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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
7
A brief local note from Singer Sewing Center at 425 North Loudoun Cove Ave inviting customers to visit for sewing supplies and service. The message emphasizes friendly service and community feel from the shop in town.
Selective Service Board 44 in Frederick County and Local Board 45 in Winchester will close December 24 and 25 and January 1, 1957. The offices are located at 27 N Braddock Street.
Kathy Eavis led a recital singing Infant So Gentle while Sandra Royston performed Silent Night with Sheila Roe on piano. Warren Glasscock Jr played Hound Dog and Don t Be Cruel. Santa handed out gifts as members of the Loyal Order of Moose and Auxiliary served refreshments. A Women of the Moose event for spouses is planned at the Moose Home Saturday at 9 p.m. All members invited.
Sacramento report says Airman Charles E. Christmas of McClellan Air Base will be on duty with the radar maintenance squadron on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day leaving no holiday for him this year.
About 200 children and adults attended the Annual Christmas party hosted by the Women of the Moose at the Moose Home on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Howard Gardiner chaired the social service committee and directed a program that opened with Christmas carols led by ground singing and featured Cindy Grove performing Away in a Manger.
The Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries orders changes to trout open season from April 13 noon to December 31 sunset with daily creel limit eight. A public hearing will be held January 9 at 9:30 A.M. in Richmond. Beverley W. Stras, Jr. chairs the commission.
The Associated Press reports seven people died in five separate crashes from California to Pennsylvania. A U S Steel twin engine plane crashed on a Tyrone Pennsylvania mountainside killing Alden Roach, 55, of San Francisco, president of Columbia Geneva Steel Division, and two crewmen Ray Rollo of Los Angeles and L T Williams of Sunland, California. A helicopter piloted by Robert Walker, 27, of San Leandro, California capsize in San Francisco Bay. An F8U Crusader from Atlantic City Naval Air Station crashed killing Lt Robert D. Roth, 28, of Linwood, New Jersey. Navy Lt. (j.g.) William Otis Herring, 26, of Santa Clara, California died when his F9F8 Cougar jet exploded near Monterey. Thomas Warren, 40, a Columbus, Ohio used car dealer, died in Owosso, Michigan in a small plane crash after takeoff. A T33 jet trainer vanished between Shaw Air Force Base and Eglin Air Force Base in a four state search. pilot Lt Cornelius Van Vlymen, 25, Parma, Ohio and passenger W O William L Rae, 42, Los Altos, California were identified.
A 17-year-old girl reunited tearfully with her parents in a Denver General Hospital room after being taken from Daly City California by a companion couple and a teen escapese. FBI officials pursue a kidnap inquiry while a stolen car pursuit yields arrests and no charges filed yet.
Nanette Baldridge five year old daughter of Fred and Mrs Baldridge of a Portales area farm was critically injured by an accidental 22 rifle discharge while visiting grandparents. The bullet hit her head as the rifle on a rack behind the pickup seat discharged. Nanette previously lost both arms in an accident last year.
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