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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1964
Page
7
Readers voice concerns about school shower privacy for modest students, a milk delivery flirtation, and a wife who resists public displays of affection. Abby endorses privacy arrangements, warns about potential romance risks, and advises patience while a husband supports his wife through graduate study.
AP reports off-Broadway Gramercy Arts Theater pits two operators in divided management. Alexander E. Racolin will run the playhouse this season booking all events while partner Martin Rubin will be sole director the next semester.
Advertisement notes pattern 4968 Misses Sizes 12-20 by neredoms with a blouse, six sizes, yardage 39 inch jumper 2 1 2 yards, 34 9 yards blouse 35 inch. Price fifty cents plus 15 cents mailing. Address orders to Anne Adams Winchester Evening Star Pattern Dept New York. Includes new designs and coupon for a free pattern catalog.
Mr and Mrs C H Blaine of Strasburg identified as the audience’s longest-married pair at the Wayside Theatre opening night for The Fourposter. Married June 26 1907 they settled in Strasburg for retirement near family with daughter Betty Leeach in Front Royal and son Richard in Richmond. They receive a complimentary dinner certificate from Wayside Inn manager Carolyn Hammock. The Fourposter stars Pamela Taylor and Will Gregory under director Owen Phillips and runs all week.
Boston AP reports Halloween traditions vary from playful to ominous. The piece notes fearless parental risk and historically stern observances in England Ireland and Scotland, framing Halloween as a fusion of Roman harvest rites and medieval witchcraft.
Shepherd College will crown its homecoming queen this Saturday with Dr. B Floyd Flickinger presiding. The coronation takes place at 10 45 a m on the Health and Physical Education Building sun deck. Queen candidates include Ahn Bradt Martinsburg Suellyn Lehman Westfield NJ Judy Mellett Springfield Carole Rochelle Washington DC Betsy Irver Union NJ.
Ernest P. Bradley, the sole survivor of a Piedmont Airlines DC-3 wreck near Charlottesville, Virginia, reflects on survival five years later. He recounts hours of pain after the crash, rescue delays, and the ordeal in the Blue Ridge woods, noting continued fear of flying has lessened over time.
The piece describes autumn harvests in Britain and how Halloween grew from pagan rites. It notes Druids linking Samhain to the dead, the eve ending the Celtic year on October 31, and warnings of ghosts goblins. It mentions Mack Olla and druids demanding food in early festivals.
Donald McKay was elected president of the 4-H Club meeting at the Robinson School. Keith Rodgers was named vice president Gary Bennett secretary and Steven Shirley reporter. The club will study electricity this year.
A Mechanicsville man Darlington Henley aged 34 died in a two car crash in front of his home on Virginia 627 in Hanover County at 7 10 am Today. The Virginia road toll for 1964 rose to 856, up from 793 a year ago.
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