at White Post Virginia by phone Boyce 155-1.
Virginia Tech economists report total feed concentrates for 1950 57 nearly match last year’s record and are 13 percent above the 1949 53 average. Weaker livestock numbers may lower hog production 7 8 percent from 1955 56 highs.
Sister Maria Virgo shopped for toys for poor children at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish but ran short of money. A department store saleswoman and a manager aided, and most clerks contributed, enabling purchase of all the dolls and more toys.
Virginia Tech will run an eight week summer institute for high school science teachers starting June 12 funded by a 62 900 National Science Foundation grant. Dr T M Hahn Jr heads the physics department and will direct the program which aims to attract at least 50 teachers. Participants receive 75 dollars weekly plus 15 dollars weekly per dependent up to four, with all tuition and fees covered and travel allowances paid.
In Eastbourne England 57 year old Dr John Bodkin Adams was arrested on murder charges in the death of Edith Morrell an 81 year old widow and heir to nearly $170000. He faces counts including murder concealment of morphine and Drug Act violations as police probe the deaths of two more elderly women and a wider inquiry into 300 deaths over 20 years.
A New York advertising executive argues television drew ad revenue away from Collier's and the Woman's Home Companion, noting large circulations but sharp ad declines forced suspension. He suggests ads moved to TV, while magazine readership stayed strong.
Tanzan Ishibashi elected prime minister by Diet after Ichiro Hatoyama’s resignation. He will pursue continued Western cooperation and trade with Communist China. Ishibashi won 291 votes to 150 for opposition leader Masaburo Suzuki. Hatoyama, aged 73, retired earlier in poor health after two years in office.
Police questioned 40 year old Merlin McNaughton after a shooting spree in Ankola area that left Fred Petersen 53 and his son Ronald 24 dead, Mer vin Forrester 48 found dead, and Preston Bradley 38 and his wife Nancy 38 injured. McNaughton described as intelligent yet obsessed convinced everyone was after him.
A 12-year-old boy, Howard Baker, died from strangulation yesterday when a necktie caught on a door latch. Investigators deemed the death an accident and ordered an autopsy. Parents are Mr and Mrs Henry R Baker. The incident occurred during a 10 minute absence of the mother.
A Philadelphia delicatessen owner erected a large decorated Christmas tree beside his store in a crowded downtown block. He placed a sign declaring the tree for all homeless people or those without a Christmas tree of their own.
Hollywood observed Adolphe Menjou rate California’s sartorial elite listing Charles Thomas secretary of the Navy Gary Cooper Jac ques Bergerac Sidney Franklin Fred Astaire Robert F Petersen Clark Gable Leigh Batson and William Keck as standout examples. He said each man stands out as an oasis in a landscape of fading elegance among average Americans.
Canadian police estimate probation costs taxpayers about 80 dollars per year, while imprisonment costs around 3000 dollars annually. The figures highlight large fiscal differences between community supervision and incarceration.
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