Bowling Alley Fire Damages Northside Lanes
A pre-dawn blaze at a 24-lane cinder block bowling alley near Winchester caused extensive damage estimated from 60 660 to 238 060 with losses stretching across pinsetters ceilings and wiring. Fire crews and police responded. three pinsetters and multiple alleys likely require replacement. building 1959 construction.
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Northside
Winchester
W. N. Goedenour
Ed Ralston
Gochenour
Ralston
Tyson Gilpin
William M. Battaile
Winchester Police Department
Emory 0. Rogers
Charles Mason
Roger Tinsmen
Rainfall Report Shows .69 Inch By 9 AM
A cloudy mild day forecast with showers tonight. Rain began yesterday morning and by 9 am today totals reached .69 inches.
Unemployment Rate Falls to 5 Percent in November
Washington AP reports the jobless rate dropped to 5.0 percent in November, the second-lowest since 1960, with October at 5.2 percent. Mild weather delayed cuts, while adult male unemployment fell to 3.5 percent, a record low since 1957.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Unem
Mariner 4 Rolls as Mars Mission Plans Face Delay
The U S spaceflight Mariner 4 rolled violently early today delaying a planned rocket firing intended to send it closer to Mars. JPL scientists uploaded commands to the craft to adjust attitude, risking loss of orientation with the Candor star as a reference.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.S
Mariner 4
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Three Castro Ministers Arrested Amid Cuban Palace Shooting Rumors
An underground Cuban radio message reports Fidel Castro jailed three cabinet ministers and mentions gunfire at the Havana presidential palace amid rumors of a power struggle. Refugee accounts and a Dec 1 New York Times dispatch are cited regarding a guard’s death. In Georgia, three people were injured as an ACL passenger train fell through a flood-weakened trestle near Willacoochee.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Citizens Committee For A Free
Cuba
Havana
Castro
Communist Party
Paulh Paul Bethel
Citizens Committee
New York Times
Juan de Onis
Osvaldo Dorticos
Tifton
Atlantic Coast Line
Willacoochee
Here
Georgia State Patrol
Senators Quiz Witness Once Sought On Role of Beauty in Baker Case
Senators probing the Baker affair eyed a former witness, Paul Aguirre, to ask how a German beauty named Ellen Rometsch influenced Baker's interests. Republican critics said Aguirre could have revealed ties to government deals and Caribbean ventures. The panel planned to hear seven other witnesses as the hearing neared its end.
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Senators
Washington
Bobby Baker
Paul Aguirre
Puerto Rico
Senate Rules Committee
Baker
Senate Democrats
Aguirre
Ellen Rometsch
Caribbean
Rometsch
Europe
New Virginia Assembly Deadlock Breaks With Fresh Conferees
Virginia General Assembly replaces six conferees on the Senate reapportionment bill as House members gain freedom of action and Senate delegates hold firm. The session stalls over a special election for reallocated Senate seats amid questions on whether the assembly is in session and when adjournment occurs.
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Richmond
Senate
Virginia General Assembly
House
Conference Committee
Freedom of Action
Dels
Garnett Moore
Pulaski
A. L. Philpott
Henry
Walther B. Fidler
Richmond County
George Warren
Bristol
Edward L. Breeden Jr
Norfolk
M. M. Long
Wise
O. E. McCue Jr
Albemarle
General Assembly
Atlas Centaur fourth test scheduled from Cape Kennedy
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The Atlas Centaur space rocket is set for its fourth test flight today between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The mission will place the Centaur second stage and a metal Surveyor moonship model into flight as a rehearsal for landing a Surveyor craft on the moon next year to collect and photograph lunar samples.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Johnson signals acceptance of NATO changes to win British aid
President Johnson appears ready to back extensive changes in U.S. plans for a NATO nuclear missile force to secure Britain's participation. He aims to keep France from blocking moves while denying a crisis in the alliance and shifts focus from Vietnam to alliance issues ahead of talks with Harold Wilson. George Ball returns from Europe to brief Johnson.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
France
Charles de Gaulle
NATO
Georgetown University
Harold Wilson
Atlantic Alliance
Viet Nam
Wilson
George W. Ball
London
Paris
Ball
Governors Split On Ousting Burch
Republican governors divided over Idaho Governor Smylie’s call to oust GOP National Chairman Dean Burch. Most agreed drastic action needed to lift the party after the November defeat, with Smylie offering to lead or remain as chairman if desired. Opponents argued the move lacks consensus and could worsen divisions.
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Denver
Colo
Robert Smylie
Idaho
Dean Burch
Smylie
National Committee
Mississippi Sheriff and Deputy Among 18 Arrested in 1964 Civil Rights Slayings
FBI agents arrested Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Cecil Price in Philadelphia Mississippi along with 16 others in connection with the 1964 slayings of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman Michael Schwerner and James Chaney. Charges include conspiring to interfere with federal rights and accessories after the fact.
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Philadelphia
Miss
FBI
Neshoba County
Lawrence Rainey
Cecil Price
Rainey
Price
Misssissippi
Meridian
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
James Chaney
Hoover
Here
Herman Tucker
James E. Jordan
Jerry Sharp
Jack Thornell
Bernard L. Akin
Earl B. Akin
Jimmy Arledge
Horace D. Barenette
Travis M. Barnette
Otha Neal Burkes
Philadelphia Police Department
Olen L. Burrage
James T. Harris
Frank J. Herndon
Weather Notes Hint at Mild, Showery Virginia Day
A band of precipitation paralleled a weather front bringing mostly cloudy skies and mild temperatures to Virginia with rain and showers reported across the region.
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Richmond
Virginia
Savings insured by federal agency drive 4 1/4% dividend
Winchester Savings & Loan at the corner of Boscawen and Washington advertises insured savings by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation offering a 4 1/4 percent dividend and urging savers to deposit by the 10th.
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Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
Winchester Savings & Loan
Boscawen & Washington
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GOP
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Goldwater
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