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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1966
Page
3
Local notes report hospital stays and home recoveries for Mrs. Bryan Poland Mrs. Virginia Beery and others. Visits travel through Winchester Martinsburg Keyser and Cumberland as kin support families including Oates Pepper Robinson Stewart Lee and Park.
Ad for knitting patterns and craft catalogs offers 6 inch knit squares using 2 needles and 2 strands. Includes price 35 cents per pattern plus 15 cents mailing handling. Mail to Alice Brooks in New York for Pattern 7096 and other catalogs with multiple pattern collections and quilt books.
A long list of visits and relocations fills Stephens City and surrounding areas. Residents post visits with relatives in Beddington West Virginia Leesburg Stanley Middletown and Essex Maryland while journeys to Ohio Kentucky and Germany are noted. A home moved on Jersey Mountain Road and local youths attend camp and receive honors.
Brucetown Methodist Church holds Sunday School at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 15 a.m led by Rev Robert Couch. A yard party benefiting the church building fund is planned on Saturday night with Sgt and Mrs Luke Burleson attendees.
Pleasant Grove Church will host its annual meeting on the last Sunday in July July 31 honoring students of the one room school. Services start at 1 30 pm with Sunday School taught by John Coryell Sr special music by a Winchester choir led by Johnny Brewer and Dr J T Omps from Capon Bridge Methodist Church will attend. A large turnout is expected for fellowship and memories.
Recent guests include Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle Pitcock Jr. and sons from Opequon. Gail and Dawn Pugh of Winchester spent a week with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Dodson. Kinley Alfred and family enjoyed a Sugar Loaf Mountain picnic with Hern don residents. M/Sgt Cecil Wilkins and wife returned to Little Rock after visiting for his father’s death in Baker WV. Mary Gay Richard, nurse at Martinsburg hospital, stayed with her parents. Mrs. William Sperow and daughter Anita visited Martinsburg relatives. Mrs. Harry Hershman started a new job with the Revenue Commissioner. Linda Hulver works for the County Clerk.
Mrs. Joe Hart ley is a surgical patient at Winchester hospital. Roanoke visitors Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bauser and family called on relatives. Capek Kennedy Florida visitors returned home. Various friends and relatives from Arlington Alexandria Riner Salem and other towns gathered in memory of a deceased relative. long list of names.
The Army will cover about 10 acres at White Sands Missile Range with desert sand after dumping spent missiles. Bent fins crushed nose cones and other debris will be excavated and buried with plans to salvage nonclassified parts in the future.
A historical note describes hunts using boomerangs in Australia. Hunters spin the weapon above flocks of ducks parakeets and pigeons to mimic a hawk and push birds toward nets strung from trees.
Livestock prices listed for hogs veal lambs and stock feeder cattle at Front Royal markets with ranges for heavy and light hogs sow prices veal by quality lamb prime choice good and standard ranges cattle slaughter and utility grades for cows bulls and cutters.
In New Delhi thieves steal an average of five water meters daily. Officials plan to move meters inside homes to curb theft as criminals sell the metal to buyers seeking hard to obtain metal.
Mr. R. A. Pecora visits Winchester Virginia at the Hotel George Washington on Sunday July 24 1966 from 1 00 PM to 830 PM offering private free consultations on hair and scalp problems. He promises honest evaluation of treatment needs and costs with prorated options if accepted. Nearly half of clients are women and he claims male pattern baldness responds poorly to other treatments. All consultations are private.
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