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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1968
Page
7
The Shenandoah Area Council of the Boy Scouts approved and adopted a new plan at its recent executive board meeting.
A 30-member planning group led by Joseph A. Massie presents a long range plan for the Shenandoah Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The plan targets 4 250 members by 1976 from 2 641 now and calls for new Camp Rock Enon facilities with a total operating budget of 101 590 by 1976 up from 68 230.
Frederick County Board of Supervisors voted to purchase 20.15 acres adjacent to the county dump for 500 dollars per acre. A 60 day option on the property owned by Arthur S. Rowles was taken May 20. Supervisor Brumback urged bids for permanent operation of the new sanitary landfill by August 1. TRI-COUNTY Refuse Co. is currently operating it.
Bank leaders reject a congressional study claiming U S banks wield outsized influence through trusteeships worth 607 billion dollars. The subcommittee cites 49 banks in 10 cities with 768 interlocking directorships across 286 of the 500 largest U S corporations. Bank spokesmen call conclusions exaggerated and misleading.
Detroit: Judge Robert Colombo delayed Patrolman Ronald August’s murder trial to January 6, 1969 after defense motion and cited publication of John Hersey’s The Algiers Motel Incident as likely biasing the case. Random House and author declined further comment while the judge warned against outside statements.
Ricky Lee Miller, 9, of 336 Parkway, caught a 12 pound carp in the Shenandoah River near Rt. 50 using nightcrawlers. He has fished for a couple of years and plans to continue, as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stotler R. Miller.
A combined antisubmarine and mine warfare drill named Sneaky Pete will be held off the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia for two weeks. About 14 surface ships five submarines and more than two dozen aircraft will participate, per Vice Adm. Paul Masterson commander of Atlantic antisubmarine warfare forces.
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