Winchester School Board Act on Integration Plan
The Winchester School Board moves to approve a court approved plan to integrate four city schools this September and begin a geographical assignment plan within a month. Judge Michie ordered start in 1962 due to few Negro students.
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Winchester
U. S
Thomas J. Michie
Quarles
J. Randolph Larrick
Michie
John Kerr
Virginia Avenue
Handley High
Handley
Larrick
Winchester Rescue Squad On Front Page Demonstration
Staunton Leader shows Winchester Rescue Squad members at a meeting in the city for a demonstration. A Luray woman’s puppy named Skeeter swallowed a nylon stocking requiring surgical removal. The dog’s operation used special equipment and was performed after veterinary checks in Luray before the animal was brought to the local hospital.
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Winchester Rescue Squad
Staunton Leader
Bergie Fox
Luray
Skeeter
City School Board Desegregation Plan Details
The document outlines a phased desegregation schedule from September 1 1962 starting with Grade One and Grade Nine, with annual expansion to additional grades. It assigns attendance areas by the Superintendent with School Board approval, prohibits race from influencing initial assignments, allows minority pupils to transfer, and permits parent or guardian driven transfers while limiting intra-year retransfer.
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Douglas School
Douglas
Larrick
J. William Hollis
William E. Fauver
F. L. Largent, Jr
Robert S. Boyd
James W. March
Howard H Shockey
Fred I. Brumback
H. Robert Edwards
Herbert A. Solenberger
Baad
Big Shot Balloon Lift Off Delivers Spectacular Sky Show
Cape Canaveral observers witnessed the 135 foot diameter balloon dubbed Big Shot separate from a Thor booster and rise to 950 miles above the Atlantic before burning up. NASA announced mission success paving the way for Echo II satellite tests later this year.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Echo
Cape
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Laos Conference approves final peace treaty
Geneva AP reports the 14 nation Laos Conference approved the final version of a peace and neutrality treaty for the kingdom, outlining terms aimed at ending conflict in the region.
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Geneva
Laos
Judges Reject Soblen Appeal for Freedom
In London three high court justices refused Dr. Robert Soblen’s plea to remain in Britain on habeas corpus grounds. They granted leave to appeal, potentially delaying deportation to the United States for about six weeks. Soblen remains in transit status while pursuing asylum as a political refugee, with the Home Office not indicating approval.
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London
High Court
Robert Soblen
Soblen
United States
Court of Appeal
Home Office
Britain
Israel
America
New York
Feather's Trial Slated to Open On Thursday
Frederick Keith Feather, 31, goes on trial in Corporation Court for the January 28 slaying of his wife Betty Jo Feather, 29. Indicted May 28, Feather is accused of shooting her five times during a car trip from Winchester to Frederick, Maryland where she was found dead.
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Frederick Keith Feather
Corporation Court
Betty Jo Feather
Feather
Winchester
Frederick
West Berlin air incident seen as isolated by officials
Western officials described the Soviet intercept of a U S DC3 near the East German border as an isolated event with no bid to resume winter harassment. The flight from Hamburg to Tempelhof checked navigational aids over Berlin before landing. The United States protested to Soviet officials and the incident followed Kennedy's call to the Soviet ambassador.
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Carl Hartman Berlin
West Berlin
United States
Kennedy
Washington
Benin
U.S
U.S. Federal Aviation Agency
Hamburg
West Germany
Tempelhof
Berlin
Kennedy Rejects Berlin Troop Removal Demand
President Kennedy told Soviet ambassador Dobrynin that Moscow cannot demand U S troop removal from West Berlin. The hour long White House talk also covered Laos disarmament and a nuclear test ban. Dobrynin declined comment as he left.
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Washington
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Soviet Union
U.S
West Berlin
Anatoly F Dobrynin
White House
Laos
Dobrynin
Berlin
Moscow
United States
Secret of
Dean Rusk Foaven
Geneva
Andrei
Medicare Defeat Sets Tone for 1962 Elections
The Senate defeated the administration’s elderly medical care plan 52 to 48, a move labeled by President Kennedy as a grave defeat. Kennedy pledged to bring the proposal back next year as Republicans and Southern Democrats capitalized on the issue ahead of the November elections. The vote split along party lines with 21 Democrats including 17 Southern members and 31 Republicans opposing. The 100 Senators filled the chamber as the clash over tying the plan to the House welfare bill intensified.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
the American Medical Associa
House
Senators vote on health plan in close 52 48 tally
Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland senators split on tabling President Kennedy's Social Security health care plan. Byrd Robertson Randolph Beall Butler voted for tabling. Byrd West Virginia opposed.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Kennedy
Byrd
D-Va
Robertson
Randolph
D-W.va
Beall
Senate action backed public interest in old age program
The vote was framed as a public interest move against higher Social Security payments, with a Tuesday Senate action described as supporting the program opposed by its backers.
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Tion
Senate
Kennedy’s Health Plan Tops Legislative Priority
Kennedy kept the medical care plan in the top priority bracket of his program. The coalition that scrapped it resembled the same pattern that killed two major proposals in the House namely the farm bill and the Department of Urban Affairs plan.
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Kennedy
Traffic Deaths Rise 7.3 Percent in Virginia
Virginia state police report first-half 1962 traffic deaths climbed 7.3 percent to 397, led by rural and pedestrian fatalities. Col. C W Woodson cites 5.8 percent rise in traffic volume from gasoline data and notes lack of individual responsibility amid growing crash counts.
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Richmond
Virginia
Col
C. W. Woodson
Governor's Highway Safety Committee
Woodson
Winchester Evening Star Cited by Virginia Press Assn
The Winchester Evening Star was cited by the Virginia Press Association for excellence in general makeup and top awards. The Star led Virginia newspapers in circulation brackets and has earned eight VA awards in sixteen years. The honors include first page makeup and press work with top national recognition from the N W Ayer Agency. Awards will be presented at the Old Point Comfort banquet Saturday.
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Winchester Evening Star
Virginia Press Association
Richmond Today
the Star
Virginia
United States
N. W. Ayer Agency
Philadelphia
The
Star
Old Point Comfort
Peru Military Coup Seizes President Prado in Bloodless Uprising
Troops surrounded the Lima palace and detained President Manuel Prado after weeks of crisis. The army accused the June elections of fraud and rejected a deal to install Manuel Odria, while APRA and Odrista groups could gain a congressional majority advancing a new government.
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Peru
Lima
Manuel Prado
Prado
Manuel Odria
Victor Raul Maya de la Torre
Popular Revolutionary Alliance
APRA
Odria
Haya
Congress
Fernando Belaunde Terry
Odrista Union
Apra-Odria
Carlos Monteyra Paz Soldan
Navy
Guillermo Tirado
Apra Odria
Berlin Crisis Plot Prompts New Inquiries
The Winchester Evening Star runs a two part series tomorrow based on an exclusive AP interview with Gen Lucius D Clay who commanded the Berlin operation. The piece explores Khrushchevs renewed plan to swap Allied troops for mixed garrisons and potential fallout.
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Khrushchev
Berlin
State Department
Winchester Evening Star
Associated Press
Lucius D. Clay
Summer sale ad highlights clothing discounts
A vintage ad promotes a summer sale with discounts on bathing suits sports wear and hats. It lists reductions on dresses lingerie and general sportswear with prices noted for select items and features BUZZELLA'S and MODERNAGE SHOPPE.
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Dresels
Buzzella
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City School Board
Howard Benedict
Space
Thor
San Salvador
Bulletin
West
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
American Automobile Assn
George Hammond
Traffic Safety Department
District of Columbia
Hammond
J. Thomas Boyd
Smalts
Warren Rudolph
Lions Club
Medicare
JFK
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Winchester Dry Cleaners
S. Braddock St
Denny’s
Margaret L. Hodgson Hat & Dress Shop
Dacron & Cotton
Margaret L. Hodgson
Virginia Press Assn
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