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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1956
Page
2
Winchester Frederick Health Department asks residents to clear unimproved lots within the city limits of weeds brushes and rubbish to prevent disease pests hay fever pollen and poison ivy hazards. Officials note city code requires property owners to maintain cleanliness and eliminate tall weeds and trash.
Digest of quiz results listing responses for ten questions. Notable items include George M. Norris for question two and Louis Bleriot’s 1909 achievement for question six. Includes Greece and Persia and the stylobate as items.
Three people, two from the area, were injured in separate accidents since last night. Marshall Campbell of Middleburg had his right leg amputated and burns after a tractor fire. Charles Shiflet, 17, of Rt. 2, shot himself in the right index finger near Clearbrook. Cora Lonas, 67, of Berryville, fell at Safeway on N Braddock St injuring her right hip.
The House prepared for a final Monday vote on a foreign aid bill about a billion dollars smaller than the President’s request. Leaders announced the roll call as the first order of business after last night’s tentative approval of a $3.8 billion program to bolster free world countries against communism.
A Friday and weekend sales directory for Berryville Virginia and Winchester Maryland includes auctions of farm machinery real estate and household goods. Items listed feature Belair Farms Bowie head cattle and estates at 344 Fairmont Ave Winchester with multiple auctioneers noted.
President Eisenhower underwent surgery at 2:59 a.m. for ileitis with partial intestinal blockage. Surgeons concluded the operation at 4:52 a.m. and reported the President’s post operative condition as very satisfactory. Medical bulletins released by Maj. Gen. Snyder and Maj. Gen. Heaton described a normal heart action and continued satisfactory status.
Handley High School reports awards for Patricia Royston as top senior, Joyce Lake earns American Legion Auxiliary medal for best eighth grader, and a $100 scholarship from Winchester Business and Professional Women's Club. Valedictorian James Scott and salutatory Garvin Walter Jr. address the crowd. George Sempeles presents class leadership to Sharon Glaize as 1957 president, with a new basketball scoreboard and cafeteria linens gifted. Family attendees span four generations, with Glee Club and Vivace Club concert numbers featured. The ceremony closes with the Alma Mater sung by seniors and clubs.
Public Health Service spokesman reports 121 new polio cases in Washington for the week, up nine from the week ended May 26. The count is under half of the 248 reported in the same 1955 week, with a rise of about seven percent seen as slightly below expectations for the season.
Alfred Edmund Reimers 68 co owner of Reimers Electrical Appliance Company near Clearbrook died suddenly this morning at 10 30 am at his Cedar Hill road home He came to the area six years ago from Harrington Park New Jersey and with Walter K Taven der founded the Martinsburg Pike firm He was born February 7 1888 in Kansas City Missouri son of the late Alfred and Alice Stevens Reimers He belonged to Market Street Methodist Church Survived by wife Edith Kelsey a son Alfred E Reimers Jr of Harrington Park N J a daughter Mrs Dena Michalek of Demarest N J three grandchildren Edith Alfred and Carla Reimers and two nieces Funeral arrangements were not completed this afternoon The remains are at Omps Funeral Home
The company said a letter was mailed at 5 p m yesterday marking four weeks since 422 workers left their jobs in a strike for power led by professional labor organizers.
T S Cooper at Willow Brook Farm kills a large rattlesnake that crawled from under the front doorstep as Mrs. Mellwee looked on. The incident follows Cooper’s prior rattle encounters on the 400 acre farm where he has lived most of his life and often hunted snakes.
Seventeen guests died when a dance floor collapsed at a wedding reception in a two story Madrids building. About 100 people attended the after party and many were injured as panicked guests tried to escape. The bride was among the injured while the bridegroom escaped unharmed.
Secretary of State Dulles says neutrality is obsolete and that the United States must fund a long term peace insurance totaling about 40 billion dollars yearly. He outlines 36 billion for arms, 3.3 billion for military assistance, and 700 million for economic aid while urging continued foreign aid amid Soviet expansion. He warns against bargain prices in security matters and stresses the risk of isolation and weakened deter rence.
At the reunion buffet after commencement, the class prophecy was read by Mrs. C. B. Harlee and Franklin Smalts, now of New Jersey, during the ongoing feature of the yearbook page.
Mary Bow man read a specially written poem for the occasion. Mrs. Helen Hardy Wright is listed as the first grandparent, and Lee Grant as the second. The Class of 1925 was the second to graduate in the new Handley High School building.
The scene shows pale blue-green hospital smocks skull caps and masks on medical staff moving under fluorescent light in a third-floor operating room. A bystander on a fountain watches as a movie cameraman captures action through glass bricks.
A newsman orders a group photo of onlookers as the operation unfolds. The author recalls the cool air and the tense mood, then returns to a crowded, overheated press room filled with smoke and papers inside the building.
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