Miss McCartneys Students to Give Recital Tomorrow
Miss Kathleen McCartneys music students perform a recital tomorrow at 8 PM in the Handley School auditorium with selections by Grieg Fibich Schaum Mozart Schumann Thomp son Beethoven Strauss Sibelius Drigo Mendelssohn Massenet Rubinstein and others. Two pianos pieces include In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room and a Boykin concerto as well as multiple works by Beethoven Brahms Strauss Paderewski Tschaikowsky Addinsell Lecuona and Grieg.
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Kathleen McCartney
Handley School
Grieg
Phyllis Fansler
Fibich- Schaum
Joanne Rosenberger
Mozart
Harriet Goode
Schumann-Thompson
Betty Prince
Elise” Beethoven
Elizabeth Lowery
Rubinstein
Jane Stanley
Danny Blye
Eddy Dove
Scott
Boykin
June Spring
Sue Sybert
Daniel Cammer
Braham
Patrician Browning
Vienna
Strauss
Maryanne Marcus
Helen Garner Edmonds
Minuet
Paderewski
Garvin Walter, Jr
Tschaikowsky
Danny Blue
Addinsell
Builds to Suit Self in Tampa by John Ciesla
After 40 years building for others, John Ciesla 62 retires from concrete work to craft a house to fit his whims. A giant clock with immovable hands at 11 38 sits in the cement finish. The exterior features colored cement spraywork, vine and flower motifs, and carved cement heads on railing posts. A cement face near the stairs hides peepholes as the project continues.
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Tampa
Fila
John Ciesla
Ciesla
Four Die in Auto Accidents in Virginia Over Weekend
Four people died in Virginia auto accidents over the weekend. Otis Herman Horsley 63 of Bellamy drowned when his car plunged from a pier into the York River at Gloucester Point. Marines Leonard Kordowski and William Davidson reported seeing the incident. Other victims include Charlie Henry Davis 81 of Ingram killed after being struck on Route 60 in South Boston and Neville Lynn Brown 62 of Reidsville North Carolina from a two vehicle crash on Route 15 near Warrenton. Ten year old Brenda Lawhorne of Waynesboro died after stepping from a parked car into oncoming traffic.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Gloucester Point
York River
Otis Herman Horsley
Bellamy
PFC
Leonard Kordowski
William Davidson
Portsmouth
George P. Coleman
Navy
Coast Guard
Horsley
Charlie Henry Davis
Ingram
South Boston
Neville Lynn Brown
Reidsville
N. C
Warrenton
Fauquier County
Brenda Lawhorne
Waynesboro
Movie Actor Back From Korean War Returns To Hollywood
Tom Brown, 39, a major and former film star, arrives in San Francisco aboard the General W. F. Hase with 2,910 veterans. He declares he will search for film work in Hollywood and jokes about being an old man now.
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San Francisco
Tom Brown
Hollywood
W. F. Hase
Virginia Amvets Call Special Session For Redistricting
Virginia Amvets urge a special session of the General Assembly to reapportion districts citing present disparities. They also back moving the statewide primary to September as summer holidays complicate July dates. Additional resolutions support Tidelands oil bill, universal military training, oppose federal fair trade law, and seek more funding for a Burke national airport.
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Alexandria
Virginia
Amvets
General Assembly
Resolutions Committee
Voto
Tidelands
Congress
Burke
Camp Meeting Attendees Visit Takoma Park Figures Listed
Among those at the Takoma Park Camp Meeting were Carl Gardner and family Jes sie Sargent and children Billy Bowman Virginia Bowman Shirley High Herbert Copenhaver and family Irene Copenhaver and Charles Jacobs family Mrs John Stevings and Mrs Stevings of Coshocton Ohio visited Mr and Mrs Jacob Copenhaver Col Culp and Mrs Culp of Austin Texas Guests Virginia Forney Hagerstown spent weekend with her mother Luella Hawkins Buck Reese Spencer W Va called on Jacob Copenhaver John Derflinger and I J Copenhaver were in Berryville Joey Sargent returned home after visiting Nina Bowman Strasburg Paul Copenhaver and sons Larry and David from Coshocton arrived to visit Jacob Copenhaver and Clint Larrick Laura Collier and infant son returned from Winchester Memorial Hospital Maud DeHaven and son Calvert have gone to Charlottesville to visit daughter Caroline Wingfield patient in hospital).
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Paper Mill Road
Takoma Park
Carl Gardner
Jessie Sargent
Billy Bowman
Virginia Bowman
Shirley High
Herbert Copenhaver
Irene Copenhaver
Charles Jacobs
John Stevings
Stevings
Coshocton
Ohio
John Derflinger
I. J. Copenhaver
Berryville
Joey Sargent
Nina Bowman
Strasburg
Paul Copenhaver
Larry
David
Jacob Copenhaver
Clint Larrick
Laura Collier
Local social movements and hospital and church notes
Mrs Viola Grant and Mrs Bessie Stoller depart for a west coast trip visiting Mrs Julia Overstreet in Pasadena. The Grubbs and Farkners host visits in Frederick Maryland. O'Rear family connections noted with Harrisonburg hospital. Edith Nixon in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Church group announces Daily Vacation Bible School at Stephenson Church. Frances McAboy and Mary Lou Sechist in Charles Town area social rounds.
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Clearbrook
Viola Grant
Bessie Stoller
West Coast
Grant
Julia Overstreet
Pasadena
Lynn Grubb
Frederick
Lester Farkner
Boonesborn
Claude Gore
Silver O' Rea
O’rear
Harrisonbure
O'Rear
Elkton
Fred Duncan
Walter Duncan
Florida
Edith Nixon
Winchester Memorial Hospital
James Shiley
Jane
Harry King
Hagerstown
Frances McAboy
Walter Gruber
Alexandria
Lewis Travers
Stephenson Church
Elizabeth Hill
Mary Lou Sechist
Charles
Suspended Warden Goes on Trial in Denver
Roy Best former Colorado penitentiary warden faces federal trial for civil rights violations tied to a prison riot. His former deputy warden and seven guards are also charged for abusing six prisoners punished after the attempted break. Two guards were shot. Best admits whippings but denies torture.
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Denver
Roy Best
Colorado Penitentiary
U. S. District Court
Best
Local Social Notes Include Visits and Calls
Town residents circulated over the week with Miss Jane Shiley, Miss Edith Jolliffee visiting Mrs Esten Rudolph and Mrs Robert Duncan, Charles Town guests the Smiths and their son calling on the Shileys, and the Mauzy family spending Friday afternoon in Washington.
Abingdon man given 14 year sentence for fatal poolroom fight
Joe Henry, 59, of Abingdon, was sentenced to 14 years for second degree murder in the April fatal wounding of Ralph Monroe Shaw, also of Abingdon. Shaw died from a blood clot after a poolroom fight between the men, with a jury finding Henry guilty on Saturday.
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Abingdon
Ralph Monroe Shaw
Shaw
Henry
Murde
Ashwood Funeral Conducted Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia C. Ashwood 86 died at her home in Ridgeway West Virginia Friday evening were held today at 2 PM at Omps Funeral Home. The Rev. Emory Ellmore conducted the services with pallbearers listed as Julian Cooper.
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Virginia C. Ashwood
Ridgeway
W. Va
Omps Funeral
Emory Ellmore
Notable local figures listed with burial at Mt Hebron
Earl Smallwood Clifton Light George Shiley Arthur Trenary and Elmer Swartz are named in a notice confirming interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery. The brief item records the cemetery destination for the deceased without additional context.
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Earl Smallwood
Clifton Light
George Shiley
Arthur Trenary
Elmer Swartz
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
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