Ground Action Across Vietnam Surges With Casualties
U S command reports 315 Communist deaths in 24 hours as B52 bombers move from Guam to Thailand to strike near Saigon. In Cu Chi, the 25th Infantry faced a heavy shelling that killed three Americans and wounded 20, while the 9th Division pursued a Viet Cong force. South Korean units near Phu Yen Province endured an ambush by more than 200 guerrillas.
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Saigon
U.S. Command
Vietnam
Thailand
Guam
Utapao
South Vietnam
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Cu Chi
U.S. 1St Cavalry
An Khe
North Vietnam
Thai Nguyen
Ha Noi
Red Capitol
U.S
9Th
Phu Yen
President Johnson heads to Punta del Este summit
President Johnson flies to Uruguay for a 19 nation hemispheric meeting aimed at broad development plans to be shaped in coming years. Officials expect no major breakthroughs this first gathering, with a final declaration possible and a gradual move toward a Latin American common market between 1970 and 1985.
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Washington
Johnson
South America
Punta del Este
Uruguay
Dulles International
Virginia
Montevideo
Dean Rusk
Rioting Ends In Nashville After Violent Night
In Nashville Tennessee a night of racial violence near a Negro college ended with many arrests and a seriously wounded student. Two men George Walton Ware and Ernest Stephens faced riot incitement charges while Carmichael was not seen in the area.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
George Walton Ware
Atlanta
Ernest Stephens
Luskegee
Ala
Ware
Stokely Carmichael
Stephens
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Carmichael
Vanderbilt University
Temperatures Edge Up Into Five Day Forecast
A warm spell is forecast with above normal temperatures for the next five days. Tonight’s low is expected to drop to 40 to 45 degrees, followed by cooler conditions this afternoon and continuing tomorrow. The Winchester Fruit Laboratory reported a low of 51 degrees today, with 41 degrees recorded yesterday morning.
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Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Rev Bruce Macbeth Named Prelate for May Coronation
The Rev Bruce Andrew Macbeth pastor of Highland Memorial Presbyterian Church will serve as Prelate in the May 4 Coronation ceremony making Miss Virginia Guest the fortieth Apple Blossom Queen. He accepted the role as announced by Mrs Charles S Toan director of the Queen and Her Court. Macbeth, a New York City native, educated at Gorton High School Yonkers Davis Elkins College and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary earned a Bachelor of Divinity in 1964. Before Winchester he served as student assistant minister in Louisville and as student pastor at Beech Grove and Our Savior churches plus chaplain counselor for Indiana Department of Corrections Youth Division. He became pastor of the Highland Church in 1964.
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Bruce Andrew Macbeth
Highland Memorial Presbyterian Church
Virginia
Charles S. Toan
Department of the Queen
Macbeth
New York City
Charles E. Gorton High School
Yonkers
Davis & Elkins College
Elkins
W. Va
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Louisville, Ky
Seminary
Winchester
Highland Presbyterian Church
Louisville
Beech Grove Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church of Our Savior
Salem
Ind
Indiana Department of Corrections
Highland Church
Wins
Potomac Valley Park Planned for Potomac River
The Interior Department outlines a $40 million Potomac Valley National Park to protect 190 miles of river, 10 000 acres of public land, and 55 000 acres of private land from Washington to Cumberland. It targets Islands, canal lands, and riverside tracts for recreation and conservation benefiting nine million residents. Projections include funding and land acquisitions over eight to ten years.
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Washington
Interior Department
Potomac Valley
Cumberland
Charles F. Luce
Interior
House
Luce
Johnson
Potomac Valley National Park
Congress
Baltimore
Winchester
Martinsburg
W.va
Hagerstown
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey
Humphrey Returns Home From European Tour As War Protests Loom
President Johnson greets Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey on the White House South Lawn after his European tour. Johnson praises Humphrey as the authentic voice of America in European councils while noting antiwar demonstrations abroad. Humphrey says the mission listened learned and strengthened Western unity with Asia as a full partner. He and Mrs. Humphrey stand with the Johnsons as a 19 gun salute signals the welcome and Johnson plans a Latin American summit.
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Washington
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Europe
Humphrey
Asia
White House
America
Vietnam
West
Lady Bird
United States
Tentative Settlement In TV and Radio Strike
Negotiators reached a tentative settlement in the first nation wide TV and radio strike affecting ABC CBS and NBC. Pickets remained outside NBC Rockefeller Center as union and networks proceed to voting on ratification. The strike began March 29 and disrupted nightly shows with canned programming and reruns.
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New York
American Federation of Radio and Television Artists
ABC
CBS
NBC
Rockefeller Center
New York City
Ralph C. Patterson
Patterson
National Board of Aftra
AFTRA
Final Apollo 1 Fire Report Calls For Overhaul
A large NASA blue ribbon board found workmanship and management deficiencies in Apollo craft after the January 27 launch pad fire that killed three astronauts. It urged quick-escape hatch, fewer combustible items, and revamp of electrical and life support systems. lawmakers demand corrective action.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
U.S
Apollo
House
Senate Space Committee
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Clinton P. Anderson
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee
Rep
Olin E, Teague
D-Tex
NASA
Apollo 1 Board-Of-Review
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Edward H. White II
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
Floyd L. Thompson
Langley Research Center
Loudoun Street Sign Removal Planned After 7 PM
Loudoun Street signs between Piccadilly and Cork are slated to come down around 7 p m with a crane handling large sign removal. Irvin Shendow of Bell Clothes Shop, a Retail Merchants Association member, notes the Downtown Development Committee and RMA co led the effort. Jaycees will assist and remove smaller signs as the downtown facelifting begins with signs over The Jewel Box and Valley Photo Centre targeted for removal.
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Loudoun St
Piccadilly
Cork
Irvin Shendow
Bell Clothes Shop
Shendon
Retail Merchants Association
RMA
Downtown Development Committee
Winchester Jaycees
Jaycee
Larry Moore
Jaycees
Main St
Jewel Box
Valley Photo Centre
Teamsters Local Sets Meeting Amid Truckers Shutdown
Nationwide trucking curbs hit major firms including Hemingway Transport Smiths Transfer Allegheny Freight Snyder Bros and TEI lockout actions. Wages fringe benefits talks stalled as federal mediators plan to meet. Local 539 calls stop short of a strike and schedules 7:30 p.m. meeting at the George Washington Hotel to discuss the dispute.
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Teamsters Union
Hemingway Transport, Inc
Smith’s Transfer Corp
Allegheny Freight Lines
Snyder Bros. Motor Freight
Associated Transport
T.I.M.E. Freight
Washington
Local 539
Teamsters
George Washington
Smith’s
Valley Pike
Virginia Weather Brought by Cold Front Causes Showers
A cold front from the Ohio River Valley moves through Virginia today scattering showers across the state.
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Richmond
Ohio River Valley
Virginia
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Bruce A, Macbeth
Potomac Valley Park
National Capital Parklands
District of Columbia
Maryland
Great Falls
Mason’s Neck
Potomac
Humphreys
PTRA
National Broadcasting Company
48Th St
Lorna Sadler
Tina Nurse
Gus Fleming
Picket
John Daly
Fran Allison
Ed McMahon
Los Angeles
Chicago
Grissom
W. N. Swiggett
Teamsters Local 539
T.I.M.E. Freight, Inc
Martinsburg Pike
Hemingway
Ohio
Channel 6
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