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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1957
Page
9
The Virginia Department of Disabled American Veterans has elected its first woman commander Miss Martha Macdowall of Salem. She served 5 12 years in the Army Nurse Corps during World War I.
Shapely sheath with double breasted line and pockets highlighted by contrasting large collar. Misses sizes 12 14 16 18 20 require 334 yards of fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Send 50 cents for pattern plus 5 cents for first class mail. The Winchester Star Pattern Dept Anne Adams 243 West 17th St New York 11. N Y.
Violent weekend storms caused injuries and crop damage across Texas Oklahoma and northern Mexico. In Texas near Ft Stockton a storm hurled hailstones over open fields injuring nineteen farmers, with sixteen hospitalized. Cotton and wheat crops suffered wide losses as rainfall exceeded three inches in parts, flooding reached Kansas townships, and railroad lines were temporarily washed out.
In Norfolk a 19 year old Warwick youth named best teenage driver in the Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce Road-E-O. Bill Rowand topped 39 drivers with 521 of 565 points earning a $1500 scholarship and a chance to compete in the national Jaycee contest in Washington August 12 to 15.
Charlies Goodyear, an American inventor, is credited with developing vulcanized rubber in 1844, a key advancement that improved elasticity and durability for tires and industrial uses.
Nicaragua and Honduras outline a two step approach to their border dispute. They will ask the World Court to rule on the validity of the 1906 Spanish boundary and then proceed to arbitration on unresolved points if needed. The plan emerged from talks mediated by OAS representatives Luis Quintanilla and Eduardo Garcia following spring border clashes.
Army investigators press on after four soldiers died on Saturday when 4.2 mortar shells burst near an infantry company during a demonstration attack at a hill position. The blast killed Sgt. Alonzo Curtidge and three others, with 14 more wounded and more than one shell reported.
Richmond. A veteran State Highway Department official Harold J. Neale will retire July 1. Neale, 70, has served 27 years as state highway landscape engineer and guided highway zoning roadside development and outdoor advertising regulation. Raymond L. Nicar will succeed him as associate landscape engineer, with Robert E. Greene transferring to the post.
DETROIT an NAACP report to its 48th annual convention says Negro voters are losing patience with the Southern wing of the Democratic Party after last year's elections. The report accuses the regional faction of an arrogant stance against civil rights.
Swedish envoy Stig Wennerstrom says he bears no legal ill will toward U.S. Senate page boy Huw Williams after Christina Wennerstrom, 16, fled with him from Falls Church Virginia. The pair, halted by authorities in Montoursville Pennsylvania, lacked a marriage license and the boy lost his Senate job. Christina returned home with her mother amid questions of her future.
The NAACP charged that while overt segregation was outlawed the color line is preserved by more subtle devices. The report offered no further details.
Thirty five Chinese refugees reached Keelung harbor in Formosa aboard a stolen junk after killing a Communist guard during their flight. They said they would be transported under guard to work on a Communist project near Hong Kong, where Hong Kong authorities had labeled them illegal immigrants but allowed options for their status.
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