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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1971
Page
2
Obituaries report deaths in Paris The Plains Baker and Harrisonburg area with survivors and funeral details. Notables include Lottid L Wine owner of Blue Ridge Fruit Stand in Paris and Ada Willetta Baughman of Baker with service and burial plans. Additional notices mention Harold M Adams of The Plains and familial survivors across Virginia and West Virginia.
John T Burwell Jr son of Mr and Mrs J Townsend Burwell of Clarke County and a physicist at Promoton N dies in an automobile accident in New Jersey Formerly of Millwood he lived in Chester N J Born December 24 1912 he held degrees from MIT and State of Technology His career spanned U S Steel laboratory MIT Horizons American Standard Reed Cuff Associates and more Funeral and memorial services are noted with locations in Clarke County St Lukes Church Gladstone N J and Old Chapel.
A set of ten quiz answers includes Check your blood pressure Centigrade Red kneeling stool for prayers Utahan 174 House of Commons Spanish Petroleum and 64.
Funeral services are planned with multiple ceremonies this week. Christ Episcopal Church hosts Mr Wilbur R Sellers at 11 00 A M Saturday, Highland Memorial Presbyterian Church hosts Mr Charles Albert Anderson at 1 30 P M, Elk Memorial Service Friday at 7 30 P M, Jones Funeral Home arranging details.
Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music presents its Jazz Ensemble Monday at 8 p.m. in Armstrong Hall with 18 musicians directed by Paul Noble. The program includes favorites for Woody Herman and Count Basie plus works by Rusty Cloud and Brian Kidd and features trombonist Dr. Verne Collins.
The deceased is survived by a wife five brothers and a sister all of Winchester and a sister Margie Lonas of Gilbert Ariz a foster brother Groves Emerson of Winchester. The service was held Saturday at 1 30 p m at Highland Memorial Presbyterian Church with Rev Bruce Macbeth. The body rested at the church from 12 30. Pallbearers were Elmer H Kline Charles J Renner Sr Finley S Whitlock Eston R Jenkins Roger H Clevenger and Hunter Whitlock. Interment was in Hebron Cemetery with a Veterans of Foreign War Post 2123 graveside service.
President Nixon arrives by helicopter from Washington and delivers a 30 minute address in under an hour as legal officials descend on the State capital to discuss faster justice. A counter conference at William and Mary attracts students but remains largely on campus.
Earle W. Horton of the Supreme Lodge will address the Shenandoah Chapter of the Legion of the Moose at a weekend gathering in Northern Virginia. Horton, born in Aurora Illinois, directs Civic Affairs and Community Services and serves as grand herder. He and his wife Lillian live near Mooseheart with daughter Janelle.
The General Assembly of Colonial Virginia grew irritated with Governor Spotswood over his extravagant expenditures, pushing for tighter controls on state finances and governance.
The exhibition showcases eight artists at Beth El Temple 528 Fairmont Ave open 1 to 5 p m tomorrow and Sunday with no charge. Highlights include Hortense Amram’s cloth of gold Torah mantle for President Kennedy and Renate Chernoff’s silver cloisonne plaque If I forget thee O Jerusalem.
Drama workshop students from Quarles and Sen seng Road elementary schools are invited to the final dress rehearsal of Bark Mill Theatre’s three act comedy Here Today. The in the round production will run Sunday at 7 p.m. with pick up at 9:30 p.m. Chaperones will supervise. Barbara Sambol will lecture on pantomime Monday afternoon at Quarles.
Two men Raymond J. Kerns and James Richard Lane were arrested inside Grocers Wholesale on Brick Kiln Road after midnight. They face arraignment in Frederick County Court with each posting $2000 bond.
A record notes eighty eight mountains in the United States rise above 14 000 feet in elevation. The list highlights high altitude challenges for climbers and maps the nation’s tallest summits.
Cloudy with isolated rain tonight building to showers Saturday with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s. The extended outlook calls for fair skies Sunday to Tuesday with above normal highs in the upper 50s and low 60s and nightly lows around 40.
Wall Street in New York sees the market retreat with volume light as declines edge ahead of advances on the NYSE while traders anticipate a later push toward the 900 level for the Dow Jones industrial average.
Flames from an old car parked beside Ronald and Mrs. Stokes at 108 Treadwell Street Berryville set the house on the side. John H. Enders firemen extinguished the blaze around 2:25 p.m. with minor damage reported and the car burned out.
James Wood High School will present its second annual H Felix Sanders Science Fair on March 19 and 20. The fair opens to the public 7 to 9 p.m. March 19 and 6 30 to 8 30 p.m. March 20 in the school cafeteria and gym. Projects will be judged the afternoon of March 19.
Myron Helfgott professor of art at Virginia Commonwealth University and award winning sculptor will speak on Techniques of Sculpture to the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The talk includes a slide presentation and demonstration at the Farmers Merchants Bank from 4 to 6 p.m. Refreshments follow.
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