Rotary Essay Winners Named
Handley pupils won Rotary essay honors in a Four Way Test contest. The award highlighted clarity of purpose and community spirit.
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Rotary
Handley
Me Son
Winchester Evening Star in Winchester, Virginia
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1959
Page
14
Rotary contest awards bonds to two Winchester youths
The Win chester Rotary Club sponsored a Four-Point-Test essay contest. Both young women won $25 savings bonds and will read their essays on air Monday at 7 15 p m. The event is hosted by Rotary International and led by Harry Lovett, with committee members Howard Holland, Howard Melton and Leland Broadstater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Cavalryman Controls Scared Horse Near Queen at Trooping the Color
During the Queen's official birthday march in London, a cavalryman battled a frightened black horse that veered toward Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen, calm and composed, rode on as 20,000 spectators watched the near incident and the parade continued without further disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
Space Age Race: Magnetic Amplifiers Drive Jet and Missile Tech
The article outlines the space age and jet age contest among vacuum tubes transistors and magnetic amplifiers. It notes magnetics’ rise since 1950 with about 125 million dollars in annual sales across 150 manufacturers and lists major producers like Westinghouse General Electric Vickers Magnetic Amplifiers Inc. It highlights advantages such as no moving parts and high temperature resistance and recalls Germany's wartime lead in nickel iron core metallurgy and U S use in the Korean war.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York
United States
Westinghouse
General Electric
Vickers and
Magnetic Amplifiers Inc
Germany
Wetzel Named Man of the Quarter for Atlantic Region
Kenneth Wetzel in charge of sales for Shenandoah Valley area was named Man of the Quarter for the Atlantic Region. He earned a four day all expense trip to Las Vegas for his outstanding management of territory and impressive sales record. Mr and Mrs Wetzel and their three daughters reside on W Clifford St.
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Kenneth Wetzel
Shenandoah Valley
Washington
Atlantic
Las Vegas
N.M
Wetzel
W. Clifford St
Retired Priest Bray Dies in Syracuse and Other Deaths
The Rev. Lawrence E. Bray 61 retired from St. Peter's in Marshall Mo died Saturday in a Syracuse home for priests. Other obituaries include William H. Stead 60 Washington educational studies director. John R. Cranor 74 Walla Walla penitentiary warden. Charles T. Deiss 56 Indiana state geologist. Foster H. Brown 41 KMOX sales manager and former radio journalism instructor.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Lawrence E. Bray
St. Peter’s
Marshall
Fulton, N.Y
Kansas City
Washington (Ap
William H. Stead
Committee On Economic Development
Washington
New York
Indianapolis
Charles T. Deiss
Indiana
Covington
Deiss
Montana State University
ST. Louis
Foster H. Brown
KMOX
Brown
University of Missouri, Stephens College
Lindenwood College
Gun battle ends in death of Florida businessman and two children
Florida businessman Hofer dies in a gun battle at his estranged wife's Augusta home. Officer Joe Reynolds and Sgt. Sumter Lewis are among the wounded or endangered as Hofer shoots and is shot during a confrontation that also claims the lives of his two young daughters Katherine and Vicky Ann and leaves police to piece together the chaotic scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar F. Beazley
Hofer
Sumter Lewis
Joe Reynolds
Hey
Dorothy Bailey Hofer
Vicky Ann Hofer
Katherine Hofer
Beazley
Reynolds
Lewis
Histories Mention Ancient Figures and Modern Place Links
The text references a kidnapping tied to a Florida divorce hearing near Pensacola, and notes Popeii buried by Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It also mentions King Croesus of Sardis now in Turkey and historians' view on early coinage in world markets.
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Florida
Pensacola
Popeii
Vesuvius
Croesus
Sardis
Turkey
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