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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1964
Page
9
AP dispatch reports that That Was The Week That Was premieres on NBC as a weekly half hour satire based on current news. Marshall Jamison directs and notes the American remake adapts a bold English format with live broadcast and a political edge.
J Frederick Latrick and White plan to form a general law practice. Latrick holds a B S in chemistry from VMI 1940 and a UVA law degree. White graduated cum laude from Hampton Sydney College and earned a UVA law degree in 1960. former editor of the Virginia Law Weekly.
A dense grid of TV listings features Glen Ford and Diana Lynn in Plunder in the Sun among cinema hours, classic series like The Rifleman Maverick and The Texan, news from CBS and ABC, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, Jack Paar showings, sports updates, weather, and late night films and specials with names such as Ava Gardner James Mason Cagney and Gig Young noted in sequence.
President Johnson plans to appoint Esther Peterson as presidential assistant on consumer matters from the Labor Department. The move makes her the highest ranking woman in government, with a role to ensure consumer interests are represented to the White House.
State Highway Department awarded 20 road contracts totaling 9.4 million dollars. Major work includes 3.93 miles on Interstate 81 in Warren and Frederick with drainage and paving, plus connecting roadways to Virginia and West Virginia lines. Bids cover six bridges and multiple paving projects across Warren, Frederick, Shenandoah, and Rockingham counties.
Virginia Military Institute cadet Stanley R. Navas Jr., 18, was rescued from a dorm home during Christmas break when a portable electric heater ignited a couch. He was treated at the scene and later hospitalized after a tracheotomy was performed. he sustained facial and throat burns and remains in satisfactory condition.
Michigan Governor George Romney, a national figure with a rising profile, says he is not a candidate for president and will not become one. He weighs re election plans amid questions about state tax reform and reapportionment, noting Michigan gained a 19th congressman last year.
A wood burning stove started a blaze in a frame house in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Mabel A. Payne, aged 2, and Agnes Payne, 15 months, perished as their siblings and mother searched across the street for clothing to keep them warm.
The four principal Winchester cold storages report 529,282 bushels of apples on hand January 1, down from 628,768 a year earlier. Holdings include C. L. Robinson Ice and Cold Storage 53,858 and 47,754 in parenthesis, Winchester Cold Storage 399,001 with 492,592 last year, Virginia Apple Storage 60,325 with 64,817, and Old Mill Storage 16,098 with 23,600.
Berryville and Culpeper families share Christmas visits with relatives in Richmond Havre de Grace and Farmville. Numerous guests from Arlington Vienna Decatur Charlottesville and Bartow Florida join host families as Robert Metz and others receive medical care in Washington. New Year sociables include Leigh Ann Ridgeway and West Virginia connections.
Valley reports James E. F. Newland of Mount Jackson named personal property assessor for Shenandoah County. He begins duties Wednesday, succeeds Elvin C. Walker who becomes treasurer. Newland was with Mount Jackson Produce Co for 25 years. Harrisonburg and Page county memorial hospitals report no births on New Year's Day. Mount Crawford area resident Benjamina N. Shaffer, 23, is arrested on burglary charges for breaking into three year-round cottages on North River, near Mount Crawford. signed statements indicate entry and ransacking of cottages owned by Winston Weaver Adrian Sonn and Charles B. Somers. no valuables taken.
Strasburg Fire Dept committee chairmen meet Thursday at 7 30 p.m. in the local fire hall to plan the Northern Virginia Firemen's Association convention set for June here.
James M. Rogers 53 editor of the Asheville Times died Wednesday after a four year battle with leukemia.
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