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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1962
Page
10
Alecia Farley of Presque Isle is to wed Thiws Miss Reed, daughter of Mr and Mrs Winifred Farley. Airman Reed, son of Mr and Mrs Reed, is a James Wood graduate who joined the Air Force in 1959. The ceremony is noted for April 19.
Frances Pauline Myers to wed Alfred William Johnson of Boyce with Clarke County High School backgrounds. Both employed by Doubleday & Co. at Berryville. Wedding planned for June 10.
The Women's Civic League announces an executive board meeting at 10 30 a m tomorrow morning at the home of Mrs Douglass Hill on Hawthorne Drive for league business.
Loretta Wilkins bride elect of Roy E. McDonald was honored at a bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Jimmie Foltz Route 1. Attending were Kathryn Watson Merle Moore Lilah Bell Jimmie Foltz and Loretta Wilkins.
Twenty nine piano pupils of Marian and Jean Pasquet performed in recital Friday evening in Ish Hall. The program listed participants including Becky Wheley Robin White Milla Sue Wisecarver Vicky Shryock Jerry Wisecarver Libby Cline Charles Brumback Wakeman Jo Ann Rick Others included Susan Boyer Amy Brumback Faye Thweatt Kay Sparks Vivian White Betty Ann Shryock Ann Sandy Charles Ways Karen Garrett Susan Jane Newlin Joyce Rudolph Patsy Garrett Sharon Newlin Susan Brumback Florence Scheulen Sandor Snnapp Becky Rhoad Sharon White Vicky Stine and Jerry Golightly.
The note explains common pronouncing of scion as sighn un with stress on the first syllable and offers guidance on correct enunciation.
Monday events include Boy Scout district meeting Brownie day camp leader training and a recreation council session all at 7 30 p m with the lounge closed.
Madison College in Harrisonburg awarded 200 bachelor degrees and seven master's degrees. State Sen. William B. Spong Jr. of Portsmouth spoke, urging Virginia not to view education provincially while stressing national survival hinges on school quality. The baccalaureate sermon was by Rev. H. George Anderson. President G. Tyler Miller noted over 30 percent of faculty hold doctorates.
Roanoke reports Margaret Sue Black of Bluefield became the first entrant to file for the Miss Virginia Beauty Pageant. The 30 candidate field is set for the competition to be held June 21 through June 23.
Dr. M. C. Teague, chairman of the Handley Library Board, will address the Winchester Lions Club at its luncheon tomorrow at the George Washington Hotel at 12:1 p.m. He will speak on The Construction of Underwater High ways.
Pat Tolley appears as Prudence in Laura at Bark Mill June 4 to 9 amid a cast including Bill Stealey Bill Madigan Lucy Duggins and Char lene Babbour. The Vera Caspary detective drama features mystery love and justice with tickets from Shenval Music O Connell Air Conditioning or Mary Lou Sprint at 6 West Cecil St.
Gene White of White's Drug Store in Berryville was elected president of the Northern Virginia Pharmaceutical Association at the Winchester Golf Club. Other officers named include Harold Phelps as vice president and Frank Jefferson as secretary-treasurer, with J. H. Sallender on the Executive Council.
Fire losses increased by 6 percent in the first quarter of 1962 compared with January through March 1961, indicating a worsening trend in early year incidents and costs across the reporting area.
Marchers from Co. K and allied units including the 13th Va Infantry and Baltimore volunteers retraced Civil War routes from Middletown to Cedar Creek. Reenactors in antebellum dress joined by Strasburg and Front Royal groups, with local officials and a Valley Campaign talk by Dabney Watts.
In Buffalo a $2 million fire left St Michael The Archangel church in ruins. Town Casino owner Harry Altman offered his club for masses with diocesan approval after Pastor Rev James J Redmond consented noting the church’s community importance.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Poppy Sale raised $572.39 over last Friday and Saturday. Claude Fauver, chairman of VFW Post 2123, expected more reports as sales continued. The proceeds support needy and disabled veterans who made the poppies.
The United States detonated a new nuclear device in the Pacific test area, the 14th since tests began on April 25. The Sunday blast near Christmas Island had an intermediate yield estimated at 20 000 to 1 million tons of TNT and was released from an airplane.
In Clarke County a reunion brought together fourteen non commissioned officers and enlisted men from Reidsville and Leakeville North Carolina with Captain Byrd at his home The Cliff near Boyce. The veterans served together in Company G 130th Division during World War I and shared a luncheon recalling battles from 44 years earlier.
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