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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1962
Page
12
The State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board issued bids yesterday for a new ABC store building to replace the current Harrisonburg shop. Sugar beets are grown at Sandingham, the estate of the Royal family in England.
Cattle supplies in Baltimore were light while hogs showed mixed gains and declines with 25 cent drops for heavy barrows and gilts. Chicago hogs traded mostly steady with several lots around 19.35 to 19.50 and lean-cut demand noted. cattle were steady to higher with prime weights around 28.50 for heavy fed steers and Holsteins at 23.00. The New York stock market opened lower with the AP average down 0.40 at 214.60 and key groups showing scattered losses.
A fast non stop route between Virginia and downtown Washington will begin July 31 with the Washington Channel Bridge and the 12th St expressway opening. District officials plan to name the eight lane span the Francis Case Memorial Bridge in honor of the late South Dakota Senator.
AP report details a fatal house fire that killed two young boys aged 3 and 4 while their parents were away. The flames trapped the children and prevented their mother from reaching them at the home of the Jackson family.
Officials in San Diego said the 10,000 man naval training center quarantine could end later today after four cases of infectious disease were reported at the site. The move comes after a weekend ban aimed to stop spread within the facility.
Osie McCoy Sawyer a 20 year old College of William and Mary student from Norfolk Virginia has been named the outstanding DeMolay in Virginia and is nominated for one of three finalists in the international DeMolay of the Year competition.
In Danville a 38 year old Black man, George Washington Broadnax, was fatally struck in the chest during a neighbor visit. Pearly Fletcher Neally, 50, a Black woman, was charged with a serious case and jailed on $10,000 bond.
Honolulu AP reports Canadian and American investigators examined wreckage of a four engine Canadian Pacific Britannia turboprop after a late Sunday crash during an emergency landing. Twenty passengers and seven crew members died and thirteen tail-section survivors were injured. Three Americans were named among the dead including Arthur Pudney of Los Gatos California and A Rodger Denison of Tulsa Oklahoma a petroleum executive and former U S government representative.
Ralph Shinners 66, former AA and NL baseball player and once traveling secretary of the Milwaukee Brewers, died Monday of a heart attack.
Cambridge England mourning for George Macaulay Trevelyan historian and author who died Saturday at age 96. Trevelyan, renowned for his scholarship, led legacy in British historiography and taught at Cambridge University.
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