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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1963
Page
9
Pleasant Grove residents attend a Sunday Sing led by Kenneth Strowbridge with Johnny Brewer and others. a week of visits features the Catletts and several local families. Weekend dinners, church events, and community meetings occur across nearby Romney and Keyser with guests from Augusta and Ridgeway Virginia.
Local notes show Shenandoah Area Boy Scouts leader meeting parents of Cub Scouts aged 8 to 10 in Kernstown. Visitors include Miss Elizabeth Lee and Mrs Wanda Burnett. Airman James Lewis departs for Oxnard AFB for 18 months. Various hospital stays and church study sessions noted alongside social visits and hunting season results.
Mrs. Robert Leiker and son Bobby Alan of Tulsa visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. David B. Coffman. Floyd L. Derflinger stays in Richmond for a Southern States Coop Inc meeting. James Rife visits the home of Mrs. Anna E. Rife in Stephens City. Gary Reynolds and Arnie Klook of Charlottesville visit Karen Jenkins at the Jenkins home. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Gordon ofce visit Mrs. Alice Rogers.
Mount Pleasant reports the Woman's Society of World Service of the Evangelical United Brethren Church met with 12 members and visitors. West Frederick Home Demonstration Club discussed plans for a Christmas party on Dec. 3 with a no name gift under the tree. Rev. John H. Ware Jr will be in the community Nov 18 at the Mount Pleasant church and a hymn sing follows at 7 p.m. Visitors of Raymond Racey Sr included several children and neighbors. Betty White, patient at Winchester Memorial Hospital, is improving.
A weekly digest notes a Thanksgiving service at Little Mountain Church at 7 30 p m. Attendees at Woodstock Church last Sunday include Anna Schlack Wilma Schlack learning new Sunday School literature. Esther Ridgeway hosted dinner for Sam Hurst Newton Snapp in Wood Inwood W V. Bobbie Smallwood and Kenneth Smallwood spent the weekend with relatives in Virginia Beach. Ray Place visited Berkeley Springs with his wife. Mrs John Suartz improves after a week on the sick list. C H Musselman plant at Inwood concluded the 1963 canning season last Tuesday. Pensioners banquet held Friday evening in Winchester cafeteria. Mrs Paul Beilin recently home from Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Mrs Naomi Luttrell and Mrs Earl Whitacre visit with Matt Holliday of Fair Sentient at White Hall. Mrs Lani eas Oat f night with her sister Monday night at White Hall.
Wayne Bray recently broke his leg but is recovering. The Women's Choir practiced Friday night at Walnut Springs Christian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Leopard of Washington visited with Mr. and Mrs. Peterson. Christmas pieces were given out Sunday afternoon to participants in the Christmas program. Practice will be held Sunday afternoon at 1 30.
Mr and Mrs Daniel Snow of Takoma Park Md spent the weekend with the latter s parents Mr and Mrs Janey Sargent Mr and Mrs Robert Brown visited her brother Sunday in Stephens City Herbert Copenhaver Jr visited his grandmother Mrs Irene Copenhaver on Friday Mr and Mrs Alvin Sargent Mr and Mrs Daniel Snow and Mrs Irene Copenhaver visited the latter s daughter Mrs Ida Mae Fiddler and family one evening Miss Ethel Snapp of Opequon called on Mrs Irene Copenhaver on Friday Blair Combs has returned to his home here after being a pa.
Arthur son of Mr and Mrs H C Arthur of this city is among 35 Virginia Tech students listed for Who’s Who Among American Universities. The selection honors scholarship activities personality and school contribution across the nation. LURAY Mrs Paul Black named first woman president of the Luray Merchants Assn owner of a florist shop D H Mims VP and Miss Gladys Ellington secretary treasurer.
In Woodstock town offices a public hearing on a Rt 42 rezoning proposal to change land from residential to commercial drew more than a dozen attendees. Opponents warned of possible harm to land values while Chair Joe Myers presided during the session. Campaign totals near Front Royal show pledges of 19,483.75 toward a 30,315 goal, with two new firms, Old Virginia Packing Co and Trout Drug Co, signing in at full participation.
The New York Stock Exchange reinstated trading privileges for J. R. Williston and Beane Inc after suspensions tied to Allied Crude Oil and Vegetable Refining Co. defaulting on nearly 19 million dollars in margin calls. The exchange also barred William and Beane and Ira Haupt Co., firms related to the case.
The 1983 National Tobacco Festival in Richmond earned $10,827 for charity, topping last year's total. The tobacco ball yielded $3,988 for the Virginia Home for the Incurables, while the Lee District Jun cig Sead contributed $3,000 as the second largest sum.
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