Deaths and Funerals in Shenandoah Valley Area
Obituaries list Floyd Colter Ridings age 77 of Toss Brook and Miss Nellie F. Moling with funeral details. Surviving relatives include Barbara Rickard wife and William Harold Ridings son. Also Grace Rinard of Kernstown dies. services set at Kurtz and Jones Funeral Homes with burial near Mauertown Virginia.
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Floyd Colter Ridings
Toss Brook
Shea Memorial Hospital
Mr. Ridings
Fishers Hill
A.J
Margaret Kathry Hockman
W.va
Mildred L. Ridings
Claude Rickard
Middletown
Noah J. Ridings
Dave Crabill
Paul Ridings
Strasburg
Harry Ridings
Clarence Crabill
Francis Rickard
Jackie Crabill
Joh R. Crabill
Roland Ridings
Lee Ridings
Denzil Richard
Melvin Wynkoop
Winston Wymer
William Fisher
Austin Fisher
Stover
Wreck near College Park after rail collision leaves one dead
A train collision about 3:50 a.m. near the District line blocked the area, with at least 15 people reported piled up near the wreck. Fire crews covered the site with hoses around flames four hours after the crash as Army chemists assessed a liquid nitrogen spill and possible ignition risk. The incident occurred a mile from the DC line and five miles south of the University of Maryland College Park campus.
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Army Chemical
District of Columbia
University of Maryland
College Park
Stevenson proposes UN led Southeast Asia peace force plan
In a council debate Stevenson outlines three options for Cambodia and South Vietnam to deter aggression. He suggests a bilateral military frontier observance force with UN observers, potentially under UN command, or a full UN patrol, with the US ready to contribute. He rebuts Soviet claims of US military action.
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Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Stevenson
South Viet Nam
U.N
U Thant
U,n
U,n. Command
Soviet Union
United States
Indochinese
Souvanna Phouma
France
Viet Nam
Laos
Souvanna
Plaines Des Jarres
Norfolk May Postpone Sales Tax Vote Amid Election Pressure
Mayor Roy B. Martin signals the Norfolk council may delay the 2 percent sales tax until after the June 9 election to avoid politicization. Merchants insist postponement of at least six months while a tax study committee weighs financing for education. The tax, set to take effect July 1, could raise about $6 million yearly. a ruling on emergency exemption is sought. In Radford, a fire at Wayside Furniture caused $140,000 damage. three firefighters were injured lightly.
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Norfolk (Ap
Roy B. Martin
Martin
Retail Merchants Association Board
Norfolk
Soviet Trawlers Off San Francisco Tracked By Navy
Two Soviet ships Barograph and Amter, 165 feet long, were sighted near the Farallon Islands 26 miles west of San Francisco. The Navy has them under surveillance since May 10, noting one vessel blinkered for hydrographic study. A similar patrol occurred last August along the coast.
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San Francisco
Navy
Farallon ‘Islands
San Clemente Island
California
Barograph
Funeral service for Mrs Grace Rinard Saturday at 1 30
Funeral service set for Mrs Grace Ellen Rinard will be held Saturday at 1 30 p m at Jones Funeral Home. The service will be conducted by the Jones Funeral Home Inc.
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Nellie F. Moling
Boyd Memorial
The
Street Presbyterian Church
George D. Jackson
Raymond Womeldorf
Harry W. Copenhaver
Clyde A. Johnson
Charles J. Affleck
Douglas L. Botkey
Marshall B. Perry
Silas Cather
Kurtz Funicial
S. Loudoun Street
Grace Ellen Rinard
Jefferson Avenue
Kernstown
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Rinard
Toms Brook
Benjamin and
Rebecca Shipe Dinges
Samuel ‘J. Rinard
Three Charged in Winchester Smoke Shop Break In
Two 19 year old Winchester youths faced charges of breaking and entering and grand larceny after a Monday night theft at the Winchester Smoke Shop. A 15 year old Piccadilly Street youth also faces a petition. Items valued around 600 dollars, including coins, currency, cigarettes, watches, sunglasses, lighters and a pinball machine were taken. Burham is linked to other entries at a service station on 8S Braddock Street and several local shops.
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Winchester
Piccadilly St
F. M. Funk
John Stephen Burcham
Loudoun St
William Franklin Holtsclaw
E. Baker St
U.S. Army
Funk
Burcham
Braddock St
Kern Motor Co
Fletscher’s
March’s
S. Loudoun St
Severed Arm Replaced By Surgery In Harrisonburg
A truck crash victim from Charleston West Virginia had his right arm amputated between the elbow and shoulder after a semi overturned two miles north of Harrisonburg. Surgeons reported the operation yesterday but said it is too early to judge success though initial signs look hopeful.
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Appalachia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kentucky
Virginia
Maryland
Tennessee
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Scranton
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Johnson
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Richard M. Nixon
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Harold Stassen
Harrisonburg
W.T. Marks
Charleston
W. Va
Marks
Here
Confederate Cemetery in Springfield Closes After Last Burial
The Confederate section of Springfield National Cemetery will close permanently Friday after the burial of Martha Ann Hadden, 92, the last eligible for the Confederate plots. She rests beside her husband Thomas Henry Hadden, a Texas cavalryman who died in 1939. The Civil War era cemetery began service in the 1860s and now holds 501 burials, with 238 from Wilson's Creek and 263 from wounds or illness. it became a national cemetery around 1911.
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Springfield
National Cemetery
Martha Ann Hadden
Freed fliers reunite with families after year in captivity
SAN FRANCISCO AP The wives of two U S Army helicopter pilots held prisoner for a year by North Korea were to be reunited with their husbands at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco. The men Capt. Ben W Stutts and Capt. Charlton W Voltz were released last Saturday and admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and interrogation.
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San Francisco
Letterman General Hospital
United States
Ben W. Stufts
Florence
Ala
Charlton W. Voltz
Frankfort
Mich
Army
Stutts
Voltz
Weather forecast for Virginia clear cool nights
The report notes clear and cool conditions tonight with a low around 50 degrees. Friday is expected to be mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Saturday should stay fair and warmer with sunset at 7 26 p.m. and sunrise at 4 54 a.m. A full moon is mentioned for May, with unclear remaining details.
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Anddesea
Rainfall totals and averages across 51 years
Report shows 24 hour rainfall ending 8 30 am May first totals 0 62 inches. To date 1964 rainfall 14 35 inches. Average yearly rainfall 36 85 inches, average monthly values listed from January to December. Includes stray entries and unrelated phrases from the page.
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Winchester Evening Star
Floyd C. Ridings
Moling Service
Mrs
Grace Rinard
Jones Funeral Home, Inc
Enol
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Bince
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