Deaths and Funerals for Herman Whitacre
Funeral services for Herman Whitacre, who died yesterday at 287 Quon Ave, will be held Monday at 3 30 p m at Jones Funeral Home with Rev S J Goode officiating. Burial follows at Mt Hebron. Survivors include four sisters and three brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Whitacre
Herman
Nellie Collis
Martinsburg
Thelma Bunkles
Baltimore
Myrtle Smith
Winchester
Lanza Whitacre
Evelyn Purt
Frances
Gia Whitacre
York
Oscar Eaton
William Eaton
Winchster
Stark Service for Edward O. Stark
Funeral service for Edward O. Stark who died Thursday at his residence near Whitacre will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. at Ebenezer Christian Church with Rev. John E. Oliver officiating. Pallbearers include W Whitacre Landon B Whitacre Gilbert Whitacre G W Duckworth W F Artrip and Rual P Anderson. Burial is at Ebenezer Cemetery. Friends may call Jones Funeral Home until 9 a.m. Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward O. Stark
Whitacre
Ebenezer Christian Church
John E. Oliver
John the
W. Whitacre
Landon B. Whitacre
Gilbert Whitacre
G. W. Duckworth
W. F. Artrip
Rual P. Anderson
Ebenezer Cemetery
Jones Funeral Home
Memorial Day traffic toll rises in weekend disaster reports
An Associated Press survey shows 262 highway deaths over a 54 hour Memorial Day weekend with two major crashes. A fatal high school prom crash near East Livermore, Maine, and a tractor-trailer collision near Pee Dee highlighted the losses alongside drownings and other accidents.
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Pee Dee
East Livermore
Maine
Associated Press
Warren County Board Votes 90 Day Education Budget
The Warren County Board approves a 90 day educational budget amid controversy over private classes for white students and boycotts from the NAACP era. Supt Gasque and other officials clash with supporters over six month and 30 day options as public hearing draws 40 residents.
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Q. D. Gas
Gasque
Warren County Educational Foundation
George Baggarly
Samuel Esteppe
Maurice E. Bowen
Frank Stoutamyer
Howard A. Duncan
Stoutamyer
Bowen
Baggarly
Esteppe
Leslie C. Young
Warren County Education Association
Elwood Miller
Budget clash in Warren County schools sparks SOS plea
Town officials and residents clash over funding for Bessie Jeffries Negro school and the operation budget. Council members push for a 30 day budget while protesters demand stable annual funds and questions about teacher pay and scholarship adequacy.
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Goa
Wilan J. Phillips
Rome
T. Shiner
Ing
Bessie Jeffries Ee
Arren Roe
William Lillard
Front Royal
Charles Russell
Gasque
Crouse
Warren County
Baggarly
Bessie Jeffries
Frank Barnett
Phillips
Russell
Teddy Mathews
Whitacre’s Trader Sales and Farm Auctions
Sales directory listing multiple auctions on June 1 to June 6 led by auctioneers Orndorff Cole Horst Price Tate Snider Loy and others. Items include household furniture electrical appliances farm machinery livestock and antiques at locations in Marion Pa Bunker Hill W V Winchester Va and Capon River forks.
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Whitacre’s
Denny’s Commission
Orndorff and Cole
S. T
Ralph W. Horst
Marion
DS. T
Lorenzo F. Price
Bunker Hill
W. Va
DeHavens Mill
Lewis & Horner
Frank N. McCormick
S. Loudoun St
Winchester
E. T. Snider
S.T
Harry Loy
Capon River
Ernest C. Dove
Fairview Ave
Dennis T. Cole
Four Holiday Road Deaths In Virginia
Multiple fatalities during a Memorial Day weekend push Virginia’s toll to 291 for the year. A Henrico County couple died when their car rear-ended a stalled truck on U S 1 near Hanover County.
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Virginia
Wekend
Edward Leon Branch
Edith
Henrico County
U.S. 1
Henrico Line
Hanover County
Bunny Thompson Walker
Rural Hall
N.C
Walker
William Abraham
Pittsburgh
U.S. 15
Clarksville
Mecklenburg County
Abraham
Edward Valentine
Suffolk
Suffolk Boulevard
Faubus Address Sparks Cheers at Old Fiddlers Reunion
Arkansas Governor Faubus told a large Athens Texas crowd that honesty and marriage vows are worth fighting for. He urged local self rule and said the Supreme Court should not destroy sacred values, expressing confidence in victory.
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Athens
Tex
Orval
Faubus
Arkansas
Athens Review
Supreme Court
Memorial Address Honors War Dead at National Cemetery
Speaker Byrd urges citizens to protect liberties won by blood and toil as 4 809 war dead lie in the National Cemetery. 2395 are unknowns. interments span Civil War through Korea. The five acre plot was deeded to the federal government by Jack Baker on December 1 1870. Statistics from Metro Kowalchick, cemetery superintendent.
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Byrd
National Cemetery
Jack
Baker
Metro Kowalchick
Weather Today Cloudy Warm Humid With Showers Across Regions
Considerable cloudiness and warm humid air with showers and scattered thundershowers Sunday. Tonight mostly west and central portions. Low temperatures 64 to 72 east and 64 to 68 west. Sunday highs in the 80s except 70s in the mountains.
Rainfall figures for May 1959 and long-term totals
Rainfall data show May 1959 totals and year to date figures. Records indicate 24 peeks, May rainfall to date 2.17 inches, and year to date 11.07 inches. Average annual rainfall over 46 years is 36.85 inches with monthly averages listed for each month.
Four Men Die In Plane Crash Near Nebraska Border
In Yuma Colorado an plane crashed into a treetop near a farmhouse close to the Nebraska line. The victims identified: Edward A. Myers 54 the pilot Dean E. Myers 23 John W. O Neil 34 and Gerald W Weber 3 remained dead at the scene Brezleton reported all were dead upon arrival at the wreckage. A fragment of an unrelated 1901 Jacksonville Florida note follows the report.
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Yuma
Colo
Nada
Nebraska
Edward A. Myers
Dean E. Myers
John W. O'Neil
Gerald W. Weber
Brezelton
Train wreck kills 200 in West Java disaster
Jakarta through PIA reports 200 deaths after an express train bound for Bandung derailed in West Java. Four coaches plunged into a valley following a coupling break in the mountainous area.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
PIA
West Java
Bandung
Truncated Word Puzzle Clues From a Colonial Era
Reading hints mix geographic names and epithets. Apparent items include Cheshire Indian Ocean Michiganite Shinto Paul Revere Jerico Jerusalem and a remark He is shorter than I Tennessee One who treats skin diseases.
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Cheshire
Indian Ocean
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Ebenezer
Mr. Herman Whitacre
Jones Funeral Hom
E. Oates Avenue
Paymaster
Leonard Electric
Corporation Court
Benj. T. Crump Company
Earl Edward
G. B. Baker
Et Snider
Avclonner
Stark Services
Warren
Aif
Board of Supervisors
Miller
NAACP
Charles E. Leadman
Leadman
John Fitzgerald
Warren County Committee For Public Schools
Fitzgerald
Laura Herr
M. M. Martin
Jack Crouse
Warren High
Adam Friski
E. B. Roller
TS Ltd
John W. Rosenberger & CO
Commerce St
UD Paints
Red and White
Herbert
Bryant, Inc
Ukraive
Godiva
Mercia
Denny’s
Imperial Frigidaire
Hollywood
Bendix
Kenmore
Hoover
Underwood
Jacksonville
Fla
I. Q. Answers
Glaize & Bro
N. Cameron St
Loudoun Street
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
Winchester, Va
Sheridan
Hotpoint
Electrolux
B. F. Goodrich
Singer
Stevens
Sears & Roebuck
The
Friendship Fire Co
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