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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1969
Page
5
Astronauts Stafford Cernan and Young completed a tense rendezvous between the lunar module and command ship. A control error nearly derailed the undocking as the LEM maneuvered near boulders and smooth, claylike craters.
An allocation of 37363 dollars for a program aiding educationally disadvantaged children in Frederick County was approved under Title I. The summer project will serve 180 first graders and provide attendance food medical and transportation services plus keep county school libraries open during summer.
The James Wood High School Chapter of Future Homemakers of America was named the outstanding chapter in the state. It will receive a certificate at the State FHA Convention June 17 to 19 at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond. Selection honors club activities and member growth in family living related to FHA projects. Major local projects included Family Safety and Making Your Money Behave.
A look at key independent inventors and their landmark contributions. Chester Carlson xerography Edwin Land polaroid Ladislao and Georg Biro ball point pen Richard Walton shrink proof knitwear John Hardwood self winding wrist watch.
Cape Town AP report says Dr Christian Barnard, famed for the first human heart transplant, was sued for divorce in Cape Town Supreme Court. Judge Theron ordered conjugal rights restored by July 20 or parties justify decree by July 30. Barnard absent, touring Europe and North America. believes in Rome. Meanwhile Dr Philip Blaiberg, longest surviving transplant patient, returned home after a setback but no rejection evidence.
Approximately 70 000 Nisei first generation Americans of Japanese descent were detained in camps by the U S government during the early years of World War II.
Three Winchester patrolmen Ronald D. Miller Jackie L. Murphy and Robert Wolford graduate tonight from the Central Police Training School in Richmond joining 81 Virginia officers in the first section of the 1969 program. The event is hosted by the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police with the Virginia Municipal League and the State Department of Education. Colonel Harold W. Burgess Virginia State Police Superintendent will address attendees with class president Sergeant E L Jackson of Virginia Beach speaking.
Round Hill firemen responded to a ten o'clock blaze behind a house trailer near Old Bethel Church in Frederick County. The storage building owned by Hubert Mason suffered fire damage to studding, weatherboarding, wiring, and contents including a deep freeze, with the clock cord insulation cited as the likely ignition. Gainesboro units assisted briefly. Round Hill crews investigated for about two hours.
A simple method estimates air temperature from a cricket chorus. By counting chirps in a 14 second window and adding 40, the result closely matches the actual temperature within one degree about 75 percent of the time.
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