Winchester council reports year end surplus of 318000
The Winchester City Council learned from the Finance Committee that the 1969 70 budget ended with a surplus of 318 121 57 due to higher than expected revenues and lower expenditures. The surplus funds will support several capital projects including storm sewer work, downtown development, and the Pleasant Valley Road project with city shares outlined and plans for future funding.
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Star
Winchester City Council
Finance Committee
Stewart Bell, Jr
Council
Treasury
Bell
Indian Alley
Loudoun St
Pleasant Valley Road
Area Voters Stay Home in Narrow Primary Turnout
In Winchester Frederick and Clarke Counties about 19 840 registered voters 674 cast ballots 3 percent. DuVal led with 288 Rawlings 238 Colvin 127 across the three counties with Warren Shenandoah and other areas showing similar weak participation. Winchester Fredericks County Clarke County results mirrored the statewide apathy with DuVal the top choice in most precincts.
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Clive L. DuVal II
George C. Rawlings, Jr
Milton Colvin
Spokesman Long
Winchester
Del
William C. Battle
Frederick County
DuVal
Rawlings
Colvin
Henry Howell
Clarke County
Clarke
Fred Pollard
Middletown
Reuss
Millwood
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Stephens City
Warren County
Happy Creek
Shenandoah County
End of War Key Campus Probe Tells War Must End
Washington AP six witnesses at the opening hearing of the Presidents Commission on Campus Unrest include Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Hugh Scott. They say the commission cannot pacify campuses until the Vietnam War ends. Other speakers include S I Hayakawa Robben Fleming Charles Palmer and Otis Cochrane. Scott urges retreat from demagoguery and emphasizes humaneness amid student anger. The panel, led by ex Governor William Scranton, was formed after campus uproars following the Cambodia move.
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Washington
Edward‘m. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Senate
Hugh Scott
San Francisco State
S. I. Hayakawa
University of Michigan
Robben Fleming
National Student Association
Charles Palmer
Otis Cochrane
Black American Law Student Union
Scott
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Massacre Cover-Up Charged By House Subcommittee
Washington AP reports a House subcommittee charges a deliberate cover up of My Lai killings by military and State Department officers, with evidence failing to reach Saigon. The panel says dissemination across 13 command levels occurred, but headquarters had no proof of the reach.
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Washington
My Lai
State Department
Special House
U.S
Americal
Saigon
Fourman House Armed Services
F. Edward Hzbert
D-La
Silco Plans 50000 Sq Ft Center in New Industrial Park
Silco Corporation will build a 50,000 square foot distribution center on a five acre site along U.S. 11 north of Winchester. Maurice Hahn says the facility will be a general center with completion in November and operations starting in December. The project marks the first unit in the Stine Industrial Park after rezoning Fort Collier Farms for light industry.
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Star
Silco Corporation
Maurice Hahn
Major Sweep Against North Viet Bases Near Da Nang
Nearly 5,000 South Vietnamese troops launched a major operation west of Da Nang to destroy North Vietnamese base camps in rugged jungle west and southwest of Thuong Duc. U S Marine helicopters ferried assault units with American advisers into the area as light fighting was reported early.
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Saigon
da Nang
Cambodia
United States
Green Berets
Thuong Duc
Nguyen van Thien
Hiep Duc
U.S
Virginia Senate Primary Narrow Victory Signals Runoff Risk
In Virginia, George C. Rawlings Jr. narrowly defeated Clive L. DuVal for the Democratic Senate nomination with 130,000 votes of 1.75 million cast. Rawlings led 45.59 to 44.87 percent amid a low turnout that concerned party backers including Byrd Jr. loyalists.
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Richmond
Harry F. Byrd Jr
George C. Rawlings Jr
U.S. Senate
Virginia
Rawlings
Clive L. DuVal
Milton Colvin
DuVal
Colvin
Henry E. Howell
Norfolk
William C. Battle
Linwood Holton
GOP
Howell
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Fredericksburg
Clive Duval
Fairfax
By Audrey Coleman
Frederick and Clarke
Strasburg
Smalls Garden Center
Fantastic Childrens Shoe Sale
Witkin’s Shoe Center, Inc
Howard, Johnson
Shaw
Warren Gregory
Patton
Smith
Bertram Shaw
Buckland
Mass
Colrain
Adidas
Handley and
WIS
Snags Sport Shop
Col
H.W. Burgess
Fairchild- Hiller
Burgess
Roanoke
Silco
Krek
Fishhook
Phnom Penh
Kimi Rom
South Vietnam
Mekong
Norodom Sihanouk
New York
Richmond Area
Coastal
Valley
Roanoke Lynchburg
Far Southwest
Kosygin
Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Alexei N. Kosygin
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
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