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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1963
Page
3
The steel sector shows demand and production gains with 1,975,000 tons weekly output, a 5.4 percent rise, boosting capacity use to about 63.6 percent. Kennedy urges tax cuts to spur growth while January retail sales slip 0.6 percent to 20.049 billion.
A frightened anonymous witness recounts a gangland style robbery and slaying at a Nansemond County gambling club on February 8. Five armed intruders, masked and possibly inside involved, fleeced about 25 patrons. Meyer Jacobson a Portsmouth bail bondsman and club operator was shot after refusing to surrender his gun. The robbers fled in a stolen car later found abandoned in Portsmouth.
In Loughborough England AP reports a 53 bell carillon for the National Cathedral tower. Bells crafted by John Taylor and Co. fuse centuries of craft with modern scale, weighing up to 12 tons and forming a system nearing completion in a 100 ton overall installation.
Wilmer A Summerville, 73, a blind World War I veteran who had lived in jail after being refused VA housing, died in a Cedartown private nursing home of a heart attack. Mrs Christine Perry, who offered to care for him, reported he smiled at the end. va aid and student valentines signaled he was not abandoned. funeral set for 4 p.m. in nearby family cemetery.
Stamp, Ark home to the only U.S. town named Stamps according to the Arkansas Publicity and Parks Commission. The claim highlights the town’s distinct name and national uniqueness in official records.
Mrs. L. Kent, 90, aims for the Mrs. America crown at Miami Beach April 22 26. She notes years of bread baking cooking and a long marriage while listing achievements in legislation writing poetry and journalism. Contest director Bert Nevins says the contest honors homemakers not just beauty and accepts her application.
Washington AP reports Assistant Secretary of State W Averell Harriman is expected to assume the no 3 post as undersecretary for political affairs in a White House shakeup. George C McGhee, current holder, seeks a foreign assignment and may be replaced as Kennedy aims to speed State Department operations.
AFL CIO Carpenters union president Maurice Hutcheson told the California State Council of Carpenters convention that a 35 hour week would create at least 5 million new jobs. He said unemployment is the greatest threat and must be tackled boldly.
General Dynamics Astronautics announced a radio transmitter that pierces the blackout caused by atmospheric re entry. It has transmitted from Cape Canaveral on over a dozen missile flights without a failure, surviving 3000 degree heat.
NORFOLK AP Fifteen years of night school have paid off for George Stakins 33, a senior accountant for Ford Motor Co. He will receive a master’s degree in personnel administration next week from Old Dominion College after earning a bachelor’s in business administration there previously. He plans to study for the certified public accountant designation.
President Kennedy will send a special negotiator to Europe to discuss Western defense costs and the nuclear force structure. Retired diplomat Livingstone Merchant will travel in about 10 days to brief allied leaders on possible organization and decision rules for use in a sudden emergency. The aim is to set early guidelines before NATO ministers meet in Ottawa in May, amid tensions with De Gaulle over France seeking an independent nuclear force.
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