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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1969
Page
3
A reader praises her husband who took up embroidery as a form of therapy after quitting smoking, calling him ALL MAN. Other letters ask about a daughter’s table manners and a sister's concern over a brother’s troubling behavior, with Abby urging discreet but firm action and responsibility.
A four hour confrontation between police and Black Panthers in Los Angeles left six injured, including three officers, as officers raided the Panthers headquarters to serve weapons warrants. Police seized 25 automatic weapons, three shotguns, two submachine guns, eight rifles, and armor amid widespread claims of a national drive to suppress the Panthers.
The Virginia State College board approves merging its agriculture program with Virginia Tech. Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. says the merger safeguards current students and faculty and strengthens the program, leaving Tech as the sole state-supported agriculture program.
Project Mercury, America's first manned space effort, was conceived at Landley Research Center in Virginia in 1958.
The American Farm Bureau Federation urged to shift from total national commitment to victory toward an honorable and peaceful settlement in Vietnam. The 1.8 million member group supports President’s efforts for peace while urging South Vietnam to take greater war responsibility ahead of its 50th anniversary convention.
The Dow Jones average fell 7.99 to 783.68, its lowest since October 1966, and the Associated Press 60-stock average slid to 267.7, a low dating to August 1963. Analysts cite tight money, Vietnam war uncertainty, and tax-loss selling as reasons for the decline with orderly trading at 9.99 million shares.
Next year marks 800th anniversary of Thomas Becket's martyrdom at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Commemorations run from July to October with ecumenical services, revival of Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot, and a music arts and drama festival.
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