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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1962
Page
9
Post holiday task of stowing tinsel and trimmings becomes easy with plastic containers. Use covered refrigerator drawers for lights and stands, plastic ice cube trays to protect fragile ornaments, and hinged plastic jewel boxes for bead strings and ribbon. At a glance stocktaking aids next season’s decorating.
Go BASIC by day in the high neckline version with feminine styling for dinner. Pattern 4985 lists yardage percentages and sizes 12 45 14 24 with 16 taking 3 percent yards. Includes mailing info to Anne Adams at Winchester Evening Star and a spring pattern catalog offer with a 50 cent price.
Cooking page by Cecily Brownstone presents Crips and Nuts Baked Ham with pineapple cherry studding, yam souffle, mustard, tossed greens, fruit and cookies. The nut butter rice biscuit mix yields 12 to 20 servings, using parmesan and paprika.
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Inc adds three letters to its collection. Jay Johns, who leads the memorial, says the letters came from a New York auction of items once owned by Baltimore collector Philip G. Straus. One letter is to Jackson’s commissary chief Maj W. J. Hawks, another to Mrs. Fairfield in Sharpsburg in 1862, and a third from Gen Joseph E. Johnston dated May 27 1862.
Senate Investigations subcommittee plans hearings on narcotics trafficking with Interpol and foreign governments. Chairman McClellan seeks official go ahead and a schedule for broader probes including college and professional sports gambling and athlete corruption.
First of the Year Griddlecakes feature a man sized breakfast with ham as the main savory addition. The recipe uses Washington Self Rising flour and a dairy egg milk oil base, cooked on a preheated griddle and served with butter syrup and broiled peaches. Makes about a dozen four inch cakes.
Fairfax Virginia March 1962 A third Virginia state senator has announced he will not run in 1963 State Sen John A K Donovan said he seeks a Lions Club international post and cannot hold both public roles He has held the Fairfax Falls Church seat 12 years Armistead L Boothe Alexandria and Thomas Blanton Bowling Green had already announced they would not seek reelection next year.
In Kannapolis North Carolina eight Bentley siblings aged 4 to 14 begin life at the Church of God orphanage after a fatal car crash that claimed their parents Abner Bentley 67 and his wife 40 near Morganton. Welfare worker Andrea Triplett organized their placement and notes the 10 month old Terry Wayne will join at age two. The siblings were placed in six foster homes before the orphanage accepted most of them. Christmas gifts and clothing were donated for the children.
Fred McKee of Winchester is named among 29 Ford salesmen in the Washington Lincoln Mercury district to receive the company's 100 Club honor. He works at the George Washington Garage as part of a district spanning Virginia Maryland Washington North Carolina and West Virginia.
The Winchester Lions Club regular meeting set for tomorrow at 12 15 p m is cancelled. The next meeting will be January 8 at 12 15 p m in the George Washington Hotel. A program featuring motion pictures of a 1909 trans continental auto race is planned.
Authorities charged Army Pvt. Richard Silcox on murder counts after he shot 41 year old Hubert Stump in a car on Virginia 67 between Richlands and Big Creek. Silcox, 23, home on leave from Ft Hood Texas, said he did not know why he did it.
Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. will speak at the Virginia Travel Council sessions in Roanoke on 16 19. The conference aims to draw 250 travel industry leaders to craft a 1968 travel program, elect officers, and study boosting tourism from 750 million to a billion dollars annually.
For eight years pharmacist M. L. Cooper on North Avenue has kept order notes from anxious customers. One inquiry asks for 1 small bottle of nerves tablets for people who are so nervous. Other items listed include insane incense and hair rinse.
In Norfolk the World Twirling Association crowned grand champions Beth Seegars of Goldsboro North Carolina in the junior division and Betty Ann Epperson of Rossville Georgia in the senior division at the national meet.
A rare coin collection valued at more than $1,000 was stolen from the home of collector C. M. Pettrey on Friday night after a back door was forced open. The collection consists mostly of old U.S. coins. Police report the home was entered through a forced back door.
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