Virginia General Assembly Highlights and Local Political Moves
Highlights from Virginia's General Assembly include a public hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment with about 800 attendees and college leaders urging more state aid as part of a $9.1 billion budget. A Staunton River scenic designation sought river protection while a Senate floor clash backed a school bus safety bill. Newport News shipyard election objections claim ballot excess and Moon's Unification Church seeks relief against a Virginia Beach anti solicitation ordinance. A bus snow plow collision injured 23 in Weirwood and Senator Hunter Andrews reentered the U S Senate race with Thomas Downing named campaign chairman.
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Virginia Tech
William Lavery
House Appropriations Committee
Tech
General Assembly
House
Staunton
Brook
Senate
Norfolk, Va
Sun Myung Moon
Unification Church
Virginia Beach
U.S. District Court
Hunter B. Andrews
Hampton
Thomas N. Downing
Virginia
Newport News
Andrews
U.S. Senate
Downing
Byrd Recommends Five for Western District Judgeships
US Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. has named five candidates for two Western District of Virginia federal judgeships. The list includes R. William Arthur of Wytheville, Robert C. Goad of Lovingston, James P. Jones of Abingdon, State Sen. J. Harry Michael Jr. of Charlottesville, and Norman K. Moon of Rustburg.
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Byrd
Richmond
Harry F. Byrd Jr
India
Virginia
U.S
Griffin Bell
Robert C. Goad
Lovingston
James P. Jones
Abingdon
J. Harry Michael Jr
Charlottesville
Norman K. Moon
Rustbury
Judicial Advisory Commission For
Western District
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Congress
U.S. Senate
Kuykendall
Edward R. Slaughter
W.H. Overbey
Rustburg
Philip M. Sadler
Pulaski
William F. Stone Jr
Martinsville
John L. Walker
Roanoke
Waldo Miles
Bristol
D. Woodrow Bird
Bland
Noel C. Taylor
Suspected Russian Flu Outbreak At Naval Academy
At the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis three quarters of midshipmen sought sick care in a week with symptoms fitting Russian flu. Authorities report hundreds more cases in the Washington area as tests await confirmation with limited prior U S cases in Wyoming Colorado and Michigan.
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Annapolis
U.S Naval Academy
Washington
United States
Wyoming
Colorado
Michigan
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver
James Hodges
Naval Academy
Children's Hospital
Hodges
Academy
Reno runs out of street names as developers step in
In Reno Nevada, developers fill the naming void for new streets as the regional planning panel seldom names streets. With over 3,200 names in use, Helms Construction Co. has even named streets after people including Billy Bobby Debbie Dana and Edrie Drive named for Edrie Tolbet.
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Reno
New
Edrie Talbot
Robert Helms
Robert Helms Construction Co
Regional Planning Commission
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NLRB
PSA
Moon’s Church
Weirwood
William G. Moore
COSCO
Corning
Revere
Mailers Hardware
Winchester
Coast Guard
Tangier Island
Crisfield, Md
R. William Arthur
Wytheville
Rocky Mount
Virgil Goode Jr
Franklin County
Goode
Franklin County High School
Mstislav Rostropovich
National Symphony
Rostropovich
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron
Copland, Claudio Addado and
Lorin Maazel
Alicia de Larrocha
Adolf Serkin
Isaac Stern
Yehudi Menuhin
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Virginia State Bar
Commission
Royal Jewelers
N. Loudoun St
Loudoun St
Hong Kong
Motor Trend Magazine
Horizon
Plymouth
APG City
America
EPA
Chrysler
Cidar
Volares
Cas Ordoba
Lebaron
Ted Dealer
Chapman Motor Co., Inc
Valley Ave
New Car Dealer
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