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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1956
Page
10
The U S Patent Office burned on December 15, 1836, totally destroying thousands of models drawings and books along with all patent application and grant records. Restoration of some records followed in later years.
The National Safety Council estimates holiday traffic deaths through Monday with immediate fatalities noted. Across the region Berryville Warrenton and Clarke County host festivals horse shows and a farmers market. Sports include softball baseball stock car racing tennis golf and swimming events with multiple games and matches scheduled through Monday.
The Clarke County Festival parade drew a large crowd as Miss Clarke County Mary Jean Rickard led the procession sponsored by Enders Fire Company. Winners include Hamilton and Marshall for fire equipment, Charles Town High School and Clarke County High School for bands, with prizes awarded to multiple fire companies, corps, marching units, and youth clubs.
Revival services begin tomorrow night at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church four miles north of Cross Junction on 522. They run nightly through September 7 at 730 PM with Rev. Philip E. Weeks as song leader and guest evangelist Rev. William Raney from Berryville Methodist Church. Congregational singing and choral specials lead into the message. services are open to the public.
President Eisenhower visited Burning Tree Country Club in Maryland with James C. Hagerty noting it was very warm and he might not play golf. The temperature near the White House was in the mid 80s and expected to rise into the 90s.
A district rule bars any students from attending Mansfield High School if their presence or attempts to enroll could reasonably be seen as inciting violence, applying to both white and colored scholastics regardless of background.
Egypt reports two raids in the Gaza strip and one in the El Auja desert area. In Cairo an investigation is underway near the border as authorities assess the incident and its implications.
Al Akhbar cites an Egyptian prosecutor seeking death sentences for espionage defendants including three British nationals James Swinburn, Charles Pittuck and James Zarb. In Cyprus a first French troop arrival follows renewed Greek Cypriot attacks on British rule with a hospital siege leaving four dead and a police sergeant among the dead. A Paris Foreign Office spokesman says the French military buildup aims to protect lives and property, not force a Suez settlement.
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