Snownstorm Loses Punch In Midwest After Spreading East
The massive December snowstorm weakened as it moved into the Northeast after lashing the Midwest with heavy snow. It caused power outages, rail and air disruption, and widespread closures, with at least 12 deaths reported across Massachusetts Illinois and New York. Thousands lost electricity as power lines iced over and a 17yearold boy died from a falling line in Hudson Falls New York. The storm dumped over a foot of snow in Chicago and caused fivefoot drifts on main highways, while temperatures plunged in the Dakotas Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Massachusetts
Illinois
New York State
Rockies
Oklahoma
Chicago
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
International Falls
Minn
Newport
Wit
York State
Indiana
Warsaw
Angola
Indiaa
Hudson Falls
Schenectany
Winchester parade set with Santa at Plaza
The Rescue Squad reported an unusually quiet night with no calls from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. The annual Christmas Parade sponsored by the Winchester Retail Merchants Assn. will start Thursday at 6 p.m. Santa will greet onlookers at the Plaza. C Evans Kline, RMA chairman, said details of the march will be announced Monday.
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Winchester Retail Merchants Assn
Santa Claus
C. Evans Kline
RMA
Kinney's Shoe Store Buy One Get One Free Ad Correction
An ad correction notes that the plaid stamps do not apply in this area for Kinney's Shoes Buy one pair get the second free. Also mentions A and P Stores promotion and a Wayside Inn event with a Wayside Theater performance on Saturday December 5 evening and Sunday December 6 matinee.
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Kinney’s Shoe Store
Women’s and Children’s Shoes
Valley Farm Awards Highlight Growth in Cash Income by 1975
Virginia Tech official C C Mast told about 125 at the Pasture and Fruit Awards Banquet in Lee Jackson Restaurant that Shenandoah Valley farms will rise in cash receipts by 1975 though the number of small farms and farm animals will fall. He projected farm incomes over 10 000 rise from 38 to 54 percent, farm size shift to larger holdings, and per unit acre reductions from 4.2 to 3.4. Gross agricultural output would grow from 148 million in 1959 to about 283 million in 1975 with total cash receipts for farming and forestry near 120 million in 1975.
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Shenandoah Valley
C. C. Mast
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Lee-Jackson Restaurant
Mast
East West Talks Continue Amid Congo Dues Standoff
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met at United Nations headquarters to seek areas of possible agreement in East West disputes. They noted the Kremlin regime still follows peaceful coexistence, with discussions covering disarmament and U.S.-Soviet trade as a Congo dues impasse persists. U Thant, hospitalised with possible peptic ulcers, remained in care as the General Assembly limited activities. Elks Memorial Service announced for Braddock Street Chapel. Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia said Zambia would not be anyone’s satellite and the U.S. has not fixed a date for a Johnson address to the assembly.
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Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Gromyko
U.S
USN
U.N
Germany
Laos
Russia
Congo
Middle East
U Thant
General Assembly
Japan
Esasaburo Shiina
Red China
Dent Kenneth Kaunda
Zambis
Kaunda
Assembly
United States
Johnson
Store Safe Broken Into at Moore’s Super Store
The Moore’s Super Store on Mar tinsburg Pike was burglarized last night or early today. A thief pried open a rear gate lock and smashed a warehouse window to enter the office and break the safe taking about $450 and a cigarette machine. Two portable television sets and a portable phonograph were also stolen. Sheriff’s officers said the burglary was discovered when employees opened for business. The manager, Mr. Burton, described the sequence of entry and the loot.
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Moore’s
Martinsburg Pike
Tom
Mr. Burton
Pope Paul VI Flies Home After Asia Mission
Pope Paul VI returns to Italy after a four day mission in Asia. He met with presidents and prime ministers and held discussions with leaders during a historic effort to aid the poor and needy.
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Pope Paul
Italy
Bombay
India
Paul VI
Asia
Pope's Rome flight disrupted by Turkish jets near airliner
Pope Paul in Rome after fleeing Bombay slums, urging nations to curb arms spending and fund global relief. Thousands greet him as he appeals to halt the arms race and support developing countries. Senator Bosco calls for international poverty combat agreement.
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Rome
Pope Paul
Alitalia
Bombay
Fiumicino
Sen
Giacinti Bosco
Arrests in Mississippi town spark anger and unrest
Federal agents arrest 21 white men in connection with the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County last summer. Sheriff Rainey and Deputy Price were arraigned at Meridian Naval Air Station as the group faced a federal complaint charging criminal conspiracy.
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Meridian
Miss
Lawrence Rainey
Neshoba County
Naval Air Station
Rainey
Neshoba
Cecil Price
Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Esther Carter
U.S
Miss Carter
Bond
Philadelphia
Five Die In Virginia Road Crash Near Lancaster
Five youths perished when their car left a straight two lane highway struck the Bellwood Swamp Bridge and plunged into the water near Lancaster Court House in Lancaster County. Victims named are William Henry Taylor 19 of Lancaster driver Mary Delia Ep pes 16 Loretta Pope James Edward Rich and Hilton Jerald Webb all 16 to 19 from nearby Mary Point and Whitestone. The crash occurred shortly after 11 p.m. near Bellwood Swamp Bridge.
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Lancaster
Virginia
Lancaster County
William Henry Taylor
Mary Delia Eppes
Whitestone
Loretta Pope
James Edward Rich
Mary Point
Hilton Jerald Webb
Bellwood Swamp
Lancaster Court House
GOP Leaders Debate Change in Party Image at Denver Summit
A meeting of 18 GOP governors and governors-elect in Denver failed to unite on ousting national chairman Dean Burch. They favored a more progressive leadership stance and civil rights support, with dissenting voices from Gov. Paul Fannin and others about direct attacks on Burch or Goldwater.
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Denver
Colorado
John A. Love
GOP
Dean Burch
Burch
Barry Goldwater
Paul Fannin
Arezona
Goldwater
Senate
Fannin
Idaho
Robert E. Smyle
SmyHe
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Mark C. Hatfield
Oregon
San Francisco
Rockefeller
Cliff Hansen
Wyoming
Daniel Evans
Washington
John H. Reed
Maine
John H. Chafee
Rhode Island
Charles Percy
Illinois
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Richard M. Nixon
Smylie
Scranton
Arizona
Compromise Ends Snag in Virginia Redistricting
Virginia legislators wrapped a special session with new district maps and looming court tests. The Henrico County Board of Supervisors plans to appeal, while questions over Senate terms and election timing hinge on Supreme Court rulings and Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. Future elections may shift to accommodate court orders and a revised two year or four year Senate cycle.
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Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
Ines
McEeture
Henrico
Portsmouth
Senate
Supreme Court
Albertis’s. Hars
House
Murder Charges Uncertain In Mississippi Civil Rights Case
FBI arrested 21 white men in connection with the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia Mississippi. Nineteen face federal civil rights charges, two as accessories. state murder indictments possible later. Court hearings set in Meridian as community reels from the arrests and references to potential large bonds.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Mississippi
FBI
Neshoba County
Lawrence Rainey
Cecil Price
Meridian
Price
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Phia
Dist
William H. Johnson Jr
Red Clay Hill
Martin Luther King
Weather Front Brings Widespread Virginia Precipitation
A cold air front from the north and warm air to the south dominated Virginia weather. The system triggered a broad band of precipitation that was expected to continue through Sunday.
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Richmond
Virginia
J C Penney Store Open Tonight Till 9
J C Penney Company announces evening hours until 9 pm with savings insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. The note highlights a 4.25 percent dividend and a promotion for savings from the first of the month with earnings from the 10th.
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Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
Savings & Loan Corger
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