Deaths and Funerals in Winchester Area
Obituaries list Olive Elizabeth Wise of White Post and several local residents. Details cover service times, burial sites, pallbearers, and surviving relatives across multiple churches and funeral homes.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1961
Page
2
Obituaries list Olive Elizabeth Wise of White Post and several local residents. Details cover service times, burial sites, pallbearers, and surviving relatives across multiple churches and funeral homes.
Day projects continued farm productivity gains with dairy and fruit farming expanding while farm numbers shrink. Huntsberry notes retail strain but anticipates urbanization, and Shockey foresees more classrooms, stores, and shopping centers as Winchester Frederick County grow toward 1970s.
Forty six members of Headquar local Natal d Units gave blood at the Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic at Christ Episcopal Church Parish Hall to aid Maj John G Castles of Fredericksburg who was injured in a car train crash near Charlottesville Aug 30. The 128 bottles collected fall short of the 150 quota. Castles, operations and training officer to the Second Battle Group 116th Infantry Virginia National Guard, is a patient at University Hospital Charlottesville where more than 30 pints had been given. The University Hospital will accept pint for pint donations to replace blood used for Castles. The Charlottesville unit also plans to donate blood for him.
Clarke County High School invites adults to join evening home economics classes, with topics including hovering, drapery making, mosaic tile work, canning and sewing. If interest is insufficient the classes may be canceled. next meeting is 7:30 p.m. at the home economics department.
The piece notes Roger Maris focus on salary amid criticism of his pace toward 60 homers in 154 games. It discusses media pressure and photographer moments near the batting cage as he weighs public perception and his place in baseball history. The story hints at Ford Frick era season implications and a possible 162 game schedule record.
Phillip Hunter of Northern Virginia Power Company moderated a forum on regional prospects. Harold G. Brown, bank president, presided over the meeting held in the Winchester-Frederick County area as officials discussed a decade of strong growth.
Kenneth Kerns Jr a 17 year old from Martinsburg West Virginia is reported missing and may be in the Winchester area He has blond hair is five feet tall wears glasses green pants a dark green sweatshirt with white stripes He is the son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Kerns of 314 E Burke St Martinsburg reported missing to authorities.
General Motors and the United Auto Workers reach a three year contract covering GM's 350 000 hourly workers after a 27 hour bargaining marathon. Settlement comes after months of local plant actions with full production expected by early next week.
A dense sales directory lists multiple auctions across Virginia and nearby towns from Sept 21 to Oct 7. Items include antiques furniture livestock cattle real estate and farm equipment plus bank stock and assorted household goods. Auctioneers include Charles R Duvall W D Orndorff and Archie Jones with locations in Winchester Berryville Boyce and Bartonsville.
Gromyko stated the Soviet Union would not support a single secretary-general even on an interim basis. He cited Khrushchev’s plan and urged a trio of secretaries-general as the solution. A separate Iowa bus encounter noted a girl replying she would pay full fare and withhold her age for statistics.
Rain ending tonight with a low in the lower sixties gives way to clearing and warmer conditions. The extended forecast for Virginia from September 21 to 25 calls for temperatures 2 to 7 degrees above normal with rain possible early next week. Rain totals include 2.56 inches to date and 30.87 inches for 1961 through November.
The telegrams discuss a possible U S counter-offensive linked to a three headed United Nations secretariat and a new peace organization. A firm U S stand behind the UN could pressure the Kremlin while neutral nations urge clearer American policy.
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