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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1954
Page
4
The Negro Nursery Mothers Club raised 42.35 from a fried chicken dinner and plans a Friday and Saturday block party on Gibbons Street starting at 7 30 p m. Proceeds go to clear a 243 debt on nursery equipment and help fund a new building. The event features homemade cakes pies ice cream refreshments dancing and street roping off.
Farmers with excess wheat acreage have until June 1 to use the surplus as green manure for pasture hay or silage to dodge marketing quota penalties and protect price supports. Exceeding the allotment risks penalties of $1.12 per bushel unless excess is utilized or adjusted.
Graduation exercises and the 12th annual flower show will be at 19 N. Washington St. on Friday morning. Judges include Mrs. John Minnigerode Mrs. Virgil Strader and Mrs. Richard Lewis. Father Carl F. Zeterberg will present diplomas. Chief of Police J. Thomas Boyd will award special prizes. The graduation marks the school's end before affiliation with Christ Church Day School.
The German automobile maker’s name translates to people’s car. The term reflects the company’s origin as a people's car project and its later mass production model.
William B Rosenberry 52 of Berryville died Monday night at his Main Street home. Born Bolivar West Virginia July 26 1901 he was son of the late Jeremiah A Rosenberry of Pennsylvania and Cora Buckner Rosenberry of Clarke County. He was a former Berryville meat dealer and later a Bluemont Bureau of Mines mechanic for 18 years in failing health. Survivors include his wife France Longerbeam Rosenberry and two children William B Rosenberry Jr and Beverly Peyton both of Berryville.
The Rev. Rhodes Artz pastor of Cork Street Christian Church will be guest speaker at the annual Memorial Services June 6 at 3 p m at St John s Lutheran Church near Mt Williams. The program includes group singing and special music. The pastor Rev E B Smith invites volunteers to meet Saturday at 1 pm for church and grounds cleanup or Monday if rain.
A provisional fortress defense under heavy Viet Minh shelling halted air departures. Rebels seized the fortress and supplies were dropped by parachute. Lt. De Galard described underground bunkers for wounded and destroyed radios as the siege intensified.
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