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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1968
Page
3
Washington AP conferees reach a $5.4 billion housing bill with government interest subsidies to aid low income families. The measure, likely to pass next week, supports 500000 households and aims to expand public housing while backing private capital in new towns and flood riot insurance.
Independent candidates filed just before midnight for the 4th and 6th district seats. S. W. Tucker of Emporia seeks to challenge incumbent Democrat Watkins M. Abbitt in the 4th District while J. B. Brayman of Lynchburg plans to oppose Republican Richard H. Poff in the 6th District.
Dr. John Coli of New York and Allied Chemical Corp. presides as Virginian of the Year at the Virginia Press Association closing banquet. Bronze plaques awarded to Fredericksburg Free Lance Star Pulaski Southwest Times Emporia Independent Messenger and Manassas Journal Messenger. Seventy two additional awards given as about 150 VPA members attend.
Henry County Treasurer Joe Pace of Martinsville his son Randy 14 and an unidentified woman were killed when their single engine private plane crashed into a wooded mountainside eight miles west of Stuart Virginia. FAA investigators were expected to determine the crash cause as rescue teams reached the scene after 3 p.m. weather delays. The trio were en route from Blue Ridge Airport Spencer to Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes the inaugural Easter parade occurred in 1876 along Atlantic City's famous boardwalk, marking the event as a early shoreline procession.
Berlin observers marked the 24th anniversary of the July 20 1944 plot to kill Hitler with ceremonies at Ploetzensee Prison and the Reich War Ministry site renamed Stauffenberg Strasse. West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz urged reflection on the failure of 1944 and urged unity across political lines to strengthen the young German democracy.
A 54 member Russian delegation visits Williamsburg as Aeroflot and Russian agencies join tour of the restored area. They arrive on a Moscow to New York flight, view Williamsburg the Story of a Patriot, stay overnight and depart Sunday for Glassboro New Jersey. They plan to return to Moscow Monday.
Norfolk AP reports the U S attorney says it will try Thom Davis Jr 31 of Gainesville Fla for robbing a Suffolk Home Federal Savings and Loan last November. A federal judge barred use of a luggage search confession but allowed a car search confession found after implied consent.
In Harrisonburg six teen discussion groups on church programs were set for the Presbyterian Men of the Synod of Virginia at Massanetta Springs. The conference opened Friday with Dr. Carl F. Henry delivering a keynote criticizing secular excess and urging renewed church values and personal holiness.
South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency announced the arrest of 27 people accused of running a North Korean linked spy network. The ring aimed to aid guerrilla raids, operated a cover and monthly magazine, and received at least 67000 from North Korean superiors.
Seat Jones associate editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch has been elected chairman of the Virginia Highway Safety Commission. The move assigns Jones to lead state traffic safety policy and enforcement efforts.
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