Betty Hammock Wins State 4H Award
Frederick County 4H member Betty Hammock won the state leadership achievement award at the State Short Course in Blacksburg. She has served as president of her 4-H club and County 4H Council, was a county fair sweepstakes winner, All-Star, and state 4-H counselor. Hammock will attend a conservation camp at Virginia Beach in July 2025 and will be a county 4-H camp counselor. She begins her senior year at Virginia Tech majoring in Home Economics.
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Frederick County
Betty Hammock
Charles Hammock
Middletown
Blacksburg
Miss Hammock
Homemakers of America
Hammock
Virginia Beach
Jack Tyree
V.P.I
Nurses to Affiliate With State Hospital for Psychiatric Training
Miss Mary Jane McCone Effie Dye and Margaret Moore attend a Richmond conference on a new psychiatric nursing training program. Winchester Memorial Hospital along with General and Johnson Memorial at Abingdon will affiliate with Western State Hospital Staunton effective Sept 1. The program is sponsored by the Mental Hygiene and Hospitals Department the State Board of Nurse Examiners and the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Mary Jane McCone
Effie Dye
Margaret Moore
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Richmond
Genral
Johnson Memorial
Abingdon
Western State Hospital
Staunton
Ce Mental Hygiene and Hospitals Department
State Board of Nurse Examiners
National Institue of Mental Health
Floods Hit Canton as Death Toll Grows in India and China
In India floods in Kwangtung province have killed at least 187 and left 200,000 homeless. Canton's floods threaten a city of 1.5 million as rivers surge with torrential rains. Two million workers use sandbags and picks to defend the area while news reports from Peiping detail the danger.
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Tokyo
South China
Canton
Kwangtung
Peiping
North
High View News Briefs Gather Local Visitors
Mr and Mrs Dale Smith of Azon Ohio visited Mr and Mrs John Bauser man. Norma Koenig and Theresa Klieser visited Jack Hart last week. Fern Hylton spent Wednesday with Marvin White. Martyn Koenig and family of Arlington and Jerry Chambers of Baltimore Md visited Mrs Koenig and Theresa Klieser. Joe Horwath named infant daughter Diana Sue. Homer Petty Gordon Keeher and P H Johns families visited. J R Moore of Baltimore visiting daughter Margaret Moore. Ruth Kelley returned from business trip to Wheaton Ill Bloomington Ind. James Cornwell Arlene McInturff and families visited John Bauserman area. John Bauserman and Mary Shepard visited Clive Halloway in Waynesboro.
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High View
Dale Smith
Azaon
Ohio
John Bauserman
Norma Koenig
Theresa Klieser
Jack Hart
Fern Hylton
Marvin White
Koenig
Martyn Koenig
Arlington
Jerry Chambers
Baltimore
Joe Horwath
Diana Sue
Homer Petty
Culpeper
Gordon Keeher
Bufflick Road
P. H. Johns
Barbara
J. R. Moore
Margaret Moore
Ruth Kelley
Wheaton
Bloomington
Ind
James Cornwell
Near Manassas
Arlene McInturff
Front Royal
Mary Shepard
Clive Halloway
Waynesboro
White Sheep of the Family planned by Winchester Little Theatre
Winchester Little Theatre moves from Gaslight final performances to announce its next production The White Sheep of the Family a three act comedy for five roles aimed at college age actors It will be produced late in August Tryouts are June 3 at 8 pm at the Bark Mill Braddock and Wolfe Streets A board meeting at 7 30 pm with Gaslight report precedes a general meeting at 8 pm followed by tryouts The play by L du Garde Peach and Ian Hay centers on a family of crooks whose son goes straight and becomes engaged to a police inspector s daughter only to learn she is a safe cracker expert
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Bark Mill Theatre
Winchester Little Theatre
Bark Mill
Braddock and Wolfe Sts
L. du Garde Peach
Ian Hay
Short Circuits Spark Two Minor City Fires
Electrical shorts caused two small blazes yesterday. At 3:20 p.m. a fire in a television set transformer caused no damage beyond the set. At 11:20 p.m. a fire under the hood of a 1959 Pontiac at Mike's Esso Station on Brad dock Gerrard Sts. damaged wiring and totaled about 25 dollars. Owner James W. Dean of 259 Kent St Blacksburg said he had just bought a new Pontiac after a Pittsburgh trip.
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Mike
Esso
Braddock
Gerrard Sts
James W. Dean
Kent St
Blacksburg
Rouss
South End
Dean
Pittsburgh
Five Killed in B52 Bomber Crash Near Burns Oregon
A B52 jet from Strategic Air Command crashed during an experimental low level flight 35 miles east of Burns Oregon. The Boeing built aircraft exploded sending wreckage and bodies over a mile area. Onboard were civilian Boeing employees pilot Lewis Moore 44 Kirkland WA navigator Gerald Green 37 Kent WA and flight engineers Charles Me Deuta 29 Seattle and Neil Johnson 29 Seattle.
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Burns, Ore
Strategic Air Command
Oregon
Boeing Airplane Co
Seattle
Air Force
Boeing
Lewis Moore
Kirkland
Wash
Joseph Keller
Bellevue
Gerald Green
Kent, Wash
Charles MéDeuta
Neil Johnson
Copper Mines in Chile Largely American Owned
Report notes that major copper mines in Chile are predominantly owned by American interests and corporations, signaling influence over Chilean mining in the industry.
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Chile
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Shawn
Frank Armstrong
General Chiirman
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Keith Williams
LEGE
Fred Glaize
James R. Wilkins
College
Wilkie Hunt
Molden
Glaize
Hunt
Jones
Nursing School
India
United States
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R. I
Little Theatre
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Early Bird
S & Boys
PARTY
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Winchester’s Shopping Center
Children’s Oxford Sneakers
Pyrex
N. Loudoun St
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Husky
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Cannon
Pec
Plumly
Crahn
Ree
Ptas
Pha Fire Company
W. Monmouth St
Marvin Bucher
Tommy Wolfe
Pearl Grim
Frank Brown
Herbert Pope
Wilson Sirbaugh
Frances Tevalt
Jennie Lillis
Grim
Pifer Printing CO
Braddock St
Winchester
Piedmont
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