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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1956
Page
3
The Wesley Chapel Methodist Church on Route 522 near Reynolds Store will hold its annual yard party on July 21. The event avoids a nearby picnic and features country ham chicken pies and cakes with supper served from 5 pm. The P O S of A Band provides music.
Police announced narcotics charges against 21 people including four titled men in Italian high society and a leading actor. The case names prominent individuals connected to an alleged drugs network and implicates multiple suspects in a broad inquiry.
Franklin W. West, 17, was ordered by Magistrate Ray mond I Harris to write I will never use a Hollywood muffler again 3 000 times for using an illegal muffler. He initially faced 1 000 copies, then the judge tripled the sentence after finding 20 sheets in mixed handwriting and noting two girls aided him previously.
Alston Gay thirty of 1712 Robert Street has waived grand jury action on an attempted felonious assault case. The matter, continued in Winchester Corporation Court, involves alleged to have shot at Officer James A. Claycomb on Monday June 18. Gay was wounded in the left hand during the tavern confrontation.
Women from nine Frederick County churches organize the Clearbrook Fire Department yard party fundraiser at Stonewall School lawn. Supper begins 5 p m with chicken soup and sandwiches followed by a large auction led by C R Duvall and Buck Orndorff featuring hundreds of items including a garden tractor and farm goods.
The Boyd School of Dance presents its annual recital tomorrow evening at o o clock to benefit the Round Hill Fire Company. Forty eight dancers ages 3 to 18 perform at the Round Hill community building in two halves a dance program and a circus themed finale with animals. Miss Dorothy Boyd and assistants lead the event with Linda Brumback and Sandra Hausenfluck of Stephens City providing accordion music.
The cottage where Joseph Stalin was born in Gori on December 21 187 is protected by a large surrounding marble structure.
Mexican police report 20 Cuban exiles involved in a wide plot to assassinate President Fulgencio Batista. Target date was late July with uprisings planned in Havana and 10 cities. Alleged links span Argentina, Peru, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Spanish Civil War veterans, with activity in Miami, Tampa, New York and other Cuban cities.
Miss Betty Hammack will serve a 4S page at the American Home Economics Association annual convention in Washington this week. A June graduate of James Wood High School she is active in Future Homemakers of America and earned the State Homemaker Degree at the state F H A convention this month. She plans to major in home economics at Madison College this fall.
Secretary of State Dulles urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to oppose cutting off U S aid to Yugoslavia as the foreign aid bill faces debate. He vowed to meet the Senate GOP Policy Committee and warned against measures backed by McCarthy and Jenner to end all assistance. The committee had modified the bill to keep Yugoslav aid if U S security demands and Tito’s independence from Kremlin influence persist. Chairman George indicated Dulles carried updated information on Yugoslav and Soviet dynamics.
The National Aeronautics Association states the fastest jet plane reached 1132 miles per hour by a British Fairey Delta 2. The record is under FIA certification. The second fastest is 822.135 mph by an American F100C Super Sabre.
The United States does not store all its gold at Fort Knox Kentucky. About half of the nation’s gold stock is kept there. The remaining gold is handled by the Mints and the U S Assay Office in New York.
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