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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1957
Page
6
Local society pages list visits and stays across several families with names and places including Shreveport Washington Chicago and Johnson City. Recurring items include church class gatherings horse show ball plans at Berryville and community group meetings at Grace Lutheran Welltown Methodist and Old Bethel churches.
Calendar lists meetings and activities across groups in town. Details include Garden Club committee meeting at 7 p m tomorrow and various society gatherings at George Washington Hotel Duff's and Bark Mill Theatre with times from 2:30 p m to 8:15 p m including D A R Duplication Bridge and Knights of Columbus events. Local organizations include Disabled American Veterans Rotary Club G A R Bowling Banquet Shawnee Bowmen Woodmen of the World and Eagles Home.
The formal pin ceremony welcomed Mrs. Bruce Capper, Mrs. John McAboy, Mrs. Harry Shendon and Mrs. Horace Brown as new members. Monday's meeting will be the last regular session until September.
May 14 births reported for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Everett in Springfield West Virginia a girl. Mrs Fiverett formerly Elizabeth Davis. Also birth for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph William Bragg Jr at 208 West Boscawen Street a girl. Mrs Bragg formerly Betty Keller.
A compact guide listing common errors such as using after with followed, mispronunciations like scen-ick for scenic, and misspellings incidence versus incidents. It notes preferred words and presents quick synonym guidance.
Dress rehearsal tonight for The Silver Cord a four act drama to be staged by Winchester Little Theatre at the Bark Mill Braddock and Wolfe Streets. First performance tomorrow at 8 15 p m with additional shows Friday Saturday and next Thursday Friday Saturday at 8 15 p m Tickets at door or advance from Miss Marjorie Duncan City Hall J A Emmerth Shen Vai Music Co or O'Connell Air Conditioning.
Six high school seniors played key roles in Sacred Heart Church annual May Procession. Mary Garland Spillman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Garland Spillman, queened the ceremony honoring Mary mother of Jesus, and Handley and James Wood students filled the attendant roles.
The entry explains gratuitous as given freely without claim. It notes pronunciation gra tu i tous with the second syllable stressed. An example quotes His offer of financial aid was gratuitous to illustrate usage.
Hardy County voters will decide on a proposed special school levy this Friday. School Superintendent R Dispanet says most funds go to schools and transportation with a smaller supplement for salaries, varying by property class. The plan raises property tax by about 23 to 30 percent regionally, following state precedent and limited county bonded debt.
Dorothy Lillian Beckett Wingo, a Virginia Tech business department clerk stenographer, was shot four times after leaving a downtown attorney's office with her estranged husband, William Marvin Wingo. Wingo, 47, was arrested within twenty minutes and held without bail on murder charges.
The traffic toll stands at 262 after the death of a two year old Maryland girl in a crash on the Mt Ver non highway. The child was in a car driven by Gladys E Ertel of Silver Spring and was among those killed in a two car crash near Ri 1. State police said.
An advertisement promotes a professional facial as a near solution to aging, advising proper makeup application and postwinter skin care. It invites readers to schedule an appointment at the Beauty Center on 7 W. Boscawen Street, Winchester, with phone number MO 20769.
Bank directors and senior officers of Group II Virginia Bankers Association will convene at Skyland on the Skyline Drive for a Saturday noon start. The event aims to educate directors on duties, with a buffet luncheon and speeches by U S Senator A Willis Robertson, Robrt N McLeod of the FDIC, and William Powers of the ABA. About 250 are expected from 75 member banks across central and northern Virginia.
The column answers etiquette questions on crabmeat utensils, engagement lengths, kneeling in church, and using a folded napkin to brush crumbs. It notes oyster forks for crab in cocktails, salad forks for crab on plates, six month typical engagements, polite kneeling behavior, and acceptable napkin use.
The Frederick County Teachers Association holds its annual dinner at the Gainesboro School cafeteria. Harold Bell will speak as Virginia Education Association president. A business session will elect officers, with guests including the County Board of Supervisors, School Board, Winchester Teachers’ Association president Howard Carper, and 6th grader Sandra Russell. James Hutton leads the county group.
Japanese specialist Dr Komei Nakayama and American Dr Alton Ochsner spar over whether smoking or heredity triggers lung cancer. Nakayama argues hereditary factors and chronic lung inflammation lead to cancer, citing personal observation contrasts with Ochsner's smoking-based claim.
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