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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
4
Pickets along Allegheny Court adjourned the street scene as deputies with yellow armbands cleared the street and kept order. Six carloads of deputies arrived early and observers warned Pittsburgh railways cars would be re routed if crowds reassembled.
Funeral services for Staff Sgt. Harry T. Smith will be held Saturday March 23 at Jones Funeral Home. Dr. L. Flickinger will officiate. Interment follows at Mt. Hebron Cemetery with Robert Y. Conrad Post American Legion and other Legion members acting as pallbearers and at the gravesite.
Reports circulated from Batavia claim Russian submarines lay off the south coast of Java. The Supreme Allied Command and Allied forces in Batavia issued no comment.
Eugene Whitacre 16 died at home at 310 Smithfield Avenue on Wednesday March 20 after a two week illness due to complications. Born July 16 1929 he was a son of Edward R Whitacre and Grace Hawkins Whitacre. He was a member of the Church of Christ and survived by his parents a sister Miss Helen Louis Whitlock two aunts Mrs Elmer Whitlock and Miss Virginia Hawkins and numerous uncles and cousins. Funeral services will be held from the residence on Saturday March 23 conducted by Rev Nathan Williamson. The remains are at Omps Funeral Home.
Mrs B B Dutton director of Queen and Her Court and Lt Tom Scully head of Public Entertainment have completed the 1946 Festival Committee structure. Dutton’s committees include coronation costumes proper ties princesses entertainment and decorations with various royal roles and escorts. Scully’s Public Entertainment teams cover seating safety pavilion hotel reservations first aid and greeters along with parade street dances and airport information booths.
Curry Carter president of Shenandoah Valley Inc added to prominent out of town attendees for Winchester festival mass meeting tomorrow at 9 p m in the George Washington Hotel. Staunton attorney and former U S Army colonel will introduce speaker William Wright the state conservation chairman.
A large congregation attended the final rites for Dr. Robert M C Glass at the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. Dr. Ronald S Wilson and Rev. Joseph S Duckwall led the service with hymns and selections from Scripture. The service closed at Mount Hebron Cemetery with pallbearers and the deceased’s brother J Wood Glass traveling from Nowata Oklahoma for the ceremonies.
The 17 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs T W Burleson of Frederick county died yesterday at home. She was born August 11 1944 in Frederick and was the child of T William Burleson of North Carolina and Lillie V Elliott Burleson of Clarke county.
The obituary notes she is survived by her parents and brother David Jackson Burleson. Funeral will be conducted Friday at 10:00 AM from the John H. Enders Funeral Home with Rev. Thomas Herndon of Kearneysville, W Va, officiating. Interment will follow in Bruce cemetery.
A man offered a ride to a nine year old, struck her with a hammer after she screamed, fired a .22 rifle while chasing her, and pursued her to her home half a mile away. He confessed and urged a sheriff call while deputies took Lincoln to Will County Jail. Mrs Williams took the girl to Silver Cross Hospital.
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