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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1964
Page
7
Rain revived area life with a weekend soaking while residents host relatives from Maryland and Oklahoma. Kernstown and Siler sections report school, church, and hospital notes, with Diana Ritter and friends attending FerRum Junior College and RMA School. multiple visits, picnics, and hymn sings mark community happenings.
Brucetown Sunday School at 10 a.m. and Worship at 11 15 a.m led by Rev Robert Coach at Brucetown Methodist Church. Visitors include Edgar Carter of Berryville with Kate Marshall relatives and multiple families from Fairfax Arlington Winchester Martinsburg with various relatives. Women’s Society attendees from Brucetown Church joined the District Workshop at Market Street Methodist Church on Sept 16.
A collage of Dear Abby columns includes marital status questions, a warning about a church organist, a teen issue on boundaries, and a 1964 social page with local visits and hospital notes. The mix shows personal dilemmas, family rules, and community life across ages.
Ad for Swift Seams Pattern 4770 offering demure checks and provincial prints for school and social wear. Includes size 6 yardage and price details, plus ordering steps via Winchester Evening Star and address in New York. Also promotes a fall winter catalog and a coupon offer.
Ohio State University operates the nation’s only campus course in aerial application taught annually. It trains students to spray dust and restock lakes, using aircraft under 350 horsepower. Applicants need 500 flight hours and a commercial pilot rating.
Stephenson Kindergar ten opened with 15 pupils enrolled under director Mrs Violet Day and teacher Mrs Ruby Beck. A Pot Luck supper by the Ladies Bible Class drew about 40 people in the church social room last Saturday. Various relatives and visitors arrived for weekend gatherings and short visits with local residents.
Willi Stoph, a former bricklayer and Nazi army member, was named premier of communist East Germany and deputy to party boss Walter Ulbricht in the State Council. He succeeds Otto Grotewohl, who died of a stroke. Stoph had been acting premier since 1960, serving since Grotewohl fell ill.
Dr J W Jull of the University of British Columbia Cancer Research Centre compares current work to the 1932 stage of atomic bomb development. He reports experiments indicating a steroid hormone could deliver cancer destroying groups to tumors, but notes findings are uncorroborated and not all cancers would be cured.
Three Virginia Lutherans will present a resolution at the Virginia Lutheran Church Men convention in New Market urging the church to oppose violence and disorder. The measure cites social tensions and accuses some church authorities of elevating civil disobedience, causing confusion among the faithful.
The Salt Institute reports highway crews will use about 3.9 million tons of salt this winter with deliveries already made and rest ordered by state county and municipal buyers. Institute statisticians note 3.9 million tons can melt about 1805.7 million tons of snow.
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