Deputy Charged in Clarke County Shooting Case
Warrant issued for Frederick County Deputy Sheriff Richard Streit with charges of malicious shooting in the Sunday incident that left Richard Jenkins with a chest wound. Jenkins was treated at Winchester Memorial Hospital and later jailed on traffic violations as deputies were suspended during an ongoing investigation.
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Frederick County
Richard Streit
Clarke County
John Slater
Mr. Streit
Richard Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Winchester
Anderson
Streit
Owings
Albert M. Nicodemus
Berryville
Roy Messinger
Jenkins
West Virginia
Summit Point Road
Rt. 7
Virginia
Nicodemus
Rt. 340
Summit Pt. Road
Slater
Clarke
Clarke County Motors
Sgt. Breeden
Frederick
Major South Vietnam bases shelled amid intensified action
Allied bases including Da Nang Cam Ranh Pleiku Soc Trang Binh Thuy and Camp Eagle faced rocket and shell attacks. A Da Nang fuel storage tank fire forced evacuations while Cam Ranh received night shelling with minor injuries. Five Americans were wounded in a Quang Ngai convoy ambush.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
da Nang
U.S
Dien Bien Phu
Cam Ranh
Pleiku
Central Highlands
Soc Trang
Binh Thuy
Mekong Delta
101St Airborne Division
Camp Eagle
Hue
Quang Ngai
Protesters Target Selective Service as May Day Protests Grow
Antiwar demonstrators focused on the Selective Service headquarters in Washington as part of a weeklong lead toward May Day actions to shut down government activity. Police reported numerous arrests during a Capitol intrusion featuring guerrilla theater and red paint.
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Washington
Congress
District of Columbia National Guard
Ft. Meade
Col. C.C. Bryant
Guard
Defense Department
Daniel Z. Henkin
Justice Department
Justice
Capitol
Congressional
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pentagon
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Virginia declares extraordinary fire hazard closes state parks
Gov. Linwood Holton orders a noon closure of state parks forests and brushland amid severe fire risk as rain is forecast and open burning within 300 feet is banned. A 26 year old worker died trapped by a 2 500 acre Botetourt County blaze on Sheets Mountain near Eagle Rock. Nelson County fires were controlled with U S Forest Service water bombers.
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Associated Press
Linwood Holton
Virginia
National Weather Service
Winfored Goff
Big Island
Botetourt
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Tech
Goff
Sheets Mountain
Eagle Rock
Nelson County
U. S. Forest Service
Charlottesville
Crabtree Falls
Priest Mountain
Tye River
Gladstone
Kotouc Has One Charge Dismissed
In Ft. McPherson Ga a military judge directed a verdict of innocent today on a charge that Capt. Eugene M Kotouc assaulted a Viet Cong prisoner by cutting him on the neck at My Lai in 1968 Col Madison Wright let stand a charge that Kotouc maimed the prisoner by cutting off part of a finger during an interrogation Wright ordered the jury to limit deliberations to the maiming charge
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FT. Mcpherson, Ga
Eugene M. Kotouc
My Lai
Madison Wright
Kotouc
Humboldt
Neb
Wright
Plan to Close 2 Frederick County Nonaccredited Schools
Round Hill and Bryarly elementary schools in Frederick County are not state accredited and will be closed as soon as possible. Superintendent Dr. Melton F. Wright cites lack of facilities and staff as reasons and notes this is the first year elementary schools are rated. Round Hill serves 137 pupils and Bryarly 123.
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Round Hill
Bryarly
Frederick County
Melton F. Wright
Wright
White Hall
Armel
Highview
Winchester
Kernstown
China urged to take constructive role in Asia
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the United States seeks a constructive Chinese role in Asia and that the U S is on the final lap of the Vietnam war. He urged SEATO members to aid South Vietnam’s postwar economy and welcomed Nixon’s outreach to Peking as easing regional tensions.
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Paris
William P. Rogers
United States
China
Asia
Rogers
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
South Vietnam
SEATO
Nixon
Washington
Peking
U.S
America
Red China
Guest Seeks Republican Delegate Nomination for 17th District
Raymond R. Guest Jr. of Warren County joins four others as candidates seeking the Republican nomination for the House of Delegates in the new 17th District. The farmer and businessman said he will seek support from Warren Fauquier Frederick Clarke and Winchester City residents.
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House of Delegates
Raymond R. Guest
Warren County
Guest
Warren
Fauquier
Frederick and
Clarke
Winchester
Virginia Weather Outlook Tests Rain With Approaching Front
The National Weather Service reports a high pressure area over Virginia with a low pressure front extending from South Carolina to Oklahoma. It is expected to move north into Virginia by Wednesday, bringing rain or showers.
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Richmond
National Weather Service
Virginia
Great Lakes
South Carolina
Oklahoma
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Jennette Faye Smith
Miss Smith
Roanoke College
Qui Nhon
Secretary of Defense
Melvin Laird
Bethesda
Laird
Tonite
Pizza Hut
Jr. Dept
Margaret L. Hodgson
Loudoun
Raymond R. Guest, JR
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