Dirksen Calls For Showdown On Districting
Republican Leader Everett Dirksen urged a showdown in the congressional battle over reapportionment. The push comes as three House committees prepare to take up districting measures in Washington.
20 Aug 1964
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1964
Page
1
Republican Leader Everett Dirksen urged a showdown in the congressional battle over reapportionment. The push comes as three House committees prepare to take up districting measures in Washington.
The 165th Virginia Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church convened on Shenandoah College campus with Bishop J. Gordon Howard and Dr. Floyd Falk in charge. Ministers delegates and visitors from Virginia West Virginia and Maryland attend sessions through Sunday. Notables from Dayton Lebanon Valley College and alcohol education groups will present demonstrations and talks. Mayor Claude B. Smalls Jr and Rev. G. Raymond Womeldorf were to welcome attendees.
Edwin and wife moved from Washington to Gainesboro last December and planted their first garden this spring producing a three pound tomato named Belgium. Seven year old Steve Cowgill will appear on Ranger Hal's Birthday party on Channel 9 Saturday at 9 am. The Mercury reports a chilly 53 degrees last night with upper 50s forecast and highs near 82 today, upper 80s tomorrow. Linden DeHavens of Clearbrook show cantaloupe sized beets to The Town Crier.
Diskay Discount Mart Downtown Winchester advertises boys jeans in sanforized cotton denim for $1.00. The brief notice highlights a low price event at the Winchester store location.
A Pennsylvania woman, Qhatys C. Bratz, 27, of Middletown, died after a generator pulley fell from a car on Rt. 11 near Winchester and crashed through the windshield of the station wagon where she sat as a passenger. The fatality occurred around 1:06 a.m. at Memorial Hospital.
The Shawnee meeting elected Jim Coffinberger as chairman Gene Bowers as secretary and Tom Harrison as treasurer. The group renamed itself Citizens for Goldwater and announced an educational program each Tuesday on WINC radio with over 50 attendees.
Otha T. Howard 35 received bail from Frederick County Jail after Lynwood A. Gravatt posted 50 000 in certified funds in the county clerk's office. Circuit Judge Elliott D. Marshall set the amount last Saturday. Howard signed papers and was escorted to the county office building where Gravatt and defense attorneys witnessed. He will await transfer to Loudoun County authorities. Detainers against Howard relate to the February 25 1963 knife slayings of Mrs. Waltrie Naomi Hoover and her mother Mrs. E M Snow. a second suspect Luther Durham Jr. 22 is jailed.
GOP Chairman Dean Burch questions Johnson family wealth. He calls the $3,484,098 audit figure "incredibly low" and urges fair market value opinion. The Haskins and Sells audit placed total assets at $3.68 million with $1.72 million in real estate and broadcasting interests.
Perry Engineering Co Inc announces its new phone number 667 4310 for inquiries and service requests. The notice directs customers to use the updated contact to reach staff and schedule consultations.
Four helicopters joined the Coast Guard search for the 33 foot Spindrift missing in Chesapeake Bay. Dr. T Marshal Hahn, Virginia Tech president, his wife and three children were aboard. The vessel had engine trouble eight to ten miles north of Windmill Point after departing Piney Point for a day trip.
President Johnson accepts William C. Battle's resignation as ambassador to Australia with an effective date to be announced. In Geneva, Soviet delegate Tsarapkin says the USSR is ready to sign a general treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons to end nuclear aggression.
President Johnson signed into law a 947.5 million anti poverty measure to improve living conditions for millions, prioritizing the act after Kennedy's assassination. The authorization funds fiscal 1965 and requires new allotments later if programs continue, with mixed reactions from sponsors and Republicans.
Three Americans are unaccounted for in Bukavu as fighting persists between government troops and Communist backed rebels. Embassy says vice consul Louis R. McCarlane and two Army officers are missing with reinforcements airlifted in. staff and refugees seek safety at Kamembe Airport in Rwanda. Urban combat tightens grip on Bukavu, capital of central Kivu.
A flat high pressure area covered Virginia bringing mostly sunny skies with moderate temperatures.
Burton's offers a range of school clothes while A N Store and Boyd's Drug Store publish new phone numbers 667 4870 and 667 4871 for customer contact. The ad promotes buying more to pay less at Burton's.
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