Train crash injures eighteen in Pennsylvania derailment
A freight train derailed after its 60th car jumped the tracks striking the Pennsylvania Limited No. 55 passenger train. Eighteen people were injured, with four postal workers exposed to ammonia fumes and the engineer of the passenger train suffering two fractured legs.
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Thompsontown
Pennsylvania Railroad Etc
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Lewistown
S. D. Miller
Altoona
Loudoun Street merchants tout aluminum marquees for rain protection
A Loudoun Street merchant reports many shops now use aluminum marquees that resist leaks. Virginia official John A. Racey warns Frederick County landowners that the Open Air Fire Law takes effect March 1, prohibiting fires before 4 PM near woodland and requiring fires after 4 PM be extinguished by midnight. Lions Club broom sale proceeds aid sight conservation with Clarke Club still selling about 36 brooms. contact John Milleson. Denny's Comm Auction features tonight at 7 with furniture, appliances, and tools.
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Loudoun Street
the Crier
Loudoun St
John A. Racey
Virginia Division of Forestry
Frederick County
Lions Club
Clarke Club
John Milleson
Ee ‘Denny
Shawnee Branch Middletown State Bank and Beauty Salon Opens
Open house tonight from 7 to 9 p.m at Shawnee Branch Middletown State Bank in the Shopping Center. Ave Beauty Salon at 16 West North Avenue is now open daily 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. appointments call 662 6268.
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Shawnee
Middletown State Bank
West North Avenue
Douglas Ways
Rt. 5
John C. Berry
Mr. Ways
Martinsburg
W. Va
Washington, D. C
George Washington University
Peoples
Town & Country
Footers Cleaners
ABC Liquor
Joe the
Burton’s Men’s
Triangle Shoes
Terry Shops
Winchester Park & Shop
Anthony F. Musolini
AIA
Loewer & Associates
Silver Associated
Rosenfeld Realty
House of Delegates Tackles Budget Bill
Richmond AP) Appropriations Chairman Howard H. Adams presented the proposed 1962 64 state budget of more than 573 million general fund to the House calling it sound. The plan assumes the income tax withholding proposal and would boost teacher salaries and fund expanding junior colleges while adding 2.1 million for higher learning and new off campus programs. Adams cautioned about local college facilities and highlighted reform in school funding formulas as the budget moves to the floor.
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Richmond
Howard H. Adams
House of Delegates
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Adams
Almond
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
House
Harrison
Northampton
State Council of Higher Education
Appropriations
Assembly
Madison County
Lynchburg
Martinsville
Wytheville
Clifton Forge-Covington Branch College
Maids of Honor Named for Apple Blossom Festival Queen
Miss Elizabeth Howard Lacy and Miss Jane Hutchinson Kremer will serve as Maids of Honor to Queen Shenandoah XXXV at the Apple Blossom Festival on May 3 4 5. Both are from Winchester and Handley High School graduates. Miss Lacy a Hollins College junior majors in biology and chemistry and Miss Kremer a Lasell College graduate and assistant interior decorator in Winchester will accompany the Queen at festival events and the Grand Feature Parade.
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Elizabeth Howard Lacy
Jane Hutchinson Kremer
Shenandoah
John B. Carr
Winchester
Handley High School
Miss Lacy
E. W. Lacy, Jr
S. Stewart Sr
Hollins College
Hollins
Virginia
Miss Kremer
J. Thomas Kremer
Jefferson St
Lasell Junior College
Auburndale
Mass
Lasell
Hafer House, Inc
Maids of Honor
Ecuador Editor to Spend Month at Winchester Star
Nicolas Ullea Jr editor of La Prensa Guayaquil Ecuador arrives Friday to work as a staff writer at The Winchester Evening Star for one month. Sponsored by the Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Jaycees this exchange aims to boost international understanding. He will reside with local families during the stay and later work a second month at the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record. Coordinator Strother Shiley Jr arranges his speaking appearances.
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Nicolas Ullea, Jr
la Prensa
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Winchester Evening Star
Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Jaycees
Allen
Harrisonburg Daily News-Record
Evening Star
Daily News-Record
Charles Anderson
Clarke County
James Wilkins
Tennyson Ave
Monford Custer
S. Washington St
Strother Shiley, Jr
Nashville runs blockade ends raider career becomes runner
100 years ago today the steamship Nashville broke through the blockade at Morehead City North Carolina and ended its raider days. It then served as a blockade runner. President Davis issued his first message to the permanent Confederate Government.
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C.S.C
Nashville
Morehead City
N.C
Davis
Woman given eight years in burning of newborn son
Evelyn Faye Deavers was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the death of her newborn son. The court, with no jury, heard testimony from witnesses including Mrs. Orie Hawkins and state troopers.
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Front Royal
Evelyn Faye Deavers
Lynn Lucas
Luray
Commonwealth
William J. Phillips
Eliott Marshall
H. F. Will
Floodwaters Drive Hundreds From Homes
Floodwaters from heavy rains swamped rivers and streams across Kentucky and neighboring states, isolating communities in Kentucky and West Virginia. Roads blocked, schools closed, and at least one death reported in West Virginia as farmland and homes faced widespread inundation. The Weather Bureau warned of lingering rain in the east while colder air swept south.
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Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Ohio
Weather Bureau
North Central
Huron
S.C
North Dakota
Minnesota
Montana
Shenandoah River Crest Nears as Area Streams Fall
Weather observer Mrs. Mark McIntosh reports Shenandoah River at Front Royal 7.47 feet and still rising toward crest while area creeks drop after heavy rain. Downstream rainfall totals reach 1.52 inches. Winchester lab notes .28 inches today. Temperatures ranged 39 to 51 today with a 67 high yesterday. colder with possible snow flurries tonight.
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Area
Shenandoah
Mark McIntosh
Front Royal
Highway Department
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Winchester Park & Shop Set to Open Tomorrow
Winchester Park & Shop, a multi million dollar center at Rt 11 and Weems Lane just south of Winchester, opens tomorrow with a 9 am ribbon cutting attended by city and county officials. The 100000 square foot complex includes S S Kresge and Food Fair with extensive self service, a 656 foot mall, and a 13 acre lot for over 1000 vehicles.
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Winchester Park & Shop
Shenandoah Valley
Rt. 11
Weems’ Lane
Winchester Limits
Harry Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld Realty Co
Washington, D. C
Winchester Park & Shop Corp
Shoreham Bldg
Phillip H. Sagan
S. S. Kresge
Food Fair
Neil Blum
Congress Told Spacemen Can Navigate by Stars
NASA testifying astronauts John Glenn Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom told Congress that Glenn's orbital flight proves spacemen can navigate by stars like sailors. They discussed daylight star visibility and the aim to use stellar fixes to guide future missions to the moon.
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Congress
Washington
John H. Glenn
Glenn
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
Senate Space Committee
Capitol
Senate
Shepard
Navy
John
Earth
Third Fire Destroys Berryville Area House
In Berryville area the third fire in a week destroyed a six room frame and log house three miles north of Boyce. Fire officials and investigators from Culpeper joined the probe as arson is suspected in prior fires including barns on Gunbarrel Lane and near Mrs. Cook. The house owner Mrs. Ruby Davis was away in California. findings noted prior vandalism at the site and extensive antique furniture loss. Fire crews faced mud and spent hours extinguishing the blaze. The case underscores severe penalties for arson involving occupied dwellings.
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Berryville
Boyce
Here
H. W. Glascock
Culpeper
Linwood Lanham
J. P. Reardon Farm
Gunbarrel Lane
J. W. Ballowe
Middletown
Lanham
William F. Cook, Jr
Ruby Davis
John H. Enders Fire Company
F. Byrd Orchards
Alley
Davis
Deliberat
Living Costs Unchanged Last Month
Washington reports consumer prices held steady last month as higher food costs offset declines. After tax income for factory workers fell nearly 2 percent due to a shorter average work week, while the 1957 59 base index rose to 104.5, with both old and new baselines kept for months.
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Washington
Labor Department
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Elizabeth Lacy
Jane Kremer
Dorothy Schlossberg
Wilmette
Star
SEARS
Sarah Zane
ROUSS
Howard Johnson
George Washington Hotel
Sara Fritts
Hawkins
Rockland
Norman F. Hunt
Warren
THE
Associated Press
Tion
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
House Space Committee
Ewan Clague
Commissioner “of Labor Statistics
Department
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