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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1955
Page
3
New York reports the 3rd Avenue El ended after a final run from Chinatown to 149th Street. About 800 passengers rode the six car train amid nostalgia and minor chaos as fires and vandalism challenged firefighters and police during its last trip before infrastructure removal.
Nationalist air force reports Formosa Strait action with a strike on a flotilla of more than 20 armed motorized junks west of Red stronghold Pingtan Island. One junk destroyed one heavily damaged several lightly damaged. location 35 miles south of Matsu and 80 miles west of Formosa.
Notice states a meeting of Green Hill Cemetery Company lot holders and members will be held Wednesday May 18 1955 at 8 00 PM at the Court House Berryville Virginia. The purpose is to consider amending changing and altering the charter to transform the corporation into a non stock non profit entity with active voting and inactive non voting memberships and other charter changes as the board of managers may decide. Oscar Ramsburg secretary treasurer dated May 2 1955.
London reported Conservative gains in 399 boroughs boosting hopes for May 26 general election. Labour dropped 341 seats. Conservatives, Liberals, and independents gained. Lord Woolton urged steady work to secure victory amid local issues and interparty rhetoric.
The Associated Press reports Virginia’s 1955 highway toll hits 254 with one more death. Harold John Payne, 16, of Tazewell, died when the car he rode in struck the rear of a tractor trailer near his home.
The House Agriculture Committee voted a favorable report on Rep Burr P Harrison's bill to prohibit apple price predictions by the Department of Agriculture. The measure advances to the House calendar for scheduling.
The post will open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting Monday while this week it closed at 8 p.m. Sgt. Sinclair said the goal is 24 hour service once enough volunteers are trained. The next training meeting is Thursday at 8 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel. Those who wish to volunteer may attend.
The Virginia Academy of Science heard of a spring rain that delivered up to sixteen times the normal radiation level in Lexington and nearby areas. Dr. Marcellus H. Stow of Washington and Lee University noted the spike using a scintillation counter and said there was no danger. The surge likely came from fallout from a past nuclear blast, possibly lingering in the upper atmosphere. The meeting also covered Virginia Tech’s 1.5 million volt atom smasher project led by Dr. T. M. Hahn Jr.
Two Clarke County men waiving indictment received penitentiary terms for breaking and entering and larceny. Charles Frick convicted May 6 for shop theft on the Rogers farm and Diggs & Sons office burglary. four years imprisonment on both counts. Robert Ritenour convicted for shop burglary and Diggs office larceny. two years on each, sentence suspended with four years probation.
The James Wood High School versus Strasburg baseball game was canceled due to rain and will be played at James Wood field Monday night at 7:30 p.m.
The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin wraps its spring session with five committees reporting on water pollution in the Potomac and plans for irrigation, canal recreation, and future water policies. About 75 attendees heard C E Busby of the Soil Conservation Service discuss shifting eastern water laws.
Greeneville dispatch reports at Pitt County Prison Camp five rioters held a cell block and fired bottles at officers. Superintendent Paul Crawford shot Timothy J. Noonan as he attacked Willie Brantley with a poker. Guards backed by state police used tear gas and hoses. 45 inmates abstained from the riot.
Dr. I. M. Levitt of the Fels Planetarium uses a device called a pitchometer. The ball breaks two light beams a foot apart and triggers a timer to compute speed. A pitched ball travels at 90 mph or more.
In loving remembrance of Frances Mills who departed this earth on May 13 1952. Sleep on dear mother We love you dearly In death we do the same Oh mother dear we miss you so One thought of your dear face brings tears Thy hands are folded Thy dear heart is stilled A place is vacant in our home The world cannot fill it
Seattle. Harold E. Cottom, 23, convicted of failing to stop after a fatal hit run last Nov 15, agreed to supply $1000 reward money for capture of other hit and run drivers. The sum, or a year in jail, is to be paid in installments to Police Chief H J Lawrence over the next two years.
The State Milk Commission denied a request to assume price control in nine Piedmont and Northern Virginia counties, keeping current pricing arrangements in place.
Clarke County man attempted to stop a drifting vehicle on U S Route 50 between Upperville and Middleburg. He was struck by the car door as it rolled briefly but caused no major damage. Arlington couple and infant daughter rushed to Memorial Hospital around 2 p.m. after a one car mishap. the crash is believed to have occurred at noon. Victims identified as unknown.
Mr and Mrs Russell Heskitt of Arlington aged 32 and 31 suffer fractured pelvises and possible rib fractures after a crash. Their daughter Linda, aged 2, is not believed seriously injured. Details of the crash were not immediately available.
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