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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1964
Page
10
Hollywood star Vivien Leigh, recovered from illness, returns to film to play a Virginian in Stanley Kramer’s Ship of Fools. She aims to master the Southern accent, following her Oscar winning portrayals.
Vivien Leigh describes the struggle of adopting a Virginia accent for her musical Tovarich after a New York collapse. She recalls summer heat, rest, and recovery before returning to Hollywood and notable stage roles. Meanwhile Tuaregs in the Sahara number about half a million across five clans.
Representative John O. Marsh Jr. urged Secretary Orville Freeman to avoid overly cautious limits on U S beef exports. He welcomed new Food for Peace financing allowing purchases in local currencies but cautioned against restricting sales to only meat needed beyond current suppliers. He urged selling U S beef in any free-world nation open to purchase, regardless of past suppliers.
Keep America Beautiful reports that highway litter in 1964 would stretch 3 000 miles from New York to San Francisco and bury the route a foot deep with cartons paper bags gum wrappers garbage cans bottles and even old mattresses and auto parts.
A dense listing shows hourly and half hour broadcast slots featuring programs like Mickey Mouse Club Popeye The Lone Ranger The Rifleman The Tonight Show and Dramas such as Gunsmoke Wagon Train and The Pat Sajak Hour. Notable entries include Weepy Willy Winkie We Were Soldiers Hands Across the Table and Murder My Sweet with accompanying news weather and sports segments throughout the day.
An evening quake struck San Diego at 9 56 p m with chandeliers swaying windows rattling and burglar alarms sounding The California Institute of Technology seismology lab in Pasadena placed the center near San Diego following earlier tremors Sunday morning and Monday noon This report notes a third quake in two days with no injuries reported
Dr. Norman A. Welch of Boston becomes president of the American Medical Association at the 113th annual convention in San Francisco. He succeeds Dr. Edward R. Annis of Miami and has led the Massachusetts Medical Service Blue Shield since 1950.
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