May Fellowship Day Observance At Grace Church
Grace Lutheran Church hosts the Winchester Council of Church Women May Fellowship Day on Friday with the theme Place to Live. Mrs. Robert E. Hockman leads the program with participants including Mrs. W. Eisenberg and Rev. Coleman Games. A 10 a.m. coffee hour precedes the 10:30 a.m. program. open to all interested.
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Grace Lutheran Church
Winchester Council of Church Women
Robert E. Hockman
W. Eisenberg
F. W. Danley
Gladyce Crawford
D.,f. Hardesty
Harry Haines
Grover Daugherty
Woman recounts dispute ending in shooting injuring Kitty Mae Young
A woman quotes that she and her husband left their home after a confrontation over a toy. Kitty Mae Young, 10, was visiting the Herbert residence when she was shot in the back and critically injured, while the woman says she did not fire the pistol.
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Bobbie
Kitty Mae Young
Kitty Mae
Herbert Place
May 7 7 p.m. sale in Winchester Route 7 area
Sales Directory listing several auctions in Winchester Virginia area. May 7 7 p.m. at ly-mile east of Winchester on Route 7 featuring furniture and electrical appliances auctioneered by Artrip and Cole. May 9 10 a.m. near Berryville on Route 535 dairy cattle equipment farm machinery and a Jeep Station Wagon auctioned by Charles R. Duvall. May 10 p.m. Shenandoah Valley Polled Shorthorn Breeders Association at Farmers Livestock Exchange Winchester. May 17 10 a.m. Rosa E. Renner Glenn Burnie Farm Amherst Street Extension Winchester household goods tools. May 17 1 p.m. C C Cloe and Stanley A. Owens trustees front of Frederick County Court House Winchester improved real estate on Paper Mill Road.
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Denny's Commission
Winchester
Artrip and Cole
Fpr
Donald Duvall
Berryville
Charles R. Duvall
Shenandoah Valley
Farmers Livestock Exchange
Rosa E. Renner
Glenn Burnie Farm
Amherst St
C. C. Cloe
Stanley A. Owens
Frederick County Court House
Winchester, Va
Crosby Marriage Mixup Sparks Civil Ceremony Question
Dennis Crosby and Pat Sheehan wed in a Las Vegas wedding chapel believing it was a civil ceremony. They were unaware a Protestant minister would officiate and said they hoped to remarry in a church after learning of the religious connection. The minister noted the chapel clearly indicates a justice of the peace option.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Dennis Crosbys
Dennis
Bing Crosby
Pat Sheehan
Tropicana Hotel
James A. Herndon
Las Vegas Church of the Nazarene
Crosby
Two Year Old Sharon Edson Dead in Scalding Accident
In Bristol Virginia Tennessee area a two year old girl Sharon Ruth Edson died after scalding burns over half her body when a water vessel overturned during a mother’s attempt to make steam for a croup treatment. Her parents, Lloyd Edson and Mrs. James A. Pendergrass, were injured in a separate car crash en route to the funeral home. Edson hospitalized for shock and knee laceration, Pendergrass with a forehead cut and shock. A Marion Virginia woman Verna Cornett Catron also died from flash fire burns the prior Friday.
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Bristol
Sharon Ruth Edson
Lloyd Edson
Tenn
Bristol Memorial Hospital
Sharon
Marion
Verna Cornett Catron
Edson
James A. Pendergrass
Gore VFD Plans Special Meeting
At its May meeting last night at the fire hall the Gore Fire Company laid plans for a special meeting to discuss upcoming activities and potential changes in operations.
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Gore
VFD
The
Gore Fire Company
Pulitzer Awards Highlight wartime and journalism honors
The piece lists Pulitzer winners across journalism arts and letters including George Beveridge for urban reporting, Bruce Shanks for cartooning, William Beall for photography, and Walter Lippmann for commentary. Also noted are awards in history biography poetry music and the ongoing preparation for a company chicken barbecue and a new telephone alarm system committee report.
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George Beveridge
Washington
D.C
Evening Star
New York Times
Times
Bruce M. Shanks
Buffalo
N.Y
Walter Lippmann
New York Herald Tribune
America
Bray Hammond
Thetford Center
Federal Reserve Board
George Washington
Douglas Southall Freeman
John Alexander Carroll
Mary Wel S Ashworth
Freeman
Robert Penn Warren
Yale University
Fairfield
Conn
Samuel Barber
Vanessa
Metropolitan Opera House
Barber
Morin
Freeport
Ill
Associated Press
Tokyo
Far East
Pearl Harbor
Saigon
Indochina
London
Africa
Italy
Paris
India
New York
In Memoriam Charles Alger One-Year Prayer Card
In loving memory of Charles 8 Alger who died May 5 1957. A year of sorrow and tears since God called you to rest. We miss you dearly and trust in a heavenly reunion with you. Loved by wife and children.
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Charles 8. Alger
Grasshoppers Trigger Air Defense Alarms in Arizona
Clouds of grasshoppers swarm central Arizona and set off Air Defense Command alarms. Governor Ernest McFarland declares a state of emergency as crop dusters begin dawn to dusk spraying across a 10 mile stretch between Florence and Maricopa. Entomologist Dr. L A Carruth notes spring weather favors the insects and pilots report sightings up to 5000 feet.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Ariz
Air Defense Command
Tucson
Ernest McFarland
Florence
Maricopa
L. A. Carruth
University of Arizona Department of Entomology
James Branch Cabell Dies at 79 Controversial Novelist
Virginia writer James Branch Cabell, author of Jurgen and numerous works, died in Richmond last night at age 79 after a cerebral hemorrhage. He authored 52 books, lived in his ancestral Richmond home, and left a son Ballard Hartwell Cabell and widow Margaret Waller Freeman. Funeral arrangements were reported incomplete.
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James Branch Cabell
Richmond
Virginia
Jurgen
Cabell
Moses
D. H. Mosely
Benjamin de Casseres
Watteau
Debussy
New York Vice Society
New York
West Virginia
Reviewer
The
American Spectator
Potomac River
Priscilla Bradley Shepherd
Margaret Waller Freeman
Ballard Hartwell Cabell
Sen Case urges quick decision on tax cuts
Senator Clifford Case calls for an immediate congressional decision on income and excise tax cuts to spur recovery. Senate Republican Leader Knowland doubts an Eisenhower administration move is imminent while tax revision and broader cuts are urged by Chamber of Commerce and witness William A. McDonnell.
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Washington
Clifford P. Case
Congress
William F. Knowland
California
Senate
Case
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
William A. McDonnell
House Banking Committee
Petrillo Draws 46000 Salary as AFM President
James A. Petrillo receives a $46,000 annual salary as head of the American Federation of Musicians and holds multiple roles beyond the AFM.
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James A. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
A.P.M
Starkweather pleads insanity in nine Lincoln killings
Defense for Charles Starkweather entered an insanity plea against the defendant’s wishes. He is charged in the January 28 death of 17 year old Robert Jensen, whose body was found near Bennet as authorities pursued Starkweather and Caril Fugate, both charged with murder. Starkweather has admitted involvement in 11 slayings in statements.
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Starkweather
T. Clement Gaughan
Guy Starkweather
Robert William Jensen
Bennet
Jensen
Caril Ann Fugate
Caril
Weather snapshot across U S cities shows varied conditions
The Associated Press reports cloudy conditions in Albany Albuquerque Atlanta and many other cities with pockets of rain in Detroit Fort Worth Helena Cleveland New York and Philadelphia. Some locales expect clear skies in Denver Des Moines Omaha Portland and Seattle as others remain cloudy or rainy.
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Albany
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fort Worth
Helena
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
St. Paul
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland
Ore
Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Payne Commends Fete Organization for Apple Blossom Festival
James A. Payne of Front Royal praises the Apple Blossom Festival as a splendid feature attracting people to Winchester and the Shenandoah Valley. He congratulates F. L. Largent Jr. and the organizing group and notes Shenandoah Valley, Inc. cooperation in the springtime event.
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Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Virginias
James A. Payne
Front Royal
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Staunton
F. L. Largent, Jr
Shenahdoah Valley, Inc
Dartmouth Museum Fire Sparks Zeebra Rescue Call
Darmouth College's Museum in Hanover New Hampshire is regarded as the oldest in the United States. In 1798 a fire consumed the building as students and professors cried out to save the library and the stuffed zebra in the Natural History section amid chaotic scenes.
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Darmouth College
Hanover
N. H
U. S
Dartmouth
Weather outlook and Alaska road project report
The forecast shows a cloudy day with rain ending in the west tonight, lows 40s to 50s, then a clearance Wednesday with warmer highs in the 60s to 70s in parts. A separate note reports about 500000 dollars being spent on a new road from Dawson on the Alaska Canadian border to Clinton Creek near the Arctic, where metal and asbestos deposits were found.
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Dawson
Canadian
Alaska
Clinton Creek
Arctic
Rainfall totals and monthly averages for the period
The report records rainfall in the last 24 hours ending 8:30 a m with 88 inches. May and year to date totals are given as 1 55 and 15 71 respectively. It lists average annual rainfall 36 78 inches and monthly averages for 1912 1957 with figures for each month.
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Siows
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Simplicity Garden Tractors
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Admiral
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Allstate
Artrip & Cole
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Payne
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Sara
Theologian
King Peter
Empire State Building
Nyc
Beethoven
Grover Cleveland
Guneral Home
Order of the Golden Rule
Travel
Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile, Inc
N. Loudoun ST
Olds
Eiha
E. Piccadilly St
Winchester Building & Loan Association
Farmall H
Allis-Chalmers
John Deere
IHC
David Bradley
Ferguson
AEO Ferguson
Oliver
JHC Genius
Allis-Chalmers C
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Winchester Orchard & Farm Supply Co., Inc
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