50 Years Ago: July 14, 2012

July 14, 1962

The Winchester Country Club will entertain with a “Song Title Costume Party” Saturday evening at the clubhouse. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes and for guessing the most titles represented. Dinner will be served on the patio beginning at 8 o’clock and music will be provided for dancing from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Mr. and Mrs. James Crawford and children, Roy Lee, Becky and Robert, have returned to their home in Homestead, Fla., following a stay with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Crawford, Lexington, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Conkwright, Clark County.

New York (AP) — The British jumped the gun and put through the first trans-Atlantic telephone call via Telestar Thursday night. The space communications satellite thus generated an out-of-this-world rivalry between the British and the French.