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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1951
Page
3
About 69 Girl Scouts moved into Camp White Rock for the second session starting Sunday at 2 PM. The day included weigh ins, a river swim, a turkey dinner, and a Scouts Own program at 7:45 PM. Arts and crafts such as basketry, woodwork, and leather work are emphasized with older units doing chip carving.
The Winchester Lions Club plans its annual picnic for Wednesday August 8 at Willow Lawn Swimming Pool. Robert Jasper and Lee Miller lead arrangements. Amusements include swimming horseshoe pitching softball and other games. The pool will be open to the public with Mrs. John Golden preparing the supper.
Virginia State Agriculture Board approves extra fancy as a standard for apples packed in closed containers. The move, urged by the Virginia State Horticultural Society, aims to boost revenue for compliant packers and does not force those using Virginia grading to switch.
Mrs Bessie Johnson treated at Winchester Memorial Hospital for a cut forehead after a collision at Kern and Kent Streets. Emanuel Bean of Route 1 in a 1940 Buick turned onto Kent and hit Paul Johnson of 542 N Kent Street in a 1936 Chevrolet with Mrs Johnson as a passenger. Buick damage $140, Chevrolet $75. Earlier, Richard C Baker of Route 1 was rear ended on S Loudoun Street by Fred L Glaize III of 227 Amherst Street driving a 1951 Pontiac. Pontiac damage $125, Baker car $50.
Boeing Aircraft Company announced delivery of the first production model of its multi purpose C-97 Stratofreighter to the Air Force in Seattle. The 172 ton plane can be quickly reconfigured for tanker troop transport cargo or hospital use, with a speed of 350 miles per hour and a capacity for 134 troops or 79 litter patients with attendants.
Funeral services for Charles Rhoades Carlysle age 17 will be held Friday at 11 30 a m CST from Ives Funeral Home Wilson Boulevard Arlington Virginia. Burial follows at Mt Hebron Cemetery with graveside rites at 1 p m EST officiated by Reverend Robert Whitten and Reverend Bender.
Virginia teams from Carolina Chemical Co. of Richmond and National Fruit Product Co. of Winchester enter the Virginia Softball Association event. The Winchester squad will compete in the girls district tourney at Salem this weekend. Virginia-Caro lina Chemical Co. plays in the tens district tourney in Richmond July 28 29.
Blacksburg Virginia teens participate in a Virginia Tech youth state election to choose governors for boys and girls. Boys candidates include Neil Levering of Alexandria for Federalist and Rudolph Woods of Chase City for Nationalist. Girls candidates are Jean Burroughs of Norfolk and Kay Irwin of Falls Church representing Federalist and Nationalist respectively.
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