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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1950
Page
2
In Baltimore police court James Singletary 26 faced a preliminary hearing for shooting and killing Ben Jones after a gambling quarrel. Witnesses said the men retrieved pistols and fought in a South Baltimore street where Jones died. Singletary’s gun was found defective and could not have fired.
Answers to the Page 4 quiz are listed: 1. A cutting off or limitation on debate. 2. False. 3. False she married John. Our team was badly beaten in a recent game. 5. Italy. 6. Universal language. 7. Fish. 8. 81st. 9. Thackeray. 10. True.
Alta G. Chrisman funeral set for 1 30 P M Saturday at Jones Funeral Home and 2 P M Saturday at Pine Grove Church. Holie Wilson services scheduled 3 30 P M Saturday and 4 P M Saturday at unspecified locations.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annabelle Fox of Martinsburg will be held at 2 pm Saturday at Ebenezer Church. She died Tuesday in Kings Daughters Hospital. Survived by husband Harry Lee Fox, two sisters Mrs. George Monroe and Mrs. Alonzo Ball of Winchester, two aunts Mrs. Ludie Wright of Winchester and Mrs. Etta Notes of Fleming Kentucky, and a niece and nephew in Winchester.
Senatorial discussion focuses on diary seizure in Amerasia matter with mentions of Forrestal and Soviet espionage. Reports say a grand jury investigation began without official sanction, drawing speculation about executive approval. Capehart calls for inquiry while Knowland cites unnamed New York informants. Card of thanks notes sympathy after Mrs. Bessie Lou Cook’s illness and death.
A yard party at Montague Avenue Church is set for Saturday at 5 p m with ice cream cake pie pop and sandwiches featured for attendees.
The scene shows Alta Grace Chrisman, 38, fatally shot by a .20 gauge shell near a back porch in a yard about one mile south of the West Virginia Virginia line on U S Route 11. Hollie Wilson, 59, later killed himself in an unused pigpen as officers say he fired the fatal blast.
Students grave. Similar ceremonies were performed elsewhere in the cemetery. Flower gardens and rose bushes throughout the city were stripped of their blossoms last night and early this morning for the impressive memorial demonstration.
Chicago grain prices opened with little change on the board of trade. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and soybean futures showed narrow moves across July and September contracts with lard futures also listed.
Reverend William Henry Hanckel of Christ Episcopal Church addressed the Rotary Club urging Americans to vote and engage in government. He warned that tyranny can return, citing Huey Long Tammaney Hall and John L. Lewis as examples and insisting communism and socialism are advancing. He said the fight is spiritual not just military and that Christianity is the first target of Communism.
Funeral services for John M. Royston were held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the John H. Enders Funeral Home in Berryville with Rev. Dargin Lucas of Boyce Baptist Church officiating. Interment followed at Green Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers included Gilbert Cadwallader, Glenn Burch, Garland Brown, W. W. Smallwood Jr., John Lee, and J. Howard Locke.
Vienna sources report Hungary seals borders from the West and imprisons hundreds weekly on espionage suspicions. A government drive targets broadcasts and language education while penalizing photography near sensitive sites and suspending hundreds of Catholic teachers.
Frieda Emmerth to give address at transfer to Catholic University in Berryville. Briggs to continue chemical research studies. ProcessionalOpening Invocation by Rev. Paul Dick. Handley Glee Clubs concert directed by Miss Gwendolyn Haynes with Miss Sadie Finkelstein. National Anthem. Selections include Go Down Moses, Auf Wiedersehn, Pale Moon, In the Valley Below, On the Road to Mandalay, A Gypsy Choral Fantasie and Dream of Summer. Katharine Arnold to solo Let My Song Fill Your Heart. Class Gift presented James Clark to Richard Brumback. Transfer of Symbol Wade Emmart to Sue Sowers. Garland R. Quarles to present diplomas and awards. Alma Mater and Benediction conclude.
Vacation Bible School runs daily from 9 to 11 30 a m through June 23 at First Brethren Church Berryville Ave for children aged four to fourteen. Beginners teach Learning About Jesus Lady teachers include Mrs Leonard Mason Genevieve Baker Alta Short. Pastor Rev Paul E Dick welcomes all youths.
Price warned that indifference among many church members weakens the church more than any other factor. Dr. Lacy, born in Raleigh on July 30 1886, earned degrees at Davidson College and Oxford before entering Union Seminary and being ordained in 1914.
A series of estate and real estate auctions scheduled in Winchester and surrounding areas. Items include household goods tools antiques furniture and motor equipment with multiple properties and dates listed through June 17 in Frederick County Berryville and Middletown.
The mortarboard is believed to have originated at Oxford University in England around the middle of the 14th century. A feature motion picture typically requires about one and a half to two miles of film.
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