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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1957
Page
10
Andrew Winthrop treasures a 1945 U S treasury one cent tax refund received while he served in the Navy in Australia. He never planned to cash the unusual item, preserving it as a keepsake rather than spending it.
A century-old custom at Ford Methodist College in Spartanburg rewards graduates with a new Bible along with their diploma. Every faculty member and top administrator signs each Bible, making the presentation a campus rite.
New York reports a post Christmas lull in steel autos appliances home building and factory construction with the stock market posting its largest weekly decline since May Economists cite tight credit Europe oil shortages and consumer resistance to higher car prices The budget plan by President Eisenhower for a 72 billion dollar federal program dominates discussion as tax cuts are ruled out and reliance on big business spending grows Auto production slows GM Delco 60 workers four day week GE Appliance Park cuts 500 in Louisville and steel demand remains uneven with structural goods scarce while most other steel products stay plentiful
William A Lundy, Civil War veteran and one of three surviving Confederates, celebrated his 109th birthday in Defuniak Springs, Fla. at a high school party attended by about 2,000. He received 109 silver dollars from local merchants and said he no longer hates Yankees.
Three networks ABC CBS and NBC plan comprehensive live coverage of the presidential inauguration from Washington with early morning starts and the Capitol oath by Chief Justice Earl Warren for Eisenhower. The parade will feature about 20 000 participants and the inaugural halls will be televised later that night.
A pontifical requiem Mass will be offered today at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for Arturo Toscanini who died at 69 after a stroke. The Mass will be led by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Pennicone with Cardinal Spellman presiding. His body lay in state at a funeral home as thousands paid respects and telegrams poured in to his family. Toscanini will be buried in Milan, Italy.
In Portales New Mexico two farm workers were electrocuted when a rabbit spooked them as they lifted aluminum irrigation pipe. They used the pipe to shake the rabbit loose, touching a nearby electrical line and causing two deaths. The incident occurred while a third man survived.
Clarke County Junior Women's Club votes to sell vacuum tins of candy as a February fundraiser and donates to Girl Scout Troop 40. They sponsor Heart Drive with Heart Sunday on February 24 and plan a Refugee Campaign through CARE. New officers to be elected in February. nominating committee named and lighting improvements discussed.
In Hitchin England Paul Walker was ordered to pay 72.80 in damages after he bumped a passing car and dented a fender. Judge Lawson Campbell noted that a motorist injured by a pedestrian can claim damages too and Walker said he struck the car while running for a bus.
With technical aid from the United States, Cuba is growing fiber crops that yield bag material to substitute for Indian jute imports.
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