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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1955
Page
3
The Newport News School Board voted 4-1 to keep schools segregated for 1955-56, rejecting a petition by 590 Black parents to integrate this fall. Dr C Waldo Scott opposed the motion. signers include local NAACP chapter leaders.
The Germans reportedly called the Marines Teufelhunden during the Belleau Wood fighting of the Fourth Marine Brigade. The battle halted a German advance on Paris and left almost 8,000 Marines dead or lost, leading France to nickname the site The Wood of the American Marines.
A church yard party at Relief Methodist Church is scheduled for Saturday July 16 at 5 30 PM. The event features ham and chicken sandwiches and likely other picnic fare for attendees.
An advertisement claims over a million dollars yearly is spent on pile remedies and promotes Peterson's Ointment as fast relief. It offers a 50 cent box or 75 cent tube and promises soothing relief from itching with a money back option.
Berryville hosts the John H. Enders Fire Company yard party and auction at the Community Building. A siren marks opening at 5 p.m. on July 20 with auctions and bake sale items including 28 hams 250 chickens 179 cakes 102 pies 355 pounds sugar 110 dozen eggs and seven gallons condiments.
Shrews possess poisonous saliva glands in the lower jaw. In most species the venom is weak and only cripples small prey like mice. The American short tailed shrew bite can be fatal. Shrews are the world’s smallest mammals.
City council notes 46 percent completion of contract time for street work with excavation delays and steady progress toward schedule. Completed curbs and gutters on Academy Heights and Joist Hite Place plus Sheridan Avenue. Two industrial county water contracts approved for extensions of large mains to plants and subdivisions. Additional items include building permits referrals, a minor traffic claim payout, and planning for a long term tree program.
Newly elected President Armstrong described two months of work on a fall campaign organization. He noted an audit by Yount & Hyde was reviewed by attendees. Discussion groups for the fall were led by Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Jackson, Wilkie Hunt, Charles Toan, and Mrs. Nixon. Budget request forms were sent to the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Negro Nursery, and Winchester Day.
The Nursery, Salvation Army, Children's Home Society and USC will hold an August meeting to adapt the 1956 budget and finalize plans for the fall campaign.
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