Pickets March As Shareholders Meet In Virginia
About 15 Teamsters union pickets marched peacefully outside the Williamsburg Conference Center near Williamsbu g as stockholders gathered for Anheuser Busch Co meeting. The company reported weak business this year, while no clear cause for the slump was given amid the picket line.
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Williamsblung
Anheuser-Busch Co
Teamsters Union
Williamsburg Conference Center
James City
Anheuser-Busch
August Busch III
Busch
St. Louis
Tracy Fife
Houston
Fife
OSS
Vernon Jones, Jr
August Busch
Williamsburg
Anheuser-Busch Inc
Virginia tests safer polyurethane mattress replacements
Virginia corrections director says tests are underway to find safer mattress alternatives for jails and prisons but no decision will be made until an alternative is proven substantially safer. Initial results show all mattresses burn when exposed to flame, with cost estimates for replacement running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Charlottesville
Virginia
Corrections Department
Jack F. Davis
Albemarle County
Kelly P. Reynolds
Reynolds
Charlottesville-Albemarle
Davis
Man shoots self in court after verdict in Adel Georgia
In Adel Georgia a 48 year old man identified as James Billy Courson shot himself in the courtroom after a Superior Court jury found him guilty of stealing a tractor. Sheriff D J Connell said Courson had been calm and unsearched when entering the courtroom and pulled a .22 caliber pistol from a seat packet firing it just above the left ear. His family witnessed the incident.
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Adel. Ga
James Billy Courson
D. J. Connell
Courson
Pearson
Connell
Further Leaf Transplanting Delayed By Weather
RICHMOND AP The Virginia Crop Reporting Service says extended hot dry weather in April has cut spring hay yields and delayed transplanting of flue-cured tobacco. First hay cuttings have begun but yields will be light. Tobacco beds are watered where possible. Freeze damage to fruit crops is expected to be heavy in some areas, with peach losses 30 to 100 percent, apples variably damaged by mid April lows. Small grain and vegetable seeding slowed by dry soil. light rainfall occurred, but most areas stayed dry through April 23.
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Richmond
Virginia Crop Reporting Service
Virginia
Piedmont
Liner eyed as hotel after sale to Ship Shore
A Washington firm Ship Shore Corp led by Robert Oliver seeks to buy the mothballed SS United States in Norfolk and convert it into a floating hotel. Congress may change law to allow stationary use. previous bids failed at $7.5 million. Oliver and Laurence Henderson cite sufficient financing and $4 million modernization estimate for hotel conversion.
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Norfolk, Va
United States
Horn
Ship Shore Corp
Robert Oliver
Federal Maritime Administration
Oliver
Laurence Henderson
Marine Architects
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Thur
Man
Self
Thorities
Harnsberger‘s
Men's & Boy's
U.S.A
Harnsberger
Crop Service
Norfolk International
Congress
Lenor K. Sullivan
D-Mo
House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee
Ship Shore
Fay Ian
Campbell Maustela
Sale
Mem Furn
Monroe
Ase
Ballou Park
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