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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1955
Page
10
Mr and Mrs George D Baldwin observed their 70th wedding anniversary in Bannibal New York. They noted there is nothing unlucky about Friday the 13th and recalled their Wednesday wedding.
An ounce troy weighs about ten percent more than a common ounce avoirdupois. This explains why precious metals are priced per troy ounce while other goods use avoirdupois weight.
A 43 year old Bernice Seawell was shot dead in a Raleigh parking lot. Richard Kluckhohn of Evanston Illinois, a 21 year old publishing firm employee and Harvard professor’s son, was charged with the murder. He told police he fired through a hotel window. The weapon found in his possession was a German Luger.
At Petersburg the 4th annual fat calf sale averaged $34.87 per hundredweight, the highest state average this year. A total of $6,725.83 was earned from 21 head weighing 19,285 pounds. Grand champion, owned by 17 year old Miss Beryl Jean Robertson of Beulah Church, Chesterfield County, took the top price of $55 per hundredweight.
Charles Land Hite of Henderson, North Carolina, top of his class, has won the Medical College of Virginia alumni award for outstanding hospital administration student. He is finishing a master’s thesis and will graduate in June. He completes his internship September 1 and plans to join the Air Force hospital division for three years.
The Winchester Association of Life Underwriters will hold its May meeting and Ladies' Night Friday at 7 p.m. at Duff's Diner. All members may bring their wives. R. Lee Hollis, program chairman, directs the entertainment. First such gathering since the group’s organization in this city.
A student disputes religion arguing life is under control. A parable follows of a rough man who buys a painting and, upon redecorating his room, gradually replaces rug, furniture, walls, floor, and ceiling. The tale suggests religion stirs dissatisfaction with prior comfort by revealing deeper longing. The ending asks if the man would return to his old room.
Emergency instruction lists phone number 3670 to contact four physicians. The note emphasizes rapid outreach during urgent medical needs and directs callers to use the given line for immediate physician assistance.
Lindley J. Stiles, dean of education at the University of Virginia, resigns to become dean at the University of Wisconsin. UVa president Colgate W. Darden Jr. praises his public education work and state influence. Wisconsin president E. D. Fred welcomes him for duties beginning in September.
Dr George Murphy pathologist at Memorial Hospital will speak at the hospital monthly scientific meeting on Wednesday at 8 30 p m in the staff conference room. The clinico pathological conference will be open to staff and all area physicians.
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