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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1968
Page
11
In Czechoslovakia signs now read To Moscow in Cyrillic and other anti Soviet messages dot towns and roads. Citizens replace signs and misdirect routes to confuse occupiers. Russian drivers struggle while locals aid Western travelers and hand out Ivan go home cards.
A description of unsweetened or baking chocolates formed from roasted cocoa bean particles, ground and molded into bars. The text explains chocolate production basics and the final product’s composition.
Pope Paul VI arrived in Rome aboard a jet from Bogota after a 13 day tour the longest of his reign. His doctor said he was sound though tired and he described the trip as a happy journey praising crowds who cheered the Church and its social message while urging peaceful reform for the poor.
Culpeper, Va. AP A thief emptied the church poorbox at Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church after finding a note offering help. The note claimed a woman needed $200 to flee town and promised repayment in confession. The priest later found another insulted note and small cash left behind.
Market report lists hogs tonnages by weight with topweights 190-240 lbs at 20.90 to 21.30, 240-270 lbs at 18.90 to 20.25, and sows 300-500 lbs at 15.00 to 17.50. Veal and cattle sections show ranges for various weights and grades across choice, prime, good, standard, and utility categories.
President Johnson took unidentified friends for a ride on his speed boat on a central Texas lake Sunday afternoon and entertained them at his lake house. A cabin cruiser followed with Mrs Johnson Luci Nugent and more friends as the president gave a speedboat ride to his grandson Lyn up to 50 mph.
Washington ended 34 years of liquor less Sundays with New Year style events at bars and restaurants. Bars offered favors and noise markers. one sold 5 cent drinks and another staged a symbolic destruction of liquor prohibition cards. A city ordinance now allows liquor by the drink until 2 00 a m on Sundays and from noon Sunday to 2 00 a m Monday. Harvard University is the oldest college in the United States and began classes in 1633.
Louis B. Russell Jr a 43 year old Indiana school teacher became the world s 34th heart transplant patient at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond His condition was listed as satisfactory with normal vital signs and he was awake taking nourishment Doctors led by Dr Richard R Lower identified him as the recipient but did not name the donor The donor was unofficially reported to be Robert Clarent Brown 17 of Providence Forge Va who died from a gunshot wound Russell came for treatment of coronary insufficiency and had not planned a transplant his wife and children are from Indiana University and the family will receive noon bulletins only unless changes occur
The Associated Press records three drowning deaths in Virginia over the weekend. Douglas Woodson, 17, of Richmond drowned in the James River as friends watched unable to help him. Rex Allan Phillips, 16, of Big Stone Gap died after diving in Powell Valley lake. body recovered from 12 feet. William Lawrence Reynolds Jr., 32, of Cliftondale Park drowned in a park lake after leaving a campsite to sit in a boat. autopsy planned to confirm cause. Reynolds was a supervising engineer for Mizzi Inc. at Cliftondale Park.
Beverly Hills AP reports Jane Russell and Roger Barrett wed on Sunday after meeting while co starring in a June play in Niles Michigan. They left for a undisclosed honeymoon location. Russell ends a 25 year marriage to Bob Waterfield on July 30. Barrett and Russell are both 47.
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