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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1964
Page
3
March commerce shows total manufacturing wholesale and retail trade at 70.9 billion dollars, shy of February’s 71 billion record. April shows pickup as weather improves, while executives push plans into autumn, banking on stronger consumer spending and an extra 8 billion in May from tax cuts.
Col Stig Wennerstrom admitted spying for the Russians from idealistic motives to preserve world peace and balance. He faces life imprisonment after a 14 year espionage campaign with 160 top Swedish defense secrets allegedly handed to Moscow. Verdict due June 12.
The Frederick County ASCS announced an extension of the wheat program sign-up period to May 22 after approval by the Agriculture Department. Chairman Robert K. Stickley said the extra time gives farmers ample opportunity to participate, with a 11.11 percent diversion requirement for a 10 acre wheat allotment to qualify for payments.
Premier Nguyen Khanh signed a decree recognizing the Buddhist Church in South Vietnam and ending French and Diem era restrictions. The measure allows ownership of property and acceptance of legacies, ending earlier limits that favored Catholics and spurred Buddhist protests before Diem’s overthrow.
Jamestown woman Clara M. Adams, 69, suffered a fractured right ankle when a car struck blocks of wood on Route 50 east of Winchester and hit a guard rail. She was taken to Memorial Hospital by the Winchester Rescue Squad. The car, driven by George H. Adams, skidded after striking the wood and struck a bridge guard rail over Buffalo Lick Run.
The term cash derives from the French casse meaning a small money box. Over time the money itself adopted the box’s name and the word became widely used in modern finance.
An explosion and fire destroyed a $5 million Atlas missile site near Frederick Oklahoma on Thursday. Twenty men were completing the final phase of a modification program when the evacuation alarm sounded. four missile crew members were among the workers. All escaped without injury.
Frazer Cartwright a 16 year old student at Wakefield Technical and Art College describes being crushed when 50 students piled into one bed as they attempt a world record of 42. Frazer fell unconscious as others jumped to free him and artificial respiration restored him.
West Virginia police report a 16 year old youth was apprehended after three coats were stolen from J C Penney in Martinsburg valued at 15 dollars each. He named two accomplices who were previously on probation. Coats later returned to the store.
The Britannica notes several European insurers collapsed attempting to cover San Francisco quake and fire losses.
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