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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1960
Page
7
AP reports sculptor Maurice Podell who once carved miniature busts from moistened rye bread in his Fursia childhood. Now 60, he works in bronze and plaster but retains the bread statues as a lasting memory of his early medium.
A Denison, Iowa farmer set a large melon with a hidden auto horn to alert him when moved. Neighbors report the horn sounded for over 30 minutes while the farmer and family were away, but the thieves still nearly cleaned out the patch.
Mr and Mrs Edward Sargent of Valley Mill Road were among 130 people who received free Salk polio vaccine shots Friday at a clinic sponsored by the Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dr L C Fears Jr, acting director of the Winchester Frederick Health Department, administered the shots. A second clinic is set for December 2 as many were first time recipients. The Slo Mo Shun Auto Club attended with its full membership.
In Tehran every Friday a smoking antique locomotive pulls a train of pilgrims to the Sha habdolazim Shrine on a narrow gauge line from Teharn to Rey. The line, built by Russians and Belgians in 1886, boasts four locomotives kept in workshop with no imports.
A small airplane carrying four Salt Lake City police officers crashed into a mountain ridge near Eureka Utah last Thursday. The pilot Terry C Lasater 26 and three passengers Bert Singleton 31 George Peterson 36 and Philip Caldwell 42 were killed. The wreckage was located Sunday five miles southeast of Eureka as the officers were en route to Las Vegas to discuss purchasing a plane for the department.
Dianne Lennon wed her high school sweetheart Richard F. Gass 23 in Venice California. More than 1000 invited guests attended the nuptial Mass at St Mark’s Church and a reception at the Aragon ballroom. The Lennon sisters form a trio after Dianne’s retirement from show business. In Chattanooga County Patrolman Jimmy Catlett filled in as preacher at a funeral after the minister failed to appear.
Right by Joseph Coomans, an elderly Belgian lawyer who reportedly comes down from Brussels for an occasional ride. Coomans has managed to resist efforts to modernize the smoking machine. For him, it is a sentimental thing. An acquaintance notes the buses seem to be putting it out of business.
Four occupants of a single engine plane were injured when it stalled after takeoff from North Columbus Airport and crashed into a house in Columbus Ohio. Pilot Robert Keller 28 was leading the air show to mark his new airport manager post. A parachute jumper was among the passengers. Mr and Mrs Tedrick were home in the living room when the plane struck the roof above the kitchen and hung there.
Mr. and Mrs. H F Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. Warren D Mason returned from Philadelphia where the Nelson firm was honored by Sun Oil Co for 20 years of cordial business relations. They attended a two day meeting of the company with wholesale dealers and their wives from 17 states.
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