Obituary notices from Charles Town and area
Joseph A. Warrenfeltz 69 of Charles Town dies after brief illness at home. He led Peoples Supply Co. and helped found local Chamber of Commerce and Peoples Bank. Survived by Grace Warrenfeltz, two sons, and one grandchild. Funeral 11 a.m. at Charles Town Presbyterian Church. Burial Edge Hill Cemetery. Also listed are obituaries for Wilton Singhass 67 Berryville and Jennings L Buck Whitacre Hamp shire County and Elon Daniel Shenk 94 Cross Junction and Robert Godrey Vance 76 Middle Road. Burial plans and funeral details follow.
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Joseph A. Warrenfeltz
Charles Town
W.va
Mr. Warrenfeltz
N. Samuel St
Peoples Supply Co. Inc
Sipe Springs
Tex
Jacob and
Elizabeth Foster Warrenfeltz
Chamber of Commerce
Charles Town Presbyterian Church
William H. Ramkey, Jr
Carlisle McDonald
Edge Hill Cemetery
Wilton Smith Singhass
Berryville
Mr. Singhass
Clarke County
Earnest Windfield
Betty Willingham Singhas
Adam
Boyd Singhass
Stanley Smith Singhas
Boyce
Herman Lee Singhas
Middleburg
Calvin Eugene Singhas
Austin Singhas
Guy Singhas
Winchester
Clarence Singhas
Robert Singhas
Harpers Ferry
Evelyn McDonald
Emily Smallwood
John H. Enders
Thomas S. Hogan
Green Hill Cemetery
Elon Daniel Shenk
Cross Junction
Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church
Reynolds Store
W.S. Gower
Karl Tangeman
Wesley Chapel Cemetery
George Whitacre
Vermont
Crosen
Montana
Purcell Dick
Charles W. Brill, Jr
B. Ray Place
Omps Funeral
Richmond Police Hunt Masked Gunman
Richmond police seek a masked gunman after the Easter Sunday and Monday shootings in the Fulton area. Mrs Shirley Sprouse, 25, was killed and Mrs Susan Barker, 19, wounded when forced from a car at gunpoint. another woman reported being shot at but escaped. Three homicide detectives investigate as officers patrol the east side.
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Richmond
Fulton
Lewis Street
Shirley Sprouse
Susan Barker
Funeral service for Sam Giffin at Jones Funeral Home
Sam Giffin, 89, of 601 Woodstock Ave died Sunday at Winchester Memorial Hospital. A funeral will be held tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Rev. James A. Fogleman and Rev. John Fitzgerald officiating. Pallbearers are Ora L. Foltz, William A. Miller, Walter B. Frye, Bennie P. Stotler, W. Austin Havermale, and Robert G. Smallwood.
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Sam Giffin
Woodstock Ave
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Jones Funeral Home
James A. Fogleman
John Fitzgerald
Ora L. Foltz
William A. Miller
Walter B. Frye
Bennie P. Stotler
W. Austin Havermale
Robert G. Smallwood
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Two Women Grabbed In Separate Assaults In Winchester
Two Winchester women were seized from behind by a white male in his twenties wearing a trench coat. The incidents, both described as attempted assaults, occurred at 8:45 p.m. at the South Loudoun Laundromat and at 9:16 p.m. on Cork Street between Washington and Stewart Streets. The man reportedly grabbed them with one arm and felt their bodies with the other hand.
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Winchester
Loudoun Laundromat
Cork St
Washington
Stewart Sts
Col Myers to Speak at ICL Breakfast Meeting
Col Allen L. Myers retired and active Gainesboro United Methodist Church member will address the International Christian Leadership program at a 7 a.m. breakfast tomorrow at The Elms Restaurant. The event is open to the public.
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Allen L. Myers
Gainesboro
Magnification Benchmarks of Electron Microscope Recounted
A scanning electron microscope can magnify objects up to 100000 times. The device enables detailed imaging at nanometer scales, supporting advanced materials and biological research.
Nixon rules out reintroduction of ground troops in Vietnam
President Nixon rejects sending U.S. ground forces to stop the North Vietnamese push into South Vietnam while keeping open the option of air strikes on North Vietnam. Spokesmen say South Vietnam would lead the counteroffensive, with discussions continuing on broader actions. Total U.S. troops in Vietnam stand at 95,500, set to drop to 69,000 by May 1 under withdrawal plans.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
South Vietnam
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Demilitarized Zone
United States
North Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnamese
McCloskey-Ziegler
Pentagon
Vietnam
da Nang
Creighton W. Abrams
White House
Weather overview for Northern Valley and Virginia with extended outlook
The region experiences clear and cold nights with lows in the 30s and 20s in mountains. days rise to the 40s and 50s with mostly sunny skies. An extended forecast notes a chance of rain Friday, near coast Saturday morning, otherwise fair with highs near the 50s and nightly lows around 38 to 39. Rainfall numbers are provided for the past 24 hours and monthly totals.
Saigon Press Censorship Threats Grow Over Vietnam Reports
Saigon officials threaten action against foreign and Vietnamese reporters printing groundless military reports. The government restricts outlets to official military and Vietnam Press sources, while confiscating 14 Vietnamese papers for Western reports on Camp Carroll surrender. Lt. Gen. Lam confirms some troops surrendered and notes the base commander shot himself. US sources question the colonel’s fate.
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Camp Carroll
Demilitarized Zone
Saigon Post
Hoang Xuan Lam
Lam
U.S
Cuban Trade Mission blasts kill official in Montreal
Two dynamite blasts at the Cuban Trade Mission on the 12th floor of a Montreal building killed one official and injured another. Police detained seven other Cuban officials after they allegedly blocked the investigation while attempting to burn documents amid the blasts.
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Montreal
Cuba
Ottawa
Larry Levis
Leopold Roy
Santa Cruz pool allows mothers to breast feed infants
The only public swimming pool in Santa Cruz will permit nursing mothers to feed babies courtside. Three mothers fed Monday without issue after officials asked one mother to stop last Friday. City recreation superintendent Paul Thiltgen said no complaints were received Monday and the group Swim for Lunch Bunch affirmed mothers’ right to feed their babies.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Paul Thiltgen
Baltimore Opera auditions for national competition
The Baltimore Opera Co announces its ninth annual national competition for operatic artists on May 25. Entrants must be between 20 and 32, with five prizes ranging from 1500 to 500 dollars. Prize money must be used for voice training, learning operatic roles, dramatic development, or language study within the United States.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Opera Co
United States
Wall Street Mixed as Dow Dips Amid Vietnam War Tension
The Dow Jones average fell 2.10 points to 938.82 at 10 30 a.m. while NYSE advancers edged decliners. Trading stayed active and many issues closed little changed with analysts attributing hesitancy to the South Vietnam offensive as Warner Co declined and Maremont and International Telephone moved.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
South Vietnam
Warner Co
Maremont
International Telephone
First U.S. President to Ride in an Automobile
A fragmented excerpt notes the 1900 event where William McKinley, as the first U.S. president, rode in an automobile. Other scattered phrases mention British war themes, Fulton’s steamboat, and general historical hints without clear context.
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Fulton
U.S
iWilliam McKinley
IRA Guerrillas Defy Appeal Battle Police in Belfast
In Andersonstown Belfast IRA guerrillas clashed with British troops in a Catholic district after a large funeral protest against IRA violence. No injuries reported. Whitelaw moves to Stormont Castle as internment policy and peace moves frame his early decisions.
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IRA
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Andersonstown
Dublin
William Cardinal Conway
All Ireland
William Whitelaw
Britain
Stormont Castle
Inmate Charged in Fatal Stabbing at Federal Reformatory
James Lee Jones of Baltimore was arraigned before U S Commissioner John F Caffron Jr on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder in the Saturday night stabbing death of Michael A Stein 21 of Washington D C at the federal reformatory in Prince George Va Stein was stabbed with an improvised knife in his room and was serving time for auto theft while Jones had an indeterminate sentence under the federal youth corrections act The case was bound over for a federal grand jury and Jones remained in custody for presentment to the grand jury later date
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Prince George, Va
Federal Reformatory
U.S
John F. Caffron Jr
James Lee Jones
Baltimore Md
Reformatory
Jones
Michael A. Stein
Washington, D.C
W. R. Hogan
Stein
Hogan
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