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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1956
Page
11
HM Meade Alcorn Jr a vice chairman of the Arrangements Committee for the August 20 GOP convention in San Francisco arrived with the forecast that President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon will again head the ticket. The preparations proceed on that theory.
In Glasgow Virginia a dynamite blast at the Lone Jack Limestone Co quarry fatally injures Amos Wilmer Link 23 and critically injures his father Robert E Link about 60 as they placed sticks in a hole. Witnesses say premature explosion sent debris and force into the younger Link while the father was hospitalized in Lexington. Manager Robert Massie cites unknown cause pending investigation.
June saw a sharp rise in marriage licenses with 329 issued in the city, the highest monthly total this year, and 148 licenses in Frederick County. Pennsylvania led origins with 273 city licenses. foreign brides included England, Germany, Hungary and Canada.
Manlio Brosio born July 10 1897 in Turin. Italy's ambassador to the United States not career diplomat served in Moscow and London. Decorated artillery officer in World War I Alpine Corps. Authority on corporation law wrote for legal publications. Retired from politics and limited to law after Fascist rise.
In Somerville Texas a paroled mental health patient Tilman Hanson Jr. 20 was hunted by a posse of up to 150 men after striking Constable Milton Lewis. Texas Ranger Johnny Klevenhagen on horseback shot Hanson when he aimed and fired at 15 feet away, fatally wounding him.
VFW Post 2123 approved a 300 dollar donation to the Shenandoah College Building Fund at its July meeting held at Marvin Miller’s Cedar Creek Grade home. About 70 members attended as Earl Kerns chaired the session. discussion included Pony League baseball sponsorship and a citation for community service awarded to Richard K. Eddy. The August meeting is set for Nathaniel Brown’s home in Frederick County.
Frances Favrell’s novel follows Joseph Moe and his large family in postwar Germany with Krista the lone survivor of her family. An American soldier loves Krista as the youths form a crime gang, escalating burglaries toward murder and a nightmare world of shifting moral lines.
M-Sgt George R. Schnurr of the U S Army Recruiting Station asks the public for help locating three missing metal A Frame signs used on Highways 522 50 11 and 7 around Winchester. Signs measure 25 ½ by 37 ½ inches and are on 1½ inch pipe with aluminum construction. Contact the basement Post Office Building Recruiting Station or Mohawk 2-6192.
In 1955 the Suez Canal carried traffic from 48 nations led by Britain which accounted for 28.3 percent of tonnage. United States flag tonnage was ninth, while U.S. controlled vessels under Liberian Panamanian and Honduran registry reduced the American share to roughly that of Britain.
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