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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1962
Page
3
Virginia Governor Harrison outlines a vision of integrity in government and realistic, scalable policy. He emphasizes citizen participation, state sovereignty, and balancing traditional principles with modern needs amid education reform and economic change.
Pattern 7316 offers a sheer wool or silk baby set with rosebud trim and jacket cap transfers. Send 35 cents for pattern plus 10 cents for 1st class mail to Alice Brooks Winchester Evening Star Needlecraft Dept New York. 1962 Needlecraft Catalog promises 200 designs and free patterns in a fashion section.
A 1956 Chevrolet owned by Bradley Foltz of 540% N. Loudoun St. was destroyed by fire on Rt 522 after a tire blew, rear end caught fire, and the car struck an island in front of Crossroads Market. Gainesboro Fire Co. responded at 12:45 a.m. with no injuries reported. Gore firemen also responded to a separate incident on Rt 259 near Gore where a car went over a bank and the clutch smoked.
A rear end crash 1.1 miles south of Winchester on Route 11 at 11 10 p m caused $500 damage to a 1962 Thunderbird and $700 to a 1959 Cadillac convertible driven by Raymond Samuel Jenkins of Winchester. No injuries were reported.
Governor Harrison frames Virginia as upholding Jeffersonian principles of liberty and states’ rights while urging adaptation to modern change. He praises transportation progress and industrial integration, vows to defend Virginia sovereignty, and calls for education renewal and long range vision in governance.
Richard Nathaniel Braithwaite 49 of Edison Ga was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter after a Frederick County Circuit Court jury found him not guilty in the crash that killed his uncle George C Braithwaite 605 S Cameron St last July 1. Evidence included a whiskey bottle in his Plymouth and testimony he drank earlier.
The Home Beneficial Life Insurance Co. at 30 S Braddock St. reports one billion dollars in life insurance in force. President W E Wiltshire notes only five percent of national life firms reach this level. Founded 1899, the firm employs 2,300 across 57 district offices in several states and D C. Guy Stanley heads the Winchester office with 18 field reps. Oklahoma has 12 581 affiliated bowling teams.
The Royal Dairy Inc. is announced as a new member of the Dairy Guild of America in Front Royal. The inclusion marks a formal recognition within the national dairy sector.
Robert G Farrington of Richwood Ohio led the 1961 US Trotting Association drivers with 201 winners in his seventh season. Harry Burright of Good Hope Illinois was second with 184 wins followed by John Wilcotts of Wyoming Delaware with 139, Stanley Dancer of New Egypt New Jersey with 137, and Don Busse of Kingston Illinois with 121.
Fourteen families on Hope Street and Route 254 oppose the closing of Route 254 urged by the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. They say the move would cut them off from direct access to Staunton's main area as the school seeks to end the road split affecting campus access.
The plan unites the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads into a 20 300 mile asset giant valued at about 5.4 billion dollars a move hailed as a transportation system reform while drawing swift opposition from 20 railway unions citing job losses.
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