Area Recovers From Snow As Forecast Warns of More
The area works toward normal operations after a heavy snowfall. Forecast calls for rain or snow tomorrow afternoon or night with clearing and cold weather Saturday. Power and telephone services largely restored, buses running, streets being cleared, and schools reopening in Winchester Clarke and Frederick counties with some delays.
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Power Company and Telephone Company
Dale Fowler
Telephone Company
Leesburg
AF Satellite On Secret Mission Launch Quietly
The Air Force launched a satellite from Point Arguello California using an Atlas Agena B booster. Officials said the mission remains secret and noted the craft carried numerous classified test components.
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Point Arguello
Calif
Air Force
Snow weighs in at Winchester in Struck by Wintry Count
The Town Crier reports the Winchester snow from Monday totaling 1,551,761,301 pounds or 77,586 tons. A motorist’s lost Virginia 1961 plate is recovered from the snow, while the Shawnee VFD clears the road to the fire hall and asks about a missing direction sign. The Virginia Employment Commission office remains open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. to aid labor seekers and shovelers.
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Winchester
Shawnee Vfd
Virginia
Star
Brothers Killed Walking by Road in Maryland
A Maryland man Earl H Morrison 33 of Hagerstown is jailed in Berkeley County charged with negligent homicide in the fatal traffic crash that killed brothers William F Funkhouser 26 of Bunker Hill and Eugene A Funkhouser 22 of Inwood on Route 11 near Inwood West Virginia. The two men died after being struck by Morrison’s car as he said he fell asleep at the wheel and could not avoid them. Both widows and families mourn as state police noted dry pavement and no snow, with funeral services planned at Brown Funeral Home Martinsburg.
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Wendell Seldon
Howard Grove
Frederick County
Clarke County
Maryland
Berkeley County
Martinsburg
West Virginia
William Frederick Funkhouser
Bunker Hill
Eugene Alvin Funkhouser
Inwood
Martinsburg City Hospital
Earl Henry Morrison
Hagerstown
Morrison
Darkesville
New Orleans
Harrisonburg
Funkhouser Brothers
Shenandoah County
Joseph W
Frances Barrick Funkhouser
Clearbrook
William Frederick Funkhouer
Sarah C. Gladden Funkhouser
William F. Funkhouser, Jr
Dennis Wayne Funkhouser
Mildred R. Gladden Funkhouser
Eugene A Funkhouser, Jr
Darla Funkhouser
Lester F. Funkhouser
Ivan Funkhouser
Keith Funkhouser
City
John Funkhouser
Frulen Funkhouser
Margaret Dennis
Nain
Susan Russell
This City
Shirley Hines
Bethesda
Brown Funeral Home
Court Upholds FCC Pay TV Authority
The U S Court of Appeals upheld the FCC power to permit trial operation of pay television systems. It said the commission must be allowed to experiment to shape future broadcasting. The decision supported RKO Phonevision’s three year Hartford trial by Zenith Radio Corp despite theater group protests.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
Federal Communications Commission
Henry W. Edgerton
Commission
Walter M. Bastian
Warren E. Burger
Edgerton
Connecticut
Pay TV
Stanley Warner Management Co
Loew’s, Inc
Connecticut Theaters
Manchester Drive- In Theater Corp
Outdoors Theaters Corp
FCC
RKO Phonevision Co
Hartford
Conn
Zenith Radio Corp
Phonevision
RKO
Time Bill Up for Crucial State Senate Vote Today
Virginia faces a key vote on a daylight saving time bill for Memorial Day to Labor Day. The measure would apply statewide except for Bristol and the 10th District, with further amendments debated in the Senate.
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Senate
Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
House
Bristol
Virginia - Tenessee
10Th
General Laws Committee
Loudoun
Prince Willian
Lee
Scott and Wise
Tennessee
District of Columbia
Carrot saves girl as Brucetown snow blocks road
Terry Robin Jenkins age three of Brucetown choked on a carrot. Parents Leslie and Nina Jenkins braved deep snow with the Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad to reach the child. The family swapped turns carrying the youngster toward safety in bitter weather.
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Terry Robin Jenkins
Brucetown
Winchester
Terry
Leslie Jenkins
Rt. 672
Brucetown Road
Bus Stranded In Deep Snow For Four Hours
A greyhound bus carrying 17 passengers was stranded for four hours about three miles west of here on Rt. 723. Driver James Rutherford of Roanoke said the bus was mired in two feet of snow after not being plowed on the Frederick county section of old Rt. 50. He walked a mile to Mrs. Barton Cook’s residence to call for help, then drove to Waterloo and on to Winchester, arriving shortly before 10 a.m.
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BOYCE
Greyhound
Here
James W. Rutherford
Roanoke
Rutherford
Opequon Bridge
Rt. 50
Frederick County
Barton Cook
Winchester
Waterloo
Fatal Scuffle Heard by Housekeeper in Loudoun County
Leesburg report: housekeeper Ruth Boley tells police she heard a scuffle and then a man she hadn’t seen before enter the kitchen and attack J. Churchill Newcomb and his wife. She was struck with a gun butt and later slashed. the knife came from the Newcomb kitchen. The assailant fled in a two tone grey car.
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Leesburg
J. Churchill Newcomb
Max Dwyer
Ruth Boley
Hosital
Newcomb
Loudoun County
Dwyer
Boley
Mr. Newcomb
Virginia Storm Deaths and Floods Hit Coastal Virginia
The storm left seven dead with possible increase as blizzard and offshore nor'easter battered Virginia. Flooding, power outages, and evacuations disrupted coastal towns from Chincoteague to Hampton Roads, with millions in damage and a state of emergency declared in Virginia Beach.
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Virginia
Easter
Atlantic
Chincoteague Island
Robert Cropper
Ocean City
Jim Morris
Assateague Island
Chincoteague
Wallops Island
NASA
Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
Virginia Beach
Frank A. Dusch
National Guard
Atlantic Ave
Ocean View
Willoughby
Norfolk
Hampton
South Vietnamese kill 23 Reds in Mekong Delta
South Vietnamese forces report 23 Communist guerrillas killed in a major operation near the Mekong Delta. U S Army helicopters faced engine trouble while supplying troops as authorities pursued a broader push into Viet Cong positions along the coast and mangrove swamps.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Mekong River
Kien Hoa
China Sea
Dam Doi
An Xuyen
Anp Tan Long
U.S
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mili
Tary
Pea Ridge battle ends as Confederate forces lose two days
A two day clash at Pea Ridge known as Elkhorn Tavern ends with a Confederate defeat. Meanwhile the ironclad Merrimac enters Hampton Roads damaging three U S ships and Leesburg falls to Federal troops.
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Pea Ridge
Elkhorn Tavern
Ark
Hampton Roads
U.S
Leesburg
Kennedy signals space cooperation plan with Khrushchev
President Kennedy proposes joint U S Soviet steps for peaceful space exploration. He wrote to Premier Khrushchev outlining plans for a weather satellite system, communications satellites, and deep space probes. The message aims to ease East West tensions ahead of Geneva disarmament talks opening next week.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Kennedy
Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
Geneva
Berlin
Southeast Asia
Storm Rips Coastal Areas Of Seven States
A powerful coastal storm battered seven Atlantic states causing widespread destruction from North Carolina to New York. At least 29 deaths were reported with Ocean City Maryland and Bowers Delaware hard hit. Governors Tawes and Carvel sought disaster declarations as utilities failed and damage mounted. New England escaped major damage as the system moved offshore.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
North Carolina
New York
New England
Ocean City
Rehoboth Beach
Del
Maryland
J. Millard Tawes
Kennedy
Bowers
Delaware
Elbert N. Carvel
Carvel
Virginia
Lover Come Back Held Over at Hable's Palace Theatre
The comedy Lover Come Back remains held over through Tuesday at Hable's Palace Theatre. Also noted is a savings ad offering insured accounts with 4 percent current dividend from Winchester Savings & Loan, with a deadline to save by the 10th.
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Tnes
Hable’s Palace Theatre
Federal Savings
Insurance Corp
Winchester Savings & Loa
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Frederick
Clarke
Fort Loudoun Hill
Loudoun St
Crier
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Virginia Employment Commission
George Taylor
Hutcheson Racial Investigative Committee
Snowy
Mr. Jenkins
Mrs. Jenkins
Nina Affleck
Bruce
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