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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1964
Page
3
The AP reports that state lotteries attract big income but little legislative interest outside New Hampshire. California is the only other state moving toward similar plans while California voters face a November ballot on a private state lottery charter with a 10 year monopoly proposal.
At the Virginia 4 H Short Course awards Mary Ramsburg of Clarke County won a foods nutrition trip to Chicago. Douglas McIntire of Clarke County earned a beer division prize. Hunter Greenlaw of Shenandoah College was named to NC 4 H Club Week. The Clarke counties will attend the National Congress in Chicago this fall.
A Miami steak house uses a truck with the slogan For the Prime of Your Life to promote its business. The line plays on quality appeal and targets passing motorists.
World War I hero Sgt Alvin York is on the critical list at a Veterans Hospital with pneumonia in his right lung. A spokesman cites pneumonia and falling blood pressure, possible blood clot or bloodstream infection, as factors. York, 76, was brought in June 19 after recurrence of internal bleeding and may be discharged home to Pall Mall, Tennessee. The note about the dollar value appears unrelated.
Two women watched as Walter Felder 13 leaped between cars on a slow train then slipped and was crushed by wheels. He survived briefly in hospital after five surgeons battled to keep him alive, while his mother Ann McGruder expressed hope.
An Air Force navigator Capt. Richard Carroll aged 35 was hurled from a B52 when a hatch door blew off Tuesday. He fell six miles to his death and his body was found on a farm northwest of Lewisville during a search by state and county officers.
The island lies 188 miles west of Alaska and is part of the United States in the Bering Sea rather than Canada.
The Exile News Service quoted underground sources claiming Cuba has mined its northwest coast along Pinar del Rio Province facing Florida. Mines are said to be placed 600 feet apart to deter anti Castro landings and prevent Cuban escapes.
Bruce Walter Leikett, 26, faces a preliminary hearing in the slayings of Fredericksburg police Sgt. Roy G. Wright and Patrolman William F. Mines. The officers were shot to death early May 5 behind a shopping center. Leikett was arrested after a high speed chase in a Detroit suburb and returned May 20 after hospital stays. Revolvers belonging to the officers were found in the car he drove.
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