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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1959
Page
1
Betty Buckley, 17, lives with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buckley in White Post. She plans to stay with swimming dancing and reading for now but still loves horses. The caption notes a training pair with uncertain handler confidence as they started with ears back in opposite directions.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller urged state action amid a surge of teenage violence that left four youths dead in a week. Police from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. boosted patrols as Kennedy reported rising arrests under 21 for felonies, including murders and rapes.
The town installed a new radar timing device on the police car to replace the old electric timer praised for accuracy. The 25 mph limit applies in the business district. A new driver, Mrs. Charles Smith of AlbIn, had a plane land beside her car during a road test, asking for directions to the airport. Colonel mascot plans for James Wood’s Colonels include a full dress uniform and horse rider at games. Buddy Graves of 926 Woodstock Lane grew a prize beet weighing 4 pounds 2 ounces and 19 inches long.
The National Safety Council projects 450 traffic deaths over the 78 hour Labor Day weekend from Friday 6 pm to Monday midnight. The forecast, up 30 from last year, assumes nearly all 71 million U S vehicles on the road for about seven billion miles. Authorities urge sobriety and strict traffic law adherence.
Two barns near the northern Frederick County area were destroyed in separate fires causing thousands of dollars in damage. The Cedar Grove Jerry Bennett farm blaze started at 4 35 p m with Clearbrook and Gainesboro responding. Firefighters reported a lingering odor and stored hay, and a hog, sow with piglets, and a cow were saved from the flames.
The State Pupil Placement Board rejected all 11 Charlottesville Negro transfer requests to white schools for the term, continuing a policy against Negroes attending white schools. Observers expect federal judges to direct or overrule the action to maintain integration plans.
The Gibson Negro Elementary School in Frederick County awarded Hamman Construction Co. the major building contract on a low bid of 61725 dollars. Plumbing and heating went to Lyle P. Strosnyder for 13933 dollars, and electrical work to J. C. Harman & Son for 4250 dollars. Total project cost to 79
New York families protest juvenile delinquency and racial tension by sending children to segregated Southern schools. Overcrowded public schools and neighborhoods with poor living and recreational conditions drive parents to relocate students out of state.
The Associated Press reports threatened walkouts were averted in rubber glass and meat packing as deadlines neared. About 100000 workers were spared while steel strikes idle half a million and other workers. Agreements include Goodyear Tire & Rubber 24000 workers 10 cent an hour raise and Armour & Co meat packers 14000 workers. A 70,000 meat packing walkout was avoided temporarily and a glass strike was extended day by day for 2000 moldmakers across 80 plants. A San Francisco Teamsters wage bump of 4.20 a day for 5000 members ends the 25 day strike. Continued coverage on page 2.
Reports said the heads of India’s army navy and air force planned to resign in protest with Defense Minister V K Krishna Menon over promotions. Nehru may reshuffle his cabinet as anxiety grows over Chinese incursions near Tibet frontier.
A Soviet entourage of about 100 will accompany Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the United States. Included are Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and wife, with 50 Russians in the official party and 39 journalists. Khrushchev and family travel September 15, with senior officials from atomic energy, education, and health ministries.
An old ad-style notice promotes Maple Walnut Ice Cream at Howard Johnson Restaurant located in the George Washington Hotel. The snippet also mentions tire buyers and sellers, including Southern Tire at 916 S Braddock St offering cash for odd-sized tires, and Fleet & Co Inc advertising fifty-pound cans for sale at eight cents per pound.
Frederick County schools opened the 1959 60 session with 4 614 enrollments, up 199 from last year 4 415. High school enrollments reached 1 262, elementary 3 352, with transfers to James Wood and Round Hill noted and several school reassignments to balance loads.
The Weather Bureau issues a 30 day outlook for September predicting above normal temperatures in the western half of the nation and across the Middle and North Atlantic states. Departures will be strongest in the Northern Plains and Far Southwest with near normal elsewhere and below normal in the Middle Mississippi Valley. Precipitation should be above normal in the eastern third and deficient in the western half. other areas expect normal rainfall. Coal ad ends.
President Eisenhower resists a prompt summit with the Soviet Union and says top talks must wait for Khrushchev meetings. Macmillan concedes after recognizing the U S position. Khrushchev praises peacemaking following Eisenhower discussions as Adenauer reaches out to Poland.
The House Public Works Committee approved a billion dollar gasoline tax increase to extend interstate highway funding for 22 months. The bill, raising the federal gas tax by one cent, moves to the House Rules Committee and then likely to pass the full House.
The Retail Merchants Association announces Winchester stores open all day tomorrow and every Wednesday. Event notes include a 6:30 p.m. gathering on Wednesday September 2.
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