Garrett Assumes Duties as New Wesley Pastor in Winchester
The Reverend Edward M. Garrett Jr. becomes minister of Wesley United Methodist Church in Winchester succeeding Reverend George C. Watson who moved to Florida. Garrett, a Covington Virginia native, has a rich theological and educational background with degrees from University of Richmond Dunk Divinity School and Presbyterian School of Christian Education. He previously served at Reveille Methodist Church in Richmond and with campus ministry. He is married to Marian Joyce Kadlee of Brookfield Tl.
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Edward M. Garrett, Jr
Wesley United Methodist Church
Winchester
George C. Watson
Watson
Florida
Tallahassee
Covington
Garrett
Virginia
University of Richmond
Dunk Divinity School
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Richmond
North Carolina
Durham
N.C
Reveille Methodist Church
Reveille
Stephens City Budget Approved Unanimously
The Stephens City Town Council approved a proposed $37,423 fiscal year budget in a public hearing at the Town Office. The budget rises $3,513 from last year with no tax rate changes, remaining at 60 cents per $100 real estate and 90 cents per $100 personal property. The main revenue boost is Stephens City's share of Frederick County's 1 percent sales tax, estimated at $3,600.
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Stephens
Frederick County
Hog Prices Peak Later This Month Says Analyst
Virginia Department of Agriculture reports week ending June 29 shows hog receipts down while prices rise. Top hogs 21.10 to 22.50, heavy butchers 20.00 to 21.40, light butchers 18.85 to 21. Veal and lamb prices mixed to lower, slaughter cattle and feeders largely steady. Grain prices for No 2 Red Winter Wheat 1.20 to 1.25 per bushel.
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D.R. Lohr
Virginia Department of Agriculture
Northern
Virginia
Italian director plans Kama Sutra film in India and Asia
Italian film maker Giuseppe Scotese known for topical semidocumentaries says he will film most of the Kama Sutra adaptation in India and Southeast Asia. He declined actor names but called the project very expensive and noted his previous film Acid Delirium of the Senses.
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Rome
LSC
Giuseppe Scotese
India
Southeast Asia
Scotese
Rubbatex Strike Shuts Bedford Plant
Vocal 240 of the United Rubber Workers strike Rubatex Corp in Bedford County. Workers walked off at midnight Sunday after rejecting a three year contract offer. Pickets march as company cites no negotiations since Saturday. The plant employs about 940 production workers.
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Bedford
United Rubber Workers of America
Rubbatex Corp
Bedford County
Tariff Cuts Seen to Boost U S Goods Abroad
Paris AP reports Kennedy Round tariff cuts across 20 nations aim to lift U S exports. De Gaulle emergency measures cloud gains but the shifts could reduce the 500 million dollar U S trade deficit and lower world prices while extending phased reductions over five years.
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Paris
Kennedy
Charles de Gaulle
United States
America
Fishermen Receive Annual Blessing From Cardinal Cushing
In Gloucester Massachusetts Richard Cardinal Cushing blessed the fishing fleet after the St. Peter’s fiesta. Thousands watched as fishermen carried a 700 pound statue of St Peter through the streets in a long parade. The note adds the next lunar eclipse will occur in 1971.
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Gloucester
Mass
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Boston
St. Peter’s
St. Peter
Brush fire around pole repeats in Clearbrook area
Firemen say a small brush fire broke out around a burning power pole on Redbud Road yesterday, likely sparked by a squirrel. A dead squirrel was found at the pole base, mirroring a similar incident October 15. No major damage reported in a separate vehicle fire at 401 National Ave.
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Clearbrook
Redbud Road
Winchester
National Ave
Three Treated After Morning Car Crash Near Winchester
Anthony and Kenneth Orndorff and Bedford Cannon were treated at Winchester Memorial Hospital ER for whiplash and a wrist fracture after a two car crash at 12:50 a.m. on Rt 81 near the Stephens City exit. None were admitted. Earlier, Charles Luckett caused $600 damage and mailbox damage on Rt 638 while sleeping at the wheel. he was uninjured.
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Anthony Orndorff
Kenneth Orndorff
Paper Mill Rd
Winchester
Bedford Cannon
Gunter Airforce Base
Ala
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Orndorffs
Cannon
Stephens City
Rt. 81
Charles R. Luckett
Rt. 3
Luckett
First Heart Transplant Patients See Steady Improvement
The two newest heart transplant recipients Maria Elena Penaloza aged 24 in Valparaiso Chile and Gaetan Paris aged 49 in Montreal Canada are improving steadily doctors report. Penaloza eats chicken and meat and chats with her parents while Paris eats with appetite and sleeps well doctors call the heart function excellent. The operations were the world 22nd and 23rd and four other patients remain alive after similar surgery. Transplants have occurred in nine countries with eleven procedures in the United States and two survivors in Houston Texas.
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Associated Press
Chile
Canada
Maria Elena Penaloza
Navy
Valparaiso
Gaetan Paris
Montreal
India’s Rail Disasters Hit Five Months in 1968
AP reports India logged nine major rail accidents in the first five months of 1968, killing 162 and injuring over 250 as speeding trains collided with stationary ones in a deadly trend.
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New Delhi
India
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