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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1963
Page
7
A holiday entertaining feature suggests Meat Loaf Cubes with Apple Sauce Dip and Apples-on-a-Pick. The recipe mix includes ground chuck, pork or veal, onion, egg, canned apple sauce, stuffing mix, and a tangy dip of sour cream mustard and Tabasco. Also describes assembling picks with sausage and spiced apple slices baked hot for serveable appetizers.
Dear Abby maintains balance between money minded spouses and safe neighbors and gifts. A reader recounts garage danger to children and legal limits. The column advises locking doors and using thoughtful gifts like photographs for grandparents, and closes with wedding song musings and a New Year greeting.
The Richmond City Council and the Henrico and Chesterfield boards of supervisors will meet January 10 to continue debate on a proposed east west expressway in the metropolitan area. They met last night and will review several suggested routes before the January 10 session.
Frederick County officials began 1964 with only two supervisors sworn in by Court Clerk Lee Whitacre. Pending oath and bonds for three others. no official duties until bonding and oath are complete. Bonds listed: McCann 300000, Bailey 3000, DeHaven 5000, plus two justices of the peace at 500 each.
The Associated Press notes three traffic fatalities in Virginia yesterday raising the highway toll to 982, compared with 972 a year ago. Portsmouth: five year old David McNeil died from injuries after a November crash. Chesterfield: sixteen year old Clarence Harris was killed riding a bicycle on U S 60. Henrico: thirty six year old Donald Glazebrook died when his car struck a bridge abutment on the Richmond Henrico turnpike.
Postmaster Wilbur Johnston reports the first 25 days of December total mail at Winchester reaches 2 598 826 pieces, 1 percent below the same period last year. Parcel post rises 10 percent, machine cancellations drop 7.5 percent, and 59 977 parcels pass through, up from 54 510. The office closes New Years Day with limited deliveries and holiday box service. Safety note discusses Zambezi tribal customs involving tooth loss red clay and nose sticks dating to slave days.
The Winchester Frederick County Chamber of Commerce plans a Jan 7 dinner at the George Washington Hotel to present its 15th Outstanding Citizen award. Rear Admiral William C. Mott will speak. the recipient is kept secret until the ceremony. Eligibility requires five years residency in the area. Tickets are available at the Chamber office.
Brenden Behan, 40, was found unconscious in a Dublin street early Monday and remains fairly comfortable but ill. Police investigate whether he fell or was struck by a vehicle in a possible hit and run.
The white trillium is named the official floral emblem of Ontario Canada.
A fire on December 21 in Ida hospitalized William Richard, 38, with second degree burns. Richard fled his home amid alleged coal oil ignition, telling Elbert Lohr someone set him afire. He’s at Newton D. Baker Veterans Hospital. sheriff investigation ongoing.
Huntington contractor John S. Gillespie elected president of the West Virginia Contractors Association. He will assume office next year replacing Paul A. Feathers of Morgantown. Other new officers include Robert E. Troy of Huntington as vice president and Kenneth M. Dunn of South Charleston as treasurer.
The article notes Montgomery Alabama as the inaugural capital of the Confederate States, marking its historic role in the region during the Civil War era.
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