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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1959
Page
8
An Ottawa Illinois mother pleaded with the Milwaukee Journal after her two year old son reportedly ate the renewal bill. The paper sent a new statement and asked for payment.
In Chattanooga Tennessee bank cashier O Lee Drake Jr and his wife Ilene Hale were married, then within hours their six room frame home burned down. Firefighters battled the blaze as friends searched for the couple to inform them of the loss.
After hearing testimony in a motor vehicle case police accident investigator John L. Adams Jr. and spectator Margaret Roush were married by Municipal Judge Ronald Abernathy during a court recess arranged by Adams.
Virginia Tech seniors named George R Powley electrical engineering professor as the campus best teacher in a student poll by the public relations office. More than half of 335 responses noted employment in Virginia or elsewhere, with many entering military service or graduate school after graduation.
Charles Starkweather's appeal for habeas corpus was denied by the Eighth Circuit. Federal stay of execution was not extended. Nebraska State Supreme Court to convene as Attorney General Beck seeks a swift redate. Starkweather awaits new death date with Carol Ann Fugate serving life.
In East St. Louis Illinois thieves took 28 typewriters from Clark Junior High School. The machines had no lettered keys, which officials say would complicate the theft and may aid in their capture.
A reader recalls VPPI teachers, praising one as outstanding and another as the best for learning rather than grades. The reminiscence highlights the value of dedicated instruction and student growth.
Friday highlights include Efrem Zimbalist Jr in Lovely Lady Pity Me on ABC and Northwest Passage on NBC. CBS presents Rawhide with a wolves attack and Judas Trap murders, Ellery Queen on NBC, Walt Disney presents Silly Symphony cartoons, and Tombstone Territory on ABC.
The first major case challenging segregation in Atlanta Public Schools opens in U S District Court with Judges Hooper and Sloan presiding. Ten Negro parents represent 27 children in seeking an injunction to end racially segregated schooling without targeting any white school.
San Francisco police enlist a psychiatrist to help identify a woods killer and motive. CBS program Person to Person airs Mr. Murrow visiting Zsa Zsa Gabor at her Bel Air home before reporting from Connecticut on Wall Street tycoon Gerald Loeb.
A dense list of TV programs including news, weather, sports, and a sequence of films and series. Notable titles include Night Court, High Noon, My Friend Flicka, The Lone Ranger, and King of the Sea with multiple actors named such as Rita Hayworth Gary Cooper and Mickey Rooney.
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