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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1970
Page
2
Multiple funeral services and burial arrangements for Randolph E. Rudy Rodgers Jack Ward Widmyer LaVelda Batt Moore William Ralph Williams Ruth Kump Lewis C. Mason and others are listed with dates, burial sites, and pallbearer details. Services conducted by local clergy at Jones Omps Fairview and related funeral homes.
Finland and Greece. Amperage. Seven. False. Aluminum. Left. Statue of Liberty. Ky Tenn and Va. Song of Solomon. Winfield Scott.
Republican nominee Ray L. Garland and Gov. Linwood Holton rallied Friday in Chesapeake attacking George C. Rawlings Jr. and Sen. Harry Byrd Jr. Garland mocked Rawlings 1958 Edsel comparison and Byrd as clinging to an outdated few. Holton urged independent Virginians to back Garland and GOP candidates in November.
Mrs. Homer C Heishman 82 of Wardensville W Va died yesterday. She born June 7 1888 married Homer C Heishman April 9 1906 in Hagerstown Md. Funeral tomorrow 4 PM Loy Funeral Home Wardensville Rev Charles Andrews Rev Elmer Ganskopp pallbearers listed burial Wardensville Cemetery. Archie Lee Iser 61 of Three Churches W Va died yesterday born Dec 6 1908 in Hampshire County son of Cora Everett Iser and the late Alfred William Iser. He married Cletus Mulledy employed by Inland Container Corp. Survived by wife one son Robert and two sisters Virginia Bowen Shanks W Va Violent Shultz Winchester. sister Hilda Sneathen of Branch Mountain Methodist Church Three Churches. Burial Baptist Cemetery Three Churches. Body at residence after noon tomorrow.
Floyd Owens Jr. 22 of near Berryville died today at his home from an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound. He was born November 27 1948 in Clarke County and was a Vietnam veteran. Surviving are his parents two brothers six sisters and several siblings. The body is at John H Enders Funeral Home in Berryville.
Virgil B. Baker 63 of Wichita formerly of Frederick County died in a Sept. 9 head-on collision on Highway 169 near Bovey Minnesota. Also killed were his wife Catherine sister Sally Marie Lavalier and her husband Frank Lavalier along with the other car’s driver. Survived by two sons, three grandchildren, and multiple siblings. Funeral services were held Sept. 14 at Peterson's Funeral Home Coleraine Minn.
Winchester Jaycees urge public participation in the Jaycee Car Ralleye to benefit Northwestern Workshop Inc. for the handicapped. Registration Sunday noon to 12 45 p m at Ridge Homes Ward Plaza. The event starts at 1 p m with a two person minimum per car and a test of driving and observation skills through parts of the Shenandoah Valley.
Dr. Douglass O. Hill of Winchester Memorial Hospital will discuss Cancer of the Colon and Rectum on WHPL tomorrow at 1 15 p m. He will be interviewed by Harry Lovett, chair of the Public Information Committee for the Winchester Frederick County American Cancer Society unit.
Firefighters reported damage to farm equipment in a noon blaze east of Winchester at I 81 and Rt 50. Details on cause were not immediately available. Earlier, Gainesboro firefighters tackled a small grass fire off Rt 522 north of Winchester at 4 p.m. yesterday.
The Methodist Men of the North Frederick Charge host a Hymn Sing tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Carper's Valley United Methodist Church. The program is open to the public.
Snow appears white due to light reflecting off countless ice crystal surfaces. Refraction and scattering within the grains give the blanket its characteristic hue under most conditions.
Mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of thunderstorms and lows in the 60s to 70s. Sunday remains cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely and highs in the 70s and low 80s. Extended outlook through Wednesday calls for fair, cooler, less humid weather with a Monday shower chance and daytime highs in the 60s and 70s. Overnight lows should be 40s to 50s with no recent rainfall.
President Nixon named a nine member board of governors to run the U S Postal Service as it moves toward becoming an independent agency. The board will set terms, pick a postmaster general, and decide the reshaping date within a year. Members include M A Wright and others from Texas, Oklahoma, New York, Illinois, Tennessee, California, and Washington D C.
The Church of Christ College Park Sub division east of Winchester marks its Seventh Anniversary and Homecoming themed Christ's Church. Berryville student Bob Moldin Roanoke Bible College speaks tonight Cecil Styons leads tomorrow morning. A picnic dinner follows morning worship at Winchester Park Lion's Shelter. John Van Voorhis Paw Paw W Va brings the afternoon message. Public invited.
Three year old Patricia Vance was treated and released at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a 5 p.m. Rt. 522 crash south of Winchester. Police estimate total damages of 900 dollars from the collision at N Cameron St and Fairfax Lane where a pickup driven by Dane Ronald Owens struck Emil Albright’s car and then hit a fire hydrant. Ralph Hite and Robert Wolford investigated.
A Coast Guard cutter moved through predawn darkness toward a North Atlantic area off Newfoundland after a U.S. Air Force search plane reported sighting what could be part of the missing balloon The Free Life.
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