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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1957
Page
12
The Mackinac Bridge will span 26,444 feet connecting Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. It is designed to carry 6,000 motorists an hour with an average crossing time of about 10 minutes.
The small Winchester area contains an preserved Indian burial plot at Babb's Marsh near Cedar Grove. Shawnee villagers lived around Winchester, with Cornstalk born there in 1720. After 1754, Indians fled to the French, leaving graves behind, now undisturbed except for aging cabins and a later monument planned for the unknown dead.
Smith's Transfer Corp of Staunton offers 25 000 shares of Class A Common Stock at 10.75 each through an underwriting group led by C. F. Cassell Co Inc of Charlottesville and Mason & Lee Inc of Lynchburg. Proceeds fund working capital and expansion of carrier facilities. July 7 announcement states intent to buy H T Smith Express Co Inc of Wallingford Conn for 7600 000. New England firm operates 110 machines, 120 employees, assets 981 700. Smith's operates ICC certificated routes from the Carolinas and West Virginia to the New York area. Incorporated in 1948 as successor to a 1930 trucking business founded by the late Raymond Smith, Roy R. Smith now leads.
A flying test bed is a small inexpensive research aircraft used to study possibilities that could be applied to larger aircraft.
The Associated Press reports only small changes in temperatures with a broad wet belt. Cool air persists from the Northeast to the Atlantic Coast and Far Northwest while central and southern areas face hotter conditions after another day of 90s to over 100 in the Southeast and Southwest. Severe storms and strong winds hit the Bismarck area as heavy rain fell in parts of North Dakota.
Mr and Mrs Harry Grover of Reliance visited Mr and Mrs Marvin White. Irvin Williams and family visited Mrs L E Roberts and Mrs Mary Kain in Winchester. A P Hylton and Rosa Hylton visited Norma Konig. Warren Mehring of Washington and Lester Bauserman of Roanoke stayed with John Bauserman. Carol Hylton of Washington DC weekend with parents. Howard White visited Hattie White at the M White home. High View PTA yard party set for July 27 at the school. Redwood Library claims as oldest continuously used library building in the US, built in Newport RI in 1748.
In Carlinville Illinois Mayor B G Bates tried to inaugurate the new whiteway for the business district but darkness remained due to line trouble. Ralph Rutherford local power company manager lamented the disappointment saying he has faced few bigger letdowns.
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