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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1962
Page
5
Virginia Game Commission records show 30 hunting injuries this season with five fatalities. Incidents include misidentification of hunters as game, accidental discharges from rifles and shotguns, and loaded weapons in vehicles.
Space officials announce an advanced Saturn rocket with five engine first stage delivering 1.7 million pounds thrust and a 110 ton payload. The plan, for 1965 readiness, calls for three man moon orbital flights and eventual manned lunar landing, using a five engine C5 concept replacing C1 C2 C3 C4.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California an Air Force Discoverer satellite numbered 37 failed to reach orbit. The second stage landed in the South Pacific. It marks the 15th failed Discoverer flight while 11 of 22 capsules have been recovered. The capsule carried sky spy films and tapes intended for future Samos and Midas satellites.
Cincinnati freshman Jack W. Langhorst, 18, was killed by a shotgun blast at a house described as haunted in Hamilton Ohio. The owner, 82 year old Harry Demoret, fired the shots and faced no charges. Langhorst and nine companions had visited after being told of other youths at a drive in.
Winter Park Florida. Dr Albert Johannsen a renowned geologist and petrolo gist died Thursday at age 90. He was widely regarded as a leading figure in geology and oil research with a career spanning several decades.
Santa Barbara reported that Lieutenant Kenneth May plans to marry Susan Miles despite pending heredity tests ordered by his late father’s will. Scientists have not completed the required evaluations, and questions remain about potential effects on Kenneth’s inheritance and the eugenics trusts set up in the will of Dr Truman Lee Kelley.
Screen stars Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher announce the adoption of a one year old orphan girl named Maria. The couple’s secretary says they have searched for almost two years and have no disclosed details about the child’s nationality. Taylor has two sons from her marriage to Michael Wilding and a daughter from her marriage to Mike Todd. Fisher has a daughter and a son from his previous marriage to Debbie Reynolds.
An armed guard is posted at the old Indian mounds north of St Petersburg after thieves entered the digging area and took three skeletons possibly 3,000 years old. Dr William Sears associate curator of the Florida State Museum overseeing the dig says amateur diggers caused irreparable damage to the sole record of the people whose remains are in the mounds.
Mrs Ellis Yost of Ridgeway West Virginia visits sister Mrs Austin White. Families including the Luptons, Tusings and Sackers exchange calls and visit friends across Kernstown and Round Hill. Austin Whitacre of White Hall is hospitalized at Winchester Memorial.
Mrs Artie Shifflet and Miss Paulette Kennedy spent New Year with Bill Luttrell in Boyce. Sam McDonald and son Gary drove to Asheville North Carolina where their daughter Ruth entered Dell College. Mrs Virginia Swartz is reported.
Andrew T. Kearney, 69, mining company executive and director of several Chicago firms, died Thursday while the AP notes he had been improving after an illness. The report also mentions flu cases among Mary Richard and Carrie Keeler and lists weekend visits among local residents.
White Hall society notes report visitors from Washington Winchester Gerrardstown and Cherry Run. Mr and Mrs Ernest Milburn hosted guests on New Year’s Day and again Saturday night. Other visits included Cross Junction patients at Winchester Memorial Hospital and local residents Marvin Shaver and Miss Eva.
Landrum Nelson Haney 48 of Burlington North Carolina pleaded guilty to transporting a stolen vehicle across a state line and was sentenced by U S District Judge Oren R Lewis to three years in prison The car stolen from in front of the Capitol on December 20 was recovered later at Roxboro North Carolina
A blaze in a small frame house in Brownsville Tennessee killed five children while their mother, Mildred Agnew, 30, watched. The victims were twins Dave and Mildred aged five, T C aged four, Prentise aged two, and J T aged one. Fire Chief Battle Shaw said the fire likely started from an open gas heater.
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