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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1960
Page
2
A funeral service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. DST in Hagerstown with burial at the same locality. Details include the time and place of the services and interment for the deceased.
Robert Newlin of Clearbrook again heads the Frederick County National Fund chapter at its annual meeting held at Lee Jackson. Officers include P Kern Jr as women's activities chair and Mrs William LaRue as county women's activities chair. Medical Advisory is led by Dr. Bradford with Drs Warren Gregory Damron Moling and Way. Michael Hyre of Charleston W Va is new field representative. Newlin said 13 polio cases remain in care, one new polio case and one spina bifida case added. the latter, after three operations, may lead a normal life. Local money supports 15 people assisted by the chapter.
Dr Wernher von Braun says Yurns superbooster passed the first nine static tests with flying colors at Marshall Space Flight Center. The next test series starts in August and continues until Cape Canaveral 1961 launch. Saturn T will not fly. Saturn I now being assembled for flight.
The late E Rhodes Huntsberry shoe store operator died May 13 and left the bulk of his estate to his wife Virginia H Huntsberry. The will also leaves 1000 to Winchester Hiram Lodge No 21, Barddock Street Methodist Church, and Mildred Rhoden. Part A goes to the wife and the family car. Part B to the wife for life with remaining shares to sons E Rhodes Jr Charles Robert and James Walter Huntsberry. Wife named executrix without bond.
ANCHORAGE Alaska AP most of the 14 persons who died in the Pacific Northern Airlines Constellation crash on Mt Gilbert were believed buried in deep snow. A six man heli party found remains of only one or two of the nine passengers and five crew members. The crash occurred Tuesday when the four engine airliner disintegrated on the mountaintop 700 feet down the slope. The Dodgers still carry Roy Campanella name on the retired list.
Marie Judith Accardo 20 daughter of Tony Accardo wed William Palmer Pyle Jr 22 a Baltimore Colts player and former Michigan State tackle. The Winnetka couple married in a Chicago marriage court May 23 and plan to move to Baltimore in July as Pyle joins the Colts.
Michigan Democrats plan a preconvention rally as delegates assemble for the Democratic National Convention. A motorcade of Stevenson backers will drive from Detroit to East Lansing to greet delegates with posters petitions and signs. The event shows opposition to Gov. Williams efforts to unit the state for Kennedy.
In Liberal Kansas the dog catcher and police report voices heard around the jail and truck, traced to ventriloquist Martin Dwyer of Sayre Oklahoma who was released after paying a fine by helping the dog catcher. The voices stopped after his release.
A sequence of auction notices listing events from June 18 to June 25 in Frederick County Virginia. Items include household goods furniture farm machinery real estate and personal property with locations Brucetown Winchester Middle town and Capon Bridge and auctioneers Duvall Orn dorff Evans Snider and others.
In Front Royal Miss Woodward, valedictorian of the Mosby Academy class, received the Virgil C. Jones Award. Joseph Truen McDaniel and Agatha Cullers earned multiple honors as family and town figures watched the ceremony.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials investigate a noon derailment of about ten freight cars behind the York Inn north of here. Engineer S R Garrison of Brunswick was at the controls for the east bound freight. No passengers or injuries were reported and a damage figure was not available. The train reportedly carried crushed stone and the track was not blocked.
Roanoke AP report says union lawyers moved to shift a Kenrose Manufacturing Co strike case from circuit to federal court in Roanoke. If heard there, an injunction against the strike might end it. now action likely to be delayed several weeks. ILGWU says Ireland plant operations could threaten Virginia workers’ jobs and seeks guarantees.
Purdue University researchers assert that rotation grazing on pastures grazed in sequence can produce up to three times more forage per acre than continuous grazing, signaling significant gains for forage management.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Middletown, says Adlai Stevenson wants to be president but is not committing to a candidacy. She dismisses Kennedy’s primary wins as merely popularity. notes her son helped Kennedy’s West Virginia victory and cites a lingering image of FDR in miners’ cabins.
Disjointed OCR snippet mentions Canberra cheese Sir Isaac Newton in Washington DC and Esau with a cryptic sequence including elephants and Penn's Woods. No clear event or facts emerge for a coherent news summary.
Southerly winds bring warmer humid conditions tonight with lows around 65 to 70. Friday is expected hot and humid with thunderstorms developing across the area.
The report shows rainfall in the past two hours ending 8:30 a.m. today at none. Over 47 years total 36.85 inches. Monthly averages: January 2.42, February 2.02, March 2.98, April 3.16, May 3.77, June 3.85, July 3.89, August 3.92, September 2.67, October 3.30, November 2.49, December 2.38 inches.
Berryville The School Trustee Electoral Board re appointed Mrs Jerome H Garver to the Chapel District school board. Mrs Garver formerly Miss Wilhemina Sipe of Boyce has served four years. Announcement made by Gwynne H Jones chair of the Electoral Board. Yogi Berra hit his 305th AL homer on his 35th birthday.
Hollywood AP veteran cameraman Edwin Eddie Cronjager a seven time Oscar nominee was found dead at a friend's home at age 56 Authorities said the death appeared natural but autopsy was ordered after it was learned he suffered several broken ribs a month earlier while breaking up a fight between two stuntmen Cronjager leaves his wife Yvette and two daughters his fifth wife had filed for divorce last December.
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