Friends to Attend General Conference at Cape May
Hopewell and Winchester Friends' Meetings plan to attend the Friends General Conference at Cape May New Jersey from June 22 to 29. The annual event brings Quaker families for a week of study worship and recreation with the 1956 theme Growing in Love and Unity. Attendees from Winchester include Mr and Mrs George L Rheetz and children Marjorie and Tommy Miss Grace EB Clevenger and Mr and Mrs Clarence J Robinson.
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Hopewell
Winchester
Cape May
N. J
Tyrese
Atlantic Seaboard
George L. Rheetz
Marjorie
Tommy
Grace Eb, Clevenger
Clarence J. Robinson
12 year old boy confesses to kidnapping and murder
A 12 year old boy confessed to police last night that he strangled 4%4 year old Kathryn Ruoff daughter of State Rep Richard Ruoff. The body was found under floorboards in an abandoned garage after she went missing Saturday. The youth admitted meeting her at a street corner and forcing her into the garage. He said TV choked the girl and admitted sexual abuse. He was in custody after police brought him to headquarters on the excursion bus.
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Seattle
Kathryn Ruoff
Richard Ruoff
Ray John Barker
Herbert Swindler
Pointblank
Swindler
Barker
Carmi Meske
Ruoff
Ruoffs
Two Men Die in Gun Battle Over a Woman in Norwich
In Norwich a shooting on the street left Ralph Schnatter and Robert Miller dead. Miller's wife was wounded as the men fought over her and Miller's plan to marry Schnatter's wife. Police say Schnatter fired first and both men used .32 revolvers.
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Norwich
Conn
Ralph Schnatter
Robert Miller
Willimantic
Miller
Schnatter
Jennie Barry
Miler
Barry
Mrs Hill reelected president of Legion Auxiliary at meeting here
The Conrad Hoover Unit American Legion Auxiliary re elected Mrs Clarence H Hill as president at the June meeting held Tuesday at Mrs Claude Cammer's home. The supper meeting elected officers and announced Girls State delegates, a new flag on display, and upcoming convention plans with a Roanoke hotel session July 29 31 and a September install.
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Clarence H. Hill
Conrad Hoover
American Legion Auxiliary
Claude Cammer
Hill
Harry M. Carbaugh
P. G. Ireland
Richard Griffith
Frances Beverley
Daniel Grimes
Eli Garber
C. P. Lane
Department
Louise Castleman
H. W. Butler
Lawrence Lichliter
Patrick Henry
Roanoke
Joseph N. Mansha
Mansha
Winchester
Fort Belvoir
Lucy Kurtz
Insect Plague Strikes Midwest and West Farms
Grasshoppers bite crops from Washington to Iowa, with heavy nymph infestations in Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Mediterranean fruit fly reaches five Florida counties, while boll weevils alfalfa and cinchbugs threaten multiple states. Mosquitoes bite Colorado New Mexico Utah, and spittlebugs menace New York alfalfa crops.
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Washington
West
Midwest
California
Nevada
Iowa
New Mexico
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Florida
United States
North Carolina Piedmont
Georgia
Mississippi
Utah
Idaho
New York State
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Truman to Get Honorary Degree From Oxford
President Truman arrives in Britain for a 10 day tour and will receive an honorary Doctorate of Law from Oxford University on Wednesday. He jokes about Latin and notes his limited schooling. He says he will attend the Democratic convention in spirit but not as a delegate. He questions Khrushchev disclosures and jokes about Senator McCarthy.
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London
Harry S. Truman
Oxford University
Britain
Truman
Netherlands
Elizabeth II
Independence
France
Italy
West Germany
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Khrushchev
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
Adlai Stevenson Claims Democratic Nomination Clinched
Adlai E Stevenson said he has the Democratic nomination sewed up after recent primaries. He appeared buoyant at a Chicago fundraiser picnic and predicted about 500 delegate votes for the convention. He also welcomed Sen Estes Kefauver's rebuke of past criticisms and expressed desire for party unity.
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Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Sen Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Kefauver
Illinois
Sen
Stevenson predicts Harriman as likely rival in nomination race
The candidate says he won’t forecast his exact nominating ballot and identifies New York Governor Averell Harriman as his main opponent. A 1955 question notes contract bridge tops card game popularity in the United States and Europe.
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Kenneth E. Henry CO
Braddock St
Bacahcia System
North Loudoun
Newberry
Mohawk
Legge
Acqua
Andrew Johnson
Johnson
Sanitone Cotton Clinic
Arreovi
Pingley
E. Piccadilly St
Carper
Legion Auxiliary
By Science Service
Schensk Foods CN
Oxford
Adlai
Bel Air
Nated
New York
Averell Harriman
Funeral Home and
Loudoun
Virginia Combutance Servion
of Auto Engineers
Certified Public Accountants
Bive Sunoco
Blue Sunoco
H. F. Nelson, Inc
Winchester, Va
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