VPI Officials Cut Fire Loss Estimate at Experiment Station
Virginia Tech officials reduced their loss estimate from a Sunday fire at the Virginia Experiment Station in Blacksburg. Initial figures of five to ten years of research were revised to one or two years. Dr. H. L. Dunton cited fireproof safes storing critical breeding research materials. Two barns covering 18,000 square feet were destroyed, with equipment valued at $50,000 when new.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Virginia Experiment Station
H. L. Dunton
Tech Agronomy Department
Kiwanis Club to See Oil for Aladdin's Lamp
The Kiwanis Club will view the film Oil for Aladdin's Lamp at its weekly luncheon tomorrow at 12 15 p.m. The Shell Oil Company supplied the reel via Ed Buncutter for showing at the George Washington Hotel.
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Aladdin
Shell O1! Company
Ed Buncutter
Kiwanis Club
George Washington Hotel
Old Illinois Paper Brought to Star
L. Snapp of Route 1 brought to the Star a copy of the Danville Illinois Press-Democrat dated March 25 1914 for notice and potential republication in the local paper.
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Illinois
Quiet Funeral For Mrs Calvin Coolidge In Northampton
Funeral services for Mrs Calvin Coolidge widow of the former president will be quiet and simple at 2 p m tomorrow at Edwards Congregational Church. Cremation follows and ashes go to Plymouth Vermont for burial beside her husband and son Calvin. Surviving son John, 51, requests no callers and no flowers donations to the Heart Fund invited. She died of heart and kidney ailments.
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Northampton
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Edwards Congregational Church
Plymouth
Calvin
Coolidge
White House
John
Heart Fund
Middletown Teen Age Club to Meet Tonight
The Middletown Teen Age Club will meet at 7 pm in Harris Community Hall. President Johnnie Legge asks all members to be present to map out the recreation program for July.
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Middletown
Harris Community Hall
Johnnie Legge
Friendship Yard Party Committee Led by Ryan
Ryan Friendship Yard Party Committee heads the Friendship Fire Company yard party to be held Friday and Saturday at the fire hall on Cameron Street Leicester. Ronald Bowers Marion Anderson Ellsworth Byers James Sadellis Ryland Connor and Lloyd Williams serve on the committee with Mrs Frank Harmon leading the Auxiliary for refreshments and baked goods. Free fire truck rides will be offered to all attending children.
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Robert Ryran
Friendship Fire Company
Cameron St
Leicester
Ryan
Ronald Bowers
Marion Anderson
Ellsworth Byers
James Sadellis
Ryland Conner
Lioyd Willams
Frank Harman
Leopold seeks fourth parole bid in Franks murder case
Nathan Leopold, imprisoned since 1924 for the Bobby Franks slaying, prepared for his fourth parole bid since 1953. He will not appear before the parole board, serving an eight year sentence at Stateville Prison Joliet. The case involved Leopold and Richard Loeb, sons of wealthy families, whose crime shocked Chicago.
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Springfield
Nathan Leopold
Chicago
Leopold
Stateville
Joliet
Bobby Franks
Richard Loeb
Loeb
Rotary District Governor to Visit Club Here Thursday
Dr. Louis A. Pardue governor of Rotary District 757 will officially visit the local club Thursday. He is a VP and former head of graduate studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg and past president of the Christiansburg Blacksburg Rotary Club. He will speak at 1 pm lunch and again at 7 30 pm both at the George Washington Hotel meeting with club leaders on administration and service activities.
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Rotary
Louis A. Pardue
Rotary International
Dr. Pardue
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Christiansburg
Rotary Club
George Washington Hotel
Charles B Baker
Winchester Club
Leopold paroled through wartime malaria study findings
Leopold’s wartime malaria experiments earned parole eligibility after Gov. Stevenson trimmed a nine year term to 85 years. His first parole bid in 1953 failed, as did requests for re hearings in 1955 and last December. Attorney Elmer Gertz noted a Chicago classmate offered him a foreign department chief role and said Leopold received other job offers.
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Leopold
Adlai Stevenson
Elmer Gertz
University of Chicago
Foreign Department
Gertz
Gavis Jr. Enrolled in U G A Graduate School
John Stanley Gavis Jr formerly of 38 S Cameron St and a 1951 Sandlery High School graduate now attends the University of Georgia graduate school after a rapid four year BBA in insurance and real estate. He plans to rejoin the Marine Corps as a lieutenant this September.
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John Stanley Gavis, Jr
University of Georgia At
Athens
John Gavis
S. Cameron St
Gavis
Sandiey High School
Marine Corps
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Loudoun ST
Animal Friends
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Messmer
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Baron
Lion
Chester
May
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N. Loudoun
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Northern Virginia Power CO
John Gavis, Jr
U.ga
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American Finance Corp
S. Loudoun St
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Press
Dacron
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Penney
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