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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1962
Page
11
The Hampton Roads Sanitation District Commission unanimously approved an 11.4906 million bond issue to finance a system expansion. The bonds will be advertised for sale immediately with bids due by 11 a.m. October 16 and sale completion hoped by November 20. The project adds 83 miles of lines and four sewage treatment plants.
A reader asks about a boyfriend wiping cleaned table silver at a restaurant and whether that is proper. The adviser says it is improper and suggests asking staff to replace a dirty piece rather than self cleaning.
Advertisement details Misses pattern 4907 sizes 10 through 20. Includes yardage for size 16 five yards of 35 inch fabric. Offers pattern catalog and mail order with 35 cents plus 10 cents extra for first class mail. Send name address zone size and style number to Anne Adams pattern dept New York address.
A reader questions whether pipe smoking is a sign of love or vanity and laments a partner’s constant pipe activity. Another asks if waitresses deserve tips. A Hyannis reader asks if Hawthorne trees need moss after transplanting. Abby invites responses and personal replies through the paper.
A compact English lessons note by W. L. Gordon covers common word usage missteps and pronunciation. It highlights grant versus accord, impassable versus passable, and defines precursor as a forerunner signaling an event.
President Kennedy signed the 1962 Agriculture Act aiming to raise farm income and cut government costs. The bill preserves one year of emergency wheat and feed grain programs with 18 cent in kind payments, sets corn and wheat supports, and outlines 1964 production controls if Congress does not act.
Moscow reports that U.S. aircraft recently buzzed six Soviet vessels in the Sea of Japan Pacific Ocean the Aegean and the Atlantic citing the incidents as provocation by Washington.
Andre C. de Porry named director of the University of Virginia extension programs with general supervision of regional centers. Wendell M. Lewis becomes director of the central and western Virginia center and Lt. Col. Robert A. Magoon heads the Hampton Roads Center.
Charles Kennemar of Little Rock donated a pint of blood at the University of Arkansas Medical Center while casting a line. He said the stunt showed how easy it is to give blood as a nurse drew the donation and the hospital released itself from blame. Kennemar, who said he has given blood 23 times, noted the Arkansas Heart Association struggles to recruit donors for open heart operations.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials report the Venus bound Mariner 2 spacecraft was knocked off sun earth orientation on September 8 by a micrometeorite. The craft spun on its axes but automatic systems quickly realigned.
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