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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1968
Page
6
Police seek a ten and a half ton dump truck with a safe inside after Moore's Super Stores on Rt. North was entered. The safe containing about $1000 was moved from the office to the warehouse and loaded onto the truck with the trash. Deputy Roy Hoak investigates.
Indiana's presidential primary could hinge on crossover voting as write ins are not counted. Nixon runs unopposed on the Republican ballot while Branigin attracts GOP support as a Democrat favored son. Voters may switch parties with affidavits, but paper ballots marked outside squares are invalid.
Pattern 7247 offers a one piece neck down knitted jacket with openwork in sizes 32 38 and rose embroidery. Includes pattern transfer and mailing details with prices 50 cents per pattern plus 15 cents for postage. Also advertises the Jumbo 1968 Needlecraft Catalog and several other craft pattern books with 50 cent pricing.
Sirens shrieked through the parade as children begged for treats and vendors shouted bargains. LIVELY MISS SKEETER Davis led the procession and, after a detour, rode along to the reviewing stands with Honorary Fire Chief winners Miss Virginia Lee Stine and Miss Joy Elaine Nesselrodt aboard a fire truck.
A 12 hour drive from the University of Massachusetts Amherst preceded the arrival of the Apple Blossom Queen to town, marking a high point in local celebrations.
Texas Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin says it is illegal for a commercial airline employee to sell alcoholic drinks while flying over Texas. Jurisdiction lies in the county whose air space the offense occurred, complicating prosecution as to which county charged. Natural Tunnel near Gate City Virginia stands 100 feet high and 1,557 feet long with a railroad crossing it.
Rockefeller on his first full day of campaigning in Iowa drew about 8 000 at the University of Iowa and urged voting at 18 and a draft lottery. He then met students on a campaign bus as he headed to Cedar Rapids. Nixon stressed tax to expand black ownership in a radio address from Indianapolis. Democrats McCarthy Kennedy Branigin Humphrey debate Indiana primary dynamics. Kennedy stumbled during a South Bend parade, leaving a puffed lip, as Humphrey seeks an identity beyond the vice presidency.
Janette J. Palmer sixteen and a junior at Loudoun Valley High School Purcellville won the Festival twelve annual Apple Pie Baking Contest for high schools in the four state area. State runners up were Frances Bilyard Jean Pohlman Deborah School Kathy Cain. Palmer received an expense free three day Norfolk visit with her teacher and an engraved silver bowl from the Festival. Twenty one girls competed. judges included Mattie Kessler Lovetta Fraley Hazel Hendricks and James Gordon.
Senator Thruston Morton of Kentucky traveled to Richmond to urge Virginia GOP leaders and delegates to keep options open for Governor Rockefeller. He plans no direct pressure, stressing a loose stance until Rockefeller proves his appeal, as Massachusetts showed. The Virginia convention will select four national delegates, with 16 already chosen and Nixon-backed delegates dominating early.
James McKinley becomes the first Negro named to Carthage Tennessee town council, one of six councilmen elected Thursday in the 2,500 resident town.
The two story circular native stone tower known as the Old Stone Tower at New Port has unclear origin. It has been described as a church a beacon and a mill by various sources.
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