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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1964
Page
11
A 1964 travel survey shows the South as the nation’s second most popular vacation region after the East. Florida leads the South, with Virginia and North Carolina next. 15.6 percent plan Southern vacations, and 89 percent travel by car.
Hershel Jones president of the National Apple Week Assn announces a national slogan contest for 1964 Apple Week. He notes last year’s event by the New York City committee drew over 200 entries and this year offers a $50 prize to the winner.
Winchester student Robert E. Smith Jr. will hold Cadet Lieutenant Colonel rank in the Citadel's battalion. He is a dean's list business student in ROTC with past roles as first sergeant of Band Company and chapel usher. He aids Baptist Student Union, referees intramural football, plays intramural basketball, and submits a slogan for National Apple Week. Entries must be mailed to NAWA by June 17 with winning theme announced by June 26.
Four men will receive honorary degrees at Randolph-Macon College 132nd commencement in Ashland on June 7. The Rev George Lightner formerly of Berryville now pastor of Monumental Methodist Church Portsmouth Va and the Rev Richard B Forrester superintendent of the Eastern Shore District of the Virginia Methodist Conference since 1961 will receive Doctor of Divinity degrees. William C Blakely of Miami Beach Fla retired publishing executive and Christopher T Chenery of Pelham Manor N Y will receive honorary Doctor of Law degrees.
Count Lennart Bernadotte nephew of the Swedish king visited Shenandoah National Park staying at Big Meadows Lodge. He toured with Supt Haskins escorted through the park and is director of Mainau Park in Lake Constance. He founded the International Centre Castle Mainau and leads YMCA youth programs worldwide.
Phil Whitney manager of WINC will present a program to the Winchester Kiwanis Club tomorrow in conjunction with Radio Month. The event at the George Washington Hotel features historical WINC recordings taped in and around Winchester over the past two decades arranged by Roy Nester and Joe Pasqualis.
Miss Jane White of E. C. Glass High School received an engraved silver goblet and a $100 check from Virginia Forests Inc for guiding students in the 12th annual Keep Virginia Green poster contest. The school won $50 for first place. E. C Glass students captured several top and honorable mentions.
An active section of the Pacific earthquake belt begins in central Alaska and runs through the Kenai Peninsula near Anchorage, then down the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Island chain toward Asia.
Only a trained botanist or skilled person can determine which of the 38 000 known mushroom species are safe to eat. The task requires precise knowledge of species, habitats, and toxic lookalikes to prevent serious poisoning.
Dr Mary C Calderone addresses the national PTA convention urging a comprehensive factual sex education from early grades to high school. She argues modern American society bears responsibility for teen behavior by lax discipline and permissive attitudes and notes high rates of out of wedlock pregnancy.
Rep. John O. Marsh Jr. told Shenandoah Valley Manufacturers Association that steady economic progress depends on a vigorous free enterprise system and that federal programs cannot substitute business initiative. He warned against bureaucratic restrictions and urged business to track Washington proposals while addressing community needs.
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