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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1959
Page
10
In Columbus Ohio hundreds of visitors viewed the body of Jasper Wettring 71 prominent restaurateur between death and funeral last week and one visitor may have taken a 3500 diamond stickpin from his necktie. The gold pin with diamond setting vanished before the services.
Norman Oklahoma twenty nine volumes of Our National Forests were removed from the University of Oklahoma library after termite damage.
Dr George M Solan a Augusta Military Academy graduate and Medical College of Virginia alum has joined the Hampshire Memorial Hospital staff. He comes from Sharpless West Virginia where he practiced three years and served on Man Memorial and Logan General Hospital staffs. He trained at West Virginia and American Universities and interned at Ohio Valley General Hospital. He and Mrs Solan with sons Stewart and George will reside in Romney.
A New York woman asked for Monteplier Vermont house lots with Atlantic Ocean frontage, a request the Montpelier Chamber of Commerce cannot fulfill. The city lies about 150 miles from the coast, making oceanfront land unavailable.
Capon Bridge High School hosts the annual P. T. A. Fall Festival at the school grounds Saturday starting at 5 p.m. The Capon Bridge band performs two arms during the evening. Prizes and an auction will occur, with dinners of country ham or fried chicken and a full menu of other foods. Harold Henderson leads as general chairman with teachers and P. T. A. members assisting. The event draws attendees from Hampshire and nearby counties and funds go to aid the band, athletic fund, and school needs.
Wendell Dick son of Mr and Mrs Purcell Dick of 873 Fairmont Ave has been elected one of 12 international trustees for the Kiwanis Circle K Clubs in the United States and Canada. A Potomac State College sophomore and physical education major he is employed by the Winchester Recreation Department this summer. He returned from the Circle K Convention at Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio where delegates from every state and Canada attended. As international trustee he will visit colleges giving talks about Circle K and its functions. Circle K serves college students connected with Kiwanis. Speakers at the national convention included Dr Arthur S Flemming Maj Gen Elvin S Ligon Jr and Fred L Morrison.
Dr Raphael Lemkin, 58, who coined the word genocide and led the movement behind the UN genocide pact, died Friday of a heart attack in New York. Born in Poland, he taught international law at Duke Yale Rutgers and Princeton.
A Canada goose is described with a wing span of about six feet, a black head, distinctive white cheeks, and a long black neck, making it easy to identify.
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