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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1957
Page
3
Technical trouble postpones the next atomic detonation at the Atomic Energy Commission site in Nevada. The shot, originally set for today, will be set off at 6 30 a m tomorrow, extending 24 hours.
Kingstree South Carolina students who missed three days due to a flu outbreak will attend class on three separate Saturdays to make up the instructional time.
Albert F. Arbogast Sr of Poughkeepsie served nine years as a city police patrolman by May 1. A month later he became pastor of three rural churches in Maldon Quarryville and Palenville. The Kingston native had long wished to minister. After police appointment in 1998 he resumed church work and study. On May 1 he earned his preacher's license and soon after received his appointment. The Rev. and Mrs. Arbogast have two sons Albert Jr. 16 and William III 15.
Barney Ruditsky, 58, claims he crashed the wrong door in the botched Marilyn Monroe raid and will take responsibility for the incident. He told reporters he acted on bum information and had admitted his participation before a country grand jury amid the probe into the November 1954 raid. DiMaggio and Sinatra did not enter the apartment. DiMaggio was not inside and Sinatra was nearby.
For a five foot three inch girl the suggested weight ranges are 112 to 120 pounds for small-boned, 120 to 128 pounds for average-boned, and 128 to 136 pounds for large-boned. Wrist size under 64 inches signals a small frame while over 60 inches signals a large frame.
U S District Judge Paul Leahy ruled that all Delaware public schools must desegregate by fall. The State Board of Education must submit a desegregation plan within 60 days and distribute the plan and opinion to all school boards within 45 days. The case arose from parents of Black children seeking integration, including Milford where violence had been threatened previously.
Delegates from the American Legion Boys and Virginia Girls State chose nominees for governor lieutenant governor and attorney general in two parties with elections held today. Federalists and Nationalists named candidates in both states and judges to the State Supreme Court of Appeals were on the ballot. Four Boys State nominees competed for two Boys' Nation delegates heading to Washington Friday.
Readers in the western United States are advised that many women wash their hair with am ole, a root from a species of Yucca, which is the state flower of New Mexico.
Long Beach California fifteen contestants remain after the first night selecting the Miss U S A representative for the Miss Universe pageant. Leona Gage of Glen Burnie Maryland and Ruth Marie Parr of St. Albans West Virginia are among the 16 still in the running after initial judging in evening gowns and bathing suits.
The article notes American entrants face tough competition as the international phase begins. Canada’s Gloria Noakes won Miss Popularity and Germany’s Gerti Daub was named Most Photogenic in the first awards.
In Waterloo Nebraska heavy rains flood fields causing standing water. Farmers such as Clarence Clover turn irrigation equipment to pump out water, reversing the usual drought response.
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