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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1956
Page
10
Gainesboro Methodist Men's Club announces a traffic deaths and accidents symposium at Gainesboro Church on Friday January 4 at 7 30 PM. Mr Light notes the issue is a major civic problem and the meeting is led by Trooper J H Smith Jr of the Virginia State Police with invited participation for all interested in solutions.
A funeral service for Staige William Dolan 74 retired farmer of Whitacre was held today at 2 p m at Redland Methodist Church. The Rev B F Spitzer and Rev Philip E Weeks officiated with interment in Woodlawn Cemetery Whitacre. Pallbearers listed include Elmer Patterson Russell Fletcher Fred Whitacre Landon Whitacre Fred Braithwaite and Russell Pugh.
HAL BOYLE offers New Year safety tips from New York advising readers to avoid excess and danger. The piece cautions against mixing drinks, encourages water or milk first, and urges caution at parties and when driving. It ends with a warning to postpone danger and a wish for a safe, happy year.
Berk Kaufhold, a junior at North Texas State College, urged people to attend the college radio club event through calls and personal contact, but club officers found he had slept through the outcome of his promotion efforts.
New York police intensify efforts to catch the elusive mad bomber as threats decline from 36 to 13 over three days. A 37 year old Morris Rubin of the Bronx was arrested after a harmless device was found in Grand Central Station and a two hour subway disruption followed.
Fifteen senior students from Storkow High School crossed into West Berlin to escape reprisals for a five minute class protest against Soviet intervention in Hungary. They were ordered expelled and later plan to finish high school in West Germany.
At Fort Meade Maryland Specialist Vernon L Dillard 25 of Pittsburgh was shot and killed while escaping from the main stockade after an attempted return home by telephone He had been linked to an 807 robbery at the Western Union office on December 22 at Fort Meade The FBI said about 807 was recovered with the rest spent on clothes and a wedding ring The bride Carol Morton of Baltimore identified Dillard in a lineup and police noted unusual spending preceding the arrest
President Tito plans a two day holiday with his wife and close friends in the Slovenian mountains. He told Borba that he does not like celebrating the New Year in a closed place and will hunt wild mountain goats in the snow. New Year's is Yugoslavia's major winter holiday.
A funeral service for Mrs Dale Ogden Baylis 76 wife of J Frank Baylis of 315 Amherst Street was held Saturday at 11 am at Hebron Lutheran Church Intermont West Virginia Rev Gordon Zirkle officiating Interment followed in the church cemetery Pallbearers included William Cline Clarence Cline Bernard Groves Jack Rudolph Gordon Aikin Melvin Dunlap and Wilbur Brill
A crash sent two mail-passenger trucks plunging 210 feet into a river, killing seven people. Rescue teams searched the wreckage along the hillside as authorities investigated the sudden tragedy.
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