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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1964
Page
8
Marila New York AP report says a Town- Mine elementary school bus veered off the road when its driver Alton Fix aged 60 died of a heart attack. Seven kindergarten pupils escaped uninjured and were checked by a physician with some shaken up.
A Virginia hearing before the State Corporation Commission covers a requested average 13.7 percent rate rise for private auto insurance. J H Cahill of the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters cites rising claim costs and settlement expenses as the driver, with statewide bodily injury and property damage increases projected at about 18.1 and 14.9 percent respectively.
The first large metropolitan do it yourself census drew a colossal response as 160000 forms were mailed back by midnight. The area includes Jefferson County Louisville and Indiana counties Clark and Floyd across the Ohio River.
Crossword style hints describe a Shakespearean bit and an airy belch plus musical swords and a son of age variant. The clues reference a French river and a motor coach among other wordplay elements.
Western military sources report about 300 right wing soldiers killed or wounded and 207 to 400 Meo tribesmen killed in a jungle clash near the Laos North Viet Nam border. If confirmed, it would be the Lao civil war’s largest single engagement casualty figure.
Washington AP reports the Senate enters its 56th day of civil rights debate with a slow pace ahead of a Tuesday session. Republicans plan to push a package of amendments to improve passage prospects while Southern foes press for guaranteed jury trials for criminal contempt convictions. Democrats, excluding Southern members, may discuss the proposed Republican amendment package led by Everett Dirksen.
James H. Grayson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Louisa Kentucky, is a seminary student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest North Carolina. The deacons offered to pay his plane fare but he refused saying it would be too expensive.
Roger O Hirson argues that television's reliance on formula and familiar heroes drains dramatic impact. He laments the exodus of top writers to Broadway and Hollywood and defends original character driven storytelling as essential to true drama. UK
In Elsberry Missouri a large crowd attends the funeral for Rep Clarence Cannon 85 a longtime House Appropriations Committee member and prominent 9th District figure The service draws support from Washington D C including President Johnson former President Truman and a 43 member House delegation and Senators Symington and Long.
A determined female cardinal nests in a tree at a Mobile nursery delaying the sale of more than 400 dollars worth of young oak trees. Harold Dodd explains the shipment cannot be moved until the cardinal’s eggs hatch and the young birds learn to fly, a process expected to take about two weeks.
A dense list of TV programs across channels with time slots from early evening to late night. It includes cartoons, westerns, news, talk shows, movies featuring actors such as Ida Lupino Glenn Ford Elizabeth Taylor Robert Taylor and Veronica Lake, and various specials.
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