Underwood Tops Shenandoah Dean’s List For Semester
Shenandoah College honors Underwood for a 4.000 quality point average and straight A grades in the second semester. Education major plans English and Latin, aims to enter Madison College Harrisonburg as a junior this fall. He previously led first semester grades and earned the Latin medal as a four year straight A student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis A. Underwood
Shenandoah College
Underwood
Ella D. Underwood
N. Braddock St
Erage
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah
Handley High School
Giant Rafflesia blooms on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo
The world's largest flowers grow on 13 455 foot Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. A parasite of the Rafflesia genus produces leathery reddish blooms that may reach a yard in diameter.
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Borneo
Mount
Kinabalu
Pattern advertisement for Misses' dress wrap
The notice promotes a printed pattern 4653 for Misses' dress wrap in sizes 10 to 20, with fabric yardage and a 50 cent pattern price plus 15 cents mailing. It invites readers to mail to Anne Adams in New York, asking for name address zone size and style number and offers a Spring-Summer Catalog with a free coupon for one design idea for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Sunshine Club Meeting Set at Braddock Methodist Church
The Sunshine Club of Braddock Methodist Church will meet Thursday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Robert Gaines's home at 120 Rostel Rd. Mrs. Lynwood Hammond will lead devotions and Mrs. Allen Kipp along with Mrs. Pauline Farmer will supervise the entertainment program.
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Sunshine Club
Braddock Methodist Church
Robert Gaines
Rostel Rd
Lynwood Hammond
Allen Kipp
Pauline Farmer
Gaines
Macedonia WSCS Meeting and UDC Memorial Service Planned
The Macedonia Woman's Society of Christian Service meets tomorrow at 5 30 p.m. in the church educational building with Mrs Maxine Foster in charge of devotions. Officers will be installed by Mrs Nor Newcome as the president Loring Wright Sr. calls for member attendance to finalize plans for a June 6 Chicken Barbecue. The Turner Ashby Chapter UDC Memorial Service is set for June 6 at 4 30 p.m. in Stonewall Cemetery with rain in the courthouse. Members and guests will assemble on Boscawen Street at 4 p.m. to march to the cemetery, followed by a dinner at Winchester Golf Club at 6 30 p.m.
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Macedonia Woman's Society of Christian Service
Maxine Foster
Peggy Eaton
Marjorie Coulson
Nor Newcome
Turner Ashby Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Stonewall Cemetery
Mount Hebron
Frederick County Court House
Boscawen St
Cameron and
Kent Sts
UDC
Winchester Golf Club
Mass Education Urged To Elevate Nation Says Doctor
Dr. Theodore K. Lawless of Chicago told Virginia State College graduates that the nation should pursue an accelerated mass education program. He argued current trends favor gifted children while neglecting average and below average students, linking it to lower morality, rising crime, and juvenile delinquency. The 220 graduates heard that the system gives more to the gifted while failing the uneducated, a situation he called wrong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Theodore K. Lawless
Chicago
Virginia State
Colege
Negro College
Hearings Reveal Odd Details About Power Official
Congressional hearings disclose quirky facts such as Douglas G. Wright of the Southwest Power Administration using an electric toothbrush and admitting a taste for electric power. He notes Americans’ growing appetite for electricity and jokes about brushing with power.
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Washington
Congress
Douglas G. Wright
Southwest Power Administration
Lutheran Group Meetings Set by Church Women for June
Lutheran Church Women announce eight group meetings across June with leaders hostesses and times. Group I meets tomorrow at 9 45 a m at 511 Fairmont Ave led by Mrs J W McDaniel Group II gathers today at 9 45 a m at Green Acres hosted by Mrs Nelson Orndoff with program led by Mrs William Mallory Group III holds tomorrow at 2 p m in Christian Street Room led by Mrs E Homer Harloe groups IV to VIII meet tonight or Tuesday at locations including Christian Street Room Kiwanis Shelter and Val Vista Heights with listed leaders and program heads.
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Lutheran Church
J.W. MacDaniel
Walter Johnson
Fairmont Ave
J.W McDaniel
Nelson Orn
Doff
Nelson Orndoff
Green Acres
William Mallory
E. Homer Harloe
W.J. Hottel
Christian Street
Mayme Bott
Robert F. Whitehill
Christian
B. H. Jones, Jr
Lawrence Kroggel
A.E. Weatherholtz
North St
Roger Whittaker
Ralph A. Caine
Paul Smith
E. Pall Mall St
Janell Rhodes
Women Reopen Balcony Access At National Press Club
The National Press Club voted 6 to 5 to bar women reporters and other nonmembers from the ballroom balcony, reversing a prior 6 to 3 move to open the floor area for covering speeches by visiting dignitaries. The decision followed claims of governmental pressure and tampering rumors amid the club’s leadership debate. Later content notes are unrelated to the main item.
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Washington
National Press Club
Clark Mollenhoff
Des Moines Register & Tribune
Mollenhoff
Supreme Court rejects rehearing in union legal advice case
The U S Supreme Court refused a petition for rehearing in a case upholding the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen right to direct members legal claims to union chosen lawyers. Justice Hugo L Black wrote the majority. Justices Clark and Harlan dissented. The ruling had overturned a Virginia ban on the practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Brotherhood of
High Court
Virginia State Bar
Hugo L. Black
Tom C. Clark
John M. Harlan
Virginia
Professor to live beside Stromboli volcano for study
Douglas W. Schwartz, University of Kentucky anthropology professor, will spend summer in San Bartolomeo Stromboli to study how locals cope with imminent danger from a nearby volcanic eruption. He notes Strombolian activity is frequent yet mild and argues peasant Italian communities employ fatalism to suppress constant fear.
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Bob Cooper
Lexington
Douglas W. Schwartz
Schwartz
University of Kentucky
San Bartolomeo
Stromboli
Sicily
Tyrrhenian Sea
Italy
Cuban Lions Club Official Executed as CIA Agent
A Cuban Lions Club official and two other Cubans were executed in Camaguey after a revolutionary tribunal found them agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Alberto Cesareo Fernandez Medrano, an international Lions counselor, led a nationwide spy ring recruiting members to act as CIA agents in each province. Two others were sentenced to prison terms amid two prior announced executions in the past week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Lions Club
U.S
Central Intergence Agency
Alberto Cesareo Fernandez Medrano
International Association of Lions Clubs
Lions
Camaguey
CIA
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Lewis Underwood
By Jerma Helos
Macedonia
Lutheran Group
L.S.G. Miller
Roy B. Wickes, Jr
Val Vista Heights
Gladys Braithwaite
Joseph A. Dear
Dear Publications
Aera
Power Mower
Compresarion
Phine
Steve
Susan
of Lions Club
Shenan Doan National
Bank
Vrginia
Ladd Mill Outlet Store
Orion
Ladd Mill
George ST
Charles Town
W. VA
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