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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1965
Page
17
AP reports rehearsals for the Miss Virginia 1965 pageant in Roanoke. The 34 contestants, prepping through breakfasts with chaperones, dinners, parades, and judge interviews, will perform talent acts and swimsuit segments before the finalists are chosen Saturday night. The winner advances to the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City.
A brochure published by the Virginia Council on Health and Medical Care and the Virginia Association of Electric Cooperatives aims to recruit physicians to Virginia communities. Earl J. Shifler says electric cooperatives funded production as a civic duty. The piece, You Can Practice Good Medicine in Virginia, outlines medical and economic climate plus educational and recreational opportunities and living advantages. Edgar J. Fisher Jr. notes Virginia uniquely undertakes this recruitment effort.
Richmond AP A vehicle owned by two people and driven by a person with a revoked license can be forfeited if one owner knew of the illegal use. Attorney General Robert Y. Button said knowledge of one party is imputed to the other under the circumstances. Commonwealth's Attorney Elwood Richardson Jr. sought the clarification.
Clara C Hancock of Seaford won the First District Republican nomination at York County Courthouse to face veteran State Senator E Almer Ames Jr in the November election. Hancock, Virginia resident 20 years, is wife of William A Hancock and chairs York County Republican Committee. Dr. William T Knox III was elected GOP chairman of the 1st District, which includes York Gloucester Mathews Accomack and Northampton counties.
A body found Monday in underbrush in Washington County is tentatively identified as Soll Haverty Colemans, 69, of Welch, West Virginia, a retired miner. The medical examiner said the cause of death has not been established.
WRVA TV journalist Fred Hasseltine is named assistant to the director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He will succeed William Morrison, who leaves September 1 to become assistant to the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
KEYSVILLE AP. Harry Hartse Jr., 15, of near Keysville, drowned Tuesday in a farm pond during a swimming outing with three companions. State police said he was not a strong swimmer and went out into water over his head. His body was recovered from about 10 feet of water.
Strasburg Town Council reports it will continue the town managership form though no manager is on duty now. R. P. Kehoe Jr. was terminated July 1 after serving since Sept 1, 1964, as council appoints Robert L. Funk Jr. to search for a qualified replacement.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth Virginia and the Navy Materiel Center in Philadelphia led 68 installations that had taken no action to curb untreated waste. A four year survey covered 963 installations and recommended federal grants of 5 million dollars annually for seven years to help communities build wastewater treatment facilities.
The Virginia State Department of Education announced the resignation of Dr. William J. Holloway effective July 16 as superintendent of the State School for the Deaf and the Blind at Hampton. Holloway will join the federal government, and Julius J. Jacobs, the school's business manager, was named acting superintendent.
Richmond attorney Kelly E. Miller previously with the Defense Supply Depot joins Attorney General Robert Y. Button’s staff. Miller, a Georgia native, will help administer legal affairs for the State Highway Department.
A report from Virginia notes two traffic deaths boost the year’s toll to 497, up from 489 a year earlier. In Dickenson County near Haysi, Emry J. Dingus, 31, of Coeburn, died when a loader failed to navigate a curve on Route 611 and plunged off an embankment. In Rocky Mount, 14 year old Diane Elizabeth Young of Rocky Mount died from injuries in a car crash.
Public school superintendents and board members were to attend the first of four briefing sessions here today on administrative regulations of the new federal elementary and secondary aid program. Other sessions will be held July 9 at Charlottesville July 14 at Roanoke and July 15 at Marion.
The Senate approved a health warning on all cigarette packs by voice vote on Tuesday. The House is expected to mirror the action pending Democratic leaderships decision on debate timing for the voting rights bill. If approved, the measure goes to the White House.
The State Department of Education filled the new assistant supervisor of pilot studies post in the educational research division. Frank H Elliott, 32, native of Mecklenburg County and former guidance counselor for Lynchburg and Fairfax County schools, began his duties at the start of the month.
Alexandria AP report says Rosemary D Powers 38 mother of five was acquitted by an 11 man 1 woman Corporation Court jury after a five day trial. She claimed she was upstairs in bed when she heard a thump then found her husband Robert Powers dead from a gunshot to the head in their home on October 22 1963 or the early hours of October 23.
Chain Gate Investment Co. of Shadwell announces the purchase of Virginia Caroline Hardware Co. and merger with Richmond Hardware Co. The consolidated operation will operate from Richmond Hardware's warehouse and offices at Rosepreath Road and Leigh Street in Richmond.
Local 271 of the Textile Workers Union and its office clerk David Ramsey go on trial at 2:00 p.m. in Warren County Court before Judge W. Leroy Corron on charges of dispensing drugs and operating a pharmacy without a permit. The State Board of Pharmacy filed the misdemeanor charges in May. A union spokesman says needy members saved large sums on drugs through the service. The executive board has proposed the union open its own drug store if ordering drugs for members is prohibited. Cyril D. Hatfield will testify.
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