Warren Moves To Purchase Mosby School
Warren County officials move to buy Mosby Academy facilities for public school use as desegregation looms. Buildings valued around 1 million may sell for about 350 thousand, with state board approval expected. Enrollment has fallen from 1150 to 330 as white pupils depart for desegregated schools.
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Front Royal
Mosby Academy
Virginia
Warren County Board of Supervisors
State Board of Education
Mosby
Oil Slick Spreads In Pacific Off Santa Barbara
A giant oil slick spread over 200 square miles of the Pacific off Santa Barbara as a Leaking Union Oil well dumps 21 000 gallons a day. Birds died on Ventura beaches and a Bird rescue program began while Coast Guard and agencies debated cleanup control. Detergent spraying showed little effect.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Ventura County
California Fish and Game Department
Coast Guard
Union Oil Co. of
California
Deer Toll Heavy in Va. Deer Toll Heavy in Va
Hunters and automobiles caused a heavy toll on Virginia deer during the 1968 69 season. The Virginia Commission of Games and Inland Fisheries reported a 27 932 deer harvest, about 3 000 above last season and the best since 1965. Southampton County led with 1 379 killed. Accidental deaths rose 30 percent with 1 627 auto fatalities.
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Richmond
Virginia Commission of Games and Inland Fisheries
Southampton
January Rain Gap Narrowed But Missed Record
The month started dry with January 18 to yesterday recording 1.46 inches of rain, short of last January’s 2.61 inches. A town report notes rainfall lag as residents watch weather progress. The rest of the snippet includes an ad line about a yarn sale and an event listing for Two For The See Saw at Bark Mill Theatre at 8:15 p.m. in Green Acres.
National stewardess recounts second Havana hijacking
Donna Goldinher a 27 year old National Airlines stewardess from Pomano Beach says the Miami New Orleans flight hijacked en route to Havana was a breeze. She was in the rear and unaware until the crew announced the hijacking. The San Francisco New Orleans Miami flight carried 55 passengers and eight crew and returned to Miami after the hijacking. This marks the 11th airliner hijacked to Cuba in January with 20 commercial liners and four private charters hijacked to Havana in all of 1968.
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Miami
Fla
National Air Lines
Havana
Donna Goldinher
Pompano Beach
Cuba
Orphan Sallie Grows Up With Bakers At Home
The Bakers raised Sallie, an orphan found as a baby, bottle-fed her and now she freely roams the house. She enjoys sleeping in the basement and uses a sled umbrella and rubber boots in daily life.
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Sallie
Bakers
Groundhog Day Sees Shadow Or Not On Feb Second
Athens AP reports Premier George Papadopoulos reshuffled posts in his government for the third time since King Constantine's abortive counter. The groundhog superstition on February 2 prompts weather forecasts based on whether a shadow appears or not.
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Athens
George Papadopoulos
Constantine
Pakistan Crisis Deepens as Ayub Extends Offer
President Mohammed Ayub Khan, in a nationwide broadcast, invites responsible political parties to meet and ease a crisis that has left 31 dead in a week. Troops enforce curfews in seven cities, with clashes between police and demonstrators. Police use tear gas in Rawalpindi.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Ayub
Dacca
Rawalpindi
Firemen Train Tomorrow In City on Search and Rescue
Firefighters from Winchester will hold a training session starting at 1 p.m. at Rouss Fire Hall with a smoke-filled room drill at Gerrard Street from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Inspectors and engineers including S.R. Dyke and Donald Seabright will supervise the exercise and standby coverage will be provided by retired inspector Gochenour.
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Gerrard St
Winchester
S.R. Dyke
Rouss
John Hawse
Winchester Fire
Mr. Dyke
Fire Company
Donald Seabright
Lee Brown
Fred Geanious
Lester McKee
Gerrard
Students protest De Gaulle visit in Rennes streets
Students demonstrated against President Charles de Gaulle in Rennes Brittany until early hours. The night ended quietly as De Gaulle’s heavily guarded motorcade moved toward Rennes airport.
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Rennes
France
Charles de Gaulle
Brittany
de Gaulle
Extremist attack injures South Vietnamese general near Saigon
About 500 North Vietnamese troops attacked a U S base near Saigon and terrorists struck Saigon with a deadly blast injuring General Nguyen Van Kiem and wounding eleven others. Seven civilians were killed in Da Nang Hue attacks.
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U.S
Randh
Nguyen van Thieu
Perce May
Nguyen van Kiem
da Nang
Hue
International Control Commission
Republic of Vietnam
Kiem
le Minh Tri
Condi
Sirhan Case Costs LA County over 370000 to Dec
Los Angeles County spent 370,416 on the Sirhan Bishara Sirhan case through Dec 31, Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said Friday. Testimony has not yet begun in the trial for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy last June. The trial recessed to allow the defense to study grand jury questionnaire procedures. The 12 jurors are chosen. six alternates remain to be selected.
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Los Angeles
Crime Plan May Raise Problems in Washington
President Nixon endorses preventive jail for hard core repeaters in his crime fighting plan, a policy that the White House says raises questions about implementation and civil liberties. The AP report notes political and legal implications of the proposal.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
National Security Council
Middle East
Richard C. Halverson
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Bethesda
Nixons
Tle
District of Columbia
Congress
Sirbaugh Heads Heart Campaign in Winchester area
U. K. Sirbaugh named Campaign Chairman for the 1969 Winchester-Frederick County Heart Fund Campaign as the Virginia Heart Association announces staff helpers Mrs. Kenneth E. Thomas Mrs. Ralph R. Whitmore and M. Lee Boppe as treasurer. The drive funds research education and community services and includes Heart Sunday weekend coordination and donor acknowledgments to families.
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U. K
Rod) Sirbaugh
Winchester - Frederick County
Early Bird Satellite Taken Offline for Emergency Use
The world’s first commercial satellite Early Bird is placed on a long term reserve 22 300 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. Comsat reports the craft has been transferred to Intelsat III and will remain for generations as an emergency and experimental standby.
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Washington
Early Bird
Atlantic Ocean
The
Communications Satellite Corp
Intelsat III
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Atlantic
Comsat
First Philippine supertanker launched in Hiroshima
The Philippines unveils its 93 000 ton supertanker Philippine Leader in Hiroshima. The 841 foot vessel will carry oil cargoes from the Middle East to Philippine refineries and other Asian destinations. Delivery to United Philippine Carriers Inc in May after trials and training cruises. Mrs Gregorio Licaros, wife of the Development Bank of the Philippines chair, broke the champagne bottle as the ship slid into the harbor.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Philippines
Middle East
Asia
United Philippine Carriers, Inc
Gregorio Licaros
Development Bank of the Philippines
Rain In Virginia From Ocean And Gulf Air
A moist surface air current moving from the ocean inland across Virginia combines with a warm moist upper air stream from the Gulf of Mexico to produce widespread rain across the state.
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Richmond
State
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
Kenny's Buffet Open at Ward Plaza With Weekday Specials
A new Kenny's Buffeteria at Ward Plaza Shopping Center opens featuring a Sunday hours 11 AM to 8 PM. Advertises men and boys pants in colors 2 to 3 dollars and a Echo Village Restaurant Cozy Room with a baked pork chop glaze dinner for 1 50. Reservations line 869 9886.
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Echo Village
eThe Steak House
Winchester
U.S. Rt
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