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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1972
Page
2
Multiple funeral services and burials announced for Devereux Bowly Perry Dennis Roy Conard Richard Peach Zula Sisk and others. Services set at Hack Bowly Mount Hebron Loy Upperville and Bradley funeral homes with call times tonight and tomorrow.
Kernstown residents learned the area’s water sewer plan hinges on the site of the incoming Company X industrial plant. Officials outlined a 12 month sanitation project to serve the anticipated site and extend mains toward a 120 acre parcel between Route 651 and the Ohio Railroad line, mid between Kernstown and Bartonsville.
The Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad led a two hour search for hunter Alan Lord lost on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge in Clarke County. At 9:45 p.m. Capt. John Hardin alerted responders and about 100 rescue, fire, and police personnel joined, locating Lord at 11:18 p.m. safe and sound.
Elizabeth W Beverly who was injured in a car bus collision on Valley Ave was released from Winchester Memorial Hospital today. A funeral service for Steven Lee Ruble 19 of 1007 Pennsylvania Ave was held this afternoon at 1 30 at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Charles H Harless. Walter Katzki 61 of 108 Richards Ave died Wednesday in Petersburg Va and was buried at Beth El Gardens with pallbearers listed. The family will sit Shiva at 108 Richards Ave Apt 10.
Clearbrook firemen said they put out a fire in the rear wheels of a Roadway tractor trailer traveling on I-81 at 1 40 p m yesterday. Only the trailer rear wheels were damaged. Archibald MacLeish's J B was published in 1958 and is a parable based on the Bible Job story.
A Hemingway Tran sport Inc spokesman calls a relocation report completely false and notes tentative plans only to apply for a change of operation. The letter from Raymond C. Sandy raises relocation concerns for about 76 county residents while denying current facility changes.
Shenandoah National Park reports 10 percent of trees show fall color with hopes to reach 15 to 20 percent by weekend. Sunny days and cooler nights could heighten the change. Best overlooks include Gooney Run 6.8 North District Stony Man 38.6 Tanners Ridge 31.5 Hazeltop Ridge 54.4 The Point 55.6 Central District and Falls Trail 84 south to 102 South District if weather allows.
Virginia authorities report a Augusta County mother Marilyn S. Jenkins 36 and her 3-year-old son Andrew drowned Thursday night as they tried to cross a flooded bridge on Va 254 six miles northwest of Waynesboro a 12-year-old son Mike escaped by grabbing barbed wire. A Washington woman Mary H Clarke 58 drowned near Syria after slipping into a stream while helping stalled workers nearby.
Karen Shipp was elected president of the Meals-on-Wheels board at a Braddock Street Methodist Church meeting. Richard Wolfe became vice president, Mary Kathryn Clark secretary, and James Keller treasurer as nineteen members attended. The program aims to deliver a hot meal daily to area elderly and handicapped residents by month’s end. Volunteers are needed for food delivery and donations are sought via Martin Keller in Winchester.
Prices were generally weak in the stock market with the Dow Jones average down 4.14 at 937.16 at midmorning. On the NYSE decliners outnumbered gainers about 3 to 2 as analysts cite lack of confidence as a central factor in recent troubles. AT&T led decline among active issues, while Overseas Shipholding and Syntex showed notable moves on the American Exchange.
Raymond R. Guest Jr. was appointed executive director of the Virginia Committee for the Re election of the President. Guest, a Warren County farmer and Virginia House of Delegates member, will aid in the President's re election.
Rain tonight may be heavy at times with lows in the mid 60s and a 100 percent chance of rain. Saturday brings variable clouds, a 50 percent chance of showers, and highs in the low 70s. Today’s noon high 62, low 61, yesterday 64, rainfall totals shown for the area with monthly and yearly summaries.
The Gulf of Mexico is the world’s largest gulf with a 3100 mile shoreline from Cape Sable in Florida to Cabo Catoche in Mexico. The chinook dog breed is extremely rare with only 125 individuals known to be alive as of March 31, 1965.
Three Garrett County tree farmers in Maryland received a $450,000 out of court settlement from Virginia Electric Power Co for loss of 500,000 trees allegedly harmed by sulfur dioxide from Mount Storm West Virginia. The suit, filed in Alexandria, noted the plant’s emissions caused tree damage and followed a court ruling on proving damage. The farmers plan further action against additional industries for the total $1.6 million loss.
Police report a two car crash at the Boscawen and Washington Street intersection yesterday at 6 02 p m. Paul V Ketchener 373 Fox Drive East on Boscawen Street collided with Patricia Ann Slonaker Gore. Estimated damage 1000 to Slonaker car and 800 to Ketchener car. No injuries reported. The planet Jupiter is vastly larger than Earth.
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