Obituaries for Julia T. Jones Betty Sours and Henry Evans
Funeral services were held for Julia T. Jones 87 of 240 Park Way died Thursday at Jones Funeral Home. Betty Jane Sours 44 of Route 4 Martinsburg died yesterday in Kings Daughters Hospital after illness. Henry M. Evans of Summit Point died yesterday, with services set for Berryville. Burial and cemetery details given for Mount Hebron, Rosedale, Green Hill.
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Julia T. Jones
Parkway
Jones Funeral Home
Virgil A. Moyer, Jr
William C. Curl
Thomas W. Downing
John S. Shiner
John A. Carver
Forrest E. Jones
Laurens P. Jones
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Betty Jane Sours
Route 4
Martinsburg
W.va
Kings Daughters Hospital
Sours
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Henry C. and
Luna DeHaven Lamp
National Fruit Products Co
Martinsburg Credit Bureau
First Presbyterian Church
Miller-Ropp
Donald A. Sours
Craig Byron Sours
Donna Gay Sours
Leroy
Luther Lamp
Sherpherdstown
Fleming Fritts
Charles Town
Alvin Rainey
Harvey McDonald
Brown Funeral Home
David C. Crawford
Rosedale Cemetery
Henry M. Evans
Summit Point
John H. Enders
Berryville
Allen Bartlett
William Brook, Jr
Claude Grabeel
Walter C. Armstrong
William Ernest Spencer
Stuart VanNosdeln
Richard VanNosde
Harvey Kercheval
Green Hill Cemetery
Apollo 11 prepares for manned lunar landing mission
NASA reports Apollo 11 on an accurate course with a planned two hour rest ahead of their lunar descent. Armstrong and Aldrin will descend to the Sea of Tranquillity while Collins orbits in Columbia. The crew and mission control expect a Monday 2:21 a.m. touchdown with a Thursday Pacific splashdown.
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Earth
Armstrong
Aldrin
Colslins
Charles A. Berry
Soviet Union
United States
Frank Boreman
Houston
Collins
Eagle
Moon
Columbia
Pacific Ocean
Nixon
White House
Army to dispose of nerve gas at Rocky Mountain Arsenal
More than 21,000 Army nerve gas bombs will be disassembled and detoxified at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver. About 2,000 tons of liquid gas will be stored underground and 4,000 tons of mustard gas burned. The plan follows a National Academy of Sciences report and aims to take 18 to 30 months.
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Washington
Colorado
Army
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Denver
National Academy of Science
Utah
Atlantic Ocean
Nixon birth control plan praised by experts
Population and sex information experts applaud President Nixon's proposal to provide free birth control advice and devices within five years to low income women of child bearing age. Church leaders express mixed views while Planned Parenthood and SIECUS hail the move as a step toward peace and choice.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Diocese of
California
Episcopal Church
Alan F. Guttmacher
Planned Parenthood
Mary Calderone
Sex Information and Education Council of the United States
Siecus
Indianapolis
95 Donors at July Bloodmobile Visit
Winchester Jaycees sponsor a Red Cross bloodmobile. 95 people donated with 12 deferred. 20 first timers. Donor clubs include James Baker and others with 8th donation, Doris Spicer with 3 gallon, Mil dred Clevenger and Roy Locke with 4 gallons, Richard Williams with 9 gallons. Local groups contributed donors. next drive set for August 19.
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Red Cross
Winchester Jaycees
William Wright
Weather Outlook for Virginia and Winchester
Variable cloudiness tonight and Sunday with scattered showers and thundershowers. High today 85, low 71, yesterday's high 85. cooler on Monday with more showers. Sunset 8:36 p.m., sunrise 6:02 a.m. First Quarter July 22.
Rainfall totals and averages for past year and 56 years
Rainfall over the last 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. today was none with July to date at 2.53 and 1969 year-to-date at 14.32. Thirty six years of monthly averages are listed, with July at 3.76 inches and December at 2.32. Five-year Jan to Dec totals are 31.63 in 1964, 26.85 in 1965, 33.82 in 1966, 36.48 in 1967, and 32.56 in 1968. The long-term Jan–Dec average is 36.43 inches.
Charley Rouss Fire Company Heralds First Auto Hose Truck
Historic notes recount the Union Fire Company formation before May 1789 later renamed Union Steam Fire Company in 1889 and then Charley Rouss Fire Company in 1899. Benefactor Charles Broadway Rouss funded the 1897 fire hall, with the first triple‑combination auto fire truck arriving in 1907 after a 1907 motorized wagon purchase.
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Rouss Fire Company
Union Fire Company
Union Steam Fire Company
Braddock and
Boscawen Sts
Charles Broadway Rouss
Charley Rouss
United States
Answers to nautical and other trivia list
The numbered prompts include topics from nautical terms to horses and aluminum. It lists durations two years five years and South Dakota among places, John Adams as a figure, and flags matches and smoking as hazards. The items cover roles such as mate and conclude with a true statement.
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I. Q
South Dakota
John Adams
Mate
True
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ORDE
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U.S
Okinawa
Pentagon
Naha
Chokyo Yara
Ryukyu Islands
Arge
Tama
Zze
Bro
Wincleseer
Neron
Neil Armstrong
Edwin Aldrin
Michael Collins
Dick Hodgins, Jr
Msgr
Hugh Curran
Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Family Life Bureau
New York
Curran
C. Kilmer Myers
Episcopal
Nors
James Baker
Louis L. Best
Alice Bowers
Kenneth R. Brand
Joseph A. Carper
Robert M. Henry
Arbutus
Kerns
Franklin R. Madigan
Rodewick W. Story
Doris C. Spicer
Mildred Clevenger
Roy O. Locke, Jr
Richard E. Williams
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Housewives
Ashworth Brothers
Henkle-Harris
O’sullivan
Crown, Cork and Seal
Carper’s Cleaners
U.S. Post Office
Nate
John W. Rosenberger
Quarles School
Commerce St
Virginia
Winchester Skies
Rouss
Myers
C.J. Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
Rouss Park
Bud Lewis
Jim Lemon
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