Front Royal truck driver acquitted in pedestrian crash
Donald Austin Williamson of Front Royal was acquitted of reckless driving after a Warren County Court hearing regarding a September 22 incident that injured 7 year old Ronald Lee Bennett. Williamson testified he saw the boy three feet ahead and thought he missed him after swerving left.
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Donald Austin Williamson
Warren County Court
Ronald Lee Bennett
Williamson
Berkeley County Republicans File Candidacies for Court
Martinsburg Berkeley County Commissioners Ernest C Alther and J Elbert Slenberger both Republicans today filed formal candidacies for Berkeley County Court subject to the May 8 primary. If nominated they will run in the November 6 general election, first to file in Berkeley this year.
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Martinsburg
Ernest C. Alther
J. Elbert S@lenberger
Berkeley
Berkeley County
Auto Thelves Try Woodstock Fight Ends Short
Auto Thelves faced Woodstock as Clarence Puckett, among three Baltimore players, attempted a drive but the sequence ended abruptly. The event appears in a compact sports snippet from the era.
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Auto Thelves
Woodstock
Robert Clarence Puckett
Fire Safety Demonstrations At Friendship Hall
A fire safety demonstration will be held at the Friendship Fire Hall on January 11. W. R. Park, district supervisor for the Health and Safety Activities Department, Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, will conduct sessions at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The events are open to all interested, with invitations extended to area firemen.
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W. R. Park
Health and Safety Activities Department
Bureau of Mines
U.S. Department of the Interior
Winchester City ordinance to tax beverages real estate and driving schools
City council to meet January 9 1962 at 7 30 pm to consider updates to the liquor and business license tax structure. Provisions include beer and wine licenses at 20 dollars per year each on or off premises, beer wholesale 200 dollars, real estate agents 40 dollars plus 75 cents per 100 dollars gross receipts and 25 dollars per salesman, driving schools 20 dollars per vehicle, transfer fees 25 cents, penalties for unlicensed gaming devices, and tax estimates for new businesses.
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Council Chamber
City Hall
Winchester
Virginia
Kennedy Policies Blistered at Conservative Conference
Republican National Chairman William E. Miller accused the United States of being outvoted and outmaneuvered in the United Nations and urged a new look at U.N. policy. He attacked Kennedy foreign and domestic policies, questioned funding for U.N. debts, and criticized U.S. trade and minimum wage moves in a speech at a conservative conference.
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United Nations
William E. Miller
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New York
Human Rights
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R-Tex
Durward G. Hall
Rmo
Bob Wilson
R-Calif
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R-Ariz
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Congo
Katanga
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Congress
Fire at Eiffel Tower Doused. Minor Damage Reported
Paris fire crews battled a blaze about halfway up the 980 foot Eiffel Tower. Firemen reached the second landing and extinguished the fire. damage described as slight.
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Paris
Bus Drivers End Strike In New York City
New York City restores full bus service after a four day strike by 6,800 drivers and maintenance workers on Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and Surface Transit. The settlement, proposed by Mayor Wagner, extends a one year contract with wage increases of 13 cents an hour and a fourth week of vacation after 15 years. The lines gain transfer elimination and higher school fare subsidies totaling about 4.5 million dollars annually.
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New York City
Robert F. Wagner
Transport Workers Union
Fifth Avenue Coach Lines Inc
Surface Transit Inc
Bronx
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Wagner
Gunmen Still At Large After $69,500 Holdup
Three bandits robbed a Clarendon Hills bank of about 69 500 in five minutes. An armed man watched customers while others forced an employee to unlock the vault. They fled in a black sedan and were gone hours later as police investigated.
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Clarendon Hills
Ill
Crosby Fine After Surgery
Crosby 57, underwent a two hour 20 minute operation to remove two kidney stones the third such procedure after 1952 and 1955. Dr Frederick Schlumberger noted stones shifted position and predicts a week to 10 days in hospital. Crosby may attend Pebble Beach Golf on Jan 18 as a spectator.
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Calif
Bing Crosby
Crosby
Frederick Schlumberger
Kathy Grant
Bing
Mexico
Pebble Beach
San Francisco
Khrushchev Returns to Work After Illness
Moscow AP reports Premier Khrushchev recovered swiftly from grippe and is back at work. Unclear if he will proceed with the planned trip to Byelorussia and meeting with Polish Communist chief Wladislaw Gomulka for a hunting trip next week.
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Khrushchev
Byelorussia
Wladislaw Gomulka
Bad Cold Sends Macmillan to Bed
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was bedbound with a bad cold but aides expect him to recover in time to travel to Bonn for talks with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer next Tuesday.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Rembrandt Purchase Has Both Good and Bad Aspects
The Metropolitan Museum of Art paid 2.3 million dollars for a Rembrandt work, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, and reports both benefits and costs. Attendance surged from 42,679 on the first exhibit day to a museum record of 86,774, with postcard sales and future reprints expanding reach while raising operating expenses.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Aristotle
Homer
James J. Rommer
Rembrandt
Met
Three Air Force officers killed in Riverside jet crash
Maj. Clarence W. Garrett Jr. pilot Lt. James E. Belt copilot and Capt. Constino L. Segalla navigator died when their B47 bomber burst into flames on March Air Force Base runway. Witnesses said the left wing caught fire as the plane taxied and nose-dived before exploding. France seized Upper Volta in 1896 and made it a protectorate. Upper Volta became a republic in August 1960.
Former W. Va. Senator Hoblitzell Dies in Clarksburg
Former U.S. Senator John D. Hoblitzell Jr. of West Virginia died in Clarksburg at about 3 a.m. from a heart attack. The 49 year old, who also served as state Republican chairman, had chest and stomach pains Friday and was treated by a physician.
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Clarksburg
W.va
U.S
John D. Hoblitzell Jr
Hoblitzell
Shots Turn Back Fleeing German
East German border guards fired at a fleeing East German man ten yards from the West Berlin suburb Rudow. The man was seen in open country and turned after several shots were fired.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Rudow
Hoblitzell Appointment to Senate Explained
The record notes Mrs Hoblitzell called as death occurred. Hoblitzell was appointed to the U S Senate by former Gov Cétil H Underwood in January 1807 after the death of Sen M Neely of West Virginia. Hoblitzell lost to Sen J Randolph in 1958, serving the remaining two years of the term.
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U.S. Senate
Cétil H. Underwood
M. Neely
D-W. Va
Sen
J . Randolph
W.va
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