Marsh to Speak at LFCC Commencement Exercises
John C. Marsh Jr a Winchester native and former congressman will address Lord Fairfax Community College at 7 p.m. Thursday for the seventh annual commencement. The Yale Law alum practiced in Strasburg and Washington and held senior staff roles under Ford and Carter including presidential counselor and transition lead.
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John C. Marsh, Jr
Winchester
President Ford
Congress
Lord Fairfax Community College
William H. McCoy
John Marsh
Virginia
Lord Fairfax
Dr. McCoy
Community College
Mays, Valentine
Doctors debate role in asbestos mesothelioma case
In Norfolk, Dr. Juan A. Del Regato testifies as the Dishner estate seeks $3 million from Johns Manville over asbestos insulation at the Amoco Yorktown refinery. Lawyers clash over when the deceased Ira Dishner contracted mesothelioma and when warnings about asbestos were issued.
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JohnsManville Corp
U.S. District Court
Juan A. del Regato
Tampa
Fla
Gene Locks
Suvivors
Yorktown
Ira Dishner
Lively Wilson
U.S
Richard B. Kellam
Dishner
Johns Manville
Amoco
Betwen
Johns-Manville
del Regato
Relief Operations In Quake Region
Tokyo dispatch reports eight thousand troops and police aiding relief along Japan's northeast coast after a 7.5 magnitude quake near Sendai. Twenty one dead nearly 500 injured. 2,000 homeless as gas, utilities disrupted and roads, rail, and bridges damaged across Miyagi Prefecture.
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Sendai
Miyagi
Roanoke College graduate Judith Belchic noted
From the Star Files ten years ago in 1968 Judith Belchic received a B A degree from Roanoke College in Salem Virginia. Sirhan Sirhan was arraigned in California on charges of murdering Senator Robert F Kennedy. The Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club held classes on code and theory for interested persons. A Sacred Heart Novena opened at Winchester Catholic Church continuing nine days.
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Judith Belchic
Roanoke College
Salem
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
California
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Shenandoah Valley
Tragedy Strikes Canadian Wilderness Canoe Expedition
A training trip on Lake Temiscamingue ends in the drowning of 12 schoolboys and a teacher. Fifteen youths and three teachers survived after four cedar canoes overturned in a storm. Survivors from St John’s School of Claremont were treated for shock.
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Quebec
St. John's School
Claremont
Ontario
Toronto
Lake Temiscamingue
Quebec-Ontario
Ottawa
Moosonee
Ont
James Bay
Pierre Rochefort
Gary Smith
Smith
Jean Laporte
Richard Belisle
Canada
St. John’s
Ted Byfield
House votes to bar air bag enforcement funding in 1982
The House approved 237 to 143 to block administration spending on air bag regulations next year. Rep Bud Schuster questioned bag effectiveness. Separately officials fined AFL CIO 10000 for campaign law violations citing improper fund transfers.
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House
Bud Schuster
R-Pa
Washington (Ap
Afl-Cio
U.S
George L. Hart
Hart
Federal Election Commission
General Treasury
Philip M. Crane
Illinois
Bodies of Missing Boys Found at Newport News Marina
The bodies of 5 year old Andrew Kirkland and 6 year old John Kirkland were recovered in Deep Creek Harbor near Menchville Marina. Police ruled the deaths accidental drownings with no foul play suspected. The missing boys disappeared from their yard Saturday evening during a radish picking errand and a large search followed.
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Lawrence Kirkland
Deep Creek Marina
Menchville Marina
Andrew Kirkland
John Kirkland
Deep Creek Harbor
Donnie Burns
Shallow
Kirkland
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