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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1957
Page
13
Dr Tan credo Martinez Garcia, a leader of Dominican Republic exiles, was shot and seriously wounded in Mexico City in an apparent assassination attempt. He was hit by a bullet at his office door and taken to a hospital with a head wound. Police searched for a Cuban man who arrived three weeks earlier from the Dominican Republic.
Classified display ads list items for sale including White Heath peaches from F A Shryock Co at 381 Millwood Ave with phone MD 2 3400 and a grocery store plus apartment for sale via Box 12 care Winchester Star. Also advertised used electric range and used Frigidaire with payments $5 down and $5 per month from Northern Virginia Power Co and contact MO 2 4101.
LAFF A DAY FOR SALE items include an International tractor and Fruehaus trailer in good condition with tires. Beeler Co. advertises. Strasburg VA. Rentals list Clearbrook Esso Station for lease with restaurant facilities and large apartment and garage. additional furnished apartment for gentleman. rooms for girls. WANTED used child’s bicycle by Robert Jones Jr., 20 West Gerrard St.
Several local notices list employment needs and sales. Wages offered to men or women for advertising work, office management, hospitality and hotel service positions. Items for sale include wood and coal stoves and a 1952 Ford. Also rental and buying requests for space, walnuts, and room and board.
An event notice for a shooting match to be held Friday September 27 at 6 p m at Hammack's Garage in Middletown. Prizes include quarter beef hams turkeys and other goods. advertisements mention 12 to 16 gauge shotguns and insurance arranged.
The Public Health Service monitors school closings as a key indicator of flu spread. Dr Dauer notes Mississippi shows about 24500 cases with central and northeast districts closed due to absenteeism, while the onset of a nationwide outbreak remains uncertain and could shift to Minnesota or another state next week.
In Los Angeles, the Superior Court rejected defense attorney Crowley's bid to dismiss the jury without a verdict. The defendant list includes Confidential, Fred and Marjorie Meade, Hollywood Research Inc., and Publisher's Distributing Corp. They face charges of conspiring to publish criminal libel and obscene stories about celebrities.
William Lee of Chicago, a union vice president and Chicago Federation of Labor president, withdrew his support for James R. Hoffa. The move, while noted by Teamster sources, leaves Hoffa’s path to be successor to Dave Beck uncertain as the International convention opens September 30 in Miami Beach. Thomas Hickey of New York warned a darkhorse could win, but did not name candidates.
In Canterbury, hundreds of Mrs. Gladys Proctor's pets were euthanized after her death. The will directed destruction of all domestic animals, carried out under RSPCA supervision by veterinarians and slaughterers. Animals included 120 sheep, ponies, cows, bulls, pigs, spaniels, cats, parakeets, chinchilla rabbits, and various birds. Sister Christabel Taylor recalled the deceased's devotion to animals and concern for their future care.
The state's highway deaths reached 632 this year, up from 586 last year. Flora Rose, 69, of Appalachia Wise County died in Norton hospital from injuries after a crash on State Route 83 near Appalachia. Trooper J E Fugate said she was a passenger in one of two vehicles. Jesse E Harrell, 63, of Suffolk was fatally injured in a crash on State Route 32 in Nansemond County.
Oral arguments in a Virginia case challenge the Pupil Placement Act have been docketed for the October term. Mrs. Theo T. DeFebio refuses to sign placement forms for her two sons, who were suspended from Fairfax County schools last April and remain barred from admission.
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