Evacuation Extended Amid San Fernando Valley Quake Damage
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty extended the 48 hour evacuation for 80 000 residents in the San Fernando Valley fearing further collapse of a cracked dam after a 6 1 magnitude earthquake. Da mage losses surpassed 100 million in the city with 53 dead and 1 000 injured.
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LOS Ad
California
Sam Yorty
Veterans Administration
Yorty
San Fernando Valley
van Norman Dam
Charles F . Richter
Spiro T. Agnew
Ronald Reagan
Agnew
Nixon
Los Angeles
Three Juveniles Convicted in Handley High Bomb Threat
In a juvenile court ruling, Lawrence Winston Wallace III, 17, received six months jail with two months served, remainder suspended for a year, after admitting the false bomb threat to Handley High School. Accomplices Larry Markle and David Twiford, both 14, were committed to welfare and instruction. The judge noted gaps in schooling and past disturbances and cited state law on penalties for passing threats to a school. Names of juveniles are withheld unless allowed by the judge.
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Handley High School
Lawrence Winston Wallace III
E. Leicester St
Carle F. Germelman, Jr
Larry Bradley Markle
Conway St
David Scott Twiford
Fairmont Ave
State Department of Welfare and Instructions
Richmond
Germelman
Special Meeting Notices and Clinic Appointment Requests
Community notices list a finance group meeting at 8 30 p m on Thursday February 11 1971 at S E F Co with a later Rouss Fire Co meeting at 7 30 p m for select honorary fire chief. Also advertised is a winter sale at Mary Anderson Shop and Winchester Surgical Clinic urging patients to confirm appointments with a contact number 662 0377.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rouss Fire Co
Winchester Surgical
Ford faced questions over unreported campaign contributions
House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford did not report about $11 500 in campaign funds from stock brokers oilmen bankers doctors and a union group routed through Republican headquarters while about $12 233 was redirected to his district to pay post election debts. Ford said the process was legal and due to contribution limits. the largest gift $5 000 from the Securities Industry Campaign Committee was not listed on his report.
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Washington
House
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Congress
Michigan
GOP
Securities Industry Campaign Committee
Wall Street Stock Brokers’ Fund
Bankers Political Action Committee
Marines Return to Vietnam Front as DMZ Tension Mounts
U S Marines of the 3rd Division return to Vietnam for possible combat near the DMZ after a year away. A 1 500 man landing force with tanks and artillery is moved from Okinawa aboard a helicopter carrier in readiness to reinforce US and South Vietnamese troops if North Vietnamese forces cross the DMZ. South Vietnamese and US losses are tallied as fighting continues in Laos with a reported 1 770 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed and 345 government troops killed last week.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Laos
Dmz
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vietnam
Sepone
Laotian Panhandle
Nuclear seabed ban nations sign landmark treaty
President Nixon and reps of Russia and Britain hailed a seabed treaty banning nuclear weapons on the ocean floor as a step toward broader arms control. Sixty two nations signed. France, Red China, India and Israel did not join. The pact takes effect after 22 ratifications, with SALT talks resuming March 15 in Vienna.
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Washington
Nixon
Russia
Britain
Earth
State Department
U S
Vienna
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Soviet Union
Moscow
Lord Cromer
United States
Great Britain
William P. Rogers
Miley Takes New Duties in Clarke County Schools
Berryville report states C E Bud Miley Jr will join Clarke County Schools as part time assistant to Superintendent Wade G Johnson starting July 1 1956. Miley longtime educator since 1935 has led Clarke County High School since 1949 and followed to the new building in 1954. He is a Roanoke College graduate with a master’s from George Washington University 1956 and UVA extension study. He is married to Billie Milne with two children Patricia Kackley and Charles E Miley III.
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Berryville
C. E
Bud) Miley
Clarke County
Wade G. Johnson
Miley
Charles Town High School
Roanoke College
Shepherd College
George Washington University
University of Virginia
Billie Milne
Charles Town
Patricia Kackley
Charles E. Miley, III
Winchester Evening Star
University of Virginia Medical School
Rogers backs Asian conference for Indochina peace
Secretary of State William P. Rogers endorsed a conference including China and the Soviet Union to craft a lasting Indochina peace. Moscow rejected a new Geneva, saying they are not interested, citing opposition from North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, Pathet Lao, and Cambodia loyalists.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
China
Soviet Union
Indochina
Geneva
Rogers
Moscow
Britain
North Vietnam
Pathet Lao
Laos
Norodom Sihanouk
Minimum Housing Ordinance Aims to Curb Slum Conditions
Winchester considers a comprehensive Minimum Housing Ordinance to set occupancy standards, cure unsafe or unsanitary units, and remove unrepairable dwellings. The measure builds on prior HUD reviews and city planning work to protect residents, especially the poor and minority communities.
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Winchester
Pat Robinson
Wendell L. Seldon
City Planning Commission
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Planning Commission
Seldon
HUD
U S Proposes New Indochina Conference and Denies Laos Crossings
In Paris the United States renews its push for a new Indochina conference to end the conflict and rebuffs Communist claims that American forces crossed into Laos. Ambassador Bruce affirms Laos neutrality and Geneva accords while noting air and artillery support to South Vietnamese forces from outside Laos and no American ground troops will enter Laos. The Viet Cong claim 10 U S battalions fought inside Laos as American forces mass for further entry.
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Paris
United States
Laos
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Washington
Nixon
Bruce
Indochina
South Vietnam
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van Norman
Worth’s
S.E.F. Co
Mary Anderson
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Ines Poised
Cambodia
Henri Huet
The
Associated Press
Larry Burrows
Life Magazine
Kent Potter
United Press International
Japan
Afghanistan
France
Red
India
Israel
C. E. Miley, JR
Clarke Schools
Council
Wayne A. Whitham
Committee On
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Macy's
Loudoun St
Children Holiday Inn
South
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