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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1975
Page
2
An aggregation of dispatches from the New York Times News Service and the Associated Press highlights national and international events. Reports cover politics economics conflicts and cultural developments with emphasis on clarity and objective reporting.
Police seek a man and woman connected to a brutal home for the handicapped robbery in Jacksonville that killed a caregiver and a resident and left three injured. The Rev. Wynn described the scene as senseless as investigators pursue suspects.
Insolvent W. T. Grant Co plans further cutbacks as 160 more stores in the northeast and mid Atlantic may shut. By year end 1975 493 stores remain. by mid 1976 about 323 if closures proceed. Distribution center in Edison, New Jersey also under consideration. Grant filed voluntary Chapter XI bankruptcy Oct. 2 with debts exceeding $1 billion.
A moderate liberal coalition of Virginia State Senate Democrats elected Adelard L. Brault as majority leader and J. T. Shropshire as Senate clerk, ousting Louise Lucas. The move shifts power away from the conservative bloc and curbs President pro tem Edward Willey by reforming rules and expanding the Rules Committee.
Northern Valley foresees rain tonight with colder lows from mid 30s to around 40, then a partly cloudy Tuesday with highs in the 50s. Virginia expects rain and colder conditions, mainly in the west, with Tuesday highs from the 40s to about 60 in the southeast. Rainfall so far this 48 hours is nil. December total and five year trends provided, plus averages by month and a note on the 1972 high rainfall. Atlanta coverage quotes George Wallace recalling a 1964 Maryland primary recapitulators, noting a joke about recounts and a perceived loss.
State Police reported four people injured in two weekend crashes. Norma Borbas 36 of Martinsburg West Virginia suffered a concussion a broken nose and facial cuts in a Rt 50 single car crash near Winchester. A separate two vehicle wreck on Rt 739 near Stephens City injured Earl Rexroad 34 of Lahmansville West Virginia Frank Quinn 62 of Stephens City and Fannie Quinn 66 of Stephens City.
U.S. officials estimate Russia has supplied at least 400 million dollars in MIG fighters tanks and other weapons to about 10 African states in the past two years with 1900 or more military advisers. Angolan and Somalian tensions drive fears of a broader Soviet strategy, while U.S. intelligence reports Cuban troops assisting Moscow backed factions in Angola. Moynihan defends indirect U.S. aid to anti-Soviet forces as part of the broader competition.
Joan Little, 21, a black woman previously found innocent of murder charges against a white jailer, was arrested Sunday night for failing to post bond. The incident occurred in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to AP.
A New Jersey Teamster, Stephen Andretta, held in a 4 by 6 foot cell as punishment for contempt after refusing to answer grand jury questions about James R. Hoffa's disappearance. Reports from attorney William Bufalino and his son surfaced at the hospital bedside of Bufalino.
Stephens City firemen spent over an hour Saturday morning putting out a fire that damaged canvas and construction forms at the Rt. 37 bridge site. The blaze began at 9 52 a m when heaters used to prevent concrete from freezing ignited canvas, which then set forms on fire. Fire crews stayed until 11 15 a m. Winchester firemen were called twelve hours later to 312 N Kent St for smoke in an upstairs apartment, but no fire was found.
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