Bloom Family News and Community Notes
ill at daughter’s home Mr Joni White remains ill at Mrs. Ivan Miller’s home. Miss Connie Burke hospital in Richmond. Cooper family from Charleston visited after U.S. Military Academy graduation and nephew wedding James Calvin Cooper III in Thomas WVa. About 29 from Da vis Thomas and Oakland attended. Bonnie Phillips visiting Bedington. Ground breaking service at St John’s Church for new parish hall noted. Yard party at Friendly Grove Community Hall July 3 at 5 pm with dinners. Thieves broke door and stole chairs screens and items from Community hall building committee meeting. Roy Triplett family and Mrs John R Cooper attended wedding in Winchester last Saturday.
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Ivan Miller
Connie Burke
Richmond
Thomas Randolph Cooper, Sr
Charleston
W. Va
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N. Y
U. S. Military Academy
James Calvin Cooper, III
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Bonnie Phillips
Douglas Watson
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Lila
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Mason
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Winchester
16 Year Old Boy Injured in Gasoline Explosion
A 16 year old Strasburg boy, Tommy Deel, is in serious but not critical condition with second and third degree burns covering about 50 percent of his body after a gasoline explosion at a Sandy Hook farm building he and William Humphries were cleaning. Humphries was treated and released. Deel remains hospitalized.
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Strasburg
Shenandoah Memorial Hospital
Woodstock
Tommy Deel
Coy Deel
William Humphries
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Woman Sues for 18 Million Over Mental Health Detention
Detroit plaintiff Miss Mary W. Speers 74 sues for 18.5 million dollars alleging 16 years in Michigan mental institutions. Named defendants include Detroit city Wayne County Michigan officials four doctors and institution officials. She was committed in 1936 on a bad check charge and released in 1952 by Circuit Judge Lila Neuenfelt who ruled the commitment illegal.
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Detroit
Mary W. Speers
Michigan
Eugene Krasicky
Wayne County
Lila M. Neuenfelt
Winchester Camera Club Exhibit Opens at Penneys
The Winchester Camera Club unveils its tenth annual show in the J C Penney window featuring 169 color slides and 73 prints eight by ten or larger. Subjects range from a chick hatching to a cat awaiting a call, with photos from Halifax to Florida and the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. The display lacks titles and photographer names, inviting viewers to judge each work on its own merit.
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Winchester Camera Club
J. C. Penney and Company
Halifax
N. S
Florida
Shenandoah
Charles Murphy
Howard Massie
H. Randolph Stipe
U S to Fly 500 Wounded French Soldiers to France
Saigon Indochina United States will airlift 500 French soldiers wounded at Dien Bien Phu to France in five flights starting Saturday. Stops planned at Clark Field Hawaii Hickam Field California Newfoundland and Iceland en route to Paris. US opposes routing via Asia and Middle East due to India overflight refusals.
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Dien Bien Phu
France
U. S
Paris
Clark Field
Manila
Hickam Field
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California
Newfoundland
Iceland
Asia
Middle East
India
Millwood Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Garden Wins
Millwood residents hosted visitors from Richmond Philadelphia and Washington over the weekend. Several social events included luncheons at the Sommaripa and Byrd homes and a garden show where Tyree Dillard won the tricolor and Daniel Dougherty took Sweepstakes. The Winchester Clarke Garden Club led blue ribbons in children’s and miniature arrangements with Rosalind Butler and Mrs Clark Lloyd also earning top prizes.
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Joseph Sharp
Middletown
T. B. Byrd
Pacific Northwest
Webster Dougherty
Rosemont
Col
Graham Doughtery
Earl Boy-Ed
William Bell Watkins
Philadelphia
Washington
Watkins
Washington, D. C
Tyree Dillard
Greenway Garden Club
Daniel Dougherty
Winchester-Clarke Garden Club
Rosalind Butler
Boy Drowns in Roanoke River Deep Hole
An 11 year old boy, Paul Palmer of Eliston Route 1, drowned in the Roanoke River near Kumis in western Roanoke County. He slipped from a rope tied to a tree limb and could not swim. Rescue squads from Salem and Christiansburg recovered his body in six feet of water.
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Roanoke River
Kumis
Roanoke County
Paul Palmer
Johnny B Palmer
Route 1
Elliston
Sheldon D. Carey
Salem
Christiansburg
Deathbed recantation claim about Thomas Paine discussed
William E. Dodd notes that as Paine neared death pious Christians expected a recantation of his Age of Reason. Father Fenwick sought to record a bedside retraction, but Paine died faithful to his belief in a deity.
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Thomas Paine
William E. Dodd
Fenwick
Boston
Missing AF Pilot Reported Alive as POW
Mrs. H L Baumer in Lewisburg says her son Maj William H Baumer an Air Force bomber pilot shot down over North Korea 16 months ago is alive and a prisoner of war in the Far East. The telegram from the Air Force in Washington confirmed his status and location and prompted a flood of relief.
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Lewisburg
H. L. Baumer
Air Force
North Korea
Reds
William
Dr. Karl T. Compton Dies Renowned MIT Leader
Dr Karl T Compton 66 longtime MIT president and wartime radar and atomic research contributor died in New York He headed MIT for 18 years and chaired its corporation resigning in 1948 to bolster Cold War science He led the Research and Development Board and won the Medal of Merit for wartime service He died after a heart attack at Cornell Medical Center in New York City with his wife at his bedside
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Karl T. Compton
America
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Compton
Corporation of Mit
Truman
National Military Establishment
Research and Development Board
Army
Wooster
Ohio
Cornell Medical Center
Man 45 Drowns After Wading Into Meherrin River
Ernest Thompson, 45, drowned in the Meherrin River in Emporia yesterday after wading into the water against a companion’s pleas. Irvin Story reported Thompson went in to cool off and was swept away while splashing. He leaves a widow and two children. dam gates were lowered but the body was not recovered.
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Emporia
Ernest Thompson
Meherrin
Irvin
Thompson
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