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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1959
Page
3
Baltimore market shows apples and beans with mixed gains and losses while cattle hogs and sheep prices drift. Chicago and New York reports cover hog futures and early stock gains with notable moves in General Electric, Texas Instruments, Polaroid and others.
Roanoke AP The Miss Virginia pageant enters its sixth year with 28 contestants under Mrs. Clements at the Hotel Roanoke. Budget to stage the three day event runs about 4000 dollars with income from tickets. The winner receives a 1000 dollar scholarship or travel funds and gowns are provided by a local department store and a dress maker.
Milton Bishop aged 63 of Bristol died in a local hospital following injuries from a June 14 fall from a suspension bridge at Big Stone Gap gospel singing event. The bridge tilted as an anchor cable loosened, dumping about twenty people into Powell River. Harold Culbertson 41 was also injured.
A former Charlottesville resident Charles N. Rea aged 29 is held without bail in Baltimore on a charge of fatally beating his wife last Sunday. The 31 year old victim died at Maryland General Hospital shortly after the incident.
A patient in Fair condition at a local hospital in Big Stone Gap remains hospitalized with no further details released about their identity or cause of admittance.
A Chicago bound Illinois Central Railroad suburban electric train jumped the tracks on the far south side during a rain storm Thursday night. Fifteen gers were in jured and traffic was blocked for several hours.
An explosion at the Foote Mineral Co. plant in Knoxville Tennessee killed two workers Albert Hurst and Mac Cox who were hurled into a 13 000 gallon vat of acid. Firemen recovered the bodies from the vat early today.
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