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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1956
Page
9
Maysville Kentucky police report that six slot machines were smashed with sledgehammers. A sign inside one machine warned the owner that money is lost when the machine is out of service. Local authorities investigate the vandalism and attempt to identify suspects.
Sanger Calif. Dave Sime, 19 year old Duke sophomore dubbed the fastest human, set a world best in the 220 yard dash and tied the 100 meter standard. He heads to Berkeley for NCAA championships facing top collegiate sprinters. Coach Red Lewis hailed Sime's peak potential and predicted further rapid progress.
June 2 graduation exercises at Stonewall School honored eleven students with School Savings Certificates. H Robert Edwards of Shenandoah Valley National Bank presented the certificates and praised Patricia Gale Baker for saving each year since the program began. Her parents and teachers joined in the admiration.
Dr. Madison S. Briscoe of Howard University in Washington D C has been chosen by the American Society of Tropical Medicine to pursue summer investigations on tropical diseases in Costa Rica El Salvador and Guatemala He has just returned from Egypt where he studied medical ecology for the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the Office of Naval Research Briscoe belongs to Sigma Xi the New York Academy of Sciences the American Society of Tropical Medicine the Helminthological Society of Washington and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Col Daniel Wright of this city will address the Winchester Exchange Club at 12 15 p m tomorrow at the George Washington Hotel. His talk titled What the Middle East Means to Us Today covers a career in sanitary engineering and service with the Panama Canal project UNRWA WHO and US Army roles during World War II and the Burma Retreat.
The Handley Library receives 26 new children’s books from the Women’s Civic League and Winchester Branch of AAUW. Librarian C Vernon Eddy accepts the gift on Saturday. Story-Telling Hour begins Thursday at 10 am with a library card required by then. A summer reading contest invites youngsters to read the new collection.
Savings offer promotes St Joseph Aspirin with a 200 tablet bottle for 79 cents. Emphasizes fast relief and ready availability for shoppers seeking economy and convenience.
Fort Collier Farms of Winchester had the high producing cow in May for the Clarke Frederick Dairy Herd Improvement Association with 87 pounds of milk daily at 3.6 percent butterfat. The 31 day total reached 2 700 pounds of milk and 97 pounds of butterfat. George Windle drives the 114 cow herd.
Milwaukee action on Memorial Day saw Pat Flaherty of Chicago win the 500 mile race and the Rex Mays 100 mile event with a record average of 98.958 mph, finishing 23 seconds ahead of Johnny Thomson of East Springfield Mass who held last year’s 100 mile record at 98.844 mph.
Ohio State basketball guard Robin Freeman suffered the loss of parts of the middle and index fingers on his left hand in a wood chopping accident. The incident occurred yesterday while he was working in his yard in Cincinnati, according to his father Robin Freeman Sr.
A New York report describes a science based healing substance that reduces hemorrhoids and relieves pain without surgery. Case after case shows gentle pain relief and actual shrinkage of hemorrhoids, with patients noting significant improvements.
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