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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1954
Page
8
A 43 year old housewife and mother of three from a 240 acre farm near Newark Delaware won the 7th annual Delmarva Chicken Festival title. She received 500 dollars and other prizes for a broiled chicken recipe basted with white wine and crab apple jelly served with tea biscuits, triumphing over 99 other entries.
Burton George Burton will be installed as president of the Clarke County Lions Club at a Ladies Night dinner July 1 at 6 45 p m at the Shamrock near Berryville. Directors and officers named include Childs Bowerman Smalley Miller Carter tail twister Livingood and Newlin plus Cain Kaye Muldoon Dunn. C A Hobert was named Virginia International Director at the State Lions Convention.
Fred W. Sturm brings twenty years of Virginia and West Virginia apple industry experience to the C. H. Musselman Company as a Southern Field Representative based at the Inwood West Virginia plant. He will contact apple growers across the Southern Appalachian area. Born in New York City, Sturm studied at Carson Long Military School and NYU before joining his father’s New York based apple business in 1934. He is married and resides on Greystone Terrace.
Retail prices for veal cutlets and small turkeys fell while pork prices also eased. Veal cutlets dropped 23 cents in Richmond as calves flooded wholesale markets. Virginia potatoes cabbage corn watermelons and fruits like peaches apples and grapes appeared on sale with low farm prices and new arrivals from California and Florida.
Camp Wakanda in Powell's Fort Valley will open for two weeks starting July 5 under Rev. Charles A. York. Staff includes Rev. B W Coe and Rev. Millard Lewis with activities from swimming to archery. About 90 percent of registrations come from former campers. space remains for ages 11-13 with applications due soon.
About 2 million of the estimated 16 million Negroes in the United States are registered voters.
Ten area postmasters attended the Virginia Chapter convention of the National Association of Postmasters held Sunday through Tuesday at Natural Bridge. Attendees include Wilbur R. Johnson, Mrs. Virginia M. Cline, T. M. Hooker, Fred Whitacre, Aubrey Johnson, R. E. Denny, John Diedrick, Hugh Grubb, Carrol E. Beach, and A. B. Heltzell. Clyde Collins of Christiansburg was named president.
William E. Dodd recounts that as Thomas Paine neared death pious Christians awaited a claimed recantation of his atheistic Age of Reason. Father Fenwick, later Boston bishop, sought to record a bedside confession, but Paine died faithful to his belief in a deity.
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