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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1961
Page
12
Apple market at Martinsburg West Virginia shows offerings increasing and demand light with the Winchester Martinsburg section indicating a softer tone. Local buyers seek lower prices as sellers hold back on higher asks in a quiet market segment.
Andrew Gott, superintendent of the Winchester Public Welfare, will address the Kiwanis Club at its noon luncheon tomorrow at the Washington Hotel. His talk is titled Is Welfare Assistance a Tool of Socialism.
Orchard run Golden Delicious and Jonathans offered in cartons tray pack U S Fey with price ranges from 3.50 to 4.50. Red Delicious and other varieties listed with per 4 lb to 5 lb bags prices from 25 to 40 cents. Bulk per bushel sales to truckers noted for Golden Delicious. Packing house sorts U S Fey and better, Jonathans 1.25 to 1.35 dollars, Red Delicious 1.50 to 1.75.
More than fifty participants join the 6th annual Winchester Freder ick Community Chest fundraiser at the George Washington Hotel. The $49 945 goal covers eight agencies including Winnie Day Nursery and Salvation Army as speakers outline the campaign plans.
Ervin Cleveland reports only 24 dollars remain to reach a 1000 dollar gift to the Winchester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals marking his tenth anniversary as agent. He started in Oct 1951 and the gift funds a new animal shelter. He also seeks 100 new members by Oct 1. 60 have joined so far.
The Round Hill Ruritan Club will hold its regular meeting on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Round Hill Community Center.
The Blue Chapter at Christ Episcopal Church parish hall hosts a Thursday 8:30 program for members and guests. Works by Jan van Eyck Rogier van der Weyden Dirk Bouts Hugo van der Goés Hans Memling Quentin Metsys Pieter Brueghel and Hieronymus Bosch will be analyzed, each film complete in itself with eight paintings reviewed from the 15th to 17th centuries. Contemporary Flemish music accompanies the screenings.
The Winchester Corporation Court granted five divorces. Two were bed and board with custody to Higgs and Camp respectively. Three were final, including Van Sickle, Smith, and Ruark, with custody to the mothers in each case.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson said if Soviet atmospheric detonations continue, the United States will have to conduct similar tests to check weapons systems, including antimissile missiles, despite Kennedy’s bid for a ban. He noted underground tests supplement knowledge but cannot replace atmospheric tests for final verification. The Soviets had already fired 15 atmospheric shots as the debate over a comprehensive test ban persisted.
Countess Marguerite Cassini died Monday in New York at age 79. She was a prominent figure linked to Theodore Roosevelt and was born in Bucha.
Frank Fay, 62, an American vaudeville and Broadway comedian and radio star, died at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica after an abdominal aorta rupture. Born November 17, 1898, in San Francisco, Fay rose from a six year old stage debut to the Dyer and Fay team and later starred in Harvey on Broadway. He appeared in films such as Show of Shows and They Knew What They Wanted, and once topped vaudeville pay at 17,500 dollars weekly. His marriages included Barbara Stanwyck, with whom he had an adopted son, plus an earlier marriage to Gladys Buchanan Fay.
Mrs Hugh Crisman won the tri color for her Old Mill display at the Strasburg Flower Show. The Lord Fairfax Club led by Crisman took red in the inter club class with Top Our Churches.
Miss Diane Rudy of Warren County placed third in the Virginia State Fair beauty contest at Front Royal last night. She has won Miss Warren County and Miss Warren County Fair titles and is a sophomore at John S Mosby Academy. First went to Miss Nancy Byrd Lacy of Halifax County Fair. Second to Miss Brenda Brewer of South Central Fair.
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