Commission Okays WPA Hill Plans Near Conrad House
The Winchester Planning Commission approved the general location and extent of a proposed parking lot on the Conrad House site at 12 N. Cameron St. A demolition permit is not yet issued. The BAR declined to permit razing the Conrad house citing historic importance.
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Conrad
N.1
Cameron St
City Planning Commission
City Buildings Department
Wendell Seldon
Planning Commission
Charles T. McGavin
Applied Parking Techniques, Inc
Reston
Martin
City Building Office
WPA
Board of Architectural Review
BAR
Godwin Monitors Campus Unrest in Virginia
Gov Mills E Godwin Jr says he is watching student unrest at Hampton Institute and Moton High School in Farmville. He voiced concern over Wednesday takeover of Hampton Institute administration building and has not decided on any action.
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Richmond
Mills E. Godwin Jr
Hampton Institute
Farmville
Moton High School
Country Hams Baked and Sliced to Order Sale
Special sale note lists ham offered at 2.50 with to order service and a shoe sale with items priced 12 and 16 dollars. It also announces Argenbrights Shoe Store opening in a new location at 2700 Valley Ave Rt 11 South and mentions B and M Chevrolet Cadillac. Continuous text shows various ad items and street address.
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Virginia
Fiancee & Rhythm Step
Argenbrights Shoe Store
Valley Ave
Rt. 11
Maddie
Glass Barn
Relief Methodist Church
Stephens City
Stoll Wenders, Inc
Middle Road Rt
Winchester
B & McHevrolet-Cadillac
Actress Nicole Jaffe to Lead Antique Car Parade at Shenandoah festival
Nicole Jaffe, 20, an MGM film star born in Montreal, will serve as Antique Car Marshal for the National Antique Car Eastern Meet during the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. She arrives May 2 and appears at events including Sports Breakfast and Mayors Luncheon while waving a 150 car parade.
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Nicole Jaffe
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Don Jennings
Art Bragg
Jaffe
Monetreal
Canada
Alson Smith
Elvis Presley
Nichole
Montreal
Acme Metals, Inc
Lebanon Declares State of Emergency After Riots
Protests by Palestinian refugees in Lebanon trigger a state of emergency with curfews in Beirut and six towns. In Tyre a clash leaves twelve dead and 62 wounded as army reinforcements seal off the area and riot police, armored cars, and Bustant command respond.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Jnew
Tyre
Rashidien
Israel
Army
Emile Bustant
Star Festival Photo Contest Seeks 1969 Images
The Star sponsors an Apple Blossom Festival photo contest. Entries must be taken during the 1969 Festival and relate to it. Prizes are 25 for first, 15 for second, and 10 for third. The Winchester Optimist Club grants a trophy and an Anscomatic camera to the top teen photo. Postmark deadline is midnight May 31. Any number of pictures may be entered and color slides are not allowed. An entry blank will appear in a later issue.
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Star
Winchester Optimist Club
The
Sirhan Is Condemned To Death
In Los Angeles AP jurors concluded Sirhan Bishara Sirhan deserved the death penalty for assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The panel cited the crime’s cold brutality and Kennedy’s high profile as decisive factors after several ballots. May 14 is set for formal sentencing with automatic review and potential appeals.
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Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
George Stitzel
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Albert N. Federico
Stitzel
Los Angeles Times
California
Superior Court
Herbert V. Walker
Walker
Grant Cooper
Demonstrations Hit Two D C Universities And Princeton
The Associated Press reports clashes across Ithaca and Washington as Cornell faculty overturns charges against three Negro students while City College of New York remains closed. Demonstrations erupt at American and George Washington Universities as students challenge campus policies and demand minority access and Black studies programs.
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Associated Press
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y
City College of New York
Washington, D.C
Princeton University
Cornell
Barton Hall
James A. Perkins
Government Department
Allen P. Sindler
Lodge Urges Practical Troop Withdrawal Steps
United States ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged North Vietnam to join practical steps to withdraw foreign troops from South Vietnam. At the 14th enlarged peace talks session in Paris he said the move could trigger a sequence to end the war, while Xuan Thuy replied that only U.S. and allies’ troops remain. Tran Buu Kiem of the Viet Cong pressed for U.S. withdrawal and change in Saigon policy.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Henry Cabot
Lodge
Xuan Thuy
Thuy
Tran Buu Kiem
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Saigon
U.S
Grato
U S B52 raids unleash heavy bombs along Cambodia border
U S B52 bombers dropped over 2 000 tons of bombs across a 130 mile stretch northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border in the war’s heaviest raids. Targets were Viet Cong war zone bases and the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos. Casualties rose with 8 Marines killed and 19 wounded five miles south of the DMZ, plus 9 Americans killed in two more helicopter losses.
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Saigon
U.S. Command
Cambodia
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Nixon seeks penny postal rate hike and bold overhaul plan
President Nixon asked Congress for a one cent rise in the first class letter rate to seven cents and six cent postcards, with no change to airmail, aiming to lift postal revenue by over 600 million and reduce a looming 1.2 billion dollar deficit. He promised a major Post Office overhaul within 45 days, including reforms to curb deficits, improve service, and cut rate-pressure.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Post Office Department
Post Office
Virginia Weather Remains Dominated by Cold Northerly Flow
A cold northerly air flow continues to govern Virginia weather keeping temperatures chiefly cool over the past days. The pattern persists across the state with no immediate warm trend in sight.
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Richmond
Virginia
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