Food for Young Thought: Schools Expand Free Lunch Program
Three area school systems Winchester Frederick and Clarke gain approval to extend lunch aids under Nixon guidelines. The plan aims to reach working poor children with free or reduced price meals while preventing stigma and protecting student identities. Programs take effect after Christmas break.
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Lulu Williams
Winchester
Frederick and Clarke
Nixon
State Department of Education
Egypt accuses Israel of sinking Egyptian boat in cease-fire
Egypt charged that Israel breached the cease-fire by sinking an Egyptian motorboat in the Gulf of Suez. Three bodies were recovered, one with documents indicating military intelligence work. Israel said the men were spying and smuggling hashish and that warning shots were fired before the vessel sank. King Hussein flew to seek Arab support for subsidies and to push for a summit on Palestinian refugees.
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Egypt
Israel
Gulf of Suez
Gulf
Cairo
Army
Sinai Peninsula
Suez Canal
Hussein
Jordan
Europe
United States
Saudi Arabia
Faisal
Libya
Kuwait
Virginia seeks 41.7 percent auto insurance rate hike
Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau asks the State Corporation Commission to approve a 41.7 percent increase in comprehensive and collision premiums, claiming a deficiency in the overall rate level. If granted, private passenger policyholders would pay about 21 million more. The VIRB also seeks 19.6 percent higher rates for commercial vehicles and new assessments on sports and high performance cars.
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Richmond
Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau
VIRB
State Corporation Commission
Virginia
The
Regulatory Commission
Insurance Bureau
SCC
Congress probes Coast Guard asylum case for Lithuanian sailor
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee opens hearings on whether the Coast Guard refused to grant political sanctuary to a Lithuanian sailor named Simas who jumped from a Soviet vessel to a Coast Guard cutter off Massachusetts. Senators demand investigations, with President Nixon awaiting federal reports and calls for accountability from Coast Guard leadership.
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Washington
Congress
U.S. Coast Guard
House Foreign Affairs
William B. Macomber Jr
Administration
Nixon
State
Transportation Department
Boston
Coast Guard
1St Coast Guard
Simas
Vigilant
Massachusetts
Senate
Gordon’ Allott
R-Colp
Soviet Union
Cmdr
Maurice R. Dumas
White House
Winchester Woman Appointed to Virginia Arts Panel
Mrs. Richard F. Lewis of Winchester is named to the Virginia Commission of the Arts and Humanities by Governor Linwood Holton, filling the vacancy from Dr. Jerome H. Holland. She co-owns the Mid-Atlantic Network including WINC with her sons and has deep local arts involvement.
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Richard F. Lewis
Winchester
Virginia Commission of Arts and Humanities
Linwood Holton
Lewis
Jerome H. Holland
Hampton
U.S
Sweden
John, David
Howard
Mid-Atlantic
WINC
The
Winchester Little Theatre
Women of Christ Episcopal Church
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Virginia Commission
Study Group Says Va. Could Save Millions
Communist gunners shelled South Vietnam bases cities and towns in a major attack night with rockets and mortars. Casualties included Americans at Cam Ranh Bay and Phu Cat with others wounded. two Vietnamese civilians killed. Helicopter and jet crashes added to the day’s toll as U Minh incursion continued.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cam Ranh Bay
Phu Cat
Cam Ranh
U.S
Laotian Panhandle
Ho Chi Minh
Pleiku
U Minh Forest
Vietnam
Credibility concerns dog Pentagon under Laird decades
The article notes Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's push to restore Pentagon credibility through on the record briefings and public conferences while facing lingering doubts from the Cambodia Laos and Hanoi raids. It highlights three cases where the Pentagon appeared to say one thing and do another.
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Robert A. Dobkin
Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Pentagon
Laird
Defense Department
Lyndon Johnson
U.S
Cambodia
Laos
Hanoi
Virginia study urges major government reorg to save millions
A blue ribbon commission told Gov. Linwood Holton that reorganizing Virginia state government and adopting stricter business practices could save up to 61 million annually if all recommendations are enacted. The group valued potential 91 million in fiscal gains, with 30 million in one time savings from asset sales and personnel cuts.
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Richmond
Linwood Holton
Virginia
Governor's Management Study Commission
Holton
Virginia picks Loudoun site for 500 million US Exposition
Deputy director Kissinger announces a 641 acre site three miles north of Dulles Airport in Loudoun County as the chosen location for a nonprofit 500 million permanent exposition of science and industry. The project aims to open by 1976 to coincide with the nation's bicentennial, focusing on education rather than a world fair.
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Richmond
State Division of Industrial Development
Dulles International Airport
Loudoun County
Guy H. Kissinger Jr
Virginia
Maryland
Washington, D.C
Kissinger
Virginia Bicentennial Commission
Debaters Clash Over 1 Percent Sales Tax Plan in Virginia Race
In Leesburg the 21st Senate District candidates F L Largent Jr and W A Truban debated the 1 percent sales tax idea. Truban, a Shenandoah County vet, criticized the plan as unworkable while Largent defended it as part of sound fiscal policy. The session at Johnsons House of Beef drew Kiwanians and officials.
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Star
Leesburg
Senate
F.L. Largent, Jr
Winchester
W.A. Truban
Woodstock
Largent
J. Kenneth Robinson
Truban
Shenandoah County
Virginia
House of Delegates
Johnson’s House of Beef
Loudoun County
Board of Supervisor's
Caley Named Assistant Administrator at Winchester Memorial Hospital
George B. Caley, a Navy veteran with a Master of Hospital Administration from the Medical College of Virginia, was named assistant administrator of Winchester Memorial Hospital by Administrator Carl S. Napps. The North Dakota native, former Roanoke hospital administrator in residence, is married to Phyllis Ann Cunningham.
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George B. Caley
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Carl S. Napps
North Dakota
Caley
The
Medical College of Virginia
Dickinson State College
Dickinson
N.D
Mr. Caley
Roanoke Hospital
Phyllis Ann Cunningham
W. Pall Mall St
Richmond Front Weakens As Clouds Pass
A frontal system moving into Virginia was expected to weaken with cloudiness not bringing showers. Advertising blurb notes a local sale event “Christmas by and Sale” at Powhatan Shop near Berryville starting Thursday with contact for concerns.
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Richmond
Virginia
Powhatan Shop
Berryville
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