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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1962
Page
5
Sofia Bulgaria AP report states Communist Bulgaria ends an 18 year ban on importing Western newspapers and magazines. Pyotr Ignatov director of the government tourist agency says Western outlets will appear June 1 at select newsstands nationwide. Poland previously liberalized after 1956 upheavals in the Soviet bloc.
William D. Wasson, 90, founder and first editor of the Portland Journal and former editor of the San Francisco News, died Saturday in California.
Halifax indicts Burton on murder and felonious wounding in the slaying of Tommie Lee Howell as he sat in a car with his girlfriend at an abandoned ball park. Burton also faces charges for wounding Ed Edmondson and Earl Conner and stealing a truck after a failed manhunt.
Newport News AP reports the nuclear submarine John Marshall, the eleventh missile firing boat, commissioned with Chief Justice Earl Warren hailing its role in extending freedom and justice. Attended by Attorney General Robert Kennedy and family, the ceremony linked the vessel to Virginians George Washington and Jefferson among others.
Az ore Bucknell, 19, a Bucknell coed at the University of Alaska, becomes the second woman to scale Mt. McKinley 20320 feet. She and five companions started April 16 from the north side and completed the climb Sunday as Merrill Wren noted the six waving from a plane. Mrs. Bradford Washburn was the first woman to reach the summit in 1948.
James R. Hoffa, Teamsters president, says a Nashville indictment against him aims to shield the Billie Sol Estes case and taint his Miami trial. The two count charge accuses him of Taft Hartley violations and illegal million dollar collection. Commercial Carriers Inc. arouses linking with Test Fleet Corp. Hoffa spoke at a Teamsters luncheon with about 1000 attendees including many auxiliary members led by his wife Josephine.
Fort Lauderdale reports on Jack Frost not browning leaves but improving plant health. The article profiles a former Ohio engineer who moved to Florida to grow and commercialize hardy plants as a business.
Dutch anthropologist Rene Wassink, 35, who joined Michael Rockefeller on the West New Guinea trek, plans a return to a village near the north coast known for ax making. Wassink believes Rockefeller drowned after their boat overturned in the Eilanden River mouth.
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