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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1956
Page
5
A historic classified display page lists rental ads for rooms and apartments in multiple locales, with contact numbers and dates. It also notes items for sale and services like trash and furniture and requests for goods, plus small business offers and job-like solicitations. The section shows common classified formats and closing times for submissions.
Multiple classified items list sales and contact details including 250 bushels cider apples for sale with local pickup in Greencastle Pennsylvania. Also 12 Hereford steers and 1 Hereford bull with weights around 650 to 700 pounds, contact Jerome Garver in Boyce. Additional listings include awnings from E. W. Armstrong Co at 25 W Piccadilly Winchester, a stainless steel milk machine two units with related equipment, a weigh device, and a 1955 Hotpoint automatic washer with a phone contact.
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival appeals to former members to help cover 1956 expenses. Accounts payable total $10 956 with finance committees seeking 100 percent collections. Membership drives target out of town and in town supporters to provide 1130 and 1749 dollars respectively to meet current bills.
Paris reports Premier Mollet will present a full account to President Coty and the Cabinet after returning from Moscow. He says such trips aid peace and lessen distrust though Algerian bloodshed continues with raids and ambushes near Algiers.
The Rev Dr Forrest B Oglesby of Braddock Street Methodist Church told Capon Bridge High School's 26 graduates, their families and friends that making a life matters more than making a living. He urged Christ like ambition and to avoid mediocrity during the commencement events at the high school auditorium.
The chorus of the high school and a group of instrumentalists from the high school band performed musical numbers. The processional and recessional were played by B. Brooks Houser, Romney, supervisor of music for Hampshire County schools.
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