North Vietnamese Near Phnom Penh in Closest Attack yet
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces pressed on Mont Krasas Krao six miles northeast of Phnom Penh in a major assault just as Vice President Agnew left Cambodia. In Vietnam six Americans were killed and 26 wounded in the worst ambush in months as Allied air power tried to repel the attack.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Vietnam
Mont Krasas Krao
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Thailand
Maj
Am Rong
U.S
Saigon
Amman quiet after nightlong fighting and war news
Amman lies quiet after a night of fighting between Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian troops at the central post office building. Yasir Arafat’s forces reportedly withdrew after yielding command to guerrilla orders. The Palestine National Council rejected the U.S. Middle East peace plan. Nearby clashes and shelling were reported earlier with casualties. International figures urged compromise and continued mediation. Brezhnev and Jarring commented on the truce and talks in related updates.
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Associated Press
Jordan
Yasir Arafat
Amman
Palestine National Council
Middle East
Radical
Popular Democratic Front
Council
U.S
Nixon welfare reform plan stalls in Senate tug of war
President Nixon signaled compromise on the family assistance program to speed Finance Committee action while conservatives resist. The plan would start nationally on July 1 1971 with three field tests in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to refine regular income payments to the working poor amid Senate delay. Nixon calls the plan the administration’s most important domestic bill and says he is gravely troubled by the Senate delay.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Abraham A. Ribicofn
D-Conn
Office of Economic Opportunity
Newsey
Pennsylvania
Foreman Recovering After Electric Shock
Robert Boyd a utilities foreman for the City suffered an electric shock while repairing the reservoir on Ten nyson Ave shortly after 7 last night His condition is good a hospital spokesman said This morning S H Reaves utilities superintendent reported the crew was repairing an altitude valve and Boyd brushed a 110 volt drop line in the vault He was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital by the rescue squad
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Robert Boyd
Tennyson Ave
Winchester Memorial Hospital
S. H. Reaves
Boyd
Winchester
Fires threaten timber in Washington state forests
Forest fires in north central Washington have razed more than 88000 acres and killed Willie Shaw of Portland. About 7000 trained personnel and loggers, ranchers, and farmers wage the battle as Haven Stanaway warns rain is unlikely and control work could drag for two weeks even if brief rain occurs. The Weather Bureau confirms no rain is forecast.
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Wentachee
Wash
Washington
Willie Shaw
Portland
Haven Stanaway
Forest Service
Weather Bureau
Weather bureau revises Nelson County rainfall record
The Weather Bureau says the night of August 19 20 1969 in Nelson County measured 27 inches not 31. The miscount triggered deadly floods that killed 126 in Nelson County and the rusty barrel tale linked to Mrs Higginbotham. The real record remains 30.8 inches in Smethport Pa from 1942.
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Richmond
Higginbotham
O’lary
Weather Bureau
Nelson County
Smethport
Agnew vows to fight curb on aid to Southeast Asia
In Bangkok Vice President Spiro T. Agnew promised to leave no stone unturned to overturn congressional curbs on U.S. aid in Southeast Asia. Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman quoted him as saying some elements would push Southeast Asia toward Communist control and chaos.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Spiro T. Agnew
U.S
Southeast Asia
Thanat Khoman
Thanat
United States
Cambodia
U.S. Congress
Sen. J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Agnew
Jackson Elected Campaign Chairman for United Fund
James R. Bob Jackson was elected campaign chairman of the 1970 71 United Fund of Winchester and Frederick County by UF President Harry Doyle. He has served as a pastor and educator in North Carolina and Virginia and leads the local ministerial association and Rotary Club. He and his wife Naomi Day have two children.
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James R
Bob) Jackson
United Fund of
Winchester
Frederick County
Harry Doyle
Charlotte
N.C
Jackson
Davidson College
Davidson
University of North Carolina
Fassifern School
Henderson
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
North Carolina
Tampa
Fila
Winchester-Frederick County
Rescue Squad Night Faces 12 Calls with Seven Crashes
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad crews endured a long shift from 3 p.m. to morning with 12 calls, seven of them accidents. Crew 2 B summoned extra members as cases piled up, with Moody Stonaker and others among those serving. dispatcher on duty was Mrs. Louise Ford.
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Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
2-B
Moody Stonaker
Bill Nagley
Warren Prather
John Hoover
Jimmy Carwile
Emory Eby
Bobby Adams
Russ Kerns
Russell Brill
Hugo Ackenbam
Wayne Jenkins
Bobby Kidd
Don Walters
Bob Strickland
E. Burch
Ralph Combs
Louise Ford
Substantial Amount Stolen From Seabright’s Market
Winchester police report a substantial amount of money stolen from Seabright’s Market at 728 South Loudoun Street between midnight and 8 AM. Entry was made by breaking a north side window. Officers Holliday and Bland lead the investigation. no further details are available. The store closes nightly at 7.
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Seabright
South
Loudoun St
Winchester
Herbert Holliday
Lloyd Bland
Richmond Weather Outlook: Sun, Heat, Possible Thunderstorms
A diffuse cold front moves south through Ohio and Pennsylvania and stalls from northern West Virginia to eastern Maryland. Virginia faces mostly sunny skies and hot temperatures today, followed by increasing clouds and warm overnight and Sunday. Scattered thundershowers possible in western and northern areas Sunday.
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Richmond
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
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