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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1967
Page
3
In Front Royal speeches, MR. HARRISON lauds Largent’s service with the FBI and Navy while urging support for a vocational training school and a local community college. He calls for annual legislative sessions and poll participation as the primary election nears next Tuesday.
In Monrovia California Allie Mae Johnson 58 died Thursday while rescuing 4 year old Bobby Cole from an oncoming passenger train. She forced her car to stop on the tracks after the lead car halted for a traffic light and shielded the boy before the barricades dropped. The train struck her as she leapt to safety.
Winchester Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose will host a family picnic at the Fraternal Order of Police Park off Berryville Pike Sunday at 1 30 PM. A fried chicken dinner will be served followed by games and prizes for children and ladies as part of the lodge’s annual family participation event.
Winchester Mayor William M. Battaile expressed hope for a regional community college by 1971 after the steering committee's organizational meeting for the Northwestern Virginia Community College. The committee, representing eight counties and towns, elected E. T. Bromfield as chairman and Robert Smalley as vice chairman. The meeting in Front Royal featured remarks from state and local officials urging rapid program start. The college would serve post high school youths and adults with two year programs plus technical and continuing education, with next steering committee session set for July 20 in Berryville.
The Thomas Harrison stone house on West Bruce Street in Harrisonburg, built about 1750 by the town’s founder, has been refurbished and is now occupied for the first time in nearly 50 years. Meanwhile in Woodstock, the town council approved a proposed 172,300 dollar budget for the next fiscal year beginning September 1.
Election season positions Page County Clerk of Court as Republicans nominate. Former Sheriff Abram Brubaker seeks Democratic nomination while C. Morrison runs as an independent. Rumor suggests I R Dovel Sr may run as independent as well.
A preliminary hearing for Kenneth Franklin Wright 24 of E Boscawen Street on grand larceny was postponed. Wright remains free on $1,000 bond and a new date has not been set.
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