Obituaries for Charles Amick and Cora Jones
Funeral for Charles A. Amick of Gore on Wednesday at Fairview Lutheran Church with several pallbearers. Burial at Fairview Cemetery. body at Giffin Funeral Home Capon Bridge. viewing tonight 7 to 9. Cora Dixies Jones of Winchester died suddenly last night. survivors include two sons and three grandchildren. Funeral arrangements incomplete. body at Cartwright Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Amick
Fairview Road
Gore
Fairview Lutheran Church
Hahn
Bernard Hahn
William B. Carpenter, Jr
Robert Marple
Robert McKee
Ernest Carpenter
Fairview Cemetery
Giffin Funeral Home
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Cora
Dixie) Jones
N. Kent St
Mrs. Jones
Boyce
Thomas Ford
Winchester
Charles Edward Ford
Ohio
Morris Lee Ford
Washington
Richard Ford
Cartwright Funeral Home
Funeral service for Russell F. Lewis in Clarke County
Russell F. Lewis of near Boyce dies Wednesday. Funeral at Louisville Church Clarke County tomorrow at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev Fielding Davenport. Pallbearers named Cooper Johnson Johnson Jones Grimes Williams. Burial at Milton Valley Clarke County. Body at John H. Enders Funeral Home Berryville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell F. Lewis
Boyce
Louisville
Clarke County
Fielding Davenport
Leon Cooper
Isaac Johnson
William Johnson
Edward Jones
David Grimes
Beverley Williams
Milton Valley
John H. Enders
Berryville
Funeral services for William J. Jackson Saturday at 3 PM
Funeral services for William J. Jackson are set for Saturday at 3:00 PM at Market Street United Methodist Church. Jones Funeral Home presides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Jackson
Market Street United Methodist Church
Earthquake Toll Rising in Peru and Ecuador
Casualties remain uncertain as rescue teams reach remote areas after a powerful quake centered near Guayaquil Bay, Ecuador. Official counts include 81 dead in Peru and at least 50 in Ecuador, with Peru reporting 31 confirmed dead locally amid the region’s worst tremor since last May.
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Lima
Peru
Eccuador
Jorge Acosta Velasco
Ecuador
Guayaquil Bay
Tumbres
No Combat Fatalities Reported in Indochina Thursday
AP field reports say no Americans were killed in combat on Thursday, marking the ninth such day this year as U S ground operations scale down. South Vietnamese forces report 81 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in the Mekong Delta near Cambodia, with 30 more in U Minh forest and 1 South Vietnamese dead and 15 wounded. Fighting near Krek sees Rangers claiming 31 enemy killed and 20 bodies found from air strikes. two South Vietnamese are killed or wounded. Cambodian troops push to reopen Highway 4 to the sea while fuel shortages grow in Phnom Penh. Saigon considers another unilateral release of disabled POWs amid Paris peace talks.
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Saigon
Indochina
U.S. Command
U.S
Mekong
U Minh Forest
Delta
Krek
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Defense Ministry
Tran van Lam
Hanoi
Paris
Thalidomide Trial Ends Without Formal Verdict
The prosecution and defense agreed to end the 22 year thalidomide trial against five Chemie Gruenenthal officials without a verdict. Judge Dietz will adjourn to next Friday with possible dismissal amid claims of minimal guilt. The firm set up a 100 million marks fund for malformed children and offered 4 million more to affected adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benno Dietz
Chemie Gruenenthal
West Germany
Josef Harvetz
Harvett
Singer Jer ry Lee Lewis Cancels Club Dates
Memphis Tennessee Jer ry Lee Lewis cancels night club bookings and will perform only where there is no dancing or liquor The decision is attributed to his religious beliefs as a member of the Church of God Ray Brown of National Artists Attractions said the change was made Thursday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis, Tenn
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ray Brown
National
Lewis
Church of God
Wall Street Rises on Optimism as Dow Surges
Wall Street rose this morning amid investor optimism on technical and fundamental grounds. The Dow Jones average climbed 3.9 to 824.96 at 10:30 am, with advances outpacing declines and rail strike end cited as a bullish factor. Major names moved variedly, including Penn Central up 4 percent, Texaco up 3 percent, Fannie Mae down, American Telephone down, Coca Cola down, and General Electric up.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Dow
Penn Central
Texaco
Fannie Mae
American Telephone
Coca-Cola
General Electric
Freight Driver Narrowly Survives Rt 50 Crash in Virginia
Charles Meeks of Brockton Massachusetts piloted a Quinn Freight Lines tractor trailer east on Rt 50 when mechanical trouble caused a crash into a bank. The plate glass shattered the trailer and tractor. Meeks was treated as a very lucky man. Raymond Figgins of Warrenton was injured in a separate rollover on Featherbed Lane near Rt 50. he received a forehead laceration and leg contusions. A third crash at Loudoun and Germain Streets injured Hyacinth Beckey of 42412 N Braddock Street with head and knee contusions. no further details available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. N. Jenkins
Mr. Meeks
Rt. 50
Gore
Jenkins
Warrenton
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Featherbed Lane
Raymond Harding Figgins
Winchester
Figgins
Robert Nelson Whitacre
Gainesboro
Loudoun and
Germain Sts
Hyacinth Beckey
N. Braddock St
Weather outlook for Virginia with rain and mild temps
Rain likely tonight with a high in the upper 40s to 50s across Virginia. Saturday mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and a high in the 50s. Extended forecast calls for mild spells Sunday to Tuesday with some rain Sunday and fair conditions Monday and Tuesday.
General Knowledge Quiz Answers
A compact list of quick answers includes Shetland for question two Queen Victoria for question three Ame in Society of Authors Composers and Publishers for question four a stone for question five The Standard for question six Crimean for question seven The Pentateuch for question eight Piccolo for question nine and the English Channel islands for question ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shetland
Queen Victoria
Society of Authors, Composers,and Publishers
Crimean
English Channel Islands
EEOC charges AT&T with widespread hiring bias
The EEOC asked the FCC to reject AT&T's proposed rate increase citing discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. It says AT&T shows minimal Black and Spanish American representation across 24 operating companies and notes lower paid women in comparable jobs. The petition rests on violations of federal law and presidential orders. AT&T disputes the charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Federal Communications Commission
Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
At&t
EEOC
FCC
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Dial
Omps Funeral Home
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Boscawen St
North Vietnam
Independent Insurance
Rthur, Inc
Boscawen Street
Winchester, Virginia
Wall Street
Winchester Printers, Inc
Quinn Freight Lines
Charles Watson Meeks
Brockton, Mass
Pamela Moyer
Warren Intermediate School
Karen Shifflett
Open Spaces II
James Wood High School
Edward Lloyd
Fauquier High School
Front Royal
TB and
RD Association
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Cameron’St
Virginia
Wisconsin
Idaho
Montana
Appalachians
H.W. Ebert
Buick
BIG
Loudoun St
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