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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1958
Page
11
If Classified Ads are received at The Star Office before 10 a m they may be included in issue of the same day a LAFF A DAY FOR SALE Alfalfa and Timothy hay and straw Phone MO 2 0022 For sale Need firewood Phone MO 2 6993 MO 2 8069 WANTED Experienced pipe fitter Ability to read blueprints preferable Call MO 2 4177
A tan billfold with valuable papers and money is missing since Saturday morning. A German Shepherd female dog is also lost with a reward offered. Contact information for Doug Kelchener at Winchester Creamery and MO 2-3536.
An assorted page notes a skin care ad for V J O and Fuller cosmetics with a 16.6 percent vitamin plan, plus a rug shampoo sale. It also cites NEA data from April 1956 on overcrowded urban elementary classrooms, about half a million pupils in over 40 per class and 6.5 million above 30, with 43 percent in ideal sub-30 classes.
In Fulton Richmond an elderly woman Mrs. Alice Turner 67 and her granddaughter Gladys Blount died when two oil stoves exploded in a frame home. Three other children escaped unhurt as the blaze spread from the bathroom to a bedroom where the child slept. Fire chief and insurance agent recollect delays before alarm.
Houston verdict finds T. P. Whitehead and three partners must repay 4,941 dollars from a 23,000 pound shrimp sale after a poker game with trucker Robert W. Brewer. Whitehead sought return of his share from the sale of frozen shrimp shipped from Brownsville to Detroit and auctioned to supermarkets. Brewer was later jailed in Biloxi for gambling.
New York Times reports AFL-CIO has abolished about 100 organizers positions. Some are retired or reassigned to a new speakers bureau, others discharged with severance. The move coincides with a $1.2 million annual PR program under way in Miami Beach.
FBI agents seized twelve thousand five hundred seventy three dollars traced to a sale tied to Brewer. A judge ruled rigged game participants do not get proceeds. Assistant U.S. Attorney said four dollars may revert to Brewer's employer.
Richmond health officials urged widespread vaccination against a possible second wave of Asian influenza this winter. Dr Mack I Shanholtz said January to March may see a rise in illnesses as susceptible people are exposed. The Public Health Service advised those uncertain if they had the flu or at high risk to contact a family physician for vaccination.
The Atlantic continent myth traces back to Plato in Timaeus and Critias around 355 B C. A modern revival followed Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis The Antediluvian World, published in 1882 and issued in many editions.
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