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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1956
Page
6
Firemen were dispatched around 10 30 p m Saturday to 113 Leicester Street where a car was observed to smoke and make noise but no fire occurred and no damage was reported. Fire units Friendship South End and Rowuss responded to the alarm.
Classified display ads list rates and terms for local listings. Items include furnished and modern apartments for rent, a hotel lobby concession, a commercial building, sewing machine repairs, a shooting match with prizes, a Westinghouse range for sale, various personal sale items, and contact details with phone codes. Prices and posting rules are shown.
Classified items show a dairy farm help wanted ad with furnished house and a shop supervisor auto mechanic opening at Sandy's Auto Service in Stephens City, plus several lost notices for dogs tags cars keys and eyeglasses with contact numbers in Stephenson and nearby.
Classified notices show a babysitting wanted listing with contact MO 2-1503 dated 12 15 61 and a dog adoption appeal for an 8 month old tan and white medium dog calling SPCA MO 2 8616 dated 12 21 61.
Greenfield Massachusetts reports a winter class of about 225 graduates from a town run baby sitter course. Deputy Fire Chief Ed Mond F Tetreault and Sgt Donald Grogan led lectures on fire safety police protection medical aid and first aid. The program cost under 100 dollars and featured a 20 question test plus a pledged manual.
Chief John E. Keefe of Rockingham Vermont praised the program as a wonderful idea and arranged a briefing for Billings before last May's course. Requests for copies came from Peabody Ashfield West Springfield Charlemont and Orange. Greenfield's sitter school draws teens while this year includes two middle aged women and six boys showing broad interest.
Smithsonian researchers under Dr Warren Caldwell and George L Coale documented early Upper Hell's Canyon inhabitants who hunted big game 1000 plus years ago. Findings include projectile points deer and elk bones mussel shells ground milling stones and brush houses. The Mountain Sheep Eaters Shoshoni later inhabited the area into the 1880s now live on reservations in Idaho and Oregon.
Herbert Allen Clevenger 80 died Friday. Funeral service held yesterday at 2 p.m. at Enders Funeral Home Berryville with Rev. R. D. Goshorn officiating. Burial in Green Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers Clinton Polhamus Roy Campbell Kenneth Shenk Harvey Kercheval Jr. O. M. Lloyd Julian Glascock.
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