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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1965
Page
3
Roanoke AP reports Willmer F. Dillard, a Roanoke native and practicing lawyer since 1946, was named substitute Municipal Court judge. He will earn 200 dollars a month and serve as issuing magistrate for criminal warrants during nights and weekends.
Convictions were handed down in Newport News Corporation Court against Peter H. Hart Theodore B. Teets and Michael J. Ragan on armed robbery charges. Judge Douglas Smith tentatively set sentencing for Oct 11 for the three, tied to a 1963 Newport News home robbery involving two former detectives, one deceased.
The Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad launches its annual drive to raise 20 000 dollars for next year's operations. Letters go to 13 000 residents while canisters with the rescue emblem will be placed around Winchester and Frederick County. Tape drives are set for September 30 at Amherst Shopping Center and October 1 2 in front of the Frederick County Court House and Ward Plaza.
Fairfax AP Lt. Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. praised Northern Virginia localities Monday for their planning as the fastest growing metropolitan area. He urged more state help with planning advice and urban growth needs.
Frederick County's 1965 school census shows 9,734 residents aged 1 to 19, up 1,477 from five years earlier. The count includes all youths reaching their first birthday through their 19th year by Sept 1, with district breakdowns listed for Back Creek Gainesboro Opequon Shawnee Stonewall.
Advertises Misses' size coveralls with pattern 4853 in small to large. Mentions price of fifty cents per pattern, extra 15 cents for mailing, and instructions to send NAME ADDRESS ZIP SIZE and STYLE NUMBER to Anne Adams at Winchester Evening Star pattern dept in New York. Also promotes fall winter catalog and coupon.
A Richmond Circuit Court hearing is set for Tuesday at 3 p.m. on a temporary injunction request by three Richmond Professional Institute students. The group had their registrations denied until they could improve personal appearances and asked Governor Harrison to investigate the matter via telegram.
Altavista declared a water shortage on Monday and enacted a ban on lawn and garden watering and car washing. The measure exempts Altavista industries and self service laundries, as town manager D M Arthur cites extreme dryness and rising consumption depleting reserves.
Representatives of four civil rights groups in Richmond adopted a resolution denouncing the Ku Klux Klan. The South Christian Leadership Conference Virginia council on Human Relations Virginia State NAACP and Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee called on all officials and candidates to repudiate the Klan.
The Town Council granted a 30 year municipal gas franchise to Shenandoah Gas Co of Winchester. The company may operate transmission distribution and sale of gas to New Market residents and businesses under State Corporation Commission oversight. Albert W. Loring presented for the firm. Gas will come from a main line about 1.5 miles west of town.
The State Pupil Placement Board is expected to decide on an appeal by 19 Negro children seeking assignment to the white New Kent Elementary School. A desegregation law for grades one two and eight through twelve was approved by the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare. Thirty five Negro students are attending white schools in New Kent this fall with the 19 in grades three through seven involved in the appeal. The board also approved several other assignments of Negro students to white or predominantly white schools across multiple counties.
The U S Bureau of Public Roads approves a 27 mile stretch of Interstate 95 from south of Petersburg to just north of Emporia. Existing southbound U S 301 lanes will serve as service roads and the northbound 301 lanes will become the southbound interstate road.
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