Mystery turtle bears 1913 initials on Papermill Road
The Wing fields found a land turtle on their property with inscription 1913 E.A. on its shell. They seek its owner and age estimate while noting the turtle is at least 49 years old. Clarence Fletcher announces Farmers Market hours for Saturday on Boscawen Rent Street lot, with local produce and goods. A spectator recalls a Confederate Memorial Day parade band playing The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman
Alberta Wingfield
Papermill Road
Wingfields
Clarence Fletcher
Boscawen Rent Sts
Tax Revision Bill Enters Deeper Trouble In Senate
President Kennedy’s tax revision bill faced sharper criticism after a closed Democratic Senate meeting. Senators signaled the measure could be dropped, while Republicans urged shelving it. Byrd and Morton pressed for continued study and defense of the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kennedy
Sen
Harry F. Byrd
Woot
House
Parity
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Withco
Habert
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Finance Committee
Byrd
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Thruston B. Morton
R-Ky
Frank Carlson
Shenandoah Seniors Hear Educator’s Commencement Address
Dr. Clarence J. Hesch of the State Department of Education will address the Shenandoah College and Shenandoah Conservatory of Music graduating class. The commencement is at 3 p.m. in the school auditorium with a 11 a.m. baccalaureate service. Both services are open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence J.hesch
State
Ieastad of Education
Shen
College and
Shenandoah Conservatory of Music
Atorium
Hesch
Herbert Solenberger
Winchester
Michie
U.S Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Handley High
Sarah Zane Fire
Anti Red Paper Claims Laborers Revolt in China
An anti Communist newspaper alleges that over 5,000 forced laborers in China's northern Kwangtung Province revolted on May 30. It says many were killed and more than 2,000 arrested, with survivors fleeing to hills near the Kwangtung Hunan border. source cited is escapee Chen Tse-jen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
China
Kwangtung
Kwangtung- Hunan
Red China
Chen Tse-jen
Networks Plan To Carry JFKs News Conference
Washington AP reports two television and four radio networks will broadcast President Kennedy's news conference live at 4 p.m. EDT. NBC ABC Mutual CBS and NBC radio nets plan live coverage. CBS TV will air a taped version at 5 p.m.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
NBC
ABC
Mutual
CBS
Cbs-Tv
Father and five children die in Lebanon farmhouse fire
A Lebanon county father Charles Franklin Neiswender 27 and his five children Natalie 6 Kathleen 5 Charles 4 Karl 3 and Terry 1 died in a fire at their five room cottage near Palmyra. Peggy Neiswender survived with burns and shock and said he told her to jump from a window while he would save the children. Neiswender was found with the one year old in his arms as flames swept the house. A neighbor heard an explosion.
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Palmyra
Lebanon County
Charles Franklin Neiswender
Natalie
Kathleen
Charles
Karl
Terry
Neiswender
Peggy
Lebanon
Good Samaritan
Dow
87th Annual Confederate Memorial Day Observed
Lawrence Hoover spoke at the 87th annual Confederate Memorial Day Exercises in Stonewall Cemetery near Winchester Harrisonburg addressing 100 attendees. He framed the observance as commemorating the heroic efforts of men from both sides and criticized commercialization and sectional bitterness.
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Turner Ashby
Richard Ashby
Lawrence Hoover
Harrisonburg
R. Bruce Slonaker
Lucy Kurtz
Dabney W. Watts
Winchester- Frederick County
George D. Jackson
Stonewall Cemetery
Gen
Ashby
Jackson
Yester
Hoover
Dabney Watts
Winchester
del Hoover
North
South
del. Hoover
Virginia Civil War Commission
Senate Bars Any Foreign Aid to Communist Nations
The Senate urged no foreign aid next year for Yugoslavia and Poland, both Communist nations, in a move against international communism. The Lausche amendment, 57 to 24, could block $10 million in development loans and other shipments if adopted by the House.
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Washington
Senate
Rotary of
Dean Rusk
House
Yugoslavia
Land
U.S
Soviet Union
Frank Lausche
Ohio
United States
Lausche
White House
Poand
Estes Probers Argue Over Firing of Aide
A House subcommittee delayed Estes hearings and argued over whether to dismiss Robert E. Manuel, staff attorney and counsel to Republicans, accused of leaking a secret Agriculture Department report to the New York Herald Tribune. The panel met in Fountain's office, with leaders saying they had no authority to hire or fire Manuel.
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Washington
House
Billie Sol Estes
Robert E. Manuel
Manuel
Agriculture Department
Estes
New York Herald Tribune
L. H. Fountain
D-N.c
Fountain
FUNDAY RIDES and Elephant Jungle Train at Willow Lawn Park
Lat June 9 from 2 to 9 p.m. at Willow Lawn Market Park for a benefit by the Optimist Club. Boys wanted to sell papers on street corners. apply in person to Mr. Miller at Winchester Evening Star.
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Funday
Willow Lawn Market Park
Optimist Club
Boys Work
Miller
Winchester Evening Star
Clarke County grants 68 graduates at Berryville
Clarke County schools ended the term with 68 graduates 58 at Clarke County High School and 10 at Johnson W High School. CCHS held a 7 p.m. ceremony with salutatorian Elizabeth Gore and valedictorian Frances Galloway among four honorees. The class president received new entrance signs as a gift.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Clarke County High School
Johnson W
CCHS
Nancy Elizabeth Gore
Frances Kay Galloway
Charles Leonard Ramsburg
Margaret Alice Shackleford
Robert D. Goshorn
Charles Ramsburg
Copter Crashes In Viet Nam Near Kontum
A U S Army helicopter crashed near Kontum about 260 miles northeast of Saigon. The crew burned the craft after the accident. No casualties were reported and the cause was not immediately known.
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Ban ME Thuot
South Viet Nam
Kontum
Saigon
Local Club Seeks Route 7 Name Honoring Byrd
The Little Garden Club of Winchester asks Frederick County supervisors to name State Route 7 The Harry Flood Byrd Parkway The move echoes earlier approvals by Clarke and Loudoun counties The club aims to beautify the highway and recruit other garden clubs from nearby counties to support the designation The plan includes presenting the resolution to Fairfax County supervisors and then to Richmond for Highway Commission approval Route 7 will be widened and renamed along sections across several counties
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Little Garden Club of
Winchester
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Harry Flood Byrd
Boards of Supervisors
Clarke
Loudoun
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Senator Byrd
Byrd
Virginia
Senator Home
Fairfax County
Richmond
State Highway Commission
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Handley
Algiers
Secret
Et Ae
Algiers University
Secret Army
Algeria
el Biar
Els
Algerie Francaise
Cape
Rocher Noir
Paris
Edmond Jouhaud
No. 2
de Gaulle
Jouhaud
Evet
By Joe Hall
Shenandoah
DR. C.J. Hesch
Anti-Red Paper
Frederick County
Watts
Rockingham County
Curb Jobs Administration
Mansfield
McGeorge Bundy
Rusk
Estes Probers
Thomas J. Michie
Handley High School
Harriet Anne Williams
Gloria Ann Brown
Mary G. Williams
John Benjamin Brown
Jack Davis
Janet Morris
Bonnie Galloway
Ee Woman's Club
John Carr Tones
Mind Anger
Warren, Rappahannock, Clarke
Ee Eel
Johnson-Williams
Taylor Williams
Merrifield
Charles Banks
Wilbur Brant
Millwood
Lydia Jones
John Francis Jackson
Fayetteville
N. C
State Teachers College
M. T. Thornton
Wilbur Jackson
Abner Carey
Peggy Jackson
James Morton
Garland R. Quarles
Thaeceae
Douglas
W. Tucker
NAACP
J. Randolph Larrick
Savings, Farmers & Merchants National Bank
South End Fire Co
Riley Real Estate Agency
George Wi Hotel
Federal
Savings & LO
Harnlat
Winchester Savings & Lo
Viet Nam
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