Prewar automobiles on roads number eight million two hundred thousand
Cars of prewar vintage are reported to total 8 200 000, a sizable portion of the 1955 registration forecast of 62 million.
Winchester Evening Star in Winchester, Virginia
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1956
Page
12
City Recreational Facilities to Open Officially Friday
Winchester's parks, playgrounds, pools and tennis courts will open officially Friday at 9 a.m. Director Charles L. Aiken announced. Mrs. Myrtle Breckenridge will supervise Rouss Park with assistants including Tucky Campbell and a list of helpers. Len Carpenter will lead tennis with David Keen aiding. season tennis tickets cost 5 cents, with 25 cent hourly rates, and school-age youths may play free with equipment provided later in the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Charles L. Aiken
Myrtle Breckenridge
Rouss Park
Tucky Campbell
Jerry Stern
Helen Edmonds
Patsy Wheeler
Sonny Brown
Len Carpenter
David Keen
Katherine Ford
Notice of Master Commissioner order in Payne estate case
In Frederick County Virginia the case Myra W. Payne v Helena Maude Payne etc is referred to John P. Allen as Master Commissioner to report on Amanda E. Payne real estate, heirs, liens, division or sale, dower, counsel fees, and related matters with notice by publication and a June 22 1956 execution date at 39 East Boscawen Street Winchester Va.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena Maude Payne
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
Chancery
John P. Allen
Amanda E. Payne
Edna E. Payne
Cecil M. Payne
Jos. B. Newlin
P.q
Local Playground Overseer Helps with Douglas Park Project
Work on the Douglas playground proceeds with supervision from Beverly Gaskin and Benny Brown assisting the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vise
Douglas Playground
Beverly Gaskin
Benny Brown
Racial report to come before Methodist today in Virginia
Harrisonburg Va delegates at Madison College gather for the four day Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church with racial relations among topics. The report is expected to reaffirm equal church participation regardless of race but stop short of uniting Negro and white units. Some consider pulling out of the national Methodist union in favor of Southern church alliances. About 1 200 ministers officials and lay leaders attend with 150 pastoral changes and four new district superintendents to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Charles Moses
Appomattox
National Union of Methodists
Moses
Old Dominion
Madison College
Southwest
Holston
John Branscomb
Florida
George Fallon
Lakewood Methodist Church
Cleveland
Tragic Williamsburg Cave-In Kills Six Children
A 25 ton excavation collapse in Williamsburg traps and kills six children as an 11 year old girl tries to call siblings home. Rescue crews retrieve four bodies while two girls escape. nine year old Anatole Bykov survives with serious injuries. Officials said a city probe will continue with multiple departments and a potential grand jury involvement. The dead are Marie Stanikunas 11, Michael Stanikunas 10, Lorraine 5, John William McKenzie 9, John T Kotov 7, Anna Ortiz 8, Louis Nitti 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver
Williamsburg
Marie Stanikunas
Marie
Dolores
Anatole Bykov
John William McKenzie
John T. Kotov
Anna Ortiz
Louis Nitti
Trial of Candle Connelly Goes To Jury Today
Closing arguments finished in the trial of former Truman administration officials Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle. The eight men and four women jury will deliberate after Judge Rubey M. Hulen’s instructions. Defense attorneys urged acquittal, saying no proof of a conspiracy to defraud the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Truman Administration
Rubey M. Hulen
Matthew J. Connelly
T. Lamar Caudle
Connelly
White House
Truman
Caudle
Justice Department
Irving Sachs
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