Fire Sweeps Three Stores On Rt 15 In Leesburg
Eleven fire trucks and over 100 firefighters battled a blaze at the Drug Fair A P and Firestone stores on Route 15 in Leesburg. The fire began at 8 59 a m and was under control by 1 p m though crews remained on site. Buildings are owned by Hamman Construction Co of Winchester. Boyd J Hamman.
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Leesburg
Drug Fair
A&p
Firestone
Shopkne Ee
The
Hamman Construction Co. of
Winchester
Boyd J. Hamman
Purcellville
Hamilton
Ashburn
Lucketts
the Drug Fair
Fallout Cloud Over Northwest U S Heads Toward Great Lakes
Washington observed radioactive ash from Monday's Soviet detonation pass over Washington Oregon and Northern California and move toward the Great Lakes. Experts say levels resemble earlier Soviet bomb clouds and no alarm is needed.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Great Lakes
Canada
Weather Bureau
Robert List
Oregon
California
Season's First Killing Frost Blankets Area
The first killing frost of the season covered Winchester area with a record low 29 degrees at Dr. Walter S. Hough's home on Fairmont Ave. The last spring frost was May 17, and the latest on record was November 13 1946. Also noted were forecast warmer conditions with possible showers and a high in the 60s to 70s.
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Winchester
Walter S. Hough
Fairmont Ave
Associated Press
New Soeenioen
Montana
New England
Atlantic States
Florida
Surveyer Dodges Skunk Incident Aboard West Virginia Ave
The Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad reports Call No 1 000 for 1961 after answering 1 238 calls in the prior year. The year begins January 15 and Doris Lewis sighted a cat that proved to be a skunk near a bush while surveying West Virginia Ave.
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Doris Lewis
West Virginia Ave
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
Gen Jackson Orders Leave for Valley Mission
One hundred years ago today Gen Jackson received orders to depart on November 4 for the Valley. The directive marks a pivotal movement as troops mobilize toward the battlefield in a historic campaign.
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Gen. Jackson
County Youth Fatally Injured on Rt. 522
A Frederick County boy died after being struck on Route 522 while a Winchester youth suffered a fractured skull in a separate afternoon crash. Ten year old Gary Allen Sams of Front Royal Road died at Memorial Hospital after head and internal injuries. The other victim, John Marshall Clevenger, 18, of 883 Fairmont Ave., was injured while crossing and remained in hospital in stable condition.
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Frederick County
Winchester
Gary Allen Sams
Front Royal Road
Pamielie
Fredericks County
Memorial Hospital
Robinson Elementary School
Agnes Pingley
P. F. Click
Leo DaRe
Washington, Pa
John Marshall Clevenger
Fairmont Ave
Maurice Lake
Paul Lathan
Massillon
Ohio
Clevenger
Marshall’ Clevenger
Sams
Marvin Lee Sams
Emiga Jean Pingley Sams
Bren
Ane
Youth Cub Scout of Winchester Dies
The youth from Winchester was a fifth grade student at Robinson School and a member of the Cub Scouts. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Church of Christ on Valley Ave with Rev. Nathan Williamson officiating. The body lies in state at the church from 10 a.m. Burial is in River View Cemetery in Strasburg.
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da Jean Sams
Cub Scouts of
Winchester
Robinson School
Church of Christ
Valley Ave
Nathan Williamson
River View Cemetery
Strasburg
Feeder sale nets 180709 for 1434 head at Farmers Livestock
The Farmers Livestock Exchange feeder calf sale saw 1,434 head bring 180,709 dollars with an average 126 per head and 27.46 per cwt. This follows the first sale of 2,871 head and 297,509 dollars. The fall total nears 750,000 dollars across all three October sales.
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Farmers Livestock Exchange
I. Fred Stine
Stine
Berlin border standoff eases after tank face off
U S and East German forces ease tensions at Checkpoint Charlie after tanks pull back and border controls loosen. A U S sightseeing bus enters East Berlin with 22 officers, while a U S Air Force C47 circles over the area before returning west. West Berliners confront a Soviet staff car as crossings continue with limited checks.
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Friederichstrasse
Charlie
East Berlin
U. S
Berlin
Sas
Checkpoint Charlie
Winchester
Winchester Evening Star
Khrushchev Calls Appeals to Abandon Test “Hysterical”
In Moscow Premier Khrushchev called world appeals to halt a nuclear test hysterical and said the Kremlin would proceed with the test Monday or Tuesday. He labeled UN and other declarations against the test as strange logic and said opposition was bourgeois propaganda. He justified the explosions by recalling U S atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Earth
List
Bureau
Missouri
Wisconsin
Rocky Mountain States
Weather Bureau
U.S. Health Service
Lester Machta
Eres
John
Public Health Service
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
United
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Moscow
Kremlin
United Nations
Communist Party
Iva
U.N. General Assembly
United States
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Woman Held for Murder in death of Browntown infant
Evelyn Fay Deavers 24 of Browntown held for Warren County Grand Jury on charge of murdering her newborn son. Sheriff Slaughter testified he found the infant with third degree burns and that Deavers wrapped the baby in newspaper and burned the refuse at Orie Hawkins’s Rockland home. Bail continued. circuit court date set for November 6.
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Front Royal
Evelyn Fay Deavers
Browntown
Warren County
Edwin Eastham
Miss Deavers
Sherff Francis W. Sl
Warren County Court
Slaughter
Orie Hawkins
Rockland
Leroy Corron
Twenty Two East Germans Escape to West
During the night 22 East Germans escaped to freedom through West Berlin barriers. Police reported three were minors, including two girls, who swam canals or rivers to reach the western sector.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Voter Sues Politician Over Campaign Promise Breach
In Bonn a voter Dr Manfred Freise sues Erich Mende head of the Free Democratic party alleging breach of faith for promising no coalition with Adenauer. Mende’s spokesman says the pledge was made during the campaign but not later, arguing no breach. A Bonn court will hear if legal grounds exist for the complaint.
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Bonn
Germany
Manfred Freise
Erich Mende
Tte
Free Democratic Party
Westee
Frese
Mende
Dr. Freise
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Northwest
U.S
Winchester Fruit Research
Associated
Robert Sharpe
Evening Star
Crier
Fred Updike
Tesersey
Winchester Berm Rescue Squad
Toppen
Ray Burkholder
Waynesboro
Angus
Maynard Percy
Felton
B. J. Barnhart
Clear Spring
Paul Eckstine
Greencastle
Ernest Margin
Hyattsville
James M. Rowley
Nadia
Lyle Kercens
Harrod
Norman Keller
Blissfield
Mich
Farmers & Merchants
Miller’s
Torjary
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