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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1963
Page
3
Virginia farmers hold 2,996,000 bushels of apples in cold storage on Nov 30, down 17 percent from a year earlier. US movement out of storage in November totaled 11,089,000 bushels, 19 percent of Oct 31 stocks, with most gains in Washington and Michigan.
American troops of the First Cavalry Division held an outdoor Mass within 36 inches of the truce line on the Korean front. In Panmunjom the unit decorated a 20 foot Christmas tree while North Korean guards watched.
In Washington a noon Christmas party for 700 underprivileged children proceeded despite the nation’s mood after President Kennedy’s murder. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy led the event with gifts from the White House and department employees contributed 50 cents each. Santa distributed presents, aided by items from the late president’s children.
The name Mark Twain was adopted by Samuel Clemens from a riverboat pilot’s call signaling two fathoms of water. The phrase marked safe depth for the excursion along the Mississippi and became Clemens's enduring pen name.
A Boston group of Massachusetts residents plans to form a national committee to draft Henry Cabot Lodge for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge, then ambassador to South Vietnam, is a former U.S. senator and was the 1960 Republican vice presidential candidate. An AP poll found Lodge favored by about two thirds of responding Republican state committee members.
Mrs Ellen Olsen widow of Ole Olsen and William A Sipprell vice president of Lear Jet Corp Wichita plan to marry around December 27 likely in Florida or Jamaica Olsen known by stage name Eileen O Dare was a former dancer with the Olsen and Johnson troupe
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of Virginia will introduce push button dial service in Petersburg making it among the first in the Bell system. The Touch Tone service uses 10 pushbuttons and will be optional at an extra monthly charge with gradual rollout across the C&P and Bell systems. A 1960 Roanoke trial involved about 100 subscribers.
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