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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1962
Page
9
Roger Edward Malone, 13, of Gainesville died from injuries after a car being pushed on private property pinned him by the neck between the door and door frame near Warrenton. State Trooper L. E. Wetzel reported he died en route to a hospital.
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American actor James Garner reported he was pushed and clubbed by police in Schwabing during the Bohemian quarter riots. He said officers grabbed his wallet, then others swung rubber clubs as crowds surged. Garner and two American soldiers were separated, escaped, and witnessed police clashing with beatniks as the unrest entered its fifth night with about 300 police involved.
Mexico issues a four million copy airmail stamp series to mark President Kennedy's weekend visit. The issue launches to the public with the event noted by AP from Mexico City. A separate cooking tip about preparing bacon and spinach appears in the same excerpt.
Three states held ballots with few major contests. North Dakota faced a sparse Democratic slate while Milton R. Young and two House seats hovered on the GOP side. South Carolina and Idaho ran GOP and Democratic runoff contests featuring Watson, Owens, Sanborn, Hansen, and incumbents in a broader November map.
Eighty five students register for Shenandoah College Summer School up from sixty five last year. Nine courses are taught this session including English U S History National Psychology Health Education American Literature General College Math General Biology English Literature and Analytical Chemistry. Ethics will be added next semester starting July 23. Instructors are James Singleton Harold Jolves Mrs Gladys Santo Miss Madge Keller Charles Shrader and Miss Eloise Strader. Classes meet Monday through Friday for two hours. Second semester registration is July 20-21.
An Air Force sergeant, home on leave from Warren Michigan, killed his estranged wife Walda 27, her father Walter Stocky 49, and Ronald Birkhead 29 at the Stocky home Monday night. Stocky was killed as he emptied trash. Mrs Wilson and Birkhead died from shotgun blasts. The suspect, Jimmy Ray Wilson 29, surrendered two miles away at his parents’ house after admitting the killings.
Mexico City will be flooded with tens of thousands of posters welcoming President Kennedy. Government ministries are printing them and 50,000 have already been distributed. All schools will close Friday to mark the visit.
Defense lawyers press a last-ditch effort to halt Clyde Raymond Near's Friday execution for the 1958 slaying of Barry Steele Chapman, a Beaufort Industrial School counselor. Since his 1959 conviction, Near won several stays while arguing he was denied constitutional rights by not attending all trial phases.
Voters in South Norfolk and Norfolk County cast ballots to name the new consolidated city. Two frontrunners dominate the race Great Bridge and Chesapeake with Chesapeake favored by officials. other options include Port Elizabeth Churchland Gosport Glennville Virginia City Sunray City Bridgeport Norcova Glenndale and Woodford. The merger takes effect January 1.
Officials expect nearly a million people to line the nine mile parade route from the international airport to Los Pinos the Mexican White House. The huge turnout would set a record for the capital city with about five million residents in the area.
The 175th annual conference of the Presbyterian Synod of Virginia opens a two day session at Massanetta Springs Harrisonburg. About 225 clergy and elders from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania attend. Dr Edward H Jones of Norfolk First Presbyterian is expected to become moderator. current moderator is Dr Howard McK Wilson of Mossy Creek near here.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon will travel to Denmark to speak on the Declaration of Independence at Rebild National Park in Jutland for the July 4 celebration. More than 50,000 people are expected to attend.
Everett Knowles 12, who had an arm severed by a train and later had it sewn back at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been promoted. He will advance to eighth grade at Northeastern Junior High School next fall.
Dr. Loren A. Thompson of the University of Virginia was chosen as research director of the governor’s special tax study commission. Stanley, the commission’s chairman, said Thompson would begin work immediately. Thompson heads UVA’s bureau of population and economic research and has prior work with state study commissions.
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