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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1961
Page
2
Wright cites overcrowding at James Wood High School with enrollment rising from 1100 capacity to 1388 current and 1488 projected for next year. He outlines three options: build a new school, shift schedules, or add rooms, noting lunch and gym limits hinder expansion. He also highlights a teacher shortage and need for vocational guidance and special education training.
Arthur Gibbon Boyee aged 79 died Friday. He was a nationally known professor of French and author of many French textbooks, native of Washington DC.
Four members of the American Nazi Party were in Winchester today but George Lincoln Rockwell did not appear. spokesman Bob Cassady said today’s speech was canceled due to rain. He announced Rockwell will speak next Saturday at 3 pm CST on the Court House Steps on communism segregation and world problems.
Six people are missing and presumed dead after a 16 foot outboard boat swamped while evacuating residents from flood waters on the Mohican River near Ashland Ohio. Nine aboard, including Sam Perry and his family, were in the boat when it capsized during a dawn evacuation as floods rose behind recently closed locks. Frank Hudgins Jr. was recovered. Rescue efforts continued as rainfall resumed Friday night.
Gilbert Junior Roach was arrested weeks ago by State Police for carrying a concealed weapon and driving charges. A correction notes yesterday’s Star misstated the timing. Roach reportedly escaped from Frederick County Jail last Friday amid ongoing search chatter on a citizen band radio.
In Jacksonville Illinois a Methodist student quoted biologist Dr Leslie Kanatzar during a Space Age Conference. The discussion centered on whether science should direct society or society should direct science.
In Chicago Nixon blasts Kennedy for handling of Cuba and pledges to finish what he starts. He hints at future blasts on domestic issues and notes a large Republican gathering at McCormick Place amid 1964 election fever.
Zion Baptist Church Berryville hosts Fellowship Day Sunday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Paul W. Brown delivering the sermon. At 3 p.m. Rev. Milton Shephard of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Mt. Pleasant and Warner Baptist Church Bailey's Cross Roads leads the service sponsored by Rev. and Mrs. Paul W. Brown.
Middletown Fire Co. responded to Mrs Daisy Pope's Depot Hill home yesterday at 12 05 p m CEST for a chimney fire and found no damage.
Mayor Claude B Smalts Jr purchases the first liberty tree from James Butcher director of the local Junior Chamber of Commerce project. The sale ran 9 am to 3 pm at the Frederick County Courthouse with each tree carrying soils from Jamestown Bunker Hill the Alamo Valley Forge and Yorktown to honor the nation’s founders.
President Kennedy praised Shepard as America rejoices while Congress considers honors and more funding for space. The Mercury crew celebrated the solo suborbital flight as scientists note weightlessness and G forces, with Lt. Col. Glenn ready to step in. Deerfield names Alan B. Shepard Junior High School.
Martinsburg West Virginia The first section of Interstate 81 in Berkeley County will open by June 1 The three mile stretch from Porterfields Lane to Marlowe will be ready for traffic along with a temporary truck by pass of the downtown area Burl A Sawyers state road commissioner announced Porterfields Lane will be improved to restore traffic to Rt 11 By August 1964 more than 12 miles including a permanent by pass will be ready for traffic Work on a permanent by pass of Martinsburg is to begin in May 1962 extending 4 5 miles around to the west of the city
Answers list includes eight legs, Ecuador, Leo the Lion, Nebraska, Interstate Commerce Commission. The item notes numbers 6 to 9 with entries No and before July 14. It states statements 9 and 10 as false.
Sale listings for May 6 to May 20 detail multiple auctions across Winchester and surrounding areas. Items include furniture, household goods, livestock, farm machinery, appliances, and real estate with auctioneers Orndorff Cole Bucklew Cole Snider and others. Land and a tract of Shawnee District land are offered at the Frederick County Court House front.
The forecast calls for cloudy mild weather in Virginia with occasional rain and temperatures around 50 degrees high and 48 low. Windy and warmer conditions expected with showers and thundershowers later, as sunset occurs at 7 10 p m and sunrise at 5 07 a m.
Winchester files suit against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 1311 dollars plus interest over a derailment on Piccadilly Street in August 1957. The city alleges a child threw the switch and the railroad was negligent for not guarding it. City crews repaired the street after the train struck the Grocers Wholesale Building.
Paris AP report says President Charles de Gaulle described the American flight as a beautiful exploit in a personal message to President Kennedy. The note highlighted Franco American cooperation amid ongoing space and aviation ventures.
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