Stuart House Bought For Doctors' Offices
Winchester landmark the Stuart house has been sold to Dr. Robert Green and Dr. Jack son Helm. It will be remodeled into doctors offices with minimal exterior changes. The narrative excerpt traces the property and ownership history through 19th century figures including Major Holmes Conrad and Dr. Daniel Conrad, noting Civil War era associations and former Bank of Virginia connections.
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Star Pholo
Holly House
Christopher Stuart, Jr
Stewart and Boscawen Sts
Robert Green
Jackson Helm
Winchester
E. Christopher Stuart, Jr
William Greenway Russell
Stewart St
Boscawen St
George W. Seevers
McKendles
Seevers
Farmer’s Bank of Virginia
Holmes Conrad
Russell
D. R. Conrad
Conrad
Fighting Heavy in Viet Nam
Heavy clashes pitted Red guerrillas against government troops airlifted by 30 U S helicopters about 40 miles northeast of Saigon. American casualties included five dead and four missing in three air crashes over two days.
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Saigon
South Viet Namse
U.S
Don J. York
Asheville
N.C
U.S. Army
Robert F. Corneil
Pentagon
Washington
Pilot's Message Says U. S. Plane Buzzed by Reds
A radio message reportedly from an American plane says a Communist fighter crossed its path in the northern corridor to West Berlin. U S Air Force spokesmen in Berlin offered no comment on the incident. The pilot claimed the encounter occurred about 40 miles from Berlin as he neared the corridor from West Germany.
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Berlin
West Berlin
U.S
Hamburg
West Germany
East Germany
Local rabbit sighting and strange beetle reported
Barbara Boyd describes a brown rabbit in the parking area beside the Hafer House on N Braddock St. Noah Long brings a two inch beetle from 434 N Kent St to the Star office, identified by dark spots on a light back and noted for its ferocious appearance.
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Barbara Boyd
E. Germain St
Hafer House
N. Braddock St
Star Office
Noah Long
N. Kent St
Long
Presbyterian Church
Ridgeway Receives Eight Years for Husband Slaying
Circuit Court Judge Elliott Marr sentenced Mrs Merrie Berg Ridgeway to eight years in the penitentiary after a June 29 conviction for second degree murder in the Dec 3 shooting of her husband. The all male jury recommended the term.
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Elliott Marshall
Merrie Berg Ridgeway
Valley Man Killed and Son Wounded in Apparent Murder Suicide
A Shenandoah County man Mervin Orville Hottie was shot four times and died. His 19 year old son Billy Lee Hottie was wounded after an argument between father and son outside their home. State Police, coroner and sheriff investigated the incident as murder and attempted death by own action.
Kennedy to Meet Soviet Ambassador at White House
President Kennedy will host Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the White House for a 6 p.m. EDT conference to discuss Berlin disarmament and Laos. This first lengthy meeting since credentials were presented on March 30 follows prior talks between Dobrynin and Secretary Rusk in Washington and Moscow.
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Washington
Kennedy
Anatoly Dobrynin
White House
Berlin
Disarmament
Laos
Pierre Salinger
Dobrynin
Executive Mansion
Dean Rusk
Moscow
Kennedy-Dobrynin
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Kennedy to hold news conference linked to Telstar broadcast
President Kennedy will host a news conference Monday at 3 p.m. EDT. Part of the session will be transmitted via Telstar to Europe, marking a historic two way telecast between America and Europe. The White House says European networks may carry the remarks across the continent.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Europe
Telstar
Pierre Salinger
America
Salinger
United States
Khrushchev Claims Soviet Global Rocket Indestructible
Premier Khrushchev says the Soviet Union possesses a global rocket that cannot be destroyed by any antirocket means and can hit targets in space. He links West Berlin's status to East-West tension and urges Western troop withdrawal as a condition for peace with Germany.
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Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Kremlin
United States
Berlin
U.S
Britain
France
United Nations
East Germany
Germany
Creed Black
Wilmington
Del
News-Journal
Robert Estabrook
Washington Post
John Harris
Hutchinson
Medicare Vote Seen Close in Senate Clash
In Washington the Senate prepared for a pivotal vote on the administration’s health care plan for the elderly. Leaders predicted a very close outcome that could shape Kennedy’s broader legislative program and influence education, farm aid, and tax revisions battles.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
White House
Mansfield
Ken
Nedy
White becomes first astronaut in winged craft
At Edwards Air Force Base California veteran X-15 pilot Robert M White flew 58 miles into space achieving the first astronaut qualification in a winged craft.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Robert M. White
How Stonewall Jackson Got His Famous Nickname
The article reviews theories on how Thomas J. Jackson earned the nickname Stonewall. It cites Gen. Barnard Bee’s alleged remark at First Manassas and Beauregard’s version, plus a Stonewall Brigade origin linked to the Jefferson, Clarke, Frederick, Page and Warren counties area. It notes historians debate whether the name belonged to Jackson or his brigade and references Dr. Altamount Palmer.
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Civil War Times
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
James V. Murfin
Hagerstown
Barnard Bee
Manassas
Gen. Bee
Jackson
Charleston, S. C
Mercury
Muffin
P. G. T. Beauregard
Stonewall
Mr. Murfin
Bee
Murfin
Stone Wall
Jefferson, Clarke, Frederick
Page
Warren
John Williamson Palmer
Palmer
Stonewall Jackson and Bee brigade honor cited in Civil War Times
The article notes the nickname Stonewall rising in honor from Bee’s brigade exploits. Civil War Times appears monthly except September and March. Editor Robert H. Fowler publishers Edward J. Stackpole. Col Wilbur S. Nye associate editor and map researcher for Stackpole.
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Robert H. Fowler
Edward J. Stackpole
Calm Physician Calm Physician
Dr Max I Packer a calm physician in New York faced a robbery when two youths entered his office on a Monday night One brandished a weapon demanding money and drugs The doctor surrendered $400 but had no drugs The pair tied him to a chair before fleeing He freed himself and resumed treating patients until police arrived
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New York
Max I. Packer
Packer
Apple Pickers Wanted Male Only
Job ad seeking male apple pickers with contact W Weedon Teets MO 2-3225 for application and details.
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W. Weedon Teets
Eight Year Desegregation Plan Approved in Winchester
U.S. District Judge Thomas J. Michie approved an amended Winchester public school pupil assignment plan aiming for complete desegregation within eight years. The plan starts desegregating first and ninth grades this fall with at least one more grade yearly, and bases pupil placement on residence. Four Negro pupils assigned to Handley are unaffected, while NAACP counsel argued for merger of schools. the judge left consolidation undecided.
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Harrisonburg
U. S
Thomas J. Michie
Winchester
J. Randolph Larrick
Larrick
Michie
Handley
Virginia
Tucker
Quarles
Douglas High
Frederick
Shenandoah
Handley School
Seminole Prophet Foresees Bad Hurricane Season
Billy Bowlegs, a Seminole weather prophet, predicts a rough hurricane season after noting a rat nesting on an oak log. He claims a 100 year-old wisdom and cites a 1947 forecast that preceded a Florida hurricane.
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Dania
Fla
Billy Bowlegs
Florida
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Daniel Conrad
N. Cameron St
Dr. Conrad
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Viet Nam
Crier
Son
Harold W. Miller, Sr
Shenandoah County
Elder Hottle
D. I. Peer
F. H. Lasley, Jr
Philip Crisman
Hottie
Medicare
Bulletin
Jack Cummins
Star
Dacron & Cotton
Margaret L. Hodgson
M-m-m-m
Softee
McMullen
Dresels
Buzzella
Phi
Modernage
Garland Quarles
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