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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1955
Page
5
More than 2600 people visited the U S Navy Trailer exhibits on Friday, peak day of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Chief Woodrow Whitmore of the Navy Recruiting sub station reported the crowds. Ship models and cut away sections of Navy planes and weapons were the main topics.
A well hit golf ball spins about 2 000 rpm when struck with a wooden club and 6 000 to 8 000 rpm with an iron club that has a sharply slanted face. The ball stays aloft due to backspin. as long as spinning continues it rises, and when spin stops it falls.
An 80 year old fisherman named James T. Cobb was found dead last night in Curtis Pond near his home in King William County. Dr. W. E. Hosfield said Cobb suffered a heart attack while fishing and fell forward into about three feet of water.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police dates to 1873 when formed as the North West Mounted Police to bring law and order to western and northern Canada. In 1904 King Edward VII granted it the Royal prefix, and the force became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with laboratories, fingerprint files, and an identification branch akin to FBI and Scotland Yard. Headquarters are in Ottawa.
The Baltimore and Ohio Magazine will publish an article on the 1955 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival with illustrations. A B&O special train carried 978 people from Baltimore Silver Spring and other points to Winchester for the pageant and parade.
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