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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1966
Page
3
In Charleston area residents reported strange lights near Sullivan's Island Mount Pleasant Folly Beach and Isle of Palms. Veterans using binoculars observed a large round object about 100 feet diameter hover over water between jetties and Folly Beach before it shot straight up at high speed.
A New Delhi dairyman received a two year prison sentence at hard labor for selling adulterated milk to the city police department, one of his principal customers.
Roanoke family finished a week-long 200 mile bicycle trip through three states and planned an Appalachian Trail ride, now content but unlikely to repeat. McKenzie named president of Roanoke new community college, Hamel confirms the appointment. Drought lowers Roanoke River flow to 34 cfs, the lowest since 1934. Norfolk & Western passenger train derailment near Blue Ridge Station causes a one hour delay with no injuries. Seaboard Air Line reports higher revenues for Q2 and first six months, but lower net income. Chincoteague Pony Penning on Assateague Island begins with ponies to be penned and auctioned Thursday after a Wednesday roundup.
Moscow reports a new Ministry for the Protection of Public Order to combat hooliganism across the USSR. It empowers police with on the spot fines, harsher punishments, and wider powers. minors risk 10 to 15 days jail with labor. Parents may be held responsible for underage drinkers.
Four persons in two families died when a Missouri Pacific freight train struck their car at a crossing three miles west of Russellville Arkansas on Tuesday. The victims include Mrs. Jack Burns 33 and three of her children Holly 9 Jerry Sanders 9 Debbie Sanders 10 who was critically injured. The car was driven by Mrs. Burns and the train dragged the car eight blocks. Sanders parents from Kenosha Wisconsin were related to Mrs Burns.
The U S Weather Bureau reports extreme drought across the Western Piedmont Northern Virginia and Central Mountains with Tidewater Eastern Piedmont and Southwest Mountains in severe status. Meteorologist Joseph P Hardin cites a stagnant high pressure system over the mid Atlantic states and northeast as the drought cause.
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