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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1965
Page
5
Elwood Lanham reports Boyce Fire Company answered 45 calls in 1964, 15 fewer than 1963. Fewer destructive fires than in past years, with major woods fires at Long Branch and Shenandoah Farms. First call January 17, last December 30. Eight calls involved aid to John H. Enders Fire Company of Berryville.
Clarke County DOINGS and DOERS reports nine college students plus one driver donated blood at a Red Cross Bloodmobile stop in Marshall. Donors included Philip Lloyd Massanutten Military Academy David Childs Greenbrier Military David Athes George Fiddler Virginia Tech Bill Donovan Northampton Deidre Donovan Pine Manor Danny Allen Richmond James Cobb Bridgewater and Tom Dunning Randolph Macon. Hunter Longerbeam Jr added a pint to his three gallon total as driver.
Berryville residents and relatives are listed returning home after holidays. Families visit in Alexandria Charlottesville Hagerstown Danville Williamsburg and other towns. Students resume school at Roanoke Radford Averett Ferrum Longwood and Richmond universities and colleges.
A festive Clarke County page recounts New Year’s Eve gaiety hosted by Alexander Mackay Smith with crowns noisemakers and streamers as 1964 ends and 1965 begins. Open houses at Athlone and gatherings from Winchester to Boyce mark a season of travel, dances, hunts, weddings, and family visits with many residents returning to colleges after holidays.
Clarke County taxpayers will receive personal property assessment notices and up to 2500 state income tax notices. Real property assessments for taxation will wait until the County Board of Reassessment completes its study and presents recommendations to the Board of Supervisors. The 1965 tax levy will be set after reassessment. The board also began preliminary steps for the 1965 budget at its first meeting.
Clarke County official weather observer Walter J Rutherford reports 1964 had above average December temperatures with no drought. Last month ranged 26.7 to 46.4 degrees, mean 36.5, and yearly rainfall totaled 35.77 inches while annual normal is 36 inches and December brought 2.35 inches of precipitation.
The 18th century English coach once owned by George Washington and later by George Washington Parke Custis was displayed at Annfield and carried on visits to a kinswoman. After Meade preserved it, parts were kept at Mountain View and the rest dissolved into canes and frames to aid the church charity.
Enders Fire Company of Berryville answered 70 calls in 1964 versus 96 in 1963, according to statistician Floyd McWilliams Jr. The largest fire of 1964 was a storage barn at the Rosemont home of U S Senator Harry F Byrd. The 1963 Moore and Dorsey apple processing plant fire was Berryville’s most damaging prior incident.
In Rome during Christmas, Ciociaria bagpipers from snowbound hills wear improvised footwear made from old tire casings bound with cord over thick white wool socks. The rugged setup is inexpensive and durable for street performance.
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