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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1968
Page
2
Obituaries list Mrs Wageley of Summit Point and Lither N Price of Westminster, both noted for family ties and WWI link. Services planned at Jones Funeral Home and Payne's Chapel Methodist Church with burial at Mount Hebron and church cemeteries.
Funeral service for Eugene E Wedlock of 107 W Leicester St will be held Friday at 1 p m in Shiloh Baptist Church Winchester with Rev F E Davenport officiating. He was born in Winchester son of William Watkins and Catherine Wedlock Jackson Korean War veteran. Burial in National Friends. Calling hours at Cartwright Funeral Home Thursday 6 to 9 p m.
Garland Calvin Grim 47 of 1018 8S Kent St died yesterday at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a stay as a patient. Born May 7 1920 in Winchester he married Audrey Douglas Cain on Dec 22 1945. He owned Grimmies Shoe Repair and Locksmithing Shop and belonged to several veterans and civic groups.
Mr Charles A Harris is to be laid to rest Wednesday at 10 00 A M at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Mr Ralph Edward Dusing follows Wednesday at 1 30 P M at Assembly of God Church. Mrs Gertrude Funk, possibly Gertie, Friday at 3 30 P M. Miss Olive Wageley Thursday at 10 00 A M. Garland C Grim Thursday at 1 30 P M. Jones Funeral Home, Inc. published the notices.
Snow flurries are forecast for tonight in central New England and areas from the lower Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley. Rain and showers will sweep the South with colder air. Showers in the northern Rockies and rain in the Pacific Northwest are also predicted.
Winchester firemen extinguished a field fire in the 1100 block of Berryville Ave yesterday afternoon. The alarm rang about 4 20 p m as crews prevented major damage and contained the blaze.
Charles A Harris aged 56 of 1313 Valley Ave died Saturday in Stonewall Jackson Hospital Lexington. Funeral service tomorrow at 10 am at Sacred Heart Catholic Church conducted by Rev Robert Ruth with pallbearers Robert G Smallwood Guy W Shackleford Nevil L Bull Ronald R Walter William L Butler William T Welsh Roger L Adams. Burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Eddie Crawford White, 45, of 420 Chase St. remains in satisfactory condition in Winchester Memorial Hospital ICU after being shot four times Saturday on Chase St. Bond set at 1000 for Freddie Lee Griffin, 41, charged with felonious assault. Preliminary hearing dates not yet set for Griffin or Thomas S. Stern, charged with murder in the slaying of Eugene E. Wedlock, 33, of 107 W. Leicester St.
A hearing is set for March 26 to determine if 16 year old Roger Lee Cook is mentally competent to stand trial for the December murder of James J. Russell in Clarke County. Commonwealth Attorney Edward McC Williams filed the motion based on believed insanity needing hospital care. Harold Hawkins, with David G. Simpson, will defend Cook. the court will hear welfare board and medical expert testimony and decide on suppressing certain statements.
A small frame house in Toronto burned in the early morning killing a mother and her six children. The father, David Lumsden, 26, a service station operator, stood outside naked and screaming at motorists who did not stop to help. he was the sole survivor.
In congressional testimony Fulbright challenges the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution as a pretext to avoid consultation while Rusk defends executive military decisions. The dispute centers on whether Congress should press for broader hearings on Vietnam policy and operations.
Plan A calls for snow and ice treatment and sidewalk clearance by citizens. At 8 am nearby counties reported snow depths: Loudoun six inches. Strasburg and Shenandoah County parts four inches. Fauquier three to four inches. Warren and Page Counties 2 to 3 inches. Snow also began in the DC metro area with expectation to stop by noon and melt later, with Weather Bureau predicting possible continuation through the day.
A confused early trading session on the New York Stock Exchange shows the Dow Jones industrial average sliding 1.67 to 841.37. Major losses hit Chrysler Raytheon Republic Monogram Xerox and Control Data while blue chips like General Motors Kodak and General Foods dipped, but Homestake rebounded as gold mining shares regained.
The forecast calls for light showers today then clearing tonight with a low 30 to 33. Wednesday will be windy and cold with a high in the 40s, followed by fair but cold conditions Thursday. Recent rainfall through 8:30 a.m. today totals 1.16 inches. year to date 4.59 inches. Five year past January–December totals ranged from 26.85 to 36.48 inches. Five year monthly averages show January 3.72 inches and July 3.78 inches among others, with overall annual average 36.50 inches.
Fraternal Order of Police held its regular meeting last night initiating City Sergeant Noble Pierce and Patrolman Hansel Lindamood. Officers discussed the St Patrick's Day Ball set for Saturday at the Lee Jackson Restaurant ballroom and the Clarke County lodge construction slated for completion by August 1.
In a two week period 217 truckloads of refuse came from commercial haulers and 256 pick up loads from individuals to Frederick County dump. Tri County Refuse Co expects 600 to 700 monthly pickup loads once warm weather returns.
An abandoned eastern Luray house partly built of logs burned Sunday evening at 8 p.m. Fire Chief Maurice Judd said the fire was deliberately set. Firefighters prevented flames from reaching nearby storage tanks at Luray Gas and Oil Co.
Police used tear gas to force out Dennis O Connor Jr a 20 year old Vietnam veteran with mental illness from a Queens funeral parlor where he hid for seven hours. He was wounded in the right arm during capture and taken to Peninsula General Hospital. No injuries were reported to others. he had fired multiple shots from a high powered rifle during the pre dawn siege as family and his girlfriend urged surrender.
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