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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1951
Page
9
A Roanoke man was shot in the leg during an attempted break in at a store-turned-apt building where he fumbled a screen door. Police court Justice S A. dismissed prior charges against a woman named Margaret Leslie. The wound was non serious and located between the ankle and knee.
Frank Fuller Hart fell twenty four feet from a ladder while pruning a tree at his home yesterday. He died at the scene and authorities are investigating the accident.
A 14 year old youth drowned yesterday in the New River near Austinvile while swimming with two companions. Officials said death appears to be due to a cramp. The victim was identified as a local resident and the case is under investigation.
An ecg mag area worker for eight years completed 28 projects. Spradlin of VPI was to be principal speaker at the course today as delegates gather for a week of agriculture and home making activities.
The article notes a proposal to add a tax to telephone bills in Newport News. It cites discussion of monthly charges and reference to the Chesapeake and Potomac area. Local officials consider the impact on residents and utilities.
Newport nuns union fuse wealth pops due. Today's was being conducted by W C Seibert general counsel for the State Corporation Seibert has been noted as general manager of the event the strike aes materializes.
The 7,500th Bell telephone in Virginia is being installed at the Mountain Falls road farm home of Albert C. Lacy near Winchester during the 75th anniversary of the telephone invention. The project expands rural and urban service, with 580,000 Bell phones now serving Virginia.
In a Budapest trial five churchmen faced charges of attempting to overthrow the government with arms and foreign aid. Archbishop Gyula Alapi, 64, confessed and repented while urging the court to pass judgment. Fellow defendants Bosik and Cserkar spoke of illness and gratitude to authorities as they repeated prior confessions about a dissolved order and monastery moral failures.
Dick Mansfield of Cheverly Maryland will be guest speaker at a Kiwanis meeting tomorrow. Mansfield, known as School Safety Cartoonist, presents Skylark Safety Circus on Channel 4 sponsored by Safeway Stores. A golf match between clubs is planned in the afternoon.
Sheriff DeHaven received a report that a 12 year old white mare from Green Hollow wandered off in mid May and is believed to have been put to the plow. The sheriff is investigating.
Mr and Mrs Charles W Grim of 257 Millwood Avenue had an unexpected visitor around 830 pm in their garden. A deer appeared near the yard and trotted several hundred feet up the highway with apparent interest in the attention.
A Nassau New York farmer, Matthew Armer, 32, is in custody over the slaying of Corporal Arthur M. Diffen neve. The investigation centers on a conflict involving an ex convict as a person of interest in the case.
The Highland Chapel Moe en Meet Tomorrow byterian Chapel of ore Pres will hold a wake tomorrow at the Chapel. Miss Mary C. Bittinger, president of the Women of the Church of Law on Presbytery, will speak on the Stewardship theme.
Mrs Hotchkiss, an ensign in the navy, told doctors she and a companion were attacked by two men who choked her to silence. The gunman fired at her, but the pistol jammed. Police said the suspects fled toward Great Falls and were later arrested after a call to an ambulance.
The defense questions Dr Vogel about barbiturates as the trial proceeds. The exchange focuses on habitual users versus others, highlighting ongoing testimony and concerns raised by the chief counsel.
General Ridgway visited President Rhee of South Korea with instructions from the Command. The nature of the guidance was not disclosed as diplomats weigh prospects for broad talks to ease international tension over Korea.
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