UCT Visitor Set for Handley Council Dinner Dance
Floyd W. Delamore supreme field representative of the Order of United Commercial Travelers will visit Handley Council No. 634 tomorrow evening. R. H. Wilson grand senior counselor and Coral E. Irvin grand secretary also plan to attend. A dinner dance at the Lee Jackson ballroom at 6 30 p.m. will conclude a local membership drive supporting retarded children and teacher training scholarships. Delamore, a Rockingham County native, recently became field representative for the Supreme Council.
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Floyd W. Delamore
Order of United Commercial Travelers
Handley Council
R. H. Wilson
Coeburn
Coral E. Irvin
Lynchburg
Melford Holliday
Lee-Jackson Ballroom
Grand
Supreme Councils
Supreme Order
Supreme Council
Delamore
Rockingham County
Order
Tidings of Good Cheer From King Hassan II of Morocco
King Hassan II marked the 10th anniversary of Moroccan independence and the fifth anniversary of his throne by urging compulsory military service to build better men.
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Fez
Morocco
Hassan II
Yak Utilization in Nepal High Altitudes
The yak serves as a multi use beast in Nepal elevational regions providing labor in rugged terrain. It yields hair for textiles milk for dairy products meat and its tail is traditionally used as a fly whisk after death.
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Nepal
Fire at Shenandoah Brick and Tile Co burns oil kiln
Firefighters responded to an oil flooded brick kiln blaze at Shenandoah Brick and Tile Co. at 9 a.m. Fire inspectors said bricks were removed and the fire allowed to burn out. Four city fire companies worked the 24 hour period with calls to other incidents including a car backfire on S Braddock Street and a leaves fire on 717 S Washington Street.
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Shenandoah Brick and Tile Co
William N. Godenour
Friendship
Sarah Zane
S. Braddock St
S. Washington St
Romantic towels and scarves pattern seeks buyers in 1966 catalog
A vintage ad invites readers to purchase Needlecraft pattern 7176 for romantic towels cases and scarfs with eyelet ruffles and lazy daisy flowers. It lists prices 35 cents per pattern plus 15 cents extra for first class mailing and special handling, and directs mail to Alice Brooks at Winchester Evening Star in New York. It also mentions museum quilts books and a catalog boasting hundreds of designs and three free samples.
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Trousseau
Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft
Dept
P.O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
America
New Museum
Dunbar Coach Resigns After Gun Conviction
Dunbar High School head football coach John Organ resigns after a Danville jury convicts him of carrying a concealed weapon at a basketball game. He had been suspended by officials and left his post Thursday as a junior varsity game between Dunbar and Langston was forfeited after a loaded pistol reportedly fell from his pocket.
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Lynchburg
Dunbar High School
John Organ
Ree
Organ
Danville
Dunbar
Langston
Daneville
Peculiar habit of tropical mormot trims tail feathers
The tropical American mormot plucks its tail feathers with its bill, shaping the tail into a racket form. Scientists are unsure what utility this unusual behavior serves or why the bird engages in it.
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Tropical America
Lockheed plant planned in Berkeley County West Virginia
Final arrangements confirm a Lockheed-Georgia sub assembly plant to be built in Berkeley County Industrial Park west of the Corning Glass Works along Route 11. Construction starts soon with occupancy expected next winter. A 15 year old Martinsburg boy died and three others were injured when their car overturned on Route 11 north of the city. Donald Lee Coleman died. Charles L Miller Jr., Charles Hutton Jr., and Paul Pulse were injured, Miller in critical condition. In Front Royal a Junior Miss Warren County contest features 37 contestants at 8 pm at E Wilson Morrison Elementary School. Linda Grimsely will crown the new titleholder.
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Lockheed
Martinsburg
W. VA
Lockheed-Georgia Co
Harley O. Staggers
Berkeley County
Corning Glass Works
U.S. Route 11
Here
Donald Lee Coleman
Charles L. Miller, Jr
Charles Hutton, Jr
Paul Pulse
Warren County
Middletown Beauty Contest Takes Spotlight Tonight
Middletown fire company hosts its first annual beauty contest at the Wayside Theatre at 7 30 pm. Winner will represent the fire company in the Apple Blossom Festival Firemen's Parade with Owen Phillips as master of ceremonies and John W Legg Jr as contest chair assisted by Henry Shiley and Joseph Jenkins.
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Middletown
Middletown Fire Company
Wayside Theatre
Owen Phillips
Wayside Foundation For the Arts, Inc
John W. Legg, Jr
Henry Shiley
Joseph Jenkins
Maurice B Rowe Named Virginia Agriculture Commissioner
Maurice B Rowe was appointed by Gov Mills E Godwin as Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture. A Fredericksburg native, Rowe has served as acting commissioner since Oct 1 after Richard D Chumney left to join The Bank of Virginia. He is a 1948 Virginia Tech graduate and longtime department official.
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Maurice B. Rowe
Virginia
Mills E. Godwin
Rowe
Fredericksburg
Richard D. Chumney
Bank of Virginia
Virginia Department of Agriculture
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Division of
V.P.1
The
Future Farmers of America
Agriculture Club
Brock and Bridle c
James Monroe High School
Joyce McKissick
Blackstone
Mr. Rowe
U.S. Army
Europe
Violent Weather Grips Much of U S Across Tornadoes and Blizzards
The Associated Press reports deadly tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama causing dozens of deaths and hundreds injured, with millions in property damage. A sweeping blizzard hit the Dakotas Minnesota and Nebraska, with one death and many missing as snowdrifts halted plows and frigid air drove temperatures toward zero.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Alabama
Mississippi Highway Patrol
Jackson
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Notable Haitian King Henri Christophe and a cliff marching order
Henri Christophe, once an enslaved man who rose to rule Haiti in 1811, ordered a company of soldiers to march off a cliff to prove obedience. The coalfish or pollack gets its name from its dark coloration per the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Henri Christophe
Haiti
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Floyd W, Detamore
Detamore
William Buckley Jr
National Review
Buckley
Frankfurt
Germany
Kurt Oeser
Miami, Fla
June Clark
Miami
June
London
Britishroadcasting Corp
Arthur Goldberg
United States
United Nations
BBC
Goldberg
Erskine Childers
Rats
Ghana
W. Boscawen ST
Winchester, Virginia
U.S
Jamestown
N.D
North Dakota
South Dakota
Rockies
Intermountain
Cuba
Havana
Grand Forks
Crider & Shockey
Winchester
Chevrolet
Loudoun ST
Cadillac Corp
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