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Newspaper
Harrisonburg Daily News Record
Location
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 2004
Page
1
Virginia Night draws announce Pick 3 1-5-8 Pick 4 1-3-6-3 Cash 5 2-5-14-20-21 Mega Millions 6-13-19-34-50 Mega Ball 33 Lucky Numbers 5-2-5 DC Four 7-0-4-9 West Virginia Dow Jones Nasdaq index figures noted with a decline and note that the full business report appears on Page 31.
Quote from Pouise Binder Coalition member on page 15 states Canada cannot supply national needs for even a month and rejects sharing medicines. It highlights resistance to external drug sharing and asserts self reliance in Canadian healthcare.
On October 20 1803 the U S Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase marking a major territorial expansion. Also in 1892 Chicago dedicated the World Columbian Exposition highlighting a national event in the fair era. In 1903 a joint commission ruled in favor of the United States in a boundary dispute between the District of Alaska and Canada.
A Tuesday Daily News Record item titled Students Stand In For Bush Kerry clarified the event moderator. The correct moderator is Michael Smilowitz.
The Elkton town council voted to double the fuel-cost factor affecting electric rates. Town Manager Dennis Donachy said despite the factor increase, average electric bills should rise only six to nine dollars per month for residents.
State Thebia Parker recalls Grandma Lizzie born just after slavery as he preserves stories and poetry from his family's past. Parker has donated numerous artifacts capturing slavery’s memory to a new Fredericksburg museum, honoring elders who survived that era.
A 1943 diary and letters by 18 year old Helga Deen, kept for her Dutch boyfriend in a Tilburg internment camp, have been donated to a Dutch archive. The teenager and her family perished at Sobibor after transport from Vught, with letters back and forth hidden in a physics notebook.
Harrisonburg school board members heard brief progress reports from committee leaders on operating the Memorial Intermediate School for fifth and sixth graders. The new school will open in August in the current high school building on South High Street.
USPS 144 520 published daily except Sundays by Rockingham Publishing in Harrisonburg Virginia. Details include post office mailing, sections, pages, supplements, and postmaster address. Information lines list departments for General, Advertising, Classified, Display, Circulation and News with phone numbers and hours.
Israel's army chief Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon condemned a rabbinical appeal urging observant soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate Jewish settlements slated for next year's Gaza pullout. He warned that insubordination endangers the army.
Paris France Sikh students defy France's law banning conspicuous religious signs in public schools by taking their case to court. Education Minister Francois Fillon noted about 70 cases remain and most disputes involve Muslim head scarves while the law aims to preserve secularism and curb religious symbols in classrooms.
Afghan officials and U S experts say the opium trade now poses the main threat to democracy, funding graft and fueling militias. U S commanders consider expanding military aid to curb drug networks tied to Hazrat Ali and other warlords amid growing pressure for action against traffickers.
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