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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1976
Page
5
The Commerce Department notes Alaska leads per capita income at 8815 for 1975, with DC close behind as oil pipeline construction spurs growth. Mississippi remains lowest at 4021 while regional and national figures reflect price gains and mixed retail trends through April.
Entries are being accepted for the annual Blue Ridge Hunt Horse Show at 8 a.m. on June 5 at Pagebrook near Boyce. The event features Class B Hunter and Pony Show, breeding, Ladies Side Saddle, USHA Equitation, walk trot, and lead-line. Entries close May 22. post entries have specific fees and restrictions for Ring 3 Pony Hunters. New trophies include the Inverwood Challenge Trophy for Small Pony Hunters and other awards for Medium and Large Pony Hunters and breeding division. For information contact secretary Mrs. Harry Jones, Route 2 Berryville VA 22611, 703-955-2605.
The ninth annual Forestry and Wildland Resources Institute on the Virginia Tech campus June 13 19 invites Virginia high school sophomores juniors and seniors to apply by Saturday. Scholarships are available and forms may be requested from William A. McElfresh at the Division of Forestry and Wildlife Resources Blacksburg Virginia.
Eleventh grade Colonial history students at Handley High School craft full sized replicas of period flags in Perry Crouch’s American history class. The cotton broadcloth banners include the Liberty and Union Flag the Liberty Flag the Grand Union Flag and the Bunker Hill Flag.
Wytheville AP report states Lee Hale died Monday after nearly 32 years in an iron lung following poliomyelitis in 1944. Hale, a Wythe County Community Hospital patient since April, underwent surgery and would have turned 64 on August 11. His name is expected to enter the Guinness Book of Records for duration in a breathing machine.
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