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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1959
Page
3
New York reports that the American home now tops the car as the nation’s status symbol. Vance Packard’s The Status Seekers argues social class is reshaping into five groups, with homes, shopping, and meals signaling position. women intensify these cues.
The State Board of Education in Richmond is expected to vote on about 1,000 tuition grant applications and on a proposed salary scale for Madison, Longwood, and Virginia State colleges. A June discussion will address scholarships under a new private nonsectarian school law. Anchovy fillets garnish hard boiled eggs for salads or sandwiches.
Clyde R. Near, convicted of murdering Barry Steele Chapman, faced a death penalty as an all male jury recommended the electric chair. The trial spanned two days with testimony detailing self defense claims and disputed inflammatory exhibits.
In Los Angeles AP reports Janie Hixon, a Santa Monica City College alumna and teacher turned lawyer, will join her daughter D. Dian Hixon in a first of its kind mother daughter law partnership. Dian, 26, a former beauty queen, plans to be admitted June 10 and practice alongside her mother. Clarence Courtright, a Hollywood high teacher, and Dee Dee, Dian's mother’s daughter from a previous marriage, are noted in the story. Dee Dee keeps her full name private.
The United Presbyterian Church, in its eight day assembly, endorsed medically approved contraception as contributing to marital welfare and urged repeal of birth control information bans. The final day also backed abolition of capital punishment, racial integration efforts, union shop limits, and measures to curb alcoholism.
The world order study conference in Cleveland last fall urged governmental recognition of Red China. Delegates praised hope for normal relations but split over policy. Amid tension, Rev. Theodore A. Gill was confirmed as president of San Francisco Theological Seminary despite charges about his views on Christ's virgin birth. Delegates voted to meet in Cleveland next year.
Leff Nicholas Pouishnoff, 68, Russian born composer and concert pianist, was found dead in his bed in London. Born in Leningrad and Petrograd, he had lived in Britain since World War I.
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