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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1969
Page
6
A regional theater piece transfers to Broadway in its entirety. The AP Wirephoto tag accompanies the report noting the move from Atlanta to New York as a landmark in theater production.
Broadway previews feature Jay Garner as Governor Maddox in a sharp satirical play about Georgia's segregationist leader. Act One lands strong with a poultry origin tale and biting lines, while Act Two foresees a Maddox presidency amid domestic upheaval and war talk.
The case of Robert John Erler 24 opens in Fort Lauderdale Florida over voice identification in the murder of 12 year old Merilyn Clark. Prosecutors seek to compare a sheriff's tape with Erler's voice while his attorney seeks to suppress the recordings.
At the University of Virginia 30 women per day write seeking admission to the arts and sciences as a faculty committee weighs coeducation. Dean Ernest H. Ern says no major policy change soon with long range planning in view and about 1100 women already at the university amid an 18 month study of coeducation.
Hanover Presbytery approved the proposed merger of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A and the Reformed Church of America, becoming the 17th to back the plan. Three-fourths of the Presbyteries must approve, with nine votes against or tied in some cases so far.
Reports of a delayed consistory and dissent over birth control surface amid Vatican efforts to fill the College of Cardinals. In Cleveland two priests were arrested for an unauthorized Mass, while in Amsterdam Jesuit priests press students to decide on celibacy rules and potential dissident moves.
Luther Freeze fired on three bandits who invaded his store in Luray Virginia capping a pistol and shotgun threat to his wife Nellie Freeze 61. One wound and a glass door crash sent the suspects fleeing as Mason and Blacker were jailed with a third man Miriam Virgil Carter 22 from Luray charged with attempted robbery. Mason hospitalized in serious condition with chest and hip wounds.
About 500 retarded children in Kentucky are served by 41 partially state supported day care training centers.
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