Chamber Warns On Gyp Artists During Christmas Season
Winchester Frederick Chamber cautions shoppers about annual gyp artist schemes. Wade Ferguson of the chamber notes unordered merchandise, phony pricing, dubious charity solicitations, and street corner sales. The National BBB advises waiting four to six weeks for mail orders and buying only from reliable sellers with written guarantees.
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Winchester - Frederick
Gyp
County Chamber of Commerce
Wade Ferguson
The
Chamber
National
Better Business Bureau
C.O.D
Ferguson
NBBB
Chamber of Commerce
New Panama Canal Plan Progresses
A presidential commission ends a six year study with a proposal to build a 2.88 billion sea level canal across Panama near the existing canal. The plan faces budgetary diplomatic and ecological hurdles in the United States and Panama.
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Panama Canal
Washington
Central America
United States
Panama
Nixon Orders Canal Study With Nuclear Ban Told
Nixon backs a wide canal project to ease world shipping constraints within 14 years. The commission shelves nuclear blast options after a $17 million study, citing safety and treaty concerns. Senate cost battles loom as Panama sovereignty and defense terms complicate negotiations.
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Commission
United States
Instant Poncho Pattern and Needlecraft Catalog Ad
An advertisement promotes Instant Poncho pattern 7230 with easy openwork knit, two pieces and collar. Offers mail order through Alice Brooks at Winchester Evening Star with 25 cent air mail. Also touts 1971 Needlecraft Catalogs offering numerous craft books and several 50 cent to $1 books and gift guides with patterns and quilts.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Needlecraft
Subcommittee Finds No Grounds for Douglas Impeachment
A House subcommittee draft report signals no basis for impeachment of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Democrats voiced no final conclusions, while Republicans disputed the finding as the Judiciary Committee weighs the matter. The probe, sparked by Gerald Ford's 1973 charges, reviewed Douglas outside writings and associations.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Subcommittee
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
House Judiciary Committee
Douglas
Gerald Ford
Judiciary Committee
Celler
Ford
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Atlantic-Pacific Inter- Oceanic Canal Study Commission
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U.S. Senate
State Department
Daniel J. Flood
D-Pa
Congress On
Flood
Atlantic
Pacific
Kenneth E. Fields
U.S. Coast Guard
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
William P. Rogers
John Volpe
Simas
Coast Guard
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
William B. Ellis
Boston
Adm
Chester R. Bender
Capitol Hill
Lithuanian-American Action Committee
Alice Brookes
W. Boscawen ST
Winchester, Virginia
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