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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1955
Page
2
Language shows answer key style with scattered clues from a 19th or early 20th century school page. Mentions Pittsburgh Jesuit missionary and a detective of fiction as True or False items. Includes stray phrases about finger on the ground and generic answer marks.
Sale listings note a Gil Renner estate auction 3 miles east of Winchester on Senseng Road at 1 p.m. on Sunday with modern furniture and household items. Also on Sunday at 1 p.m. the Virginia Breeders Association meets at the Farmer's Stock Exchange in Winchester with four ram breeds listed. On Saturday at 12 noon the D. S. T H Olstein Sale is at the Frederick Fair Grounds in Frederick Maryland featuring 60 registered and grade Holstein cows and heifers. Noll and Bowles are the auctioneers.
Shawnee groups named committee heads for the annual yard party to be held July 30 at the Brakeblok plant. Maynard Renner leads games, Albert Clark parking, Elmo Ruckman auction, Dick Bauserman and Clovis Bucher entertainment, Darrell Grim soft drinks, J. W. Green Jr equipment. The unit endorsed the Winchester Frederick County Community Chest and plans to join firemen parades in Middletown July 20 and Stephens City August 10. Construction plans for a new fire hall and community building on Roosevelt Blvd Pineville will be delivered next week with bids to be requested.
General Ridgway accuses civilian officials of overreaching while asserting military advisers must speak honestly regardless of policy. He defends a strong Western response to Communist pressure and urges recognition of the West’s manpower and material strength.
Charles Earl Craven 22 was found guilty of first degree murder in Alexandria for stabbing his grandfather Ernest Craven 82 and grandmother Annie Craven 61 in their apartment. Sentencing postponed to September after probation report. faces death or minimum 20 years in prison.
Stephens City Auxiliary to the Stephens City Fire Company organized its carnival program set for August 8 13 at the school grounds. Mrs Ed Ambrose heads the waitress committee with Mrs French Reid on hamburgers, Mrs James Bowman on hot dogs, and others on cakes barbecue and gate duties. The group also sent delegates to the Virginia Firemen's Association meeting in Staunton August 9 to 12, with a change of the August 11 meeting to the 4th to avoid carnival conflict. A shower honored treasurer Miss Marthena Clevenger, who marries July 22.
Funeral service for Mrs Florence C. Pipher widow of John Pipher was held yesterday at 4 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home. Rev S J Goode officiated with pallbearers Robert O Ritter Stanley Combs John E Shull Walter J Anderson John P Locke and John W Hughes Sr. interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Eight northern Virginia county committees meet at Frederick County Court House on Tuesday at 8 p m to plan the 16th annual Feeder Calf Sale set for Friday October 8. Meetings will elect a chairman and an auctioneer with last year’s chairman J H Cunningham of Fauquier named.
About 86 children attend the Community Bible School at Mount Carmel Baptist Church from July 11 through July 22. Rev. Melford Walker leads the church program with Rev. Irvin C. Lockman directing as skipper. Teachers include Mrs. Melford Walker and several pupils assist as musicians and staff.
The Frye farm on Chestnut Grove near Rosenberger shows plentiful quail coveys with many nests and eggs. Deer roamed the oat field while Mr Frye reported a large buck with 10 points and several coveys ranging toward 12 to 24 eggs per nest. The hunting season opens in November on the 30 acre farm, with coveys feeding along Highway 612 and taking flight when approached by cars.
The Federal Trade Commission said it will seek to block the merger of Farm Journal and Better Farming, the two largest agricultural magazines, on grounds the deal may tend to create a monopoly.
Actress Suzan Ball remains hospitalized in Duarte at City of Hope in diagnostic stage for a possible lung cancer. Officials report serious but stable condition with oxygen as husband Richard Long stays by her side. tests expected early next week.
Harriet Sencindiver Ways, formerly a bookkeeper since March 1954, was named assistant treasurer of the Shenandoah Production Credit Association and the National Farm Loan Association of Winchester. Julian A. Everly announced the promotion, noting her exemplary performance. The Ways family, including son Kirk, resides on Martinsburg Pike near Winchester. Douglas A. Ways is manager at Peoples Drug Store.
Senate Internal Security subcommittee plans to use its latest hearings to uncover current Communist activity. Ira Henry Freeman of the New York Times testified he joined the party in 1938 for about a year, then quit amid disillusionment.
The city manager announces hydrant tests and flushing will occur tomorrow in the area bounded by Woodstock Lane Elm Street West Virginia Avenue and Dodge Street. Residents are advised to stock water in containers as discoloration may occur during the testing.
A regional sale feature highlights Winchester as a busy shopping hub with bargains everywhere. The item emphasizes wide variety, phrases like Where Bargains Abound, and appeals to shoppers in the Valley.
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