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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1961
Page
7
Gov Orval Faubus addressed 6 000 club women at a National Federation event in Chicago while 30 protesters picketed the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Faubus touted Arkansas hiring policies and his record, claiming tolerance but opposing minority group abuses as pickets urged change.
Maria Beale Fletcher 19 of Asheville won Miss North Carolina. She revealed her mother also has a shapely figure and shared that she borrowed some of her mother’s clothes for the interview.
The note warns that large cuts of meat may be kept longer than small ones and advises refrigerating all meat, covered.
Advertisement for breezy dress patterns in sizes 10 to 16 includes details on yardage and price. Instructions request mailing to Anne Adams at Winchester Evening Star pattern department in New York with name address size and style number.
A Soviet trawler with radar was seen within about 20 miles of where Virgil Grissom's space capsule landed in the Atlantic Ocean, prompting NASA remarks that no steps were planned to block future suborbital flights. Grissom and family planned a Newport News visit after his 118 mile high, 303 mile downrange flight.
Paris fashion week opened with longer flaring skirts and dark browns for fall and winter. Gres showcased oblique line draping, leather ensembles, two tone furs, and pyramid coats while the designer kept a classicist aura with simple silhouettes and refined coats.
In Metz France a clash followed the slaying of a comrade by Algerian gunmen. Paratroopers stormed into a bar and railway station buffet, killing two paratroopers the barman and an Algerian worker. Five others and 17 Algerians wounded.
A noisy crowd at Aquatic Park caused police to intervene as 500 revelers drank and bongoed. Six women in bikinis danced to a loud phone rap, drawing officers who quelled the scene and led three bathers away on drunkenness and disorder charges.
Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, commander in chief of the West German navy, will retire next month. He will be succeeded by Rear Admiral Karl Adolf Zenker, 54, head of the training command, according to the Defense Ministry in Bonn.
John Stewart Carper Jr age 19 of Stephens City confessed to last week’s theft of 420 dollars from Mike's Esso Braddock and Gerrard Srs. Police said he was held for a Corporation Court Grand Jury which indicted him on a grand larceny charge.
In Richmond detectives disclosed a 26 year old youth admitted robbery and murder linked to intruder attacks at the iron works. The case involves the 1956 death of Clovis Mullins and the 1955 assault on a boy, with a pistol and 50 cents stolen. The youth was returned from Columbus Ohio after a breaking and entering arrest.
AP report details an explosion aboard the 23 foot cruiser URBANNA injuring four Richmond residents. Victims include Jack Richie 58 Colis Hall 51 Mrs William V Payne 29 and Mrs Denis Hill. All were listed in satisfactory condition at a hospital. Boat damage estimated at $3000.
A 14-year-old Brookneal boy, Rufus Epperson, drowned in the Falling River while attempting to swim across. An unidentified companion tried to rescue him but could not, and the body was recovered more than three hours later by the Halifax Lifesaving Crew. The boy was the son of Mr and Mrs Fay Epperson.
A New York report touts Primatene tablets as a leading nonprescription asthma remedy. It claims eight medicines in full strength open bronchial tubes ease congestion and relieve tension with relief lasting hours, offered at 98 cents per bottle.
Two of six Danville jail escapees were nabbed in a stolen car after midnight, with Jesse Wyatt 22 and Dallas Douglas 19 recaptured inside city limits. Four others, including Roy Bryant, remain at large as authorities pursue suspects tied to fraud parole violations and a murder conviction.
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