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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1964
Page
16
Ruby, 53, on death row for Lee Harvey Oswald killing, is described by a doctor as in a psychotic low mood. She refused initial mind easing drugs, saying the pills are poison. Judge Joe B Brown orders mental treatment in jail and sets a show cause hearing with lawyers for June 19.
Local apple growers urge cloud seeding to stimulate rain as a supplement to hail suppression in the Blue Ridge area. Directors cite very dry May conditions and look to New York and Pennsylvania experiments showing increased rainfall from seeding during droughts. Dr Howell explains seeding forms snowflakes in upper clouds to trigger rain, with hail suppression aimed at reducing damaging hail.
Jud Garland fully recovers from pleurisy with personal physician Dr. Lee Siegel saying the 41 year old singer collapsed last week. Siegel flew from Hollywood to Hong Kong to treat her amid lingering health concerns.
In Roseville Michigan the Herzs 23 year old newlyweds owners of a 120 pound African lion named Caesar refuse to give up their house pet. They threaten to sell their bungalow if the city passes an ordinance banning wild animals as pets. Caesar has been defanged and declawed and is described as a timid dependent child.
Katharine Seymour Day former suffragette who helped preserve Mark Twain's Hartford home died at 94 in her Hartford residence once home to Harriet Beecher Stowe She was descended from Thomas Hooker and related to the Beecher family Her activism included riding a horse to rally support for women’s voting rights.
At its height the Roman tax system was all inclusive charging land and property taxes, income taxes, poll fees, luxury levies, temple dues and road charges.
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