Warren Board approves widening of County Road 639
Front Royal Virginia CT board of supervisors recommended widening and straightening Route 639 between Routes 522 and 658 in Cedarville District after citizens pledged 3100 to fund the project. They will donate 40 foot rights of way and set back fences 30 feet if the highway department moves fences outside the current right of way.
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Front Royal
Board of Supervisors
Rts
Cedarville
Highway Dept
Tennis Major Born in Otisville With Railroad Ties
A profile notes a tennis major born in Otisville who built a career connected to the railroad industry. The piece highlights early life in Otisville and later work that bridged sports and rail transportation.
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The
Railroad
Otisville
Head of Woman Found Wrapped In Plastic Bag
Three boys biking past a tomato field in Garden Grove discovered a woman's head wrapped in a plastic bag. Police have not yet identified her. coroner notes the head was struck six times with a sharp instrument and she was slain less than 12 hours earlier. The body has not been recovered.
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Garden Grove
Calif
Brandt
Telegrams tying Eichmann to killings enter evidence
In Jerusalem two telegrams signed by Adolf Eichmann ordering executions of Jews were entered as evidence. Prosecution argued direct link to exterminations while Eichmann's lawyer disputed the messages. A spectator wept in court and described Nazi atrocities in Poland after 1941.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Scheffer
Eichmann
Poland
Soviet Union
Gidéon Hausner
Servatius
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Bob Nethers Heads VPI Apple Club
Front Royal senior Bob Nethers becomes club chief at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Apple Club. Officers include Buddy Mills of Hume as secretary, Jim Jordan treasurer, Roger Boerner and Phil Loving in key posts.
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Bob Nethers
VPI
Apple Club
Front Royal
Dent
Buddy Mills
Hume
Secreof
Jary
Jim Jordan
Roger Boerner
Phil Loving
Strasburg
Histor Strotherian
Markham
Jazz musician Mole dies at 63 in New York stroke
The noted jazz musician Mole who played with Benny Goodman and Paul Whiteman and other bands died Friday in New York apparently from a stroke.
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New York
Miff
Loyalty Week Observed With VFW Leaders Honor
Mayor Claude B. Smalts Jr receives a citation from past VFW commander John Ebert for signing a loyalty week proclamation April 30 to May 6. Veterans met at the Post Home and moved to Montague Avenue Methodist Church for an 11 a.m. service led by Rev. Ronald L. Clark. The VFW urged ministers to preach loyalty to God and country and citizens to fly the flag and pray daily during the week.
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Claude B. Smalts, Jr
V.F.W
John Ebert
Post
Morase
Montague Avenue Methodist Church
Ronald L. Clark
America
Smalts
Ebert
Raleigh Easter
Dudley Reynolds
Robert Hill
Jones
Storms Tapper Off After Severe Central Plains Damage
Storms battered south central states with ice winds heavy rains and tornadoes causing extensive property damage in Oklahoma Kansas Missouri and northern Texas. Oklahoma City El Reno Ponca City Wichita Falls and Denton reported major damage and injuries. No serious injuries overall.
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Oklahoma
Akansas
Missouri
Texas
North
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
el Reno
Ponca City
Okla
Wichita Falls
Tex
Springdale
Ark
Maple City
Kan
Denton
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginias
North Carolina
Woman Starts Hike From Key West to Boston
Dr. Barbara Moore of Key West begins a cross country trek aimed at Boston about 1 763 miles away with intent to push toward Canada if possible. The 56 year old vegetarian believes proper diet keeps her alive and plans to march until time or accident ends the journey.
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Key West
Boston
Fla
Barbara Moore
Moore
Canada
Miami
England
Local Antique Vehicles Win Prizes at Automobile Meet
More than 250 cars entered at the antique automobile meet with awards going to local winners. Clayton Bennington took first prize for a 1915 Indian Motorcycle and his wife won for a 1926 Ford. Additional top honors went to Orin Ritter for a 1912 Ford and E Earl Shade for a 1917 Ford, with Robert Renner earning third prize for a 1924 Ford at a Lee Jackson restaurant banquet attended by about 400.
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Clayton Bennington
State Police Probe Continuing in Marlboro Hit-Run Death
State Police continued their investigation into the death of 14 year old Thomas Richard Dodson of Marlboro. The fatal hit and run occurred Thursday on Paper Mill Road as he and two other boys walked. Dodson died Saturday morning at Memorial Hospital.
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Thomas Richard Dodson
Marlboro
Paper Mill Road
Memorial Hospital
Fire gutts 8 room house in Front Royal
Front Royal reports an 8 room house at 127 E Eighteenth St gutted by fire early Saturday. Fire Chief Warren Turner says owner Mrs Martha Jane Willis may have been living there part time. damage estimate not available.
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Front Royal
E. Eighteenth St
Warren Turner
Martha Jane Willis
Ordained Couple Serve as Ministers in Columbus Church
Floyd and Dorothy Faust form a family ministry. Floyd has led Broad Street Christian Church since 1929 in Columbus while Dorothy, a non denom in te and grant hospice volunteer, shares in church service and family life with their two grown children.
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Columbus, Ohio
Floyd
Dorothy Faust
Broad Street Christian Church
Columbus
Grant Hoscoup
Boxwood Society Meets Tomorrow With Lectures
The American Boxwood Society charter members from 16 states and DC will attend a meeting tomorrow at the Orland E White Research Arboretum Boyce Blandy Farm. A noon luncheon follows four talks by experts from Harvard Arnold Arboretum Iton Blacksburg and National Arboretum on box care cultivars and winter injury. Reservations to Dr Walter Flory Boyce 58 Daylight Time.
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Boxwood Society
Orland E. White Research Arboretum
Boyce
Blandy Experimental Farm
B. L. Wagentecht
Arnold Arboretum
Jamica Plain
Mass
Harvard University
Freeman Weiss
Iton
A. G. Smith
Blacksburg
Virginia
Box
Sylvester Marsh
National Arboretum
Washington
Walter Flory Boyce
States
District of Columbia
The
American Boxwood Society
Stephens City Postmaster Appointment Due
Glenn P. Combs of Stephens City is among 246 postmaster nominations sent to the Senate. The first act of Kennedy’s administration. Combs expects three weeks after Senate confirmation. Taxes in ancient times noted with Sumerian double entry bookkeeping for cattle sheep grain and other produce.
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Glenn P. Combs
Stephens City
Senate
Kennedy
Combs
Cincinnati
William Halle
Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion
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