Niece challenges Pratt will as Virginia colleges benefi t
Esther Gayle Winston of Clarkesville filed briefs in Stafford County Circuit Court challenging the will of late industrialist John Lee Pratt who died December 20 leaving an estate valued at 60 million dollars. Pratt left 100000 and all tangible property to Pratt Bevan Ashton of King George, with major gifts to Virginia colleges.
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John Lee Pratt
Esther Gayle Winston
Clarkesville
Stafford County
Pratt
General Motors
Virginia
Pratt Bevan Ashton
King George
Norfolk
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Donald W. Merrick
Dearborn
Mich
Merrick
Annexation agreement debated as court considers intervention
The court rejected interventions by Cleveland Chair Co and others over annexation of county land citing time and orderly process. The agreement includes Front Royal Warren County paying about $28 000 to the county over five years for lost sales tax revenues.
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Harrison
Roby Janney
Cleveland Chair Co
Cleveland Chair
Front Royal Warren County
Virginia Supreme Court
Front Royal-Warren
Front Royal
ABC
Howell Organizing for Carter Rally in Virginia
Lulu Williams reports Henry Howell, former lieutenant governor, rallying Democrats for Jimmy Carter at a Holiday Inn event. Howell cites Vepco documents and recalls Carter’s past Virginia visits with anecdotes as supporters from Shenandoah, Warren, Clarke, Frederick counties and Winchester attend.
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Paul
Star
Vepco
Holiday Inn
South
Jimmy Carter
New York
Howell
George Wallace
Carter
Georgia
Virginia
Shenandoah
Warren
Clarke
Frederick
Winchester
Five Hurt In Mishap At Frederick County Intersection
Five people were hurt yesterday in two collisions. At Route 37 and 50 in Frederick County four were treated and released. Candy Wolford remained in the Coronary Care Unit in good condition. The earlier Front Royal crash at Laurel and Stokes caused over $900 in damage.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Rts
Frederick County
Candy Wolford
Violet Wolford
Steve Beatley
James Beatley
Timothy Jenkins
Front Royal
Thomas Heflin
James Jackson
Markham
Laurel and
Stokes St
Jackson
Heflin
Israel defends Entebbe raid as anti terror action at UN
Israel at the United Nations defended its Entebbe hostage rescue as justified and charged Ugandan collusion with hijackers. Uganda denied involvement and African states prepared a resolution condemning the raid while the United States eyed a veto.
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Israel
U.N. Security Council
Uganda
United Nations
Air France
Entebbe
Organization of African Unity
Security Council
United States
Right-to-Work Law Supporter Shot Before Law Takes Effect
James R. Leslie 38, an advertising man who backed Louisiana right to work with TV campaigns showing labor violence, was killed by a shotgun as he walked near a motel. Gov. Edwards said there was no link to the bill’s passage. The law bans compulsory union membership and was signed days earlier.
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Baton Rouge
Edwin Edwards
Edwards
Louisiana
James R. Leslie
Leslie
Shreveport
Lake Charles
Wilbur LeLeux, Jr
New Orleans
Queen Elizabeth II visits Charlottesville Virginia
Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Charlottesville for a Virginia University of Virginia luncheon at the Rotunda. She and Prince Philip plan to plant two pin oak trees at the Western Virginia Bicentennial Center before touring Monticello and returning to Providence Rhode Island.
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University of Virginia
Western Virginia Bicentennial Center
Monticello
Prince Philip
Charlottesville-Albemale
U. Va
Mills Godwin
Bicentennial Center
Thomas Jefferson
Providence
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Weather rainfall totals and extended forecast notes
The report lists rainfall across years with 1972 at 53.02 inches and 1930 at 17.15 inches, plus monthly averages for 62 years and upcoming weather in Northern Valley and Virginia regions. It notes no rainfall in the past 24 hours to 8 am and July 1976 totals. temperatures range from highs in the 80s and 90s with lows in the 50s to 70s.
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Virginia
Man Shot In Domestic Quarrel in Winchester
A 27-year-old Winchester man, Ronald Allen Johnson, was treated and released from Winchester Memorial Hospital after being shot in an apparent domestic quarrel at the Cameron and Gerrard streets intersection around 8 p.m. The wound from a .22-caliber pistol prompted police to state no charges have been filed.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Ronald Allen Johnson
Cameron and
Gerrard Srs
Johnson
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