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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1951
Page
3
Fashion guidance on how the strapless short dress works best in daylight and formal and casual settings. Tips include fabric choices a halter styles and the value of detachable underskirts. Reader offered personalized style advice via National Newspaper Service with a small fee.
Stephens City visitors travel to see Mrs. R. W. i Mr. Ward Clark and George Monk attend Esso Training School this week. Ada Trussell travels to Charles Town to assist the Misses Snyders. Jack Teets family visits and Bob Dodson joins Leonard LaFollette family and Mrs. Albert Achenback from Reading. Lanky Lemley returns to Baltimore after ten days with parents. Betty Shifflett visits grandparents in Waynesboro. Dolly Shifflett starts training with the C and P Telephone Co. Pvt Bobby Seal on furlough from Fort Monmouth plans report to Fort Kilmer for overseas duty. Haller Beaver and family drive to Blacksburg aided by Cadet Roy Beaver. Alice McCarthy of Washington visits and attends Memorial Day services.
Joseph F St Peter 36 who helped the coroner for six months resigns to take a job with an electrical firm in Washington DC leaving the morgue short staffed and response lines altered.
AP Newsfeatures recalls Helen Traubel born June 16 1904 in St Louis. German heritage soprano with Wagnerian potential rose to prominence at the Metropolitan Opera in 1939 and later served as a soloist with several St Louis Symphony ensembles.
Mrs. Rose Elizabeth Moten wife of Robert Lee Moten died at 5 20 tonight at her home in Josephine Berryville She was a daughter of the late Asberry and Susan Vennie Survived by husband two daughters Mrs Dorothy Clay and Mrs J Evelyn Johnson three sons Haywood Moten Oscar Moten and Arthur Moten and two step children Mrs Margaretta Moten and Florinda Scott Funeral arrangements not yet completed.
First Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue reports 151 boys and girls enrolled in daily Vacation Bible School. sessions run 9 to 11 30 a m and continue through the coming week with teachers and assistants listed for junior primary and intermediate departments.
Washington set 1/C Loren R. Kaufman of Dulles Ore won the Medal of Honor for dauntless courage. He bayoneted five Communists and fought with rifle machine gun and grenades, demoralizing the enemy and helping his platoon gain a hill for months.
Two miners, Paul Savage and Guy Ring both 30, died after a 150-foot fall from the elevator at Goassan Mines near Carroll County. No witnesses. officials suspect welding lines or obstruction caused the plunge. Ring left a wife and seven children, Savage a wife and five children.
Federal agencies protested to Congress that a 10 percent payroll reduction would disrupt operations. Chief Judge John W. Kern of the U S Tax Court warned of a breakdown in the organization. Jess Larson of the General Services Administration called the cut extremely difficult for maintaining responsibilities.
Two out of state trucks were rear ended west of Berryville on State Route 7 about 6:30 p m yesterday. A. D. Carwile state trooper reported H Beavers of Frederick Md slowed for a farm tractor and was struck from behind by a 1948 Ford coal truck driven by S W Hott of Augusta W Va. Damage to Hott s truck estimated at 200 dollars while Beavers vehicle suffered little damage.
Funeral services were held Sunday for Wylie Hamilton 59 brother of Mrs Diora Lonas. Interment followed at Pine Hill Cemetery Oldtown Maryland. Survivors include his sister a daughter and five others named LaBelle Mildred Blacker Irma Robenette Virginia Sherer Edna Ham and Joseph Hamilton of Baltimore.
James E. Bruce said the United States may need to increase armed forces fivefold and spend ten times as much on defense if the Truman rise program is approved. The remarks were prepared for the New Castle Tercentenary Celebration.
The church known as Old St. Peter's in Middletown Pennsylvania pays its yearly rent as a grain of wheat. An heir of donor George Hannah Fisher receives the unusual rent each year.
Mrs. Ottie Lee Crosen Jones formerly of Cross Junction died yesterday in Springfield Ohio. Survived by brother Arthur Crosen of Cross Junction and sisters Mrs Lacy Sherrard of Springfield and Mrs Emma Luttrell of Martinsburg W Va plus nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Monday in Springfield.
In Los Angeles a perfumed ghost named Adeline is blamed for marital strain ending in divorce for 62 year old Nicholas Onofrio and his wife Annie. Annie testified he threatened to knock teeth down her throat after Adeline allegedly disappeared. Onofrio says Adeline was the name of his first wife who died in 1913.
The Grace Lutheran Church Men's Bible Class will participate in a citywide Father’s Day service at the First Baptist Church starting at 9 15 am tomorrow. Dr Schilling’s service will begin promptly and all classes are asked to attend.
A bizarre creature described as the most white and deadly advances toward a remarkable length. Eyewitness reports hint at a fearsome hunger and uncanny reach, sparking warnings from local observers.
Market Street Methodist will observe Father’s Day at the church on Sunday at 11 am. The oldest father present will be recognized. The combined junior and intermediate choir will sing, with a special Sanctuary Choir selection. The pastor’s theme is Honoring Father.
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