13 Jul 1963
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1963
Page
1
In Cambridge Maryland Governor Tawes orders 400 guards back after a four day absence. Curfew and liquor sales ban imposed as streets empty by 10 p.m. Businesses closed at 7 p.m. Police struggle to prevent further unrest amid integration tensions.
In Danville sporadic picketing intensified after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr urged nonviolent action. As arrests climbed to 81 since Thursday, most detainees remained jailed in a city facility with capacity for 100 more. The King's civil rights task force from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was en route, signaling possible demonstrations next week. In Virginia, a traffic crash killed Ma Ellen Roene, 23, raising the 1963 highway toll to 485.
The Chester Volunteer Rescue hosts its annual yard party at Shawnee Fire tonight starting with dinner at five and an auction at eight to raise funds for the rescue squad. Hail fell along Wellstown Pike and nearby areas with hailstones described as large but no rain reported.
Bob Fehsenfeld recalls a violent outburst sparked by tensions over integration in Cambridge Maryland. In a televised moment he smashed an egg and threw water at a white youth, then expressed shame but later received mixed letters from readers. He says financial pressures and fear for his restaurant driven the incident and vows to move forward despite public backlash.
Virginia Republican Chairman Horace E. Henderson urged Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. to launch an immediate probe after disclosures that several Highway Department employees accepted gifts from a contractor. Henderson cited Thursday’s firing of one employee, suspensions for three, and a demotion for a fifth.
A U S 50 crash ten miles east of Romney, West Virginia, killed a Delaware youth William Grady 16 of Wilmington and injured five others. Injured were James Edmund Northcraft 19 Slanesville WV and four Van Horn family members from Portsmouth Virginia.
Seven people were injured in two separate traffic mishaps in Clarke County. Frank Blessington and his wife Eleanor of Arlington were among the injured in a crash at U S Routes 340 and 50, with Arnold Brown of Finksburg driving another car. In the Winchester area, Jacob Rinker and George Gaither plus their passengers Mary Gaither and Gabriel Abramovitz sustained injuries when Rinker’s car collided with the Gaither vehicle at N Kent and E Piccadilly Streets. Abramovitz and his wife were hospitalized with head and leg injuries. Gaither was treated for head and leg injuries. Rinker and Abramovitz were charged with failure to yield the right of way.
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman may act early next week on Virginia's request for surplus feed grains for drought affected central and southern counties. He said the request will be reviewed and noted authorization for grazing and hay harvest on soil bank land in Albemarle and Pittsylvania counties.
In Havana the radio accused the United States of instigating the military coup that toppled Ecuadorian President Carlos Julio Arosemena. A commentator urged Ecuadorans to wage open fight with no truce against the puppet military junta and Yankee imperialism.
Tammy the mixed Cocker Spaniel Daschshund escaped from David Felix's car near Winchester and traveled to Salem before being found by Mercedes Tuggle. City Game Warden Ervin Cleveland publicized the appeal and arranged Tammy’s return by railway express to Sidell, Louisiana.
Downtown shoppers hear constant banging as teens smash a 1948 model car parked near the Confederate Monument on N Loudoun St. for a quarter, offering anyone to swing a sledge hammer and dent the vehicle.
In a Winchester Frederick County Chamber referendum 218 members voted for local option liquor by the drink and 105 against. Ballots were mailed June 26 to more than 450 members with final tallies due after the following Monday.
Gordon 58, a carpenter, was sentenced to life by a Circuit Court jury after a quick deliberation in the May 29 1962 slaying of 47 year old Joseph Leon Desrosiers at his Kinzel Drive home. The defense seeks a retrial on July 22.
Soviet and Red Chinese party experts held a final unity meeting amid grim prospects for reconciliation. Peking signaled a potential shift suggesting further bilateral discussions, as U.S., British, and Soviet negotiators prepared to open East West nuclear test ban talks Monday.
City Police announced the arrest of 19 year old Charles Robert Jackson of 25 E. Pall Mall St for robbery by force in the July 6 street robbery that left Carl Edward Smith of 450 Kerns Row beaten and robbed at Cameron and Clark Streets. A 16 year old male was charged in a juvenile petition.
Anderson's Repair Shop on Bufflick Road will be closed the week of July 15. Snow bones Cotton Candy Softee appear in readable fragments but no extra event details.
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