Obituaries include Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Jones
Christmas Day death of Mrs. George E. Parker of Falls Church is announced with services set in Falls Church and burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery Winchester. Surviving relatives include Thurman E. Lewis and Loretta Carlisle. Also noted is death of Mrs. William Jones formerly of Winchester in Port Charlotte Florida with survivors in Dallas Portland and Orange Connecticutt.
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Thurman E. Lewis
Hollywood
Fla
Loretta Carlisle
Falls Church
Covington and Martin Funeral
Leesburg Pike
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Winchester
William Jones
Port Charlotte
Jones
James
Nellie Whitlock Amick
David Jones
Dallas, Tex
Donald Jones
Portland, Org
William Jones, Jr
Orange, Conn
Wilbur Ennis
Connecticut
Famed naturalist Stelmann Braving Ice Cliff For Puffin Photos
Renowned naturalist photographer Heinz Stelmann spent days in an icy blind on a Pribilof Island cliff to capture closeups of the tufted puffin, enduring extreme cold while pursuing striking wildlife imagery.
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Heinz Stelmann
Pribilof Island
Kennedy Family Joins Ski Party at Sun Valley
Ted Kennedy and a large party including Ethel Kennedy, Mrs. Dean Markham, Mrs. Pat Lawford, their children, and aides joined a skiing party led by Robert F. Kennedy at Sun Valley Idaho. The group, accompanied by Austrian instructor Lenni Erhart, has vacationed there for Christmas in recent years.
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Sun Valley
Idaho
Joh Tan
Eddie Albert
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Lenni Erharter
Ethel
Dean Markham
Pat Lawford
Itwo
Spong Faces Urban Issues in First Senate Year
Virginia senator Liam B. Spong, a Democrat, has focused on urban growth and related policy. He serves on Public Works, Banking and Currency, and District of Columbia committees, dealing with air and water pollution, housing, and capital city governance. He moved to Fairfax County with his wife and two children, reducing time with family as he balances senate duties.
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Senate
Spong
Senate Public Works Committee
Banking and Currency
District of Columbia
Virginia
Sen
A. Willis Robertson
Washington
Richmond
Hampton Roads
Salem Church
Rappahannock
Congress
U. S. Senate
Virginia Senate
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Robertson
Byrd
Senator Byrd
Portsmouth
Fairfax County
Alexandria
Breakage charges filed in nine car windshield destruction
Nine warrants issued by the Frederick County sheriff charging Stephen Hepner 18 of Rt 522 South and a 17-year-old county youth with destroying property. Both are charged in connection with Friday night damage to nine windshields done with a chain. They were arrested Saturday and await hearings January 19. The juvenile in Frederick County Juvenile and Domestic Relations court. Hepner in Frederick County court.
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Frederick County
Hepner
Alleged Kidnapper Arrested in Utah in Christmas Case
Janet Downen, 16, of Crawfordsville Indiana, was rescued unharmed after two men abducted her outside a Crawfordsville parking lot on Christmas Eve. One suspect, Thomas Franklin Stevens, 23, was wounded by a shotgun blast from Wellington City Marshal Delon Atwood. another suspect fled. The captured man, Jerry John Stromske, 23, of West Terre Haute Indiana, surrendered with knives in Wellington. Police expect Indiana authorities to file charges. The girl is recovering at a Price police officer’s home after being found in the car’s rear floorboard.
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Wellington
Utah
Indiana
Albert Passie
Jerry John Stromske
West Terre Haute
Ind
Passic
Stromske
Janet Downen
Crawfordsville
Delon Atwood
Carbon County
Thomas Franklin Stevens
Atwood
Clarence Taylor
Stevens
Price
Passie
California
Child, 2, Escapes Serious Injury
A two year old girl, Cathy Braithwaite, escaped serious injury after being hit by a vehicle driven by her father at their Winchester home around 3 p.m. She was rushed to a doctor’s office after hospital transport. Full details were unavailable.
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Winchester
Cathy Braithwaite
Hopital
Wall Street Opens Higher as Gains Outpace Losses
Wall Street rose on opening, with gains outnumbering losses about 2 to 1. Chrysler rose to 54 while Bethlehem Steel gained 14 to 33, Amer Airlines up 12 to 315, RCA and Ford mixed, Occidental and Benguet down, and U S Lines and General Motors mixed. Data processing led with a 4 point advance.
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New York
Chrysler
Bethlehem Steel
Detroit Steel
American Airlines
U.S. Lines
Alcan
Occidental Petroleum
Benguet
Workman Killed in Plant Blast Near Hanover Massachusetts
An explosion at Atlantic Research Corp in West Hanover injures about 20 workers and kills one. Eight remain in hospital and one in critical condition. The blast ripped off a roof at a wooden building housing antipersonnel mines for Vietnam. Reporters were barred from the scene. The plant lies near the western edge of the South Shore complex about 25 miles south of Boston.
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Hanover
Mass
West Hanover
Vietnam
Atlantic Research Corp
South Shore Hospital
Virginia Weather Outlook: Snow Possible This Week
Cloudy and cold in Virginia with a chance of snow tonight and Thursday. Lows in the 20s, highs Thursday 28 to 38. Five day forecast shows below normal temperatures with daytime highs 38 to 43 and nightly lows 20 to 25. Precipitation expected at half to three quarters of an inch Thursday Friday and early next week.
Rainfall Totals Over 72 Hours and Annual Averages
The report shows 72 hour rainfall ending 5 30 am today at trace. December rainfall to date 3 06. 1967 rainfall to date 35 24. Five year January December totals list 1962 39 73 1963 33 46 1964 31 63 1965 26 85 1966 33 32. Average monthly rainfall over 54 years given for each month and annual average 36 50.
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Associated Press
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Albuquerque
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
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St.p
New Orleans
New York
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City
Omaha
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Ptind
Ore
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Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Sk
San Diego
Nixon to Speak at Washington and Lee University
Former Vice President Richard Nixon will give a nonpolitical address at Washington and Lee University in Lexington on January 11 during the Tap Day ceremony of Omicron Delta Kappa. Nixon, a potential Republican presidential candidate, plans to decide on a run in January and will also speak in Roanoke and at a Richmond Chamber of Commerce dinner that evening.
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Lexington
Richard M. Nixon
Washington and Lee University
Nixon
Omicron Delta Kappa
Washington and Lee
Roanoke
Richmond
Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Heavy Quake in Chile Registered Near Antofagasta
The National Earthquake Center logged a heavy 6.75 magnitude quake at 4:17 a.m. EST in the Atacama Desert about 90 miles northeast of Antofagasta. Although deep underground, the quake was felt over a wide area, with limited expected damage due to depth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Earthquake Center
Atacama Desert
Chile
Antofagasta
Nitrogen levels found in infant foods alarm officials
Scientists from the University of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station report that some commercial baby foods, especially beets and spinach, contain up to 0.8 percent nitrate nitrogen. Public health officials caution that infants should receive no more than 12 milligrams of nitrate nitrogen daily in food and water.
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University of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Grimm Receives Four-Year Sentence for Breaks In
Jack Gordon Grimm Jr age 21 was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to two indictments for breaking and entering and grand larceny. The offenses stemmed from a Oct 20 burglary at Dr. Monford D. Custer’s home and a Nov 2 entry at August H. Cahill’s residence.
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Jack Gordon Grimm, Jr
Grimm
Monford D. Custer
S, Washington St
Middleton seeks new wife as election pressure grows
Virginia Republicans fear losing a General Assembly seat as Middleton fights a divorce suit and a possible settlement that could retract the action. Middleton, in office since 1962 and unopposed last fall, faces a special election where political experience favors rivals. Kenneth Rogers tops GOP hopes, while Democrats circle Edgar Garnett and David J. Wood as potential challengers.
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Middleton
Virginia
Charles R. Haugh
Haugh
Democratic Commonwealth
Atty. Downing L. Smith
Albemarle County
GOP
Kenneth C. Rogers
Edgar, Garnett
Albemar.2
Board of Supervisors
David J. Wood
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Winchester Evening Star
Mrs. Parker
Mrs. Jones
Carrie Lee Henry
Jones Funeral Home, Inc
MDS Funeral Home
Loudoun Street
Vice
Tri
TNE
Golden Ute
Bernard F. Groves
Boscawen
St. Winchester
Ciider & Shockey Winchester
Ted Kennedy
U.S. Weather Bureau
ESSA
Pacific Northwest
Liam B. Spong
The
Child
Martinsburg
Memorial Hospital
Richard Lockhart
Rt. 50
Paris Mountain
Hughes Aircraft Co
Cape Kennedy
Moon
Wall Street
Workman
South Shore
H. Cahill
S. Washington St
Corporation
Elliott D. Marshall
William Walter Plummer
Central State Hospital
Marshall
E. Eugene Gunter
Plummer
Commonwealth
Gunter
William Mote
Corporation Court
BRO
Simee
N. Cameron St
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