Obituaries in Winchester Star December 28 1968
Grace Bentzel 79 of Washington D C died Friday in Casualty Hospital Washington D C. Graveside service Monday 11 a m Mt Hebron Cemetery with Rev Raymond G Womeldorf. Clays ton A Mason 46 of Bloomery Star Route died Thursday Winchester Memorial Hospital funeral 10 a m at Jones Funeral Home pallbearers listed burial Woodlawn Cemetery Whitacre Va. Plus Mamie O Lewis 75 Winchester died yesterday in hospital burial arrangements incomplete. Holmes William White 51 formerly of Winchester died Wednesday Polk General Hospital Winter Haven Florida funeral 11 a m Monday National Cemetery. Marie McClintock Parker died Friday in Pittsburgh Pa survived by sister Elsie Lee Parker Fisher of Baden Pa Graveside Green Hill Cemetery Berryville 11 a m Monday.
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Grace Bentzel
Casualty Hospital
Washington, D.C
Raymond G. Womeldorf
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Clayston A. Mason
Bloomery Star
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Jones Funeral Home
Robert Cravener
Garland L. Kerns
Roy J. Kerns
Homer Elliott
Sylvester Spillman
Charles W. Kerns
Hershell Kerns
Woodlawn
Whitacre
Dorothy M
Sargent
White Post
Geraldine Zuniga
Howard A.F.B
Canal Zone
Anna Bell Mason Crouse
Siler Route
Janice M
Self
Middletown
Ruth M
Miller
Stephens City
Blanche M
Ensor
Frederick, Md
Margaret Marie Mason
Gladys Mason
Holmes William White
Winchester
Polk General Hospital
Winter Haven
Florida
Conrad J. Christianson
National Cemetery
Elsie Lee Parker Fisher
Baden, Pa
Green Hill Cemetery
Berryville
Daniel D. Dickenson
Reassessment figures for 1968 tax year discussed
The article states county property was valued at 120,203,293 and a projection to 209,874,950 by Commissioner of Revenue. Local assessors listed include E. E. Bayliss Jr, Francis Lages, Eugene Larrick, High Dailey, and Fred Gore.
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Commissioner of Revenue
Neff
E.E. Bayliss, Jr
Francis Lages
Eugene Larrick
High Dailey
Fred Gore
Middletown Stores Robbed In Overnight Burglary
A Main Street store was entered by roof access and a second floor window break. About $5 in change, several pocket watches, pipes and cigarettes were taken. a nearby Mobile Gas Station soft drink machine was struck but the change box remained untouched. Sgt. H C Brown investigated. Separately Mrs. Clara Lee Huff Sowers, 83, died at her daughter’s home in Rawson WV. service is Monday at John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville with burial in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Middletown
Miller's
Sgt
H.C. Brown
Sgt. Brown
Clara Lee Huff Sowers
Margaret Mobley
Rawson
W.va
Blount Sees Southern Shift to GOP Under Nixon
Winton M. Blount, the Alabama businessman slated to become postmaster general, said the political tide in the South runs to the Republicans. The U S Chamber of Commerce president noted Southerners feel more comfortable with the GOP and promised equal opportunity in the Post Office Department while stressing mail service improvements. He avoided answering if civil rights influenced the shift and said no immediate postal reforms were decided, though he would study proposals to privatize postal operations.
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Washington
Nixon
Winton M. Blount
Alabama
South
Blount
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
GOP
Post Office Department
Hercules Cleans Augean Stables By Drenching Alpheus River
Mythic tale recounts Hercules clearing King Augeas stables by diverting the Alpheus and Peneus rivers to wash out the vast stalls. The feat demonstrates his strength and ingenuity in classical myth.
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Hercules
Peneus
Tragedy Near Deerfield: Five Children Slain in Farmhouse
In rural Wisconsin near Deerfield a mother, Elwood W. Bodeman, 36, died from a slash wound after five children aged 2 to 9 were strangled in their beds. Coroner Clyde Chamberlain called the deaths murder death by own action. investigation ongoing.
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Madison
Wis
Clyde Chamberlain
Tooms
Deerfield
Elwood W. Bodeman
Chamberlain
County Couple Celebrates 60th Wedding Anniversary
Lee N Whitacre and Lula Braithwaite of Cross Junction marked sixty years since their 1908 marriage officiated by Rev J H Lacy. A 50 member family dinner at Ope Hearth followed a Christmas Eve anniversary. Whitacre retired 1967 as clerk of Frederick County Circuit Court after a 36 year tenure in county government.
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Lee N. Whitacre
Cross Junction
Lee Whitacre
Lula Braithwaite
J.H. Lacy
Presbyterian Church
Winchester
The
Frederick County
Saigon Demands Hanoi and Viet Cong Move Next
Vietnam talks drift as Saigon insists Hanoi and the Viet Cong must take the next step. U S negotiator Vance vows to break roadblocks while Saigon dismisses 12 press aides amid internal South Vietnamese tensions involving Vice President Ky. Talks may await Nixon’s inauguration and new U S posture.
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Vietnam
Saigon
Hanoi
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Paris
Johnson
Nixon
Vance
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Nguyen van Thien
Ton That Thien
Col
Ha van Lau
Weather Outlook for Virginia with Cold Blast Ahead
Cold wave warning in Virginia with showers today and high temp in the 50s. Partly cloudy, windy, and much colder tonight with a few snow flurries. low in the 20s. Sunday high in the 30s, Monday fair and cold. Rainfall totals for December and the past five years noted.
Apollo 8 9 10 plans and moon landing timeline
Space officials in Houston outline Apollo 8 lunar mission hopes and Apollo 9 earth orbit test of the Lunar Module. Apollo 10 aims for a near moon surface pass with two crew and a 50 000 foot approach. Apollo 11 target July or August for a moon landing if prior flights succeed. Lovell remarks on high velocity burn as Yorktown recovers the capsule. President Johnson praises the crew while Hypsophobia and acrophobia definitions follow.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Johnson
Two Arabs Face Hearing Over Athens Airliner Shooting
Two Arab suspects Mahmoud Muhammad Issa 27 and Maher Hussein Sullerman 19 appeared before magistrate Nicholas Stylianakis for pretrial testimony after allegedly shooting an El Al airliner at Athens airport. One victim Israeli, one killed, a stewardess injured. Prosecutors filed eight counts including premeditated murder with possible death penalty. No trial date set. A Gaza group said it hired lawyers to defend them.
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Athens
General Security
Nicholas Stylianakis
Mahmoud Muhammad Issa
Maher Hussein Sullerman
el al
Paris
New York
Cairo
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Bob Hope Ends Christmas Visit in Southeast Asia
Bob Hope wrapped up his Southeast Asia Christmas tour with two Thai shows and a sober comment on war. He urged that the conflict's end would brighten the world after touring Vietnam and Thailand for five holidays, drawing 8,500 troops and civilians in Khorat. In Martinsville, Virginia, Trooper G F Langford shot a 47 year old Henry County man, William Mitchell, in the hospital lot after a knife attack, leaving Mitchell wounded but stable.
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Khorat Air Base
Thailand
Bob Hope
Southeast Asia
Hope
South Vietnam
Khorat
Martinsville
Virginia
Henry County
Martinsville General Hospital
William Mitchell
Henry
M. M. Kent
Mitchell
G. F. Langford
Apollo 8 spacecraft hoisted aboard USS Yorktown
The Apollo 8 spacecraft carrying astronauts to the moon and back is hoisted onto the USS Yorktown. Recovery occurred in the Pacific about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, after a flight exceeding half a million miles.
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Moon
Yorktown
Pacific
Hawaiii
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