This Day in History Highlights Key Events
On this date in 1954 the Nautilus became the first atomic powered submarine launched in Groton Connecticut. Other events include Panama City founding in 1519 and Louis XVI beheading in 1793.
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Associated Press
Groton
Conn
Panama City
Louis XVI of
France
Stonewall Jackson
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
U.S. Senate
V. I. Lenin
New York
State Department
Alger Hiss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Soviet Union
Cuba
Khrushchev
South Vietnam
Glaize to Speak at Fruit Meeting in West Virginia
Orchardist Philip Glaize will speak at the 76th annual West Virginia Horticultural Society convention at Shenandoah Downs in Charles Town. He joins panelist Lacey Rea and James Rife to discuss Orchard Heating and share his experiences with heating equipment during the Wednesday session.
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Philip Glaize
West Virginia Horticultural Society
Shenandoah Downs
Lacey Rea
Mt. Jackson
James Rife
Paw Paw
W.va
Glaize
Charles Town
Pattern catalog ad for Anne Adams sewing patterns
An advertisement offers Printed Pattern 4595 in new half sizes with bust 37, requires 3 yards, and lists price 65 cents per pattern plus 15 cents for mailing. Includes instructions to mail name address size and style number to Winchester Evening Star pattern department in New York for over 100 new fashions and sewing books.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Country banker at heart helped Virginia bank mergers happen
Windsor AP profile of Shirley T. Holland 72 retired after 50 years as chief executive of Farmers Bank of Windsor. He backed a 1946 bill to allow statewide mergers, noting small town banks lack succession. Holland sees mergers serving local credit needs and keeping Farmers Bank independent with his son Richard ready to succeed him.
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Windsor
Virginia
Shirley T. Holland
Farmers Bank of Windsor
Farmers’ Bank
Holland
New York
National Bank
Richard
Farmers Bank
Virginia withholds tuition grants amid legal challenge
Virginia has not paid its share of the tuition grants program for 1968 69 due to pending litigation. A three judge federal panel will review the program’s constitutionality while the NAACP contends the funds promote racially segregated private schools. Grant amounts are 125 per elementary student and 150 per high school student.
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Richmond
Virginia
J. G. Blount
State Department of Education
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
School of
Atty
Robert Y. Button
Excavations Talk in Strasburg Highlights Harpers Ferry Work
Dave Hannah of the National Park Service presents an illustrated talk on archaeological digs conducted during Harpers Ferry restoration. The Northern Shenandoah Chapter of the Archeological Society of Virginia hosts the event at 7:30 in Strasburg's Parish Hall. Slides cover projects in Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon, plus the Casa Grande comparison.
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Harpers Ferry
Dave Hannah
National Park Service
Northern Shenandoah
Archeological Society of Virginia
Lutheranee
Strasburg
Hannah
Mesa Verde
Chaco Caneyon
Canyonlands
Arizona Desert
Motions Day Postponed in Frederick County Court
Frederick County Circuit Court motions day set for February 7 after Judge Robert K. Woltz announced the postponement. The February docket will feature a single judge due to a conflict with Shenandoah County Circuit Court opening day. Clerks must notify all counsel with praecipes for February 3 and opposing counsel of the continuance.
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Frederick County Circuit Court
Robert K. Woltz
Sheneandoah County Circuit Court
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Delhi beggars reject lure of food, lodging and pay
In New Delhi the administration offered free meals, housing, and 1.13 rupees daily for expenses to beggars to move from the streets. The beggars refused, preferring to earn more without work as police orders call for rounding them up.
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New Delhi
Delhi
Nation's New Vice President Like the Guy Next Door
Spiro T. Agnew, America's 39th vice president, is portrayed as a relatable man from Baltimore who rose from local politics to the White House. His background includes WWII interruption, Johns Hopkins chemistry studies, law, Baltimore County executive, and Maryland governor before aligning with Nixon. The piece notes his surprise selection by Nixon at the Miami convention and his modest, all-American image.
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Nation
Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Baltimore Colts
Forest Park
Judy
Richard M. Nixon
Baltimore
Agnew
Richard Nixon
Miami
Nixon
Maryland
Rogers C. B. Morton
Ted
Morton
Lwitch
Mexico City digs up its past for subway future
In Mexico City the planned subway line has unearthed over 1 500 relics spanning six centuries of life. Archeologists catalog bones ceramics and sculpture as they rescue artifacts from the city’s buried Aztec to Spanish colonial layers.
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Mexico
Mexico City
National Institute of Anthropology and History
Jhow
Chapultepec Park
Modern Archeological Museum
Chap= jultepec Park
Valencia
SA teachers warn history lessons fuel prejudice
In Johannesburg, AP reports Transvaal Province Teachers' Association President F E Auerbach warns that schools foster bias with history lessons. He says group pride and hostility arise from badly chosen works like Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which reinforce race hatred unintentionally.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Transvaal Province
Teachers’ Association
F. E. Auerbach
Auerbach
Dear Abby column readers offer blunt advice on love
Abigails Dear Abby letters address a mother’s heartbreak over an unexpected pregnancy in her daughter’s wedding, a husband’s long hair and patience, a woman giving birth with her partner, and a cellar party disagreement. The columnist urges compassion, patience, joint effort, and practical humor.
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Abigail van Buren
Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Synd., Inc
Abby
P. N
Hollywood
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