Mount Airy approves revised fast food store site plan
Mount Airy planners approved a revised site plan for a fast food restaurant in Mount Airy Shopping Center. The plan lowers building size relocates the drive in window and reshapes parking, while approving an as built landscaping plan and future drainage adjustments.
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Town Planning Commission
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Bennett Branch Road
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Burger King
FBI releases found on Jones in Washington
A handwritten note found in Jim Jones expecting a major cult leader’s pocket is described as a last testament by a follower, possibly amid the mass deaths. The fragment expresses despair and a belief that the world cannot reach communism without Jones's guidance.
Gettysburg Handcrafters set Yale show
The Gettysburg Handcrafters will hold its annual Christmas show and sale December 1 to 3 at the Adams County National Bank Building on U.S. 15 north of Gettysburg. Juried exhibitors from the Handcrafters chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen will display across pottery woodwork dulcimers batiks metal sculpture macrame quilting jewelry weaving basketry and leather with demonstrations of bobbin lacemaking and basket making. Purchasers of one of a kind tree ornaments can win free crafts gifts. Hours: Friday noon to 9 p.m. Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
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Ltart
Note found with Jim Jones body at Dover Air Force Base
FBI said a guided note tucked in Jim Jones shirt pocket was written by a follower and addressed to him during the mass suicide in Guyana. Authorities plan to identify authorship as samples of Jones signatures are not conclusive.
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Dave Cassens
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Dover
Nutcracker Introduction At Carroll County Libraries
As many families prepare to attend a performance of The Nutcracker, Carroll County Public Libraries and Medora Lynn ballet students present an introd uction to the ballet. The program features a Cimstrip presentation of the story and a student discussion on ballet art and traditions. Free with registration. The Nutcracker too: Davis Library Dec 5 7, Northeast Library Dec 7 7pm, We Any Laracy Dec 13 7pm.
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Northeast Library
Laracy
Airlines may end policy of grounding pregnant stews
The Supreme Court weighs a challenge to state law prohibiting airlines from grounding pregnant flight attendants. United Airlines faces potential shifts as New York Division of Human Rights officials urge industrywide change. Most carriers bar flight duties upon pregnancy, with maternity leaves ending after medical clearance.
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Chicago
Anon Thacher Anderson
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Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
New York Times
Myron A. Farber
New Jersey
Slow progress in Dover bodylift project at base
Airmen and federal specialists labor to identify and prepare 40 of 12 Jonestown cyanide deaths at Dover Air Force Base. Fingerprints on 37, X-rays on 70, embalming underway. officials seek missing records and kinship photos to aid IDs and transport.
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Robert Groom
Airlift pilot not prepared for ordeal during Jonestown mission
Air Force Captain Karl Rodenhauser recalls flying 187 bodies in 61 caskets from Georgetown Guyana to Dover Air Force Base Delaware during the Jonestown airlift. He says the mass deaths left him emotionally numb yet proud to serve, and he feared for his own family as the mission carried on.
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N.J
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Vietnam
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Georgetown
Peoples Temple
Jim Jones
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Charleston
D.C
Jonestown Survivors Begin Return to United States
Survivors of Jonestown will depart Guyana for the United States by tonight or Wednesday, with seven adults aged 1 or older cleared to leave by Wednesday evening. Names include Hyacinth Torash and Grover Davis among others, while others’ hometowns are not yet listed. Investigations continue into who will depart or be held as suspects in the mass death at the Jonestown commune led by Rev. Jim Jones.
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Georgetown
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Skip Roberts
Northwest
Guyans
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Michael
Boise, Idaho
Michael Prokes
Modesto, Calif
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