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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1962
Page
9
Dear Abby columns discuss a 29 year marriage with no quarrels suggesting hearing loss, a daughter wearing a school bracelet marked as going steady and a mother asking for its return, and funeral guest etiquette for non relatives with a Chinese story at the end.
The Shenandoah Valley Motel Association re elected Fisk as president for a fourth term at the annual meeting held yesterday at the Edgewood Motel. Neil Chickle The Elms is vice president with other officers and delegates named for the coming year. A note mentions the Ainu of northern Japan with a sacred mustache lifter for drinks.
Brucetown Church School held a Watchnight service with a January 7 morning service at the Brucetown Church. A 6 p.m. fellowship supper and 7 30 p.m. sermon by Pastor William Withers followed. Local visits and family gatherings across Harrisonburg Winchester Berryville Front Royal and Martinsburg areas noted.
The Office for the Week of Prayer opens at 115 Wolfe St in the Braddock Street Methodist Church with Mrs. Charles Stuart DeHaven as secretary. Dr E Stanley Jones leads services January 28 to February 2 at Shenandoah College auditorium 7:30 p.m. daily and holds a 10:30 a.m. school of prayer in the chapel with a noon luncheon in the church fellowship hall.
Suburban Grandview firefighters responded to a hair dryer ignition in a bed at the Edward Dryer residence in Columbus. Minor damage reported with no injuries.
Charles J. Lillis was installed as president of the Winchester Camera Club at a meeting in the War Memorial Building. Other officers include Ellis C. Ford vice president Herman M. Lee treasurer Russell La Follette secretary and H. Clinton McCarty assistant secretary. Committees were named and plans set for a color slide contest from February to October with ribbons for top three and monthly winners advancing to the November award. Visitors included Earl M. Brown and J. F. Lillis.
A 22 year old English actress Anne Lawson is shown handling a Dead Sea Scroll on the set of Journey of a Lifetime. She plays the wife of a U N irrigation expert as a young couple explore Biblical sites in Israel and Jordan with Yusif Saad presenting the 2000 year old parchment.
Leonard Pennario, Buffalo born, will headline the Inter-Community Concert Series at Shenandoah College tomorrow. The renowned pianist, celebrating a 16th anniversary as a major recitalist, has appeared with top orchestras in the United States and will tour Europe, Africa, and the Near East this season. He plans a December Dallas Symphony engagement marking 25 years since his debut with the orchestra.
The Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce designates January as Jaycee Month. Mayor Claude R. Smalts Jr. issues a proclamation praising the JCC for training civic leaders and publicizing the group’s activities. Weekly broadcasts on WINC at 7:30 p.m. will feature programs by directors and past members.
The Friendship Auxiliary to the Friendship Fire Company will serve dinner to members and families at 6 30 p m tomorrow before the annual meeting and election. After dinner the auxiliary and company hold separate meetings to name officers for the coming year. All members invited to attend.
Loveless Harry Clinton Loveless 55 of Riverton pleaded guilty to felonious shooting in Warren Circuit Court. He admitted firing at Samuel Cook Murphy with a rifle on November 3. Case referred for pre sentence report. Other indictments included two counts of breaking and entering against Robert Lee Foster and bad check charges against James W. Roy and Albert Gutterman. Samuel Lewis Atkins received two-year forgery sentence and one-year uttering forged check sentence, to run concurrently with three year probation. Mary Kirkpatrick received suspended one-year penitentiary term for theft with three years probation after restitution.
Daily English lesson notes by W L Gordon cover common misuses mispronunciations and misspellings. It highlights phrases like quite right all right and quatrain pronunciation and includes notes on words such as nouvel riche and antonyms to grow vocabulary with daily word focus.
Mary Elizabeth York 18, granddaughter of Sgt Alvin C. York, will be inducted into the Women’s Air Force in a bedside ceremony at York’s Tennessee home. After induction she will train at Lackland AFB. A 1961 Fulton High School graduate, she plans to give up college to serve.
Count Oreste Rivetti aged 74, an Italian woolen industrialist based in Biella, Italy, died on Tuesday following a lengthy illness.
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