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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1957
Page
3
A second floor porch collapsed last night in St Louis injuring eight people. Five were seriously hurt including Angeline Mitchell 84 Annie Mosby 53 William Mosby 53 Hattie Wallie 52 and Alonzo Grover 55. Three others were treated and released. Police cited rotted porch supports.
The M Y F will sponsor a yard party at Relief Methodist Church on July 13 starting 5 p.m. Chicken and ham suppers will be served. The Youth Fellowship meets at teacher Mrs. Bryant Armstrongs home for a wiener roast this month. Mrs Dora Farmer of Wilmington Del is visiting relatives here. The Lowe picnic happened Sunday at Willow Lawn picnic grounds. Linda Bly spent last week with Judy Boyd. Miss Carole Lowe stayed with her grandparents, Mr and Mrs John Lowe.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has a shooting range built soon after the gallery opened on March 17 1941. It is for gallery guards and for employees of the private agency that supervises the gallery burglar alarms. The walls are sound proofed, keeping activity inaudible to visitors below.
Katherine Glass Greene known as Miss Kate Glass, born November 24, 1865 on Rose Hill Farm near Winchester, helped found Fort Loudoun Seminary on Fort Hill. She led Fort Loudoun Chapter of the D.A.R. and the Laura Augusta Washington Society, and attended Columbia University Johns Hopkins UVa. She belonged to the Presbyterian Church.
A Twentieth Century Fund report notes that despite large in-migration of seniors to California and Florida, the share of people aged 65 and over remains below the national 8.2 percent.
The C. H. Musselman Company prepares for the season at Biglerville Pennsylvania with a two shift operation employing hundreds locally while harvest needs require thousands more in Adams County. national crop estimates rise to about 130 300 tons a 35 percent gain from 1956 with no major cherry losses from recent gales. Inwood West Virginia plant has operated since June 25 packing cherries for quick freezing to be used in cherry pie fillings. Receiving hours run to 10:00 weekdays and 4:00 Saturdays.
In the Corporation Court for the City of Winchester Virginia the estate of George W. Mason is referred to a Master Commissioner John F. Anderson to convene creditors determine real property heirs taxes and other matters. A hearing is set for July 29 1957 at 10:00 AM at 33 East Boscawen Street Winchester to examine evidence and vouchers.
Winchester leaders Joseph Butler Baden Larrick and C L Williams along with Landon B Whitacre were named district chairmen for Virginia apple industry s 50 000 voluntary fund raising campaign to support the 1957 Apple Harvest Time in Virginia promotion The plan organized by state campaign chairman C E Johnson Sperryville calls for a four to one structure with every worker guiding four growers Allied industries will join the effort as big crops in competing regions raise concerns about processor demand and prices at harvest time
The Great Lakes Naval Center trained 125000 sailors in World War I and more than a million sailors in World War II, highlighting its massive wartime training role and sustained capacity.
The Champ a giant life like plastic Hereford on a 34 foot trailer tours the nation to educate the cattle industry. It will be displayed in front of the Check A Board store with visitors walking through the steer and viewing demonstrations of feed to beef production.
Street vendors in St Louis once sold frankfurters without rolls while wearing white gloves. To avoid soil on hands the buns were added, effectively serving as gloves and buns in one.
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