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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1966
Page
2
Funeral services and burials are listed for H Douglas Whitacre Allen Wayne Martin and Harry E Slonaker. Details include dates times churches funeral homes pallbearers and cemeteries with the Ebenezer cemetery Capon Bridge Green Hill Berryville Capon Chapel and locations in Gore Berryville Capon Bridge and Winchester West Virginia and Maryland.
Funeral arrangements are set for 73 year old William Martin Shanholtz of Route 4 who died Sunday at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Dr. William O. Rhoad will officiate at 3:30 tomorrow at Jones Funeral Home with pallbearers Carroll Hawkins Norman Keeler Cecil Kump Thomas Dick Ralph McDonald and Samuel McDonald. Burial follows at Mount Hebron. Animals have equal rights with people in Banff Alberta where moose may chase a housewife and beaver may gnaw a gardener's tree, illustrating wildlife rights in the national park.
Funeral services for William Martin Shanholtz are set for Wednesday at 3 30 p m at Jones Funeral Home. The service details list William Martin Shanholtz as the deceased with arrangements by Jones Funeral Home.
Mrs Clara A DeMoss of Morgantown West Virginia dies in Winchester Memorial Hospital. She was sister of Wade E Muldoon of Millwood a Morgantown native and lifelong member of Morgantown Presbyterian Church. Services held Thursday at Hastings Funeral Home Morgantown burial at Beverley Hills Memorial Garden Morgantown.
A brief note recalls Eli Whitney born on December 8 1765 who later invented the cotton gin transforming American industry and agriculture.
Robert Jewell Landman, a convicted robber in Winchester, claims in a brief to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that guards in the State Penitentiary C building operate without proper supervision amid his petitions over prison conditions. The AP notes the court's chief supported the claim that C building guards act as a law unto themselves. Landman received eight years for the Western Union robbery and eight more for the Modernaire Motel robbery in 1960.
Four West Virginia inmates vanished after digging a 20 foot tunnel from the laundry to a sewer line at the Moundsville prison. William O. Wallace said the two foot diameter line may trap the men a block from the sewer manhole. Names and sentences of the missing convicts are listed. The search continues as officials review how the tunnel was built.
Two English women report they funded care for about 100 of Venice's 28 000 stray cats at roughly 19.60 dollars per cat. Miss Mable Raymond Hawkins and Helena Sanders deny any harm, saying donations totaling 1960 dollars supported treatment nine months into the relief effort. Police fined them for animal killing but released them.
U.S. Attorney announced a court order dismissing the indictment against H Lee Brumback of Frederick County. Reclassified as a conscientious objector he will report to Lutheran World Relief for two years in Vietnam as an agriculturist aiding refugee work.
An official Chinese dispatch reported by AP says the Red Guards have been organized into a reserve force for the army. A Red Guard told New China News Agency they serve for combat duties and for study and propaganda work. The report notes discovery of weapons and secret accounts during nationwide purges.
Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall will appear in Fredericksburg Thursday for Democratic congressional candidate George C. Rawlings Jr. campaign HQ announced. Also in brief a North Korean boat was sunk off South Korea with no survivors found among suspected espionage agents.
The Virginia forecast calls for fair conditions with a tonight low of 35 to 40. Wednesday should be mostly sunny with a high of 66 to 70. Thursday will bring some clouds and mild temperatures. Winds today from the west at 10 to 20 mph.
Rainfall data cover 24 hours to 8 30 p m and monthly totals across 53 years plus annual figures from 1961 to 1965 1969. Notable values include January 3 42 inches February 2 18 inches and January through October average of 31 70 inches.
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