Fighting Heats Up Across Viet Nam Fronts
Reported Friday and today heavy fighting 100 miles southwest of Saigon with moderate government casualties and about 60 Viet Cong deaths confirmed by air strikes. Air campaigns and search and destroy operations supported by helicopters, with one US helicopter downed and crews evacuated unhurt or wounded.
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Saigon
Seven Canals
Can Tho
Ferr Ried
Oider
U.S
Ca Mau
South Viet Nam
Navy
Coral Sea
Viet Nam
Weekend Weather Outlook for Local Area
The weatherman forecasts a cool and fair weekend for the area with daytime temperatures between 70 and 85 degrees tomorrow. Mostly calm conditions are expected as the forecast calls for continued pleasant weather through the weekend.
Winchester Hosts Visiting Mayor From Ambato Ecuador
The city will greet Mayor Eduardo Reyes of Ambato and his wife and sister-in-law at 10 a.m. City officials including Councilman Stewart Bell Jr and others will join them at City Hall. A morning tour of an orchard and apple packing is planned followed by a luncheon.
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Winchester
Ambato
Ecuador
City Hall
Stewart Bell, Jr
Battaile
Eduardo Reyes
Claude B Smalts
Winchester-Frederick County
James R. Wilkins
S. Lee Grant
L. Linwood DeHaven
Winchester - Frederick County
Growers urged to train apple pickers for upcoming season
Frederick County fruit growers must prepare to train new workers as a Labor Department campaign expands to recruit about 2,500 apple pickers in Mississippi Kentucky North Carolina and soon Virginia West Virginia and South Carolina. Growers should start training now to ensure ready crews when heavy picking begins. The Maturity Committee says Jonathans should be ready the week of pt 6 and Red Delicious the following week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Department
Charles S. Toan
Frederick County Fruit Growers Association
Mr. Toan
Tom Shock
Toan
Misissippi
Kentucky
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
South Carolina
Willard Wirtz
Association
Jonathans
Area Schools Reopening Schedule For Next Week
Frederick County and Clarke County public schools plan a staged reopening over three days next week. Clarke County first graders have a preschool day from 9 a.m. to noon, as Winchesters district resumes classes on Wednesday with a 9 a.m. principals conference at Handley High School.
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Area Public
Frederick County
Clarke County
Winchester
Handley High School
Train crash at Pont dHery station kills 13, injures 25
In Champagne near Pont dHery, the Milan-Paris express rear-ended a stationary Lombardy Express at the station. A railroad spokesman said both trains were bound for Paris and most deaths occurred in the Lombardy Express rear car.
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Champagnole, Franc
Pont D’hery
Paris
Lombardy
Lombardy Exress
Weather brings sharp temperature drop for Virginia
AP reports a large influx of cool Canadian air will lower temperatures in Virginia tonight. Skies clear tomorrow with continued cool conditions and mild winds.
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Richmond
Canada
Virginia
Steel Talks Resume Amid Looming Steel Strike in Pittsburgh
Negotiators resume talks with FMCS chief Simkin signaling little progress as 450000 United Steelworkers brace for a possible nationwide strike at midnight Tuesday. Union seeks 53 cents an hour over three years while the industry offers 40.6 cents, with shutdowns to begin if no deal is reached.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Union
First Storm Betsy Heads Toward Windward Islands
Betsy, the season’s first tropical storm, formed in the tropics and bore down on the Windward Islands with winds near 45 mph. Residents faced urgent precautions as forecasters warned increasing size and intensity. Meanwhile the season’s first hurricane Anna formed north of land and posed no threat.
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Miami
Fla
Tropics
Weather Bureau
Anna
Trial Postponed as Durham Retains New Legal Counsel
Circuit Court Judge Elliott Marshall granted the defense's request to relieve Luther Durham Jr. of current representation in a murder case. The postponed trial stems from the February 1963 slayings of Annie Snow and her daughter H. Hoover at their Double Toll Gate home. Durham, moved from a Richmond penitentiary, faces further delays while new counsel are appointed after statements of ineffective representation. He had escaped earlier this summer from a local jail and was recaptured by FBI Agent William Thomas.
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Circuit Court
Elliott Marshall
Luther Durham, Jr
Joseph W. White
Carle F.germelman, Jr
Durham
Annie M. Snow
H. Denis Hoover
State
Richmond
Frederick County
FBI
William Thomas
Bus Truck Crash Kills 11 in La
A Greyhound bus and a trailer truck collided near Vinton Louisiana late Friday night, killing 11 and injuring 28. The bus was en route from Houston to New Orleans on U.S. 90. The truck driver died. bus driverCritical. Most passengers were from Texas and Louisiana.
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Vinton
Greyhound
W. M Pierce
Houston
Tex
Pierce
Lake Charles
Sulphur
Oreange
Béaumont
Beaumont
New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
Willard Coleman
Five Injured In Area Vehicle Crashes
Five persons were injured in three area accidents yesterday. Four were treated and released at Winchester Memorial Hospital, one admitted. First crash at 3:50 p.m. on Rt. 50 near Silver Diner involved John Setzer and Franklin L. Myers. Second at 7:30 p.m. on Poor House Road involved John Clowser, Roger Holliday, and Mrs. William Mantie. Two French students escaping injury when a car rolled over on Rt. 7 east of Berry.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Rt. 50
Winchester
John Setzer
Franklin L. Myers
Front Royal
Poor House
Beestween Rt
John Clowser
Rt. 4
Roger Holliday
William Mantie
Rt. 7
Gemini 5 Nears Earth Return After Final Orbits
As Gemini 5 enters its last day in orbit pilots L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr prepare for the final 15 orbits and a Sunday splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean 200 miles northeast of San Salvador. Mission control reports focus on fuel, power cells, and jet life.
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SPACE
Houston
Tex
Earth
Suneday
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles
Pete) Conrad Jr
Gemini Control
Pistot Conrad
Atlantic
Sun
Atlantic Ocean
Sa Salvador
Reid
Gemini
Conrad
Jane
Recaptured After Escape in Berryville
Berryville deputy sheriff Robert Melbourne and Police Chief Robert Willingham recaptured Jesse Hatfield 27 of Cleveland Ohio at 10 46 after he escaped from the sheriff s office at 8 15 this morning He had been brought to the sheriff s office for booking on a disturbance charge when he burst through the screen and escaped After capture he faced charges of concealing weapons and breaking arrest.
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Berryville
Robert Melbourne
Robert Willingham
Jesse Hatfield
Cleveland
Ohio
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Strategic Air Command
Boyd’s
Eastream
Wayside Inn
Middletown, Va
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Elizabe
Eric Myer
Boyce
Virginia Game Commissions
Lanza
Santo
Thomas Tuggle, Jr
Steel
White
Germelman
Charles Bowman
Johnnie Mae
Coleman
Bowman
Johnnie
Welltown Methodist Church
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