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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1963
Page
1
Five Winchester girls and four boys join Miss Brooke Randolph Farland as Little Maids at Shenandoah XXXVI Apple Blossom Festival May 2 3 4. They participate in Coronation ceremonies ride on the Royal float and pose for orchard pictures with the springtime queen party.
U S postal inspectors probe a San Francisco air port mail room blast to find the sender of a live hand grenade. Clerk Robert Kingman 42 was injured with a broken wrist and windows shattered. another clerk David Belbow 46 suffered facial and chest injuries as twelve of sixty staff went to the hospital.
Mrs Alvin Ruble of Steph ens City reports a new American Pr u it calendar in Willoughby Ohio shows the Apple Blossom Festival. The Commercial and Savings Bank name appears in yellow crocuses beside its Commercial St branch. The Weatherman forecasts sunny and warmer weather tomorrow after today s rain with low 40s tonight and highs in the 50s or 60s. A low pressure area moving from the Carolinas brought the rain and is set to move off the coast tomorrow.
David Allen Mason, 18, of Mountain Falls Route, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of two passengers when his car left the road last August. Represented by Joseph White, Mason appeared before Judge Elliott Marshall who ordered a pre sentencing investigation by district parole and probation officer John Harvey.
Judge Marshall grants a continuance in the case of 57 year old carpenter George Washington Gordon after court appointed defense counsel David G. Simpson requests more time to investigate. Gordon is awaiting further action.
The Associated Press reports widespread wet weather across the central U S with two to three inches of rain possible in Kentucky flood belts. The system brings rain and thunderstorms from the Mississippi Valley through the Ohio Valley into the mid Atlantic states, while a separate storm spawns freezing rain and snow across Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Sen. Mundt urged Washington to tell the Soviet Union that overflying U S aircraft carriers is dangerous and seeds conflict. Alaska lawmakers pressed for stronger defenses after Soviet incursions, with officials noting recent carrier overflights including Constellation 600 miles southwest of Midway.
Conferees at work on a declaration after Kennedy’s Costa Rica welcome plan a policy framework with six Latin American nations. The session aims to curb Cuban influence, promote development, and stabilize commodity prices amid calls for increased Alliance for Progress funding.
The fate of a $500,000 sewage bond referendum will be decided by voters in Shenandoah on April 20. Circuit Judge Hamilton Hass set the date for the referendum yesterday in Luray.
In Algiers the government condemned France for a desert atomic test, calling it an attack on Algeria’s sovereignty. King Hassan II of Morocco protested to Paris as Rabat reported the fifth underground detonation, with French denial and regional tensions rising.
AP reports publishers of eight New York City papers refuse any change to a peace pact with Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Striking printers reject the settlement and call meetings unnecessary. Wagner dismisses negotiations as fruitless as Local 6 president Bertram A. Powers confirms the deadlock. In Cleveland, printers reach progress after 110 days of stoppage.
The Winchester Frederick County Chamber of Commerce board meets at 6 30 p m in the Wayside Inn Middletown. Secretary manager C G Follansbee says Philip N Hunter will report on his Richmond trip about state industrial development projects. Several new memberships will be considered.
Ernest W. Adams Jr a Gainesboro farmer lifelong resident announced his candidacy for the Gainesboro district board of supervisors seat held by Independent Paul Luttrell. Adams a Democrat and family man operates a 315 acre farm plus 200 acres rented pasture. He grows cattle sheep hogs orchards and general farming and serves as Gainesboro Methodist church member and trustee.
Cuban exile groups Alpha 66 and the Second National Front of Escambray said they staged a hit and run raid on a northern Cuban port city. Raiders split into two groups near Sagua la Grande and Isabela la Sagua, shelling a Soviet camp and firing on ships. Some wounded sailors were reported. U S officials offered no comment. Details to be released at a Washington news conference.
Charlottesville youth James Patrick Akins, 19, was struck by a sports car and dragged 12 miles before the vehicle was found abandoned near the University of Virginia campus. A witness chased the car into Charlottesville. police questioned the unidentified University student driver. Akins, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Akins, had been at Clemson College on a foot scholarship and previously played football at Rock Hill Academy.
Mrs John F Kennedy visits New York for shopping and private business while President Kennedy stays at the White House and is in Costa Rica. The First Lady flew to New York on Monday with her children left at home.
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