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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1956
Page
8
Firemen arrived after an alarm at 5 10 p m to a tar paper roof ablaze throughout. A five hour celebration ended as survivors and crews searched the ruins for victims. The hall’s interior and charred beams lay amid ashes and twisted chairs.
Star Tannery Creek Valley reports James and Robert, brothers, surviving along with parents for a citizen born July 28 1930 at Creek Vale W V. Funeral arrangements set at Gravel Springs Church. Also notes multiple traffic crashes near Winchester including Aubrey Wilbur Cox injured, a two-vehicle crash on Rt 50, a bus truck collision on Rt 668, and a two-car crash on North Cameron Street with minor injuries and no charges due to fog and rain.
Romney residents backed a 40 bed general hospital in a special county vote. About half the funding will come from Hill Burton state and federal aid. The hospital will be built in Romney on land donated by the State Board of Education near the West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.
About 30 ministers and laymen attended the opening of the Virginia Conference mid year session at the local church. Rev Golden Gaitier led devotion at 2 PM. Dr E Craig Brandenburg spoke at 2 30 PM. prayers and board meetings followed. Tomorrow the Shenandoah College board meets and a special session will address the December General Board decision on moving Shenandoah College to the city. Bishop David Gregory will speak tonight and tomorrow evening.
William B. MacMillan 66 of 35 Morningside Drive died at 3 a m in Winchester Memorial Hospital. He married Vera C Forney in Rockville Maryland on August 18 1913. Survived by wife two sons Raymond K. MacMillan Bruce town and John W. MacMillan this city one brother Hector MacMillan Eastview New York and five grandchildren. Funeral service Tuesday at 3 30 p m at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Millard Lewis. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
A funeral mass for Capt Albert F Huebner who died Thursday at his Whitlock Ave home was held at Sacred Heart Church. Burial followed at Arlington National Cemetery. He was born in Red Bird Missouri and grew up in St Louis. He joined the Army young and was commissioned Captain of G Company in the 52nd Infantry at the start of World War I.
Action centers on the death of H. L. Mencken and the plan for a strictly private funeral. The 75 year old writer died in his sleep from a likely blood clot. Surviving brothers and a sister are named, and his career highlights are summarized.
The article recalls Capt. Heubner’s World War I service in the Vosges and Meuse-Argonne offensives, his wounding before the Armistice, and his return to the United States. It notes his Temple University studies, Duff’s College Pittsburgh training in accounting and business management, and his role in a Mayflower II update predicting a July 4 1954 sailing, with the ship handmade from English oak in England.
Frederick County Commonwealth's Attorney Joseph A. Massie Jr. is the sole candidate to file for the 24th Senatorial District seat at the Richmond convention set for March 5. The district includes Winchester and Frederick Clarke Shenandoah counties. Delegates are chosen like state senators. Election day is February 21. The convention would amend the constitution to allow public funds for private nonsectarian school tuition grants amid post Brown v. Board of Education debates. Massie criticized the Supreme Court for overreach in state rights.
Richmond report says State Sen. Ted Dalton requested removal from the list of candidates for appointment to the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The action follows Dalton's withdrawal and affects the ongoing selection process.
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai called for liberation of Formosa and urged the Nationalists to surrender or face momentary doom. He said preparation for war was necessary if peace could not be achieved.
Of the 9,000 plus students studying abroad in 1954 55 almost 59 percent were enrolled in European schools 15 percent in Mexico 14 8 percent in Canada 624 in the Far East mainly in the Philippines and Japan 81 in Israel 54 in Lebanon with the Near East South and Central America Egypt the Union of South Africa Australia and New Zealand making up the remainder
Mississippi's most wanted desperado Rennie Wagner was captured by highway patrolmen at dawn in Kemper County. He emerged from a farmhouse porch after a 30 year crime spree across Mississippi Tennessee Alabama and Virginia. He told officers not to get excited while concerns over his stolen money and belongings were addressed.
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