Obituary Armsted Dixon of Stephenson
Armsted Holmes Dixon of Stephenson died at Winchester Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon. He was born in Winchester, son of the late Armsted Dixon and spent most of his life nearby. A U S Navy veteran, discharged in 1904. Survived by sister Hattie B. Anderson of Stephenson and several nieces and nephews. Funeral at Cartwright Funeral Home Friday at 1 30 p.m. conducted by Rev H A Abney of St Paul Methodist Church. Burial in National Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday 6 to 10 p.m.
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Armsted Holmes Dixon
Stephenson
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Armsted Dixon
U.S. Navy
Hattie B. Anderson
Cartwright Funeral Home
H. A. Abney
St. Paul Methodist Church
National Cemetery
Death Forces Postponement Of Court Jury
Two felony cases in Circuit Court and a Corporation Court grand jury session were postponed due to a death in Judge Elliott Marshall’s family. Defendants Leo Gene Armentrout and Edwin Eugene Simmons were set for unauthorized use of an auto. trials delayed to next term starting July 16.
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Corporation Court
Elliott Marshall
Leo Gene Armentrout
Edwin Eugene Simmons
Auto Fire Causes Minor Damage at Winchester Park Shop
Shawnee Fire Co. volunteers were called shortly before noon today to extinguish an electrical fire under a car dashboard at Winchester Park and Shop. The driver’s name was not immediately available. Damage was minor and no injuries were reported.
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Shawnee Fire Co
Winchester Park and Shop
Largent Attacks Federal Aid in Staunton Speech
Staunton. F. L. Jim Largent Jr. criticized federal controls and aid programs in a Democratic Committee talk. He seeks the Seventh Virginia District nomination, urging support for private enterprise, balanced federal finances, and a representative who shares these principles ahead of the July 10 primary.
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Largent
Virginia
Seventh
Valley) Congressional District
Congress
United States
Frederick County School Board Re-Elects Officers
The Frederick County School Board held a routine reorganization meeting. Charles E. Ess was re-elected chairman, Huyett G. Light vice chairman, and Mrs. Elizabeth Sheetz clerk. Regular meetings set for the first Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m.
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Charles E. Ess
Huyett G. Light
Elizabeth Sheetz
Dam Plan for Shenandoah River Flooding Clarke County
Army Corps of Engineers abandons big dam project on the Shenandoah near Kabletown after local protests. The proposed dam would have inundated about 10 000 acres in Clarke County and 8 000 acres in Jefferson County, West Virginia, drawing widespread opposition across Virginia and West Virginia.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Knights of Erin win parade prize and near miss for drum corps
The Knights of Erin won 75 dollars for best appearing drum and bugle corps at Hagerstown. a Frostburg parade yielded 100 dollars for third place. Virginia cars placed second for 100 dollars. Meanwhile two drum and bugle youths recovered in Winchester after illness with unknown cause. Tomorrow a Middleburg drill and concert from 7 30 to 9 30 p m completes July 4 Youth Day events on community center grounds. Rouss Fire Co units joined the parade with the corps and Miss Sherry Kercheval as honorary fire chief at the Apple Blossom Festival.
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Knights of Erin
Hagerstown
Frostburg
Virginia
Middleburg
Rouss Fire Co
Sherry
De Gaulle Recognizes Algerian Independence Move
France transfers sovereignty over Algeria to the Provisional Executive with Fouchet delivering the declaration to Abderrahmane Fares. Evian terms set a Constituent Assembly and a parliamentary government, with Ben Khedda’s Tunis cabinet likely to lead a merged executive as celebrations and clashes unfold in Algiers between Ben Khedda loyalists and Ben Bella dissidents.
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Algeria
France
Christian Fouchet
de Gaulle
Abderrahmane Fares
Provisional Executive
Evian
Ben Khedda
Tunis
Algiers
Ben Bella
Byrd Claims Chamber Tax Plan Would Create 15 Billion Deficit
Williams attacks Gov Rockefeller DiSalle Brown and notes governors joined calls for a tax cut. He argues a cut amid rising spending would trigger a stag ger ing deficit and inflation, while ADA backs immediate income tax relief for the economy.
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Williams
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
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Ohio
Edmund G. Brown
California
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Americans For Democratic Action
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Stepson kills family adviser at district home
The youth fled as Mrs. Cooley was found with an icepick stuck four inches in her neck. Lt. Frantz said the suspect showed little remorse after being picked up, claiming he disliked his stepfather for denying him car access. Police found a rifle and a bloody butcher knife in the house. The Cooleys, longtime Mount Vernon High School teachers, had ties to Berryville and Purcellville, with relatives including a circuit judge.
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Mount Vernon High School
Bodmer
Mr. Cooley
D. G. Cooley
Boyce High School
Cooleys
Berryville
Berryville High School
Ann Harris
Purcellville
Elliott Marshall
Front Royal
Chumney Named Administrative Assistant At Inauguration
Harrison appointed Chumney as administrative assistant at his inauguration this year. The governor's office notes his urban affairs liaison duties will continue under other arrangements. The commissioner-designate hails from Amelia County with degrees from Virginia Tech and Cornell. Brinkley, from Nansemond County, holds Virginia Tech and leads the Virginia Peanut and Hog Growers association.
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Chumney
Amelia County
Virginia Tech
Cornell
Brinkley
Nansemond County
Association of Virginia Peanut and Hog Growers
East German Wall Reinforced Amid Cold Rain
A section of the border barrier is being replaced with masonry under a plan to strengthen the Communist protective wall. The extent of the widening could not be determined immediately, and work started a day after East German Interior Minister Karl Maron urged police to make the wall more impenetrable.
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Karl Maron
Governors Convene in San Diego 1963 Meet Hails Guard Plan
Gov Edmund B Brown plans a 1963 San Diego visit for governors and promises greeting a Mexico trip while facing Nixon in reelection. Rockefeller pledges to greet 1964 New York delegates, Rosellini poised to chair. governors adopt a no compromise stance against McNamara plan to pare down the Guard and Reserve.
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Edmund B
Pat) Brown
San Diego
Calif
Mexico
Brown
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
New York
Albert D. Rosellini
Washington
Wesley Powell
New Hampshire
National Guard
Kennedy
Guard
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Israeli Mother Reunites with Kidnapped Son in New York
Ida Schuhmacher, a 37 year old Israeli mother, reunites with her 10 year old son Yosef after he had been living under the name Jacob Gertner in Brooklyn since being abducted during a religious dispute three years earlier. Immigration officials Handover ends search.
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Ida Schuhmacher
U.S
Sanzil Gertner
Brooklyn
Jacob
Yankele) Gertner
Esperdy
Gertners
Yosef Schuhmacher
Jerusalem
Schuhmacher
Israel
Soviet Union
Greater Boston Strangler Strikes Again in Three Homicides
A third strangulation death in three weeks shocks Greater Boston area. Helen Blake is found strangled in Lynn apartment. Nina Nichols in Brighton Boston. Anna Slesers in Back Bay Boston. All three homes ransacked, none robbed. Unsolved cases with similar methods.
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Mass
Greater
Boston
Helen E. Blake
Miss Blake
Nina G. Nichols
Brighton
Anna E. Slesers
Back Bay
Clarke Students Attend Red Cross Leadership Conference
Two Clarke County High School students Doreen Martin and Richard Neiman joined 62 other Red Cross delegates from 12 eastern states at Hood College Frederick Md for a week long study of Red Cross programs. On returning they organized community service projects among peers. Miss Martin and Miss Ben Davis Bluemont who attended 1961 course have begun enlisting students to support Grey Ladies at Martinsburg Veterans Hospital.
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Clarke County
Red Cross
Hood College
Frederick
Doreen Martin
Richard Neiman
Martin
Ben Davis
Bluemont
Grey Ladies
Veterans Hospital
Martinsburg
Va Senator Seeks Nonbinding Prayer Resolution
Sen A Willis Robertson of Virginia asks Congress to declare voluntary school prayers unconstitutional. He proposes a concurrent resolution to record the Senate and House stance aligning with the Supreme Court ruling. The measure would not be binding even if approved. concurrent resolutions carry no law.
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A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
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Senate
Supreme Court
Robertson
Auction Listings for July 4 to July 14 Nearby Martinsburg Area
A sequence of sale notices lists multiple auctions with times and locations. Denny's Commission Auction 7 July 4 7:00 p.m. near Winchester Route 7 offers furniture and appliances. YOUNG MEN'S CLASS Bethel Lutheran Church July 4 1:00 p.m. Albin packing house benefits Church Building Fund. Frances & Ruth Lindenmuth July 7 11:00 a.m. Kings Court real estate near Sky Line Drive. Darrell Koonce July 7 10:30 a.m. Berkeley County Court House Martinsburg valuable farm between Greenspring and Gerrardstown. H G Slonaker July 14 11:00 a.m. Winchester Frederick County court house two homes.
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Winchester
Orndorff & Cole Auctioners
Bethel Lutheran Church
H. Ray Butler
Albin
Benefit Church Building Fund
Lynn Anderson
Frances
Ruth A. G. Lindenmuth
Rt. 55
Skyline Drive
Kings Court
W. D Orndorff
Darrell K. Koonce
Berkeley County Court House
Martinsburg
W. Va
Greenspring
Gerrardstown
Weather Summary of Rainfall Totals and Averages
Rainfall in the past 24 hours ending 8 30 a m is .18 inches. July rainfall to date is .18 inches. 1962 rainfall to date is 22.04 inches. Average rainfall for the year over the past 49 years and average monthly rainfall for the past 49 years are listed across months from January to December with values ranging from 2.11 to 3.90 inches.
Dr Wright to Address Winchester Rotary on School TV
Dr Melton Wright director of instruction for Frederick County Schools will speak to the Winchester Rotary Club Thursday about educational television programs begun in Frederick County during the 1961 62 school year. He previously led Harrisonburg High School and is a Bob Jones University and University of Virginia graduate and Virginia Education Association leader.
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Melton Wright
Frederick County
Winchester
Virginia Weather Outlook Shows Showers and Warmth
Forecast for Virginia calls for showers tonight and Wednesday with partly cloudy skies and a warming trend. Expect Thursday to be quite warm with a chance of widely scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers.
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Virginia
Synonyms for Compensation in English
A list of alternative terms for compensation includes pay, payment, fee, earnings, hire, remuneration, salary, wages, and similar words. These terms vary by context and formality but generally refer to money received for work or services.
Mrs Towlen in serious condition after two car crash
Mrs Billie Smith Towlen of Merrimans Lane sustained a head injury and a fractured left arm in a Sunday crash. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital reported she remained unconscious but not on the critical list while she was taken from Memorial Hospital after the noon collision on Rt. 50 as she traveled west and another car headed east.
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Billie Smith Towlen
Merriman’s Lane
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Tolen
D. Towlen
Memorial Hospital
Rt. 50
Towlen
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