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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1958
Page
3
The city adopts a 1 719 441 budget for 1958 59 with revenue and expense graphs. Schools take 35.6 percent of the tax dollar, based on a tax rate of 1.50 per 100 of real estate and 2.25 per 100 of personal property, for July 1 1958 to June 30 1959.
Virginia eyes private schooling as public schools face desegregation. Prince Edward County readies a private white school system while Arlington Charlottesville and northern counties plan, with limited capacity for displaced students. Gov Almond cites tuition grants but says public facilities cannot be leased for private or integrated schooling.
Local stock quotations list several companies and their prices including American Furniture Bank of Clarke County Commonwealth Natural Gas George Washington Hotel Natl Fruit Prod Life Insurance Co of Va O Sullivan Rubber Corp Potomac Edison Shenandoah Valley Apple Cider and Vinegar Victor Products Winchester Storage and related notes through White Weld and Co Winchester office.
Desperate appeals from the British East Africa Fauna Conference urge Belgian, South African, and Sudanese governments to protect the white rhinoceros. An estimated 1,800 remain as poaching and superstition fuel demand for their horns. calls for preserves and strict anti poaching measures grow.
The Virginia Department of Highways invites bids until 10 00 A M E S T June 25 1958 for numerous proj ects including replacement of submarine cables to the George P Coleman Bridge at Yorktown and multiple road section improvements across York Gloucester Caroline Princess Anne Charles City New Kent Essex Southampton Pittsylvania Loudoun Fauquier Franklin Prince George Dickenson City of Norfolk and others. Plans and specs are on file at the Richmond district offices with bid bonds required and the state reserving right to reject proposals.
Mrs Howard Shull was named president of the Middletown Fire Company auxiliary at its annual meeting. New officers include Miss Louise Mowery first vice president, Mrs W W Kline second vice president, Mrs Russell McCauley secretary, Ellen Shull assistant secretary, Mrs Robert Campbell treasurer, Mrs Ethel Henson chaplain, Miss Ann OLeary sick committee chair, and Mrs T A Sperry publicity chair. Plans were made for the fire company carnival on June 14.
Police at the Hoboken city jail post a blunt sign over the call row entrance offering inmates a grim reply to complaints. If you don't like it here, stay put. The terse message underscores blunt municipal vantage on confinement.
New York AP report notes meat fruit and vegetable prices will fall this autumn with beef prices expected to drop within two weeks as cattle prices ease. National Association of Retail Grocers officers say larger cattle hog and pork supplies signal a market turn and potential price declines.
Honolulu reports Gov. Quinn may permit territorial workers to wear aloha shirts this summer. He allows but defers final approval to department heads, reversing a prior policy and signaling a casual dress shift for government staff.
The state has no lieutenant governor and the president of the state senate presides when the governor is away. Madagascar, a French island colony off Africa’s east coast, was once named La France Orientale.
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