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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1957
Page
12
Gene Curtis, a Wyoming highway patrolman, used his two way radio to summon the Laramie rural fire team when his car caught fire on the highway south of Laramie. The quick response highlights the effectiveness of on road emergency communications.
Kenneth C. Patty will take the oath Monday at 11 a.m. in the State Supreme Court of Appeals with Chief Justice Hudgins administering. He succeeds J. Lindsay Almond Jr., who resigns to campaign for governor. The ceremony follows a federal civil suit involving NAACP against Virginia laws, with Patty potentially substituted as a defendant.
A policy note states that no Israel currency of any amount may be brought into or taken out of the country. The rule applies to all travelers and shipments, with strict compliance required at entry and exit points.
A Los Angeles Mirror News item recounts a mother writing a letter to a motorist to prevent traffic tragedy as schools reopen. The note, four years old, laments lost children who died in a crash caused by speed and recounts the ongoing flow of flowers from the driver on anniversaries. The mother, now mentally ill, is described as unable to write again.
A Rhode Island Superior Court judge ruled the Pawtucket school teachers strike illegal and ordered a temporary restraining order. Judge G Frederick Frost said teachers are government employees with no right to strike, noting 10 000 students are affected and citing Coolidge on public safety.
Arthur W. Sherman of Davis West Virginia found three Breeder's Gazette issues from 1907 and 1908 and a Baptist Home Mission monthly from March 1900 in an old West Virginia attic. The 1907 issue features Dan Patch the trotter. Two Gazettes remain intact with tape repairs and include livestock market information. Sherman will loan the church magazine to any church that wants it.
Stores in Winchester stay open Saturday nights until 8 p.m. or later depending on location. Shoppers are urged to plan late visits as many businesses maintain extended evening hours for weekend shoppers.
A mixed list of local stocks with prices and par values including American Furniture, Commonwealth Natural Gas, Farmers and Merchants Nat Bank, George Washington Hotel, O'Sullivan Rubber Corp, Potomac Edison, Shenandoah Valley Nat. Bank, Victor Produce, Virginia Storage and Winchester Storage. Prices range from 30 to 470 per share or par values noted, reflecting a regional market update through White, Wed and Co.'s Winchester office.
A construction sign at a youth center in Culver City proclaims Our Heir Aid Shelter. The wording suggests a misprint or unusual phrasing during the building phase. Local officials have yet to comment on the project’s intended program.
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