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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1957
Page
12
Classifieds announce an AKC Boston Terrier Bull puppy in Stephens City with code 263 1 2. Mountain Hick ory oak fireplace logs offered for Christmas, with two phone numbers. A riding horse is advertised as gentle and suitable as a Christmas gift with another contact number.
Multiple notices list items for sale and rent. Baby bed, new plastics and innerspring mattress priced at 30 dollars. White pine Christmas trees and cedars with holly offer. Also farm collie pups priced by sex. Lionel Electric Train outfits for sale. 3 bedroom ranch home for 13500 with financing. Tarpaulins stocked for immediate delivery. Various rental listings for houses, apartments, and commercial space with contact numbers and dates.
A black white and tan female pup found on 8 Loudoun Street is described as found by SPCA contact MO 23 8616. Phone number 12 91 91 provided for reclaim.
In Budapest the 1957 Christmas will be somber as amnesty fails and mass trials, arrests, and executions mark the year. Cafes, theaters, and restaurants close on Christmas Eve while luxuries like champagne bananas and oranges circulate among a few. Wages are cut in some industries to curb demand amid ongoing repression.
Ruth Taylor a 25 year old registered nurse becomes the nation’s first Negro airline stewardess. Mohawak Airlines hired her in a case pursued with the State Commission Against Discrimination after she was told by Trans World Airlines she could not be hired because of intangible factors. She will report for work in January in Northern states. a Boston native, she is a graduate of Trumansburg High School and Bellevue School of Nursing.
Virginia transit workers in Richmond and Norfolk Portsmouth to vote on a new two year contract after negotiations that began November 13. Eligible members of the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America will decide terms with details withheld until the vote.
Three Weber High School juniors Johnny Stoddard Steve Mercer and Bruce Herrick secretly fired a two inch steel rocket 69 inches long over northern Utah. They calculated a 3600 foot peak speed 338 mph and a one second burn using 15 pounds of solid fuel. A second launch is planned this year with two stage design and instruments.
Joyce Meikle 18, the beauty contest winner, lay dead in a parked Glasgow car with her 38-year-old boss John Halley and army cadet James Wands. Police suspect Wands shot both, then killed himself, after jealousy over Joyce.
Chester Conklin, 71, long time movie comic, spends nine years as Santa at downtown Los Angeles J. W. Robinson's. He greets 400 to 500 children daily, enjoys their stories, and notes no Santa union exists. He recalls early show business days with Keystone Kops and Mack Sennett, and values simple comforts in life.
In Dinwiddie County Virginia the Afro American Co of Baltimore has appealed a $25,000 libel verdict to the U S Supreme Court after the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals declined to review the county jury award to Mrs Aline Owen who sued for $50,000 over alleged malicious publication in the October 18 1952 Virginia edition.
Hair on different parts of the head grows to different lengths at varying speeds. Generally hair grows an inch in six weeks. Short young hair grows about twice as fast as hair which is old and therefore already long.
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