Montague Avenue Church Educational Building Progress
The Montague Avenue Methodist Church plans a two story brick educational addition to relieve overcrowding. Completion is targeted for July 1 and will include classrooms a pastor study bathrooms and a larger sanctuary with a new chapel area. In Chicago burglars encountered two priests at St Brendan's rectory where Father Millan wrestled the intruder and Father Quinlan used a bat before the man fled.
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Montague Avenue
Montague Avenue Methodist Church
Normah Compton
Compton
Chicago
St. Brendan’s
William J. Quinlan
Gerald Millan
Father Millan
Quinlan
Knit skirts patterns and Needlecraft deals offered
Patterns for knit skirts in worsted rayon wool or fingering yarn with sizes 23–24 25–26 and 28–30 inches. Pattern 7313 priced 35 cents plus 15 cents mailing. Send requests to Alice Brooks at Winchester Evening Star. Also offers 210 most beautiful needlecraft designs and bargain quilt books with single prices.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
P.O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Museem
State GOP to Present Voting Law Proposals
Virginia Republicans plan to present a package of election law reforms to Assistant Attorney General John Doar aimed at removing federal protections under the Voting Rights Act. The proposal includes a state wide simple registration form requiring a registrant to sign their name, a point disputed by Democrats. Doar will meet Turk and Butler in Washington to discuss the plan as Virginia Democratic leaders consider options to evade the act.
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Richmond
Justice Department
Virginia
GOP
John Doar
General Assembly
James C. Turk
del. M. Caldwell Butler
Godwin
Sen. Turk
Doar
Turk
Butler
Washington
Congress
Virginia Governor Delays Conditional Funds Until New Fiscal Year
Richmond AP Godwin says no conditional funds in the 1966 68 Virginia budget will be released before July 1 the start of the new fiscal year. He cites unknown state spending and seeks to calm a dispute between Norfolk and Portsmouth over a 5 million conditional grant for Hamp ton Roads container terminals. Portsmouth argues for a share despite its 3.6 million unconditional Pinner's Point cargo project.
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Richmond
Virginia
Godwin
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Hampton Roads
Pinner’s Point
Fairfax Districting Plan Adopted by Board
Fairfax County supervisors approved a new eight district map just before the legal deadline. Springfield district covers about 75 square miles and Annandale replaces part of Falls Church. The plan follows last November’s referendum creating an Urban County Board of Supervisors to be elected from eight districts.
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Fairfax
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Fairfax County
Springfield
Falls Church
Lee
Annandale
Mount Vernon
Centreville
Ing
Virginia
Providence
Dranesville
Mason
Urban County Board of Supervisors
Three Children Die Trapped in Upright Garage Refrigerator
In La Habra California Shirley Meeks found her son Willie five and two girls she baby-sat Ladonna Highbaugh four Wanda three inside an upright garage refrigerator. Police were notified after a three hour search begun around 10 15 a m.
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LA Habra
Calif
Shirley Meeks
Willie
Ladonna Highbaugh
Wanda
Hope's Christmas Show Tops Nielsen Ratings
NBC’s Bob Hope Christmas special led the Nielsen ratings for the period, ahead of Bonanza and second only to ABC’s Bridge on the River Kwai. The study values minute-by-minute ad rates at 85 000 dollars for Hope, with other top shows priced accordingly and CBS leading the season averages.
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Winchester Evening Star
Hope
New York
Bob Hope
NBC
Nielsen
ABC
Broadcasting
CBS
Jackie Gleason
Phyllis Diller
Griffith
Lucy
Morgenthau Dies at 75 Former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr
Former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr 75 died Monday night in Poughkeepsie after a long illness. A Roosevelt cabinet member from 1934 to 1945 he helped fund World War II and influenced wartime and postwar policies. He survived by his second wife Marcello Hirsch and had earlier been married to Elinor Fatman.
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Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt
Albert Gallatin
Morgenthau
Japan
Truman
Germany
Quebec
Hyde Park
New York
Elinor Fatman
Marcello Python Hirsch
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