Ewing Studio Ballet Rehearses For Bicentennial Show
Ewing Studio of Dance Art prepares for The Violet Cape a bicentennial period ballet at Handley auditorium at 8 p m on June 13. The piece follows Miss Winchester born 1752 through acts set in 1752 1852 and 1952 with authentic music dances and costumes all sourced from England and Europe for Virginia s nineteenth and twentieth century dance history.
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Handley Auditorium
Ewing Studio of Dance Art
Miss Winchester
England
Europe
Virginia
Ma Winchester
White Youth and Negro Girl to Wed Today
Robert McAllester, 23, and Grace Cunningham, 22, both graduates of Earlham College, announce their marriage vows in Ithaca New York amid campus disapproval of interracial unions. They arrived from Berkeley California with McAllester's mother Mrs Allen McAllester. The couple faced potential obstacles but plan to proceed with faith their union will endure.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Robert McAllester
Grace Cunningham
Berkeley
Calif
Earlham College
Richmond
Ind
McAllester
Allen McAllester
Miss Cunningham
Nine Menhaden Vessels Sail as Strike Looms in Virginia
Reedville Virginia reports nine menhaden fishing vessels put to sea amid a Negro crew strike. Fleet owners say a tenth ship will sail today with a full negro crew while 48 other Northern Neck vessels stay idle. Operators predict an early end to layoffs affecting about 1500 workers.
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Reedville
Northern Neck
City and County Men Among 850 VPI Graduates
Five local and two county residents will graduate from Virginia Tech at Miles Stadium on Sunday. Honors go to Donald Cochran Richard Huff and Withrow Legge Jr from the city and James Brumback Donald Fleek from the county, each earning B S degrees in business administration mechanical engineering animal husbandry and agricultural engineering respectively. The baccalaureate sermon is by Rev Dr W A Smart in Burruss Hall and Lt Gen Lewis A Pick will speak at a regimental parade Saturday. General Pick an alumnus will address nearly 210 seniors receiving reserve corps commissions.
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Miles Stadium
Donald Merle Cochran
Clayton Cochran
Jefferson St
Richard Earle Huff
William Huff
Mr Huff
N. Cameron St
Withrow Reynolds Legge, Jr
Burruss Hall
W. A. Smart
Theological School
Emory University
Atlanta
Virginia Tech Glee Club
Lewis A. Pick
Army’s Corps of Engineers
Army
Air Force
General Pick
Virginia Tech
Squires
South End Firemen Plot Parades and Plans
The South End Fire Company voted to join Morriconbure and Culpeper firemen parades on June 20 and June 27 and Middletown parade on July 11. The drum and bugle corps will perform at Winchester's July 4 celebration. A two way radio system will equip Winchester fire trucks as the drive for 25 cakes for the Cumberland Valley Firemen’s yard party proceeds to fund the August convention.
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South End
Morriconbure
Middletown
Cumberland Valley Firemen's Association
Negro Prisoner Hangs Himself in Alexandria Jail
John Rogers a 27 year old Negro prisoner awaiting grand jury action for the May 13 shooting of Miss Sarah Merrick hanged himself with a sheet in the Alexandria jail last night. He had pleaded guilty to the killing.
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Alexandria —i
John Rogers
Sarah Merrick
Regular Jaycee Lunch Cancelled
Junior Chamber of Commerce will not hold its regular luncheon on Friday at the George Washington Hotel. They will join other civic groups at the Bicentennial luncheon at 1 pm Friday, to be held at the Armory.
Orick Memorial Services Sunday Memorial Day program set
The Orrick Cemetery Company will hold annual Memorial Day services at 3 p m Sunday with Rev J S Carroll as speaker. A parade forms 2 30 p m at Mt Carmel Baptist Church led by Gibson Drum and Bugle Corps to the cemetery under H E Boyd. Units include Elks Lodge Temple Girl Scouts Boy Scouts. Officers are N Turner president ee Brown chairman and J F Robinson secretary.
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Orrick Cemetery
J. S. Carroll
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
Gibson
H. E. Boyd
Elks Lodge
Temple
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
N. Turner
Ee Brown
J. F. Robinson
Write-In Ballot Dominates Boyce Election
Boyce voters go to Parish Hall on Tuesday to choose a mayor recorder and four councilmen in a nonpartisan write-in election. Incumbent mayor Dr. J. M. Casey, recorder Robert H. McDonald, and councilmen C. B. Carr L. E. Clark J G. Burch and J. M. Hawkins are listed as current officials with no definite candidates on the slate.
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Boyce
J. M. Casey
Robert H. McDonald
C. B. Carr
L. E. Clark
J G. Burch
J. M. Hawkins
Hastings to Speak at Capon Bridge and Ebenezer Memorial
Dr. J Warren Hastings, pastor of National City Christian Church Washington, will preach at the Capon Bridge Christian Church next Sunday night at 8 p m and be guest speaker at the Ebenezer Memorial service the same day at 3 p m Both meetings are open to the public.
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J. Warren Hastings
Christian Church
Capon Bridge
Rev. Hastings
National City Christian Church of Washington
Ebenezer
Stevenson to Speak at Hampden-Sydney Graduation
Hampden Sydney College will award 78 bachelor degrees and four honorary degrees at the 176th commencement. Gov Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois will deliver the address and receive an honorary LL D degree. President Edgar G Gammon will confer the degrees.
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Hampden
Sydney
Hampden-Sydney College
Edgar G. Gammon
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Finnegan to Talk at Rotary Meeting
Lt. J. E. Finnegan Jr of the Bureau of Fire Public Safety for the City of Richmond will be the guest speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. The talk titled The Chemistry of Fire will include demonstrations. Harold Brown and J. W. Arthur Sr arranged the program.
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J. E. Finnegan, Jr
Bureau of Fire
Department of Public Safety
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Ewing Studio
Bicentennial Ballet
Violet Cape
Winchester
McAllister
Menhaden
Potomac
Colonie Beach
M. E. Geissinger, Jr
Mar
Teey Hotel
Colonial Beach, VA
V.P.I
James Isaac Brumback
Rrchard Earle Huff
VPI
Donald Lee Fleck
Jaycee
Orick
SAFER
Florida
Sale
Escawen
Gov. Stevenson
Hampden-Sydney
Finnegan
Rotary Meeting
Memoriam
A. C. Oates
Western Frederick
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
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