Middletown Increases Budget To Eighteen Thousand One Hundred
Middletown Town Council adopted a new budget of 18 100 up 3 100 from last year with a unchanged 75 cent per 100 assessed valuation tax rate and a 30 percent assessment rate. The budget adds items for sanitation planning zoning and annexation survey with estimated receipts from real estate personal property licenses fines water service and taxes and estimated expenditures mainly for administration and salaries.
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Dletown
Erick
Middletown
ABC
State Softball Tourney Opens Friday at Bodie Grim Field
The state softball tournament kicks off Friday night at Bodie Grim Field with Mayor William Pattaile throwing the ceremonial first ball to catcher Ed Burch the City Softball Commissioner. Mank Wolfe the State Softball Commissioner will bat and Henry Lowry will umpire as Parks and Recreation Chairman. Little League football registration begins Thursday at 5 p.m. at the War Memorial Building for Frederick residents only with age eligibility ten to thirteen by the start date.
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Bodie Grim Field
William Pattaile
Ed Burch
Mank Wolfe
Henry Lowry
I the Parks and Recreation Com
War Memorial
Frederick Ee
Kern Motor Company
Young Men’s Sports Shop
Frederick drought disaster area recommendation by Virginia committee
The Virginia USDA State Disaster Committee in Richmond recommended Frederick County be declared a drought disaster area to Gov. Harrison and the Agriculture Secretary. Frederick County Disaster Committee Chairman Robert K. Stickley said the request for aid was filed July 6, marking the third straight year of the emergency program. If approved, farmers in the Conservation Reserve Wheat Stabilization and Feed Grain Programs may request grazing or hay from diverted acres, with local-level approvals reducing payments by ten acres released under the emergency program.
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Frederick County
Virginia Usda State Disaster Committee
Richmond
Albertis Harrison
Secretary of Agriculture
Robert K. Stickley
Virginia MacClure
McClure
Frederick
Stickley
ASCS
Three Downtown Offices Entered and Ransacked
Three downtown offices were entered and ransacked in Winchester last night. The theft included money and miscellaneous items from the insurance offices of Alson Hott and Elsie Alexander and the Girl Scout office in a complex above the Silco store. A screen was found torn from a roof vent as burglars gained access to filing cabinets scattered contents.
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Winchester
Alson Hott
Elsie Alexander
Girl Scout
Silco
Further Reductions on Summer Footwear at Lovett's Shoe Corp
Lovett's Shoe Corp at 156 N Loudoun St announces further reductions on summer footwear. Customers can save on sandals, sneakers, and casual shoes with sale pricing through the end of the week.
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Lovett’s Shoe Corp
N. Loudoun St
Town Under Patrol After 37 Arrested in Demonstration
Allendale County scene saw 37 civil rights demonstrators arrested in the county courthouse during a protest of voter registration practices. Federal representative posted blanket bonds of 200 each for 36 demonstrators and 700 total for white youths. Reverend C A Webster Jr said the move was a new federal procedure as about 75 state troopers stood by to maintain order.
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Allendale
Allendale County
C.A. Webster Jr
Webster
McNair
South Carolina
Major Policy Reforms On Immigration Voted
Vietnamese and U.S. officials recount a day of combat with Viet Cong forces across South Viet Nam. At Phuoc Binh and Phuoc Xuyen outposts nine guerrillas were killed while six militiamen faced heavy losses. Other actions included shelling of Soc Trang base with light casualties, and air strikes across Da Nang Yen Bay and Yen Bai corridors as waves of sorties mounted against Viet Cong positions.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Phuoc Binh
Phuoc Xuyen
Soc Trang
Mekong Delta
Phuoc Toa
D Zone
Quang Ngai City
da Nang
Harold R. Alston
Salt Lake City
Utah
Details settled on deploying more U S troops to South Viet Nam
Gen Earle G Wheeler said a military leaders conference in Honolulu settled some details of deploying 50 000 more American troops to South Vietnam The plan remains sensitive and not to be discussed publicly Final decisions hinge on balancing military requirements with available capabilities and he noted Army Guard units are being sorted out but well located
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Honolulu
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
South Viet Nam
Wheeler
Washington, D.C
Presi
Heath
Ford Doubts White House Leak on Viet Nam Talks
Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan said he suspects a White House leak about a Viet Nam conference between President Johnson and congressional leaders. He denied being the source and urged moving on, while Johnson called the leak “perhaps malicious.”
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Washington
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Johnson
White House
House
NBC
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Ford
Pentagon
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Peiping
Moscow
Karl Mundt
R-S.d
Jerry Ford
New Tory Chief Loses Verbal Duel With Wilson
London AP reports Edward Heath making his parliamentary debut as Conservative leader failed to outshine Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson in a verbal exchange. The House defeated Heath’s no confidence motion 303 290 with Liberal support. Heath accused Labour of over dramatizing Britain’s finances and warned of import surcharges and quotas.
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Wilson
London
Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
Independent Times of London
Heath
Conservative
Daily Telegraph
House of Commons
Laborites
Britain
House Unit Approves Immigration Reform Bill
Washington AP The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill pushing major immigration reforms. It would abolish the 1920s national origins quota system by July 1 1968 and replace it with a new preference order favoring relatives of U.S. citizens. The plan sets a 170 000 annual ceiling by country and a 20 000 limit per nation while preserving Western Hemisphere immigration.
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Washington
House
Senate
U.S
Western Hemisphere
Soviets vow they will not sign any nuclear treaty
At Geneva the Soviet Union declared it will never sign a treaty to halt nuclear weapons spread while West backs NATO nuclear forces. Tsarapkin called the NATO plan absolutely unacceptable and attacked U.S. Viet Nam policy as a major obstacle to disarmament, prompting a sharp response from Foster who urged serious negotiations.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
West
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
United States
Viet Nam
Tsarapkin
U.S
William Do. Foster
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