Local child admires oversized decorative pumpkin kin
Laura Fletcher, five, poses with a Mexican hat style decorative pumpkin kin grown by her father at 265 Opequon Ave. The object resembles a cashaw, measures 264 inches long and circumference, and weighs 20 pounds. The origin of the pumpkins remains a mystery to Mr. John Fletcher as he notes the seed batch all came from the same pumpkin.
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Laura Fletcher
John Fletcher
Opequon Ave
Mr. Fletcher
Cire
Mary Helen Massie
Producer of Scandals George White Dies at 74
Hollywood AP George White long time Broadway producer of Scandals dies at 74 in Mt. Sinai Hospital after a month with leukemia. He produced about two dozen Broadway musicals and appeared in films George White’s Scandals of 1934 and 1935. His lavish revues helped launch Helen Morgan Alice Faye Eleanor Powell Ann Miller Dolores Costello Ethel Merman and Kate Smith. Rudy Vallee was an early star. A niece survives.
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Hollywood
George White
Mt. Sinai Hospital
White
George Wiite
20Th Century-Fox
Alice Faye
Eleanor Powell
Ann Miller
Dolores Costello
Ethel Merman
Kate Smith
Rudy Vallee
Christian Workers School Opens Here Sunday Night
The First United Methodist church in Winchester hosts the Christian Workers School starting Sunday at 7 p.m. sponsored by the Winchester Area Christ-Workers School with sessions through Thursday led by Rev. Richard B. Faris and other church leaders. A nursery and textbooks are available, with advance registration and enrollment on opening night.
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Christian Workers School
First United Methodist Church
Winchester
Achors
Winchester Area
Christ- Workers School
United Methodist
Richard B. Faris
Bermuda Hundred
Rebecca Yow
Virginia Conference Program Council
Richmond
Clifford L. East Jr
Lane Memorial United Methodist Church
Altavista
Et Street
Winston L. McKay
Harold Bageant
Polly Duvall
Marie Heironimus
Virginia Council seeks federal funds pause on health council
The Virginia Council on Human Relations asked the federal government to withhold funds from the Virginia Comprehensive Health Plan Council until reorganized. Executive director Frank T. Adams Jr. said a letter to the U.S. Surgeon General complained of no representation for poor people and Negroes on the council.
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Richmond
Virginia Council On Human Relations
Virginia Comprehensive Health Plan Council
Health Council
Frank T. Adams Jr
U.S
Virginia
Muskie to Campaign in Virginia for VP Bid
Roanoke AP Sen William Hopkins says Edmund Muskie will appear in Virginia to aid the Humphrey Mckie ticket as Republicans campaign is credited with boosting turnout. Hopkins cites possible Humphrey stops and a Machover of a straw vote.
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RCA
Roanoke
Wiliam
Hopkins
Virginia
Cochairman
Humphrey-Muskie
Edmund Muskie
Maine
John Tower
R.tex
Truth Sequad
Muskie
Agnew
Muskkie
GOP
I. Lee Potter
Humphrey
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