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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1961
Page
7
A daily vocabulary note highlights the word FUNDAMENTAL meaning foundation or basis and notes its use in expanding word choice. The entry stresses practice and consistency in building language skills.
An advertisement describes Pattern 7325 for two 9 by 12 color charts and sleeve covers. It urges sending 25 cents to Alice Brooks at Star New York for 200 slipcovers and free patterns, with 10 cents extra for first‑class mail.
TV critics note Santa’s absence with diapered replacements on screen as New Year entertainment features include Fred Waring's Unforgettables on NBC and Enchanted Nutcracker on ABC. Suggested replacements for Steve Allen include Straightaway moving to 8 PM and NBC’s White Paper on Khrushchev Berlin crisis airing 10 to 11.
The ordinance proposes annexing 142 square miles and 115000 residents, leaving a county of 90 square miles and about 2000 people. The city argues small scattered population cannot sustain a government and favors annexing the entire county. Court action against Henrico to start late January. Chesterfield actions await settlement. Each case will be heard by a three judge court.
Judge Richard Cunningham Richardson age 59 of New Kent and Charles City County Courts died yesterday in a Richmond hospital. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Talleysville with burial there. He served as commonwealth's attorney for New Kent County 1928–38 and 1942–59 and was a Richmond businessman as president of Cavalier Distributing Co. and secretary treasurer of R. E. Richardson Lumber Co. Survived by widow Marjorie Mullins Richardson, a sister and a brother.
Loudoun sheriff's office reports a girl's body found along a road near Harpers Ferry by a deputy on December 16. investigators checked numerous missing person reports from across the region to identify her.
Friday contract bridge group at the George Washington Hotel crowned Mrs. Harold G. Brown and Mrs. Irvan OConnell as winners. Runners-up were Mrs. S. H. Reaves and Bentley Kinney with Grace Roberts and John Griffith in third, Ed Cagley and S. H. Reaves in fourth. Next meeting set for Jan 5. no game this Friday.
London faced below freezing temperatures as winter tightened its hold from Scandinavia to northern Italy. Paris and Berlin reported freezing conditions with the mercury sinking to 4 below in Berlin.
Fires erupt in Baltimore and Nashville on Christmas Day. Baltimore fire crews battled a six story building housing a produce firm, three alarms, eight rescued and additional hospitalizations. In Nashville the Maxwell House Hotel burned with guests fleeing, one elderly man missing. In Groton a family mourns after a farmhouse fire kills four, including a child and a hired helper who perished while rescuing May Thayer, five.
U S foreign aid reached 5.2 billion dollars in the last fiscal year but net after foreign repayments dropped to 3.9 billion, the Commerce Department said. Major components were 1.7 billion in military assistance and 1.5 billion in farm product exports. Since 1945 the United States has provided 80.6 billion in aid through mid-1961.
Mrs James Moss youngest sister of Vice President Lyndon B Johnson died Monday after Christmas at Johnsons Ranch from a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 49 and services were held at Crest Funeral Home in Johnson City.
In Nashville, the 102-year-old Maxwell House hotel was destroyed by a Christmas night fire. About 60 to 70 evacuees fled in night clothes with pets and gifts. one elderly guest is unaccounted for. The fire’s origin is under investigation. the brick and wooden structure was insured for $1 million.
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