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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1963
Page
13
16 Gemini and Apollo astronauts signed contracts with Life magazine and Field Enterprises Educational Corp. Each will be paid 65 000 over four years totaling 1 040 000. The agreements cover their private narratives as they prepare for moon missions.
A knitting pattern note offers Pattern 7248 for a hooded jacket in sizes 4 6 8 10 12 14 with warm collar conversion. Details include two strand worsted yarn, cable trim, price 35 cents plus 15 cents extra postage first class, mailed to Alice Brooks Winchester Evening Star New York.
The Fischer quintuplets in Aberdeen continue to improve in St Luke’s Hospital as gifts and a potential exclusive story rights deal with Curtis Publishing flow in. Parents Andrew and Mrs Fischer anticipate a new home up to 100000 dollars and a total of about 250000 dollars in gifts and offers. The babies, weighing roughly three to four pounds and about 17 inches long, remain in the hospital nursery on tube feedings with James Andrew the most active twin and all showing steady progress.
Arlington police seek the killer of Dee Ann Shangle 29 a Pentagon stenographer found murdered in her Swank River House efficiency apartment. Autopsy cites two chest wounds and possible strangulation with a blood filled tub scene. Police note a purse but no wallet or Air Force ID.
On the five mile long boardwalk near the shore are 35 hot dog stands 25 restaurants 10 popcorn stalls 50 novelty shops 15 amusement parlors four shooting galleries five miniature golf courses 33 clothing stores two furriers two stockbrokers and two phrenologists catering to visitors.
The Air Force ended the search for the United States first winged spacecraft after reports suggested the 1100 pound payload sank in the Atlantic. Officials cited low chances of recovery but noted the mission yielded data on pressures and temperatures. A second launch is planned for December.
Today’s word is penury meaning absence of resources or destitution. The note urges thriftiness now to prevent penury tomorrow, highlighting vocabulary growth through daily practice.
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