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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1963
Page
12
Federal arbitrators announced a ruling intended to end the long dispute over work rules and avert a nationwide strike threat. The seven member panel’s decision under an emergency law will bind the railroads and five operating unions. If talks fail on remaining issues, a new strike threat could recur when the law expires Feb 25.
About 50 000 union members led by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen face two arbitration issues. Railroads say firemen are unnecessary on modern diesel yard and freight engines while unions warn that cutting other crewmen could endanger safety. Congress urged bargaining on wages benefits and work conditions, but progress remains elusive.
Lawrence Welk 61 is recuperating satisfactorily from abdominal surgery in Santa Monica. A spokesman says the bandleader will likely stay at St. Johns Hospital for about a week.
The Bark Mill Theatre presents Hope for a Harvest by Sophie Treadwell opening tonight and running through Saturday. Backstage crew includes production manager Gloria Biddle and stage manager Patsy O Connell with multiple committees handling set props costumes makeup lighting tickets program hospitality publicity and prompters. Tickets are at Shenval Music Company and O Connell's Air Conditioning.
Jimmy R. Myers of Rt 1 Woodstock was named a Shenandoah County deputy sheriff by Sheriff Phil Crisman to replace James Hockman who resigned to join the armed forces. Myers assumed duties yesterday. A $4,849 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission to Bridgewater College Chemistry and Physics will fund a plutonium-beryllium neutron source and training equipment. The gear includes a chromatography scanning system and an electrophoresis unit for advanced neutron and isotope research.
A study notes lichens endure near constant freezing in Antarctica and can live in streamside tropical-like conditions, challenging assumptions about where they can persist.
President Johnson ordered the FBI to prepare a detailed report on Kennedy's assassination and Oswald's death with all facts available. He directed federal agencies to cooperate as lawmakers discuss a high level inquiry to address lingering questions.
Toll climbs to 72 after a 53 year old Indianapolis man dies Monday from injuries in the October 31 explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum. The latest victim is C. J. David Pyles, a tool and die maker and purchasing agent from Providence Kentucky.
Beeville Texas Mrs Lincoln Borglum wife of the sculptor who finished Mt. Rushmore at Black Hills M D died Monday Borglum completed the memorial after the death of his father Gutzon Borglum in the same family.
Sales directory items list multiple auctions in Virginia and West Virginia. Notable details include times plus locations near Berryville Martinsburg Winchester Gore Hayfield and routes 7 50 and 50. Auctioneers include Orndorff Cole Morrow Lewis Horner Duvall and Rosenberger with goods from furniture to farm equipment and livestock.
Roanoke, Va. AP Raymond Bynum, a 4 Roanoke man, received a five year term after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the pistol slaying of Leroy Lewis Young, a 25 year old sailor from Mankato, Minnesota. The case arose after an exchange of words and a fight with a car passenger driven by Bynum.
Prof. Frederic Earle Thornlay Tillotson, 66, head of Bowdoin College music department in Brunswick Maine, died Monday.
San Francisco advertising man Al Toth proposed striking five million 50 cent pieces in $1 to raise funds. The money would aid school ships and the Dellas police family, plus the Oswald widow, in a letter to the Examiner. He argued broad support for the first two aims and humane intent for the third.
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