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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1964
Page
2
Hollywood AP report states veteran Chinese character actor Sammee Tong, 63, took his own life, leaving notes to his landlady and attorney. He was found dead at his Venice home with an empty sleeping pill bottle nearby while working on the ABC series Mickey. He began in television in 1959 on Bachelor Father.
Mr and Mrs Fred Foreman of Bufflick Road report the death of Mrs Eva Updyke of York Pennsylvania. She and her husband William Updyke were frequent visitors here. Mr Updyke is a former resident of Frederick County.
The share of Americans with some college rose from about 7.5 percent in 1930 to 18.3 percent in 1960 and is estimated at 32.8 percent by 1980, reflecting a rapid upward trend in higher education participation.
A Circuit Court jury weighed conflicting testimony in a dispute over 951.15 claimed by developer Ed L. Molden for a home built for former salesman Randall Ruark. Ruark contends only 420 is due for closing costs and fees, while Molden says extra costs and unpaid commissions push the balance to 951.15.
Crowds flocked to the new 66,000 square foot Montgomery Ward store at Ward Plaza on Rt. 11 near Winchester for the official opening. A 9:45 a.m. ribbon cutting drew local and out of town Ward officials and about 1,000 attendees. The Winchester Park and Shop center becomes Ward Plaza with a five department format and expanded services under manager B Preston Howard and merchandising head Merton Webster.
Prediction calls for rain in Pacific coast states tonight with showers in southern Florida and snow flurries in the northern Rockies. Temperatures will fall in the Plains and upper Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes, and Ohio Valley, while the Plateau and north Atlantic states warm up.
A medieval legend recounts Saint Joseph choosing a mule to bear the Holy Family on their journey into Egypt. The animal allegedly incurred divine wrath, sparks a curse that it would have no offspring or progeny from its own kind.
Robert H. Trumbo, a Front Royal grocer, received a show cause order from Richmond Circuit Court Judge Edmund W. Hening Jr. to appear November 25 regarding alleged contempt over milk pricing. He has sold milk at 49 cents per half gallon in Front Royal, below the 54 cent minimum set by the State Milk Commission, while selling in another area at 39 cents per half gallon not under commission authority.
Heltzel notes Caskie will assume the role of incoming manager. Caskie studied building construction at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He served six years in the U.S. Air Force and joined C P in June 1961 as a staff assistant in the Engineering Department in Richmond.
Partly cloudy in Virginia with a cooler weekend ahead and little rain. Five day forecast shows temperatures 2 to 7 degrees above normal, rainfall to date 2.19 inches for October and 27.91 inches for the year. In New York U S Steel fell while Bethlehem and Republic Steel drifted, GM near steady, autos mixed and chemicals modest gains offset by declines in electric equipment.
In London Kentucky and Cleveland crowds up to 12,000 hear Barry Goldwater assail Lyndon Johnson. He denounces big lies and argues for a free society while blasting civil rights methods and urging voters to stand with the people rather than the polls. He predicts a major political upset in November.
Richmond Professional Institute figure moved to Newport News in September 1963 as assistant manager. He belonged to the Jaycees and St. Georgis Episcopal Church teaching Sunday School and serving on the vestry. Active in United Fund drives. Married to Margaret Ross of Amherst a Radford College graduate and former Dublin Virginia teacher. They have four children aged 2 to 9.
In a City Hall text read aloud, President Johnson urged equal treatment across races, warned against color based division, and framed his election as a path to horizons of opportunity, education, elder medical care, space discovery, and universal peace.
The prompt provides a numbered quiz with items including 180, United States 97 percent, Lorraine, a quoted phrase, Golden Gate, Commodore Dewey at Manila, Ernest Hemingway, 1000, Pluto, and Andrew Jackson. It appears as a mixed set of trivia answers or clues without a unifying event, producing a fragmented reference list rather than a single news item or report.
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