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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1961
Page
3
State Police investigate a car break in at a Middletown seaside inn where a painting valued at $150 was stolen. Trooper P W Foster reports the damaged vehicle contained the portrait before it disappeared.
Hollywood report says Eddie Fisher will represent the United States at the Moscow Film Festival. A spokesman stated they will fly to the Soviet capital and stay a few days after being asked by the U S State Department.
Cross Roads News Briefs mentions festival sales and cash donations for an organ fund placed in a church. It notes Mrs Sayre visiting her mother Esta McKee, and Dottie Baker Evelyn Boyer visiting Cheryl and Karen Line. Miss Baker enrolls at Shenandoah College and sang at a Fairview Lutheran Church service. regular services are at 11 am on the fourth Sunday. A reader asks about including phonetic pronunciation on business cards, answered affirmatively.
In Frederick County Virginia a circuit court chases a case titled Alfred D. Shryock on behalf of creditors of Susan S. Shry, deceased, against Orel Thompson and others. The matter is filed in Chancery No. 2508.
With the campaign ending, Harrison and Stephens urge Virginia voters to choose between them. Both spoke in Winchester and a parallel publication presents the texts of Harrison’s speech and Stephens’ speech for readers to compare.
Albertis Harrison frames a Virginia States Rights ticket with Godwin and Button. He pledges limited taxation for essential services, warns against endless government expansion, and vows efficiencies to fund education health and highways while opposing tax hikes. Continued on Page 11.
Stephens tells Winchester audience that Virginia must evolve to give young Virginians a future and be treated as a progressive state. He warns that without change many capable young residents will leave or fail to rise as leaders. (Continued on Page 11)
The article details GOP hopes at the Virginia convention with candidates for lieutenant governor attorney general and other offices. It notes jockeying among Horace Henderson H. Clyde Pearson and I Randolph Dovel as possible nominees and signals expectations of defections affecting the political balance.
Arletha Payton, 15, of Detroit, died Friday from gunshot wounds suffered June 28 when her father, Jesse Payton, 59, mistook her for a prowler on their back porch. Police call the shooting accidental.
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