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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1958
Page
13
In Wise Virginia a county grand jury reports a Norton minister's moonshine charge was hearsay not fact. It says the minister refused to reveal his source. Norton city officials were summoned but no substantiating facts were found.
Four persons were killed in Beirut in a clash between civilian partisans of the government and the opposition. Sporadic shooting continued through the night after the city had the calmest 24 hours in 20 days.
Nine commissions created by the 1958 General Assembly named members from Virginia. Appointments include Eugene B. Sydnor Jr and E. Almer Ames Jr to Constitutional Government, Mosby G. Perrow Jr and William B. Spong Jr to Public Free Schools curriculum study, and others to Civil War centennial, justice administration, Jamestown Foundation, industrial loan associations, children born out of wedlock, and higher education tuition and aid bodies. Additional governor and speaker appointments await.
Houston resident Col Walter Williams 115 one of two surviving Civil War veterans signed an X to a Confederate pension claim. He lives with daughter Mrs Willie Bowles. Eisenhower signed a bill granting federal pensions to surviving Confederate veterans. Monthly payments total 101.59 dollars or 135.45 if a fullTime attendant is needed.
New York born Peter Manuel was convicted of seven murders in Glasgow. The Glasgow High Court sentenced him to death after a 2 hour 21 minute jury deliberation. He was accused of killing three women three girls one man and one boy.
In Corpus Christi a Texas League game between Corpus Christi and San Antonio ended with gunfire after a political dispute. Dewey Tom a 60 year old U S customs inspector was jailed on assault with intent to murder while Samuel Murff 52 a cotton compress firm superintendent was hospitalized with bullet wounds in both legs. Riley Attaway witnessed the confrontation as Tom and Murff left their box to settle the disagreement.
Hollywood report on an 22 member all grandmother band formed by Mrs Jean Ward. Retired and former pros practice weekly and seek TV bookings. Ages span into 70s with a lively set from Whiteman era jazz to Woody Herman pages.
Spanish Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez, 76, died in a San Juan hospital after years of isolation following his wife’s death three days earlier. He won the 1956 Nobel Prize for literature and had lived in Puerto Rico.
The celebrated poet known for donkey odes died after a long illness. Friends said the death of his wife from cancer crushed his spirit, and he left Spain in 1996 citing the disorders of the Spanish Civil War.
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