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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1960
Page
2
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs. Bessie E. Shenk 79 widow of Joseph Lee Shenk with surviving children and grandchildren. Funeral service set at 2 p.m. at John H. Enders Funeral Home with Red Cross donations requested in lieu of flowers.
The funeral for Mrs. Clarence L Bohrer of 309 Virginia Ave dies Tuesday night. Dr George Jackson and Rev G Raymond Womeldorf officiate at Jones Funeral Home at 1 30 p m. Burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers: W Austin Havermale Gilbert R Whitmire Henry L Bush Harry E Ridgeway Purcell O Dick. Friends may call at the Jones Funeral Home.
Merriweather L. Snow, 78, of the Boxwood Motel, died early last night at his residence. He was born in Greene County and was survived by his wife who preceded him in death.
Michael Deery 19 of Baltimore Md died there Wednesday evening his family reports he drowned. He was the son of Mrs Dorothy and grandson of Mr and Mrs Henson Sirbaugh of Capon Bridge. Arrangements for the funeral and burial in Baltimore are incomplete.
Messages from Martinsburg indicate Presbyterian missionaries from the area serving in the Republic of Congo are safe. Dr. William Rule, a local missionary and ham radio operator, confirms contact with African stations and notes evacuation of women and children planned from Luluabourg. He mentions Miss Charlotte McMurray and Dr. and Mrs. L. A. McMurray, and Miss Elizabeth Miller of Martinsburg as fellow missionaries.
The article notes Soviet move to bring the RB47 case before the United Nations Security Council. It discusses U S officials arguing the aim is to block future U2 overflights and to incite anti U S sentiment toward U S bases, including near Norfolk Virginia. The piece mentions reconnaissance near Cape Henry and the U S Navy base.
Douglas Larrick, a 16 year old Frederick County youth, is reported in good condition at Memorial Hospital after sustaining a severe head injury and facial fractures in an elevator accident yesterday. He had gashes on the back of his head and under his chin along with a jaw fracture and broken teeth.
Richmond GOP leader Walter Gambrill reports talks with dissatisfied Virginia Democrats who volunteer to help elect Richard Nixon. He cites efforts to form Democrats for Nixon clubs and notes past Eisenhower ties, urging conservatives to reject the Democratic platform at the convention and unite for Nixon.
A mass meeting of Frederick County Republicans is set for this evening at 8 o'clock at the court house in Winchester for the election of officers and county committee men. All interested persons may attend.
Senator John F. Kennedy rejects appeasement in handling Khrushchev in a Hearst bylined article in the New York Journal American. He argues there is no Democratic or Republican path and warns Khrushchev against interfering in American politics while stressing U.S. resolve against communism. He cites space race momentum and faster Soviet growth as signs of rising Soviet power and contempt for the United States.
Los Angeles AP report says Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will back Sen. John F. Kennedy though with modest enthusiasm. Powell, a Negro leader, has criticized Kennedy on civil rights yet voted for Kennedy on the first ballot. He previously bolted the Democrats for Eisenhower in 1956.
A serialized notices page lists multiple auction events across Winchester and Charles Town areas. Items include real estate, furniture, antiques, household goods, tools, and livestock with respective auctioneers such as E. T. Snider and Chas. R. Duvall.Dates range July 15 to July 30 with venues at county courthouses and private residences.
Los Angeles police report lie detector tests for Raymond W. Clemmons 35, a parolee selling Bibles door to door, were inconclusive as they probe his involvement in the killing of Miss Thoeren on the Los Angeles City College campus. Clemmons had been charged with murder earlier and is linked to other elderly women killings in the city.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged the United Nations Security Council to condemn the United States over the July 1 RB47 six engine reconnaissance bomber incident. He asked for an urgent meeting to discuss new U S Air Force actions against the Soviet Union and transmitted the memo from Moscow. The U S says the downing occurred in international waters during a routine mission. The council meeting was expected to be scheduled for next week.
Hagerty accused the Soviet Union of lying as the United States maintains the July 1 downed plane was over international waters and never near Soviet territory. The U S government says it cannot confirm the crash location beyond that it did not cross into Soviet air space. Hagerty has refused to detail how Washington asserts the plane stayed outside Soviet zones.
A note on the word desuetude explaining the correct pronunciation as dess-wee tyud with the stress on the first syllable.
LAS VEGAS NEV AP Five hundred tons of high explosive was triggered at the Nevada test site but failed to detonate. An AEC spokesman said the cause of the test failure is under study as technicians inspect the buried non nuclear charge at 125 feet. The test was part of Projet Plowshare to study crater effects for peaceful uses of atomic energy.
Senator John F. Kennedy the Democratic presidential nominee will fly to his Hyannisport Massachusetts home Sunday for a couple of weeks his press secretary said today
Virginia forecast shows clearing skies and cooler temperatures tonight with lows near 50 in the west and low 60s in the east. Tomorrow will be sunny with light humidity and pleasant warmth.
The record lists rainfall totals ending today and for July as 2.99 inches, with 1960 to date at 91.96 inches. It then provides 47 year averages by month, naming Jan to Dec with monthly values, and ends with a usage note on the term expose and a sample sentence about witness testimony.
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