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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1961
Page
7
Rescue teams prepared to haul sand from a 161 foot irrigation well in Nampa Idaho where 63 year old farmer Herbert A Tiegs was buried Wednesday. Steel casing and air tubes were assembled and the recovery reached the sand at the bottom as dawn approached.
Round Hill notes show visitors at the Williams home from W V and Pot Peacemaker. The Round Hill Community Home Demonstration Club met with Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Huffman hosting. next meeting June 14 at Mrs. Kitty Perry's.
Mother's Day was celebrated with carnations for all mothers by Miss Esther Ridgeway. The Official Board meets Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at the church. Mrs Beulah McDonald is hospitalized after a home knee fall. Robin Ann born to Mr and Mrs Lewis Clark at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Victor Ridgeway and Raymond Shiley host a Mother's Day dinner for Goldie Clarke.
Government officers named include Vice-president Joe Flory Harrisonburg and Secretary Shirley Malcolm McDowell Virginia. Treasurers include David Conner Roanoke and James Meyers Hampton with nahs in saxophone and trombone respectively.
Col. J. A. Allen of the Washington District says a reservoir likely will be built above Petersburg on the south branch of the Potomac at Royal Glen for flood control in the South Branch Valley. The project would regulate downstream flow and improve area conditions for years, with re analysis showing adjusted upstream needs. Supplemental flows for the Shenandoah River above Front Royal are expected by 1985.
Red Cross Blood Clinic reports 112 pints collected bringing total donors to 3 853. First time donors add momentum while several groups and longtime contributors hit Gallon Club marks including Clarence Cather Eugene T Grant and Rose L Jenkins reaching eighth donation. Other multi time donors include Lentz Marks Gore Ebert Vaught Lofton Pope Keyton Blosser Toan and Zuckerman among totals.
The Musselman Company founded in 1907 at Biglerville Pennsylvania expanded with Gardners plant 1912 Inwood West Virginia 1920 and acquired Adams County orchard lands totaling 5700 acres. 1959 added two Michigan canneries St Joseph and Paw Paw with nationwide broker distribution and retail sales force. Pet Milk Company founded evaporated milk industry in 1885 operates 70 plants with annual sales around $195 million.
Market quotations from Chicago show hogs 6000 head with mostly lower bids. Butchers prices range from about 15 to 50 lower with various weights and grades. Cattle and calves lack adequate price data. sheep steady to slightly higher with lambs and shorn lambs noted and prices listed for ewes.
Virginia markets record Richmond area prices for No 2 red winter wheat 177 No 2 yellow shelled corn 124 No 2 white shelled corn 134 No 3 barley 80 cents No 2 oats 69 cents per bushel. In New York the stock market rose mildly at noon with the AP average up 80 points to 252.20 as Dow climbs and industrials gain amid mixed moves across sectors.
Chicago grain markets opened with soybeans down about 1 percent to May 312.11, wheat steady to lower near 186.5, corn down around 1 to 3 percent at 112.5 to 113.0, and oats slipping about 1 cent to May at 68.12 to 67.5.
U S Vice President Lyndon B Johnson and wife visited Agra as part of a tour, greeting villagers and noting U S interest in improving local welfare. They toured Shah Jahan's tomb and heard a Moslem prayer echo as Johnson remarked on aiding poverty and disease relief. A Delhi joint communique with Prime Minister Nehru urged worldwide efforts to conquer poverty, disease and misery as a path to peace.
Trooper H. K. Malbon spoke to the Clarke County Lions Club in Berryville on safety. He is chairman of the club safety committee and described cooperation among law enforcement and investigations into two recent automobile accidents. Melton Bean spoke on the Foreign Exchange Student program underway locally.
Culver City California AP reports actor Jeff Chandler 42 in critical condition after a 74 hour emergency operation to stop abdominal bleeding. He received multiple blood transfusions and remains under close observation at Culver City Hospital until at least Saturday evening following surgery for a slipped spinal disc.
Hollywood actor injured while filming in the Philippines underwent nerve deadening injections and was hospitalized after returning home. His father and companion waited at the hospital as surgeons treated him. The star, famed since 1950 for Broken Arrow, was divorced last year after several separations and leaves two daughters.
A police lockdown turned Evian Les Bains into an armed camp as peace talks between French and Algerian rebel negotiators near start. Louis Joxe leads the French delegation while the rebel team is housed on the Swiss side. A TNT theft in Geneva heightened security amid fresh grenade attacks in Algeria.
Zion Baptist Church of Berryville holds its annual Women’s Day services on Sunday at 11 with Mrs. Matthew Davis of Douglas High School Winchester delivering the message on A Woman’s Challenge in the World. At 3 p.m. Rev J E Douglas and the First Baptist Vienna congregation join for a talent program.
The guidance says teen aged girls may dance with another woman but mature married women should not.
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