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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1951
Page
9
A mothers guide to shaping a preteen girl’s eating habits during summer to prevent future blemishes and weight issues. It provides a day’s menu featuring nutritious substitutes for sweets and starches, aiming to sustain beauty and health with balanced meals and snacks.
Fire in Washington claimed the life of Mrs Virginia Bailey Armstrong daughter of Mr and Mrs H C Bailey of this city. Services will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Harry Crim of Strasburg officiating. Interment Mt Hebron Cemetery. pallbearers named. Survived by husband Jackson Armstrong two brothers Beverley and Tevious Bailey a sister Mrs Patricia Bailey and parents. Another brother Charles Bailey died in 1941.
Funeral services for John H Miller who died May 31 were conducted yesterday afternoon at Highlands Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Rev J S Ducknall led the service with burial at St Johns Cemetery. Pallbearers were Irving Elliott Walter Sellers Pietz Whitlock Jack Gordon Irving Garrison and Fred Snapp.
The Department of Agriculture warns soda should not be used in cooking green vegetables as it destroys thiamine and vitamin C, though it may help preserve color in some circumstances.
A dieting booklet offers weight gain, loss, or maintenance plans based on laboratory tested menus. It emphasizes eating rather than starving and claims no extra meal preparation. Send 10c and a self addressed stamped envelope to National Newspaper Service Box 305 Michigan City Indiana.
Thomas Clark 65 died at his home in Boyce after a long illness. Born May 29, 1886 in Clarke County, he was the son of Prince Albert and Edmonia Clark. He married Ethel Pyle and is survived by a widow, a sister Mrs. Holmes McCormick, and two brothers Reuben Clark and James Clark. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 AM at the John H. Enders Home in Berryville with interment likely at Mt. Hebron Cemetery. pallbearers named A G Palombi Holmes Lloyd Isash Burke Hugh Copenhaver Glen Burch and Charlie Creamer.
Puneral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Jones Puneral Home for Carl E. Wigginton who died May 30 at Winchester Memorial Hospital The Rev J B Peebles of Middletown officiated with burial in St Paul Lutheran Cemetery Bearers were Harry Copenhaver Alfred Snapp Wilbur Boyce Floyd Snapp Lawrence Lichlider and George Snapp
The Seventh Day Adventist Church plans three training camps for conscientious objectors to prepare young men for military service as medical corpsmen. The first camp opens next Tuesday at Grant Ledge Michigan with about 300 men from states east of the Rockies paying their own way for the Michigan course.
The National Bureau of Standards states asphaltum paint from reputable manufacturers is acid resistant and suitable for use on battery cables and terminals.
A 19 year old sailor Tom Amburn had emergency leave to marry Betty Thompson of Atlanta. He visited his parents in Sioux Falls after the romance drew publicity. Navy canceled his leave for going to Sioux Falls and he asked for privacy while returning to Norfolk.
A heat weekend in Virginia left four people dead including three children. Naomi Talley, 12, drowned in a pond near Richmond as her brother alerted their father. Norris Murrell Jr., 16, died after falling from a rowboat off Ocean View. Le Roy Johnson, 13, drowned in the James River in Richmond. Donald S. King, 23, of Sylvatus, disappeared at Claytor Lake and was recovered from a 30 foot cove two hours later.
About 3,000 United Mine workers resume mining after a brief sympathy walkout in support of striking store clerks. The stoppage ended as a labor action subsided.
Seven weekend fatalities pushed Virginia's highway death toll to 339 for the year. Victims range from Betty Jo Guest 27 of Coalwood Virginia to a Marine from Camp Lejeune killed near Fredericksburg. Others include Melvin Comer 31 of Shenandoah and Marion Terry 32 of Claremont in separate crashes across Route 12 Route 10 and Route 1. A pedestrian identified as William Olsum with no listed address died near Cape Charles on Route 13.
About one thousand Virginians graduate as diplomas are awarded at 11 institutions including Madison, Randolph-Macon, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, University of Richmond, Lynchburg, Bridgewater, Mary Washington, Longwood, Radford, Sweet Briar and Hampton Institute. Final exercises also planned at Averett College in Danville.
A fire last night destroyed the physics building at Bridgewater College causing extensive damage. No injuries reported as investigators assess the scene and determine a cause.
Quick action by firefighters stopped flames from destroying the physics building and possibly spreading to the men’s dormitory and gym at the college. A 2000 foot hose stretched to the Shenandoah River supplied water, with Cecil Ikenberry noting the destroyed building was fully insured. Trustees, in town for commencement, planned to meet to discuss an approved $300,000 science building project.
NORFOLK Officials closed this year’s United Confederate Veterans reunion noting 12 veterans survive. Three 105 year old Civil War veterans attended and pledged to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans at Jackson next June, with the SCV promising to bring veterans to the meeting even by ambulance if needed.
Miles but more than 86 years from Appomattox, were ready to go home. William D. Townsend went by train to Olla, La. John Salling flew back in a Navy Plane to Slant, Va. William J. Bush returned to day by commercial plane to Fitzgerald, Ga.
The imprints from a pickup truck tire led to the arrest of three on cattle rustling charges in Staunton. Frank H. Ottey, Elmer C. Lockridge, and Ottey's wife Blanche Marie face charges for stealing 23 head of cattle from Augusta and Highland County farms and one trucked to a Roanoke slaughterhouse.
Congressional investigator Frank Tavenner Jr. told Roanoke College graduates that there is no intellectual freedom in the Communist Party. He warned of ruthless thought control aimed at writers and artists and urged graduates to condemn and fight communism. He and Rev. Melvin S. Lange received honorary degrees at the commencement.
At the Ten Mile River Scout Camps in Narrowsburg New York 43 burros were imported from Texas to teach Boy Scouts trail packing and pioneer skills. One burro was born en route leaving 42 from Texas, adding to the old west vibe for the camp season this summer.
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