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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1966
Page
4
In Crico, a 12,000 foot Bolivian town, Tin Miners stage a carnival ritual fear of the devil to ward off bad luck for the year. Lavish costumes include the devil dancer and a cycling bear as cars carry silver vessels to the Virgin of the Mining Tunnel.
The Bonn government proposes a nonaggression pact with Russia Poland and Czechoslovakia and a nuclear freeze in Europe aimed at easing tensions. Bonn signals willingness to adjust postwar borders while hoping for a peace conference on a reunified Germany.
Mecklenburg County ABC Board said it would not enforce the attorney general ruling on liquor at home until after the 1967 General Assembly revises the law. Police will enforce latest interpretation. show cause hearing set for Monday. board aims to carry out the law as interpreted by AG. Virginia essay winner named Nancy Jane Woolwine, Abingdon High, and other state finalists noted.
Virginia news brief with multiple AP items. Topics include a University of Virginia spring seminar funded by Southern Regional Education Board and Ford Foundation. Virginia Beach council reapportionment ruling by Judge Walter Hoffman. a Tangier waterfront fire threatening oil tanks. Satterfield backing Gathrigh Dam funding. bank robbery report in Shawsville. obscenity case of Dr. Arthur Shelton. and A H Robins stock split and dividend news.
War in the jungle portrays Viet Nam combat with vivid danger as U S troops of the 173rd Airborne Division push through thorns and vines. A weary soldier asks how far to go while a sergeant replies it cannot be far now. The piece emphasizes the weary, dangerous slog against the Viet Cong bailiwick.
Firefighters still battle underground and surface fires in Dare County as rain aided containment, with over 250 personnel including forest rangers and military staff dousing hot spots on a training range. An ongoing burn ban treks across many counties, lifted where rains helped.
A Boston report notes carpeted interiors on a two car subway train between Cambridge and Dorchester and mentions a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman. The odd claim appears in a garbled excerpt with references to carpeting and a mysterious incident, leaving officials investigating the unusual claim.
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