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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1963
Page
14
A former dean of the College of Education has died, with reports noting his long service building the department and influencing teacher training programs. The obituary lists his leadership roles and years of tenure.
Supt. J K Samples announces across the board pay raises for teachers. Normal professional and elementary certificate teachers gain $200, bringing salary range in Page County to $3700 to $4900 in higher certificate brackets.
Cattle receipts near 1 100 with steady early sales and varied weights. Cows and heifers quoted 14.00 to 23.75 with feeders and hogs showing mixed gains and losses. In New York stock trading frenzied with mixed results across industries and slight Dow rise to 679.59 as traders weighed Sunray asset talks and overall market tone.
Doris Stevens, lifelong advocate for women rights, dies Friday after a stroke. She was twice married, to attorney Dudley Field Malone and writer Jonathon Stevens, and was born in Omaha.
Pedro de Freitas Branco aged 67 and once head of the Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra died Sunday in Lisbon. The conductor served as director of the ensemble for years and was a prominent figure in Portuguese classical music.
Verne E. Collins led a band concert in Orange and was named to the All-Regional Band. The Danville Register once profiled him as one of the nation’s best known conductors. He led the Virginia All-State Band, a peak Virginia honor, and taught at Shenandoah Conservatory for five years.
The STRIKE nears end as machinists and electricians unions show willingness to return to work during peace talks. Publishers estimate more than 200 million dollars in economic losses from the blackout, the longest and costliest in city history.
Frederick County deputies investigate a breaking and entering at a Mt. Falls area home belonging to Mrs. Lena Linaburg. Entry was gained by breaking a door window and latch, with an electric clock radio and an electric coffee pot stolen.
Bedford authorities report 12 year old Douglas Andrews unable to swim fell from a pier into a private lake about a mile west of the city. He was recovered from 18 feet of water by Bedford lifesaving crew.
Handley High School Glee Club plans numbers for the festival kickoff. James Moore of the National Apple Institute will MC the Rally Day events. Delmas Sewell and Melvin Duff organize dinners and social hours as out of town visitors arrive. RSVP and hotel hosts noted. Thursday program at 8 p.m. is open to the public with no admission charge.
In Cleveland two daily papers face prolonged disruption with 116 days of blackout. Striking printers stand as a major obstacle to quick settlements with the Plain Dealer and the Press & News.
The Rev. Harcourt Edmund Waller Jr. will preach at Christ Episcopal Church on Wednesday at 12 p.m. He leads St. Paul's Memorial Church in Charlottesville, a University of Virginia church. A Lent service follows a lunch hour event with funds aiding international shipments.
Friday night Duplicate Bridge results at the George Washington Hotel show winners Mrs. Robert Giffin and Mrs. John Griffith. Runners up were John Glover and S. H. Reaves. Three-way tie for third included Mrs. Irvan O’Connell John Griffith Mrs. Claude Smalts Mrs. L. A. Elliott Jr. Mrs. R. E. Osth and Mrs. Eddie Joyce.
Mack Williams of 112 North Louise Street was injured when his bicycle crashed near Route 11 by the Park and Shop yesterday evening. Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad members arrived, provided first aid at the scene.
The Kress Foundation chairman and longtime patron of the arts died Friday after several months of illness. Born in Slatington Pennsylvania, he oversaw the donation of fifty million dollars to art treasures during his tenure.
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