Draft Board Office Receives Heavy Call Volume
The Frederick Winchester Selective Service Board reports heavy calls from men reporting address changes or marriages and from those asking about draft status and eligibility. The Berryville office saw few inquiries, with two Clarke men slated for August physicals. Any local quota revision would come from Richmond, which allocates the state total by county.
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Frederick Winchester Selective Service Board
Givng
Cora W. Crim
Louvella Widmyer
Crim
Berryville
Clarke
Richmond
Kennedy seeks extra obligational authority for new programs
President Kennedy proposes adding 10.4 billion in obligational authority beyond Eisenhower’s 80.9 billion, boosting total to 91.4 billion. Increases target national security 45.8 billion and several other areas from commerce to general government, with funding allocated across multiple departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Navy
Fisenhower
National Security
Veterans Affairs
Mixed Stock Market Edges Higher in Early Trading
New York stocks show irregular trends with the 60 stock average flat at 248.70 at noon. Industrials unchanged, rails down 0.30, utilities up 0.20 as trading remains quiet. Dow Jones industrial average falls 0.24 to 704.89 with Chrysler near a 1961 high lifting motors. Bethlehem Steel lags while U S Steel and Republic post fractional gains. Houston Light & Power leads utilities with a gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Chrysler
Motor Group
Ford
General Motors
Bethlehem Steel
U.S. Steel
Republic
Houston Light & Power
Dramatic sleeveless dress pattern with monogram accents
Pattern 4782 by Anne Adams offers a black and white or color contrast sleeveless dress with easy-to-embroider monogram binding accents. Misses' sizes 10 to 18. size 16 requires 344 yards of 35 inch fabric.
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Anne Adams
Care of
Winchester
Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York-11
N.Y
Partition suit order in Virginia realty case
In Winchester Virginia on July 28 1961 the court orders publication in the matter of Harry F Taper and Marcia G Taper v Ida Magruder et al to partition the late Charles W Finley s one half undivided interest in lot No 20 on Pall Mall Street Winchester and to protect unknown heirs. Those named nonresidents must appear within ten days after due publication to protect their interests.
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Corporation Court OF
Winchester
Virginia
Harry F. Taper
Marcia G. Taper
Ida Magruder
Charles W. Finley
Pall Mall Street
Charles Light
Lucy Henry
William H. Wilkinson
Ella Williams
Viola Randolph
Beatrice Morris
Leslie Finley, Jr
Frances Moten
Lawrence Finley
John C. Finley
Carroll Finley
Eleanor Hill
Mary Beard
Hester Mason
Nannie Perry
Helen Jessie
William Taper
Leslie Finley
John’ C. Finley
P. J. Marshall
Officers Arrest Suspect After Red Light Stop
Officers attempted to cite a driver for running a red light. While detaining the man, another individual involved was bitten during the incident.
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Johnson
Circo
Yale Student Starts Thriving Tutorial Program
Yale sophomore Joseph Lieberman started a free summer tutoring program in Stamford with 38 volunteer college teachers. It attracted 105 junior high and high school students, offering reading remediation and courses in literature algebra and languages with no academic credit.
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Stamford
Aldous Huxley
Joseph J. Franchina
Lieberman
Martha Monagan
Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks Joseph Kyle Sr. Dies
Joseph B. Kyle Sr. 71, former national grand exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge, died Saturday in Indiana. He formerly served as sheriff at Gary and ran unsuccessfully for Indiana lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket in 1932 and 1936.
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Indianapolis
Joseph B. Kyle Sr
the Elks Lodge
Kyle
Gary
Ind
Indiana
Composer Oscar J. Fox Dies at 81 in Charlottesville
Oscar J. Fox, 81, a noted composer and arranger famed for The Hills of Home and Western folk songs, died Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was born in Burnet County, Texas.
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Charlottesville, Va
Oscar J. Fox
Home
Purnet County
Tex
How to Heat Condensed Tomato Soup with Cheese
Heat the soup gently over hot water or very low heat to prevent curdling the cheese. Grate cheddar and mix in, then serve the mixture over triangles of crisp toast for a rabbit fashion presentation.
Virginia Toll Sees Seven Weekend Fatalities Raise 1961 Count
The 1961 Virginia highway toll reached 432 after seven weekend fatalities across 16 crashes. Victims include Jakey Lee and Allie wee donaly W at Amissville, Grover Cleveland Showard near Exmore, Arthur Farmer near Williamsburg, James Higgins Jr. near Lexington, Finnie Lee Marsh near Tazewell, a woman struck south of Petersburg, and a Florida rider near Manassas.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Jakey Lee
Allie Wee Donaly W
Amissville
Rappahannock
Althers
Grover Cleveland Showard
Little Creek
U. S. 13
Exmore
Coded 1868 Message Names Stanton in Lincoln Plot Theory
A Gettysburg journal excerpt claims Brig. Gen. Lafayette Baker wrote a cryptic note naming Edwin M. Stanton as having aided Lincoln's assassination. Handwriting experts authenticated the 159 word margin inscription dated February 5, 1868. The piece links the allegation to Civil War Times and puzzles surrounding Lincoln’s death.
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Gettysburg
Edwin M. Stanton
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Lafayette C. Baker
Baker
Stanton
Civil War Times
Eee Neff
Leonard Fousche
Collingswood
New Rome
Judas
Brutus
Fowler Hamilton Poised to Succeed Dulles as CIA Chief
New York AP Fowler Hamilton a Wall Street lawyer and long time public servant is reported in line to head the CIA succeeding Allen W Dulles. The Newsweek Aug 7 article says he will take over in October after months with Dulles and will move into a CIA office soon. Hamilton a Democrat and former Justice Department official has held war fraud and economic warfare posts and was in the China Burma India theater. He is a Rhodes Scholar and partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton with offices abroad. He lives in Greenwich Connecticut with wife Helen Katherine Miller and three children. He declined comment.
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NEW York
Fowler Hamilton
Wall Street
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Newsweek Magazine
Hamilton
Dulles
The
CIA
Raemedy Esvecel
Kennedy
Justice Department
Department
Board of Economic Warfare
Joint Intelligence
China-Burma-India
Kansas City
University of Missouri
Oxford University
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton
Paris
Brussels
Greenwich, Conn
Helen Katherine Miller
Greenwich
Publisher Sil Liman Evans Jr. dies at 36
Nashville Tennessean publisher Sil Liman Evans Jr. died Saturday of a heart attack at age 36. He became publisher after his father’s death in 1955 and had previously led the Lake Worth Leader and served as president of the Morristown Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Tenn
Silliman Evans Jr
Nashville Tennessean
The
Tennessean
Lake Worth
Fla
Morristown
Tenn
Sun
Edison President Doyle Dies at 81 in Illinois
Edward J. Doyle of Northfield Illinois former president of Commonwealth Edison in Chicago from 1980 to 1953 died Saturday. He began his career in 1896 as an office boy for Samuel Insull head of General Electric in Chicago.
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Palos Verdes
Calif
Edward J. Doyle
Northfield
Ill
Commonwealth Edison Co
Chicago
Doyle
Samuel Insull
General Electric Co
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Draft Board Office
Kathy White
Middletown
Bluegill
J.R. White
Virginia Commission of Game and Inland
Fisheries’ Front Royal Fish Hatchery
E. W. Armstrong 0. Co
N. Cameron
Panna Long
J. Frederick Larrick
P.g
James Circo Eit
Ed Skar
Fred Johnson
Omaha, Neb
Skar
Yale
Eastman Kodak
du Pont
Pan American
American Stock Exchange
U.S
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Howeer
Elks
nTay
Shenandoah Motors
Valley Avenue
Northampton County
Arthur Farmer
Farmer
York County
Williamsburg
Lexington
James Higgins Jr
Rt. 2
Higgins
U. S. 60
Suffolk
Finnie Lee Marsh
U. S. 19
Tazewell County
Tazewell
Marsh
Epa
Petersburg
Dinwiddie County
Florida
Manassas
Prince William County
Edison President
Pip
S. Loudoun ST
Winchester, VA
Raleigh H. Watson, Jr
D.D.S
Hawthorne House
West Main Street
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Troy
HFC
Household Finance Corporation of
Ulachestos
N. A. Londoun Se
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