Virginia Localities Receive 76 662 Highway Safety Grants
Eleven Virginia localities will share 76 662 for highway safety promotional projects. Dinwiddie County Manassas Franklin County and Boones Mill receive EMS funds for ambulances two way radios and surveys. Richmond gets 18 728 for accident record processing and Fairfax city 9 250 for a traffic violator school.
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Richmond
Virginia Highway Safety Division
John T. Hanna
Dinwiddie County
Manassas
Franklin County
Boones Mill
Hanna
Fairfax City
Bristol
Roanoke
Hampton
Virginia
Highway Safety Division
National Highway Safety Bureau
Annual Jaycees Fun Festival Closes On June 7
The Jaycees announce the Fun Festival concludes on June 7 with attractions and activities for residents. Organizers urge families to attend the final day event featuring rides games and local vendors.
Stricken Girl Earns Diploma After Polio Battle
Kay Frances Williams, 18, who battled polio and double pneumonia since infancy, will receive her Wayne High School diploma with 151 classmates. She spent years in hospitals and an iron lung, missing a year of home tutoring, and now plans study at the State Rehabilitation Center in Charleston. Her story is praised as heroic by welfare worker Mrs. Lee Ann Blankenship. Her father is unemployed after a state road workers strike. her brother serves in the armed forces.
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Jay Williams
E. J
Kay
Milton Memorial Hospital
Milton
W. Va
Huntington
Charleston
Lee Ann Blankenship
Wayne
Thas
State Road Commission
Arch A. Moore Jr
Armed Services
Rabies Clinic Scheduled in McDowell County District
Crockett Booth announces a rabies clinic in Big Creek district from Tuesday to Friday. All dogs five months or older not treated since 1967 must be vaccinated. Untagged dogs may be picked up. owners fined 25 dollars plus costs if guilty. Cats may be surrendered at the clinic. dog tags for 1969-70 available.
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McDowell County
Crockett Booth
Big Creek
Booth
Boothe
World Communist Conference Nears Amid Absences
Moscow set to host a nearly five year in the making world Communist conference with notable absentees including China's Communist Party and Albania North Vietnam North Korea and independent Yugoslavia Cuba sending observers. The meeting aims to unite anti imperialist actions though divisions remain and a bland agenda invites doubt about results.
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Moscow
Communist Party of China
China
Albania
North Vietnam
North Korea
Yugoslavia
Cuba
Illegitimacy Rate High In South Africa
CAPE TOWN AP report quotes Dr. Sally Woodrow president of the National Council for Maternal and Family Welfare noting more than one third of colored mulatto children are illegitimate and eight in ten colored teenage mothers have illegitimate births.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Outdoor advertising leader to address Bluefield group
Jess R. Coker of Atlanta will speak to Bluefield Sales Executives at the Bluefield Country Club Thursday night. He is UT educated and will be introduced by Ralph Woodie of Woodie Outdoor Advertising. The meeting will also elect new club officers with dinner at 6 15 p.m.
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Jess R. Coker
Atlanta, Ga
Bluefield
Bluefield Country Club
Coker
University of Texas
Ralph Woodie
Woodie Outdoor Advertising
Bluefield High senior earns DAR Good Citizen Award
Miss Lee Hancock daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank T Hancock of 2515 Cliffmont Street Bluefield receives the DAR Good Citizen Citation for outstanding senior at Bluefield High School presented by the John Chapman Chapter. She attends First Presbyterian Church serves as Senior High Youth Group president and District III secretary. She plans to study at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton Virginia.
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DAR
Lee Hancock
Cliffmont St
Bluefield
Bluefield High School
John Chapman
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hancock
First Presbyterian Church
Greenbrier Presbytery
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton
Sisters Leave For School Turn Up In Vietnam With Dad
Two teenage sisters Mary and Shirley Pelham left Atlanta for school with 35 cents each and later appeared in Saigon for a surprise visit with their father Charles R. Pelham, a civilian mechanic with LSI Corp. Their mother Sonnia Pelham expressed confusion over how they traveled to Vietnam and noted no air passage was booked. A Red Cross telegram confirmed the girls were located in Saigon.
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Vietnam
Dad
Atlanta
Saigon
Sonnia Pelham
College Park
Mary
Shirley
Red Cross
Charles R. Pelham
LSI Corp
Pretoria mulls changing over 200 street names
Pretoria officials weigh renaming more than 200 streets to resolve duplicate names across suburbs, a move aimed at easing navigation and mail delivery in the city. The plan would affect multiple neighborhoods as the city council considers updates to the addressing system.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Girl Found Chained to Wall by Father in Fort Worth Trailer
Police rescued 12 year old Sheri Laicheck who was chained to a wall in a Fort Worth mobile home. Her father Darryl Laicheck 32, a physical education teacher, was charged with aggravated assault and freed on bond. He claimed he chained her to protect her and said he loves her. Neighbors reported the girl had not eaten and that the chain was tightly fixed to a wall hook with no slack. The girl said the father had chained her several times and police broke through two doors to reach her.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Darryl Louis Laicheck
Sheri
R. E. McDonald
McDonald
Alderson Mart reports robust sale at live stock market
At Alderson Live Stock Market on Monday 273 head sold for 15782.98 dollars from 79 consignors to 32 buyers. Prices range across cattle hogs sheep and lambs with heifers steers bulls veal calves cows and calves and various quality grades listed.
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Alderson Livestock Market
Livestock Sold At Wytheville Market
Wytheville livestock market sold hogs veal lambs slaughter cattle and stock and feeder cattle on Tuesday. Hogs 28 top 24.55. veal 90 sold priced up to 38.30 for prime heavy. Lambs 360 sold prime 30.65 choice 29.10. cattle 100 sold various grades. stock and feeder 23 head with steer 500 to 750 pounds at 9.75 to 32.
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B. H
Wytheville
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