Elk of the Year Named at Local Elks Lodge Installation
F Weaver Welch is honored as Elk of the Year at the 1966 Lodge meeting held at the George Washington Hotel. The ceremony publicly installed officers for 1966 47 and featured past exalted rulers conducting the installation ritual.
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F. Weaver Welch
Elk
George Washington Hotel
Elks Fraternity
F. W
Lee Ebert
Joseph McDaniel
Perry Wright
William Deavers
Arthur Gilkey
Charles Ebert
Arvin Williams
George Brain
Stephen Culbert
Lodge of Elks
Edmund Speakman
William Baker
Fritz Thompson
Don Jennings
John Ramey
Ernest McIntyre
Byrd Announces Virginia Industrial Growth With New Georgia-Pacific Plant
Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr chairing Virginia Economic Development notes 1965 saw more new plant announcements in Virginia than last year by three to one. He dedicates a $25 million Georgia-Pacific plywood plant in Emporia employing over 250, part of a broader record of 102 new plants and 110 expansions statewide last year.
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Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Inirginia
Virginia Advisory Board Economic Development
Ord
Virginiaivision of Industrial Developent and Planning
Virginia
Georgia-Pacific
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Byrd
Emporia
Virginia Advisory Board On Economic Development
House Starts Busy Week With Pay Raise and Bills
The House opens a busy week with pay raises for federal workers, Food for India aid, and over 8.3 billion dollars in appropriations for the Treasury, Post Office and Interior Departments. The Senate plans to vote on moving the Community Relations Service to the Justice Department, with completion by April 11.
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Washington
India
Honery
Treasury
Post Office
Interior Departments
Congress
Senate
Johnson
Commerce Department
Justice Department
House
McNamara to Address Editors at Montreal May Meeting
Defense Secretary McNamara will speak at the American Society of Newspaper Editors May meeting in Montreal at a luncheon on May 18. About 500 editors are expected, with Canadian publishers attending as guests. The event marks the society’s first outside the United States. The House agenda includes a bill to sell or gift surplus food to India and a $1.1 billion Interior Department appropriation for the next fiscal year.
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Senate
Congress
India
Interior Department
New York
Robert S. McNamara
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Montreal
Vermont
Royster
The
Wall Street Journal
McNamara
United States
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