Freezing Rain Threat After Snow Closes Roads
A winter storm issues a freezing rain forecast after drifted snow closed main highways and blocked secondary roads. About 85 people were stranded in Berryville as Routes 7 and 340 remained impassable. A rescue team aided a stroke victim on Mountain Falls Route while a family was saved from a snow drift and sheltered.
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Star
Berryville
Winchester Volunteer Rescue
Mountain Falls
Clarke County
West Virginia
John H. Enders
American Red Cross
Red Cross and
Enders Fire Company
Red Cross
Fire at Marshall Junior High destroys wing in blaze
A fire damaged the Marshall Junior High School's right wing, destroying eight classrooms and causing an estimated 100000 dollars in damage. Fire units from nine localities aided, and crews focused on containing the fire to the wing while the rest of the building received smoke and heat damage. Snow impeded access and a frozen hydrant limited water supply.
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Marshall
Marshall Junior High
Winchester
Rouss
Boyce Fire Company
Front Royal Fire Company
Uperville
Warrenton
Fairfax County
the Plains
Gainesville
Middleburg
Turner
Anti American protest greets Agnew and Byroade at Manila visit
Police kept demonstrators apart at the U S embassy during Vice President Agnew and wife Judy arrival. Several hundred leftists chanted Yankee Go Home as more than 200 helmeted officers backed them away. Moon rock gift planned for Ferdinand Marcos by Apollo 10 astronaut Eugene Cernan accompanies the party.
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Manila
U.S
Henry Byroade
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnews
Secret Service
Free Philippine Youth Union
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
Vietnam
Judy
Agnew
Party of 40
Eugene A. Cernan
Ferdinand Marcos
Philippines
France demands explanation on Cherbourg gunboat escape
Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann pressed Israel for details on five gunboats that slipped out of Cherbourg on Christmas Day amid an arms embargo. The 270-ton vessels, built for Israel, were said to be heading toward Haifa, with flotilla activity and radio traffic reported near Sicily. London and Paris officials noted Soviet fleet presence near Malta.
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Maurice Schumann
France
Israel
Cherbourg
Mediterranean
Schumann
Eytan Ron
Ron
Haifa
Malta
Sicily
Nixon signals tax bill signing before California vacation
President Nixon, back at the White House from Camp David, plans to sign the tax reform bill before a two week winter vacation in California. The measure falls 2.5 billion short of the revenue target, prompting talks on spending cuts. He will send the 1971 federal budget proposals to Congress in about a month. Nixon traveled by helicopter to Camp David with his wife and daughter Tricia.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
California
John D. Ehrlichman
Henry A. Kissinger
Congress
San Clemente
Calif
Camp David
Tricia
Catoctin Mountains
Home Burns and Firemen Stalled by Snow Drifts
A brick home belonging to Henry Linster on Rt. 2 Berryville was destroyed in a 1 am Sunday fire. Firemen said the first engine got stuck in a deep snow drift half a mile from the blaze, with a snow plow also hindered. Cause not known. Front Royal firemen also reported a kitchen wing loss in a Cedarville house owned by Judge Leroy Corron after a 1:58 pm Saturday blaze.
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Henry Linster
Rt. 2
Berryville
Enders
Old Chapel
Front Royal
Leo Peck
Leroy Corron
Cedarville
Virginia Clouds Bring Rain and Snow Across Region
Richmond Virginia weather bulletin notes considerable cloudiness and rain with some snow mixed in through Tuesday as a low pressure trough persists in North Carolina.
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Richmond
Virginia
North Carolina
Christmas tree collection by open trucks this week
Beginning Friday January 2 through Thursday January 8 trees may be placed at the curb with regular garbage for two collections. Citizens are asked to cooperate to maintain the normal schedule while using open trucks due to equipment limits.
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Wendell Seldon
Kent and
Boscawen Sts
Lulu Williams
Jr. High
State Highway Department
Warren Turner
Cross
Eddie Joyce
Associated Press
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
White River
S. D
Jackson
Miss
Walthall County
Ripon
Wis
Divernon
Salt Lake City
Sarah Ann Legroan
Agnew Is
United States
The
Manila International
Asia
Spiro Agnew
Will
LIONS
Smalls Garden Center
Winchester Savings and Loan
Gor Walters
Pottstown
Linda Dudley
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