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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1962
Page
4
Area Council scouts launch a Fall Round-Up themed on Project Mercury achievements. A colorful Go Roundup emblem will be worn with uniforms. A uniform day was held to highlight the drive, with units urged to recruit six or more new members to earn the special award.
Congress pushed four of the big five remaining bills toward final passage ahead of Kennedy's term end. The Senate approved a $4.423 billion foreign aid measure by 57 to 24, exceeding House limits by $792 million. A tax revision bill, with a key $1 billion incentive to modernize plants, remains in conference. A House-Senate conference on federal payroll boosts and post office rates moves ahead. Conference on drug industry controls advances with Senate plans to act. Kennedy’s trade expansion measure has already cleared conference.
Cool days and vibrant fall colors backdrop the 26th annual Mountain State Forest Festival in Elkins West Virginia beginning tomorrow. Gov Barron will crown festival queen Katherine Stephenson Lutz of Parkersburg on the Davis and Elkins College campus tomorrow afternoon. The three day event features a concert by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra bands floats woodchopping rifle contests and a closing Sunday with dancers musicians and folk singers.
The passage notes that lawmakers are set to take final action Thursday on foreign aid and that four regular appropriations measures to fund the government for fiscal 1963, which began July 1, remain to be approved.
The Stonewall Ruritan Club will harvest 13 acres of corn on the Irvin Cather farm north of Winchester on Rt 11. Meeting at Stonewall School at 7 30 tomorrow night. Sealed bids to Oct 15. Proceeds go to the club welfare and improvement fund.
Henry J. Taylor former ambassador to Switzerland and syndicated columnist will open UVA law school student legal forum series with an address at 8 30 p m October 10 in Cabell Hall The series has hosted prominent political business and labor figures in past years.
State Board of Education approves final drawings and specifications for additions to Natural Bridge High School. Floyd S. Kay, representing the school, confirms the project scope and funding alignment with district plans.
The superintendent told the Rock Bridge School Board the district will use over 19 000 square feet for additions including new classrooms an enlarged laboratory a commercial department a multipurpose room and a principal's suite. The board may borrow up to 250 000 from the State Literary Fund for the project. City Manager W A Woodward reported pumping at Silver Lake requires curtailing water use after a diver retrieved a clogged screen for cleaning and reseating it.
Water use restrictions in Harrisonburg have been lifted, ending dry conditions that prompted conservation measures. City officials announced the change after rainfall improved supply levels and reservoir levels stabilized, allowing normal usage to resume.
A compact guide highlights common misspellings of the terms dwarfs and wharves. It emphasizes correct plural forms and usage in writing.
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