Retailers Convention to Honor Virginia's Top Merchant
The Virginia Retail Merchants Association hosts a statewide meeting in Winchester with a secret retailer of the year prize to be awarded at a 7 30 p.m. banquet. Speakers include John Hazen and William May, with tours, receptions, and a 1962 63 budget preview planned as Gov Harrison attends.
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Virginia
Blount
Sprawling International Shoe Co
International
Winchester Retail Merchants Assn
Bette Malone
Southern Illinois University
United States Chamber of Com
Merce
Association
John R. Shields
Sears
Roebuck
Mr. Shields
Mike Berstein
Bernstein
Berstein
Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
U.S. Dept. of Labor
New York
New York U. Law School
William N. May
Bount
International Shoe
May
Winchester Golf and Country Club
John Hazen
National Retailers’ Group
Eugene B. Sydnor, Jr
Kenneth Lord
Joe Hodges
James T. Mathews
Virginia Retail Merchants Assn
Harrison
Gaylen Strance
Winchester
Association For Visitors
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Fire kills seven teens in Formosa tenement blaze
In Taipei four families died in a two story brick tenement fire before dawn. Police say the upper floor residents were trapped after the wooden staircase burned and the ground floor occupants failed to call for help or warn others while saving belongings.
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Taipei
Formosa
Five Die As Stamford Fire Claims Mother And Children
A Stamford mother Helen Murray, 29, and four of her five children Marie 6 Charles Jr 4 Ronald 3 and Michael 1 perished in a house fire that swept their two story garden apartment. Donald twin brother of Ronald was rescued and treated for burns while authorities investigate the cause which began on the ground floor.
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Stamford, Conn
Stamford
Charles M
Helen) Murray
Marie
Charles Jr
Ronald
Michael
Donald
Murray
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State Chamber of Commerce
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Winchester-Frederick County
Mike Bernstein
William May
Gov
Standard Electric
Potomac Edison
Northern
Berryville
Strasburg
Front Royal
Luray
Winchester Savings & Loan Association
W. Boscawen Street
Idaire Range
Frigidaire’s
Potomac Edison System
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Northern Virginia
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