Local Youth, 7. Has 'Glory' Role
William sburg boy Chip Craig, seven, plays a child in The Common Glory in Williamsburg. He stays through performances, studying colonial history with his family visiting from Winchester. The Appalachian drama runs nightly through September 1 at Lake Matoaka Amphitheater.
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Williamsburg
Walter
Chip” Craig
Winchester
Hazzitt
Paul Green
the Common
Chip
George L. Craig, Jr
Amherst St
Walter D. Myers
College of William and Mary
Glory
George Craig, III
Craig
Jamestown Corporation
Lake Matoaka Amphitheater
Rinker Installed Stephens City Lions President
Stephens City Ray Rinker, an area fruit grower and 15 year Lions member, was installed as Stephens City Lions Club president succeeding Alfred L. Snapp. Bryan Stotler of Winchester Lions Club conducted the ceremony as Lions International Counselor. Other officers are named with multiple vice presidents, secretary treasurer, lion tamer, tail twister, and two year plus carryover directors.
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Stephens City
Ray Rinker
Stephens City Lions Club
Alfred L. Snapp
Bryan Stotler
Winchester Lions Club
Stotler
Lions International
Rinker
Lions Club
William J. Rickard
Robert Claytor
U S closes eighty military installations in sixties states
The Defense Department will close 80 bases in 29 states and Canada as no longer needed. The sites originally cost $273.8 million, and surplus sales are projected to save $5.41 million annually in maintenance costs.
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Washington
Defense Department
States
Canada
Department
Radium Needle Recovered From City Dump
A radium needle used in cancer treatment was dumped with trash in Shawnee Oklahoma. With a bulldozer and Geiger counter a physics professor located the needle and returned it to CH Hospital where it had been accidentally discarded.
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Shawnee
Okla
CH Hospital
Ed Seal Sifts Civil War Relics and a Buried Payroll Tale
Sunnyside collector Ed Seal unearthed Civil War relics over 30 years, from cannon balls to canteens, while chasing a legendary $182,000 Federal payroll buried west of Winchester. He relays stories from the era, notes sites around Star Fort and Milroy’s Fort, and still hopes to locate the treasure in undisclosed spots.
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Ed Seal
Sunnyside
Winchester
Doug O'Connell
The
Star
Seal
Mr. Seal
Elmer Beatley
Here
Robert McC. Glass
S. Washington St
Rt. 50
Whittier Ave
J.H
Star Fort
Milroy’s
Scovill Manufacturing Co. of
Waterbury
U.S. questions Russia's readiness for antimissile system
U.S. officials doubt Russia has a combat ready antimissile system though they acknowledge a possible antimissile rocket. They note radar, decoys, and discrimination challenges, with no evidence of an operational warhead. Kennedy cited tests aimed at defenses, not a developed system.
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U.S
Russia
Washington
Khrushchev
United States
Kennedy
Retail Sales Fall 2 Percent in June
Washington reports preliminary Commerce Department data showing retail sales dropped 2 percent in June to a total of 19.1 billion, the sharpest dip since the end of the 1961 recession, following a 117 million decline in May.
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Commerce Department
Reds Wound C123 Crewman Over Viet Nam Training
In Saigon a U S Air Force C123 was hit by a ground fired bullet during a night training mission for South Vietnamese personnel. The wounded airman was not seriously hurt. Separately South Vietnamese forces killed 19 Red guerrillas in a large operation near Viet Nam's southern tip. Also mention notes on state driver license ages.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
Reds Work Night and Day To Strengthen Berlin Wall
Berlin authorities report hundreds of East Germans laboring around the clock to fortify the Berlin Wall with concrete, steel, and barbed wire. West Berlin police counted at least 550 at day and night shifts under floodlights as guards man the barricades amid increased activity since last August 13.
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Berlin Wall
Bolsever
West Berlin
Virginias Reserve Crew To Dock At Cheatham Annex
The destroyer escort Loeser and its 200 Virginia reservists are due to dock at Cheatham Annex Monday. Recalled during the Berlin crisis last fall, they will be returned to civilian life after the ship is decommissioned August 1 and used as a training vessel. High ranking Naval officers will greet the crew, mostly from Richmond, at 2:30 p.m.
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Williamsburg
Virginia
Cheatham Annex
Berlin
Richmond Area
Wall anniversary marked by failed East German revolt
On June 17 an anniversary of the abortive 1953 East German revolt against communism there was an attempted mass break the Reds reported.
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Reds
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Pacific
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Royal Crown Bottling CO
Winchester, Va
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