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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1962
Page
11
A reader asks if a 18 year old wife should accept her husband going out alone and hiding their age. Another letter notes a Ring gift with public wearing age and control concerns. Abby replies on fairness and possible underlying issues.
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A baggage car carrying small quantities of radioactive isotopes from Oak Ridge to the University of Connecticut and Virginia Tech burned near Christiansburg. Isotopes strontium 85 calcium 45 and sulphur 35 were in lead boxes with non inflammable packing. Few millicuries total. No serious contamination expected. Firefighters quarantined for radiation checks. Ft Meade experts found no contamination.
Democratic congressional candidate John C. Marsh spent two days in Frederick County visiting the Frederick County Agricultural Fair and meeting residents. The campaign named Richard Farrier Staunton campaign manager with aides announced for Rockingham County and Harrisonburg including Lester Beyler in Rockingham and Dan Stickley in Harrisonburg.
A bankruptcy referee J C Brooke held a hearing with Billie Sol Estes and his wife Patsy Estes and Bobbie Estes. Patsy and Bobbie claimed no large transfers or assets in the past year. Estes invoked the Fifth Amendment nine times and refused to answer about bank records and dealings with Commercial Solvents Corp. The trustee and creditors pressed for access to records held by Harry Moore.
NEW YORK The American Brake Shoe Company directors declared a quarterly dividend of 60 cents per share on common stock. The dividend is payable September 29 to shareholders of record September 21 and matches the second quarter. Blake Shoe has paid 233 straight dividends since 1902 founding. INDUSTRIALIST DIES DETROIT AP Ben Stone, 55, industrialist, died Wednesday of cancer. He helped run suits after William C Newberg resigned as Chrysler president in 1960.
Superintendent C S Norton said the Warren County School Board acknowledged a supervisors request to refund funds allocated for transportation. He noted action is premature this term. Supervisors asked for return after the board declined to haul rural students to John S Mosby Academy. Buses have since been bought by the Warren County Educational Foundation which seeks financial aid from the supervisors to operate them.
Washington AP reports negotiators including President Kennedy Acting Sec Wirtz and mediator Francis A ONeill held a decisive session to settle the 17 day telegraphers strike on the Chicago and North Western Railway. An agreement could allow trains to resume within 24 hours once signed by the railroad and the AFL CIO telegraphers union. The walkout began August 30 idling about 13 500 workers and labor seeks union control over layoffs.
City buses will run two daily trips to the War Memorial Building starting Monday. Buses depart McCrory's on N Loudoun Street at 10 a.m. and arrive at the Memorial Building at 10:25 a.m. A second trip leaves at 2 p.m. and reaches the memorial at 2:25 p.m.
Billie Sol Estes allegedly siphoned 195000 in cash and checks from his companies between March 14 and April 6 as federal fraud charges loomed. A.B. Foster testified to the Senate subcommittee that Estes used company treasuries, just before his arrest on March 29. The hearings, tied to farm program abuses, may resume after Estes’ trial, with tentative testimony from other witnesses and a broader look at government aid and cotton allotments.
Rep. W. Pat Jennings of Virginia meets with 9th District Democrats to map campaign strategy for his bid for re election. He first went to Congress in 1954 and faces Republican Leon Owens of Lebanon in the November general election.
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