Voting Age Reduced to 18 Faces House Final Action
A double barreled bill to lower the voting age to 18 and extend protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act heads to final House action with Democrats confident of victory. The measure adds a nationwide literacy test ban and a uniform residency rule for presidential voting, while opponents led by Gerald Ford seek to block or delay.
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Washington
South
GOP
Gerald R. Ford
House Senate
Supreme Court
Georgia
Kentucky
Alaska
Hawaii
Vietnam
House
Senate
Winchester Board Honors Shockey and Crim as they retire
The Winchester School Board adopted resolutions honoring Howard H. Shockey retiring from the board and Lucy S. Crim retiring as board clerk and school system secretary. Shockey, member since 1955, asked not to be reappointed. Dr. William Pifer appointed to fill the seat. Crim served since 1920 as a secretary and since 1935 as board clerk, never missing a meeting.
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Winchester
Howard H. Shockey
Lucy S. Crim
Jacob L. Johnson
Shockey
William Pifer
Lewis M. Costello
Wilson C. Dickson
North
Johnson
Crim
J.L. Hammack Company
Lynchburg
Handley High School
Handley
Mrs Emmons Elected Round Hill PTA President
Betty Emmons was chosen president for the 1970 71 term at the Round Hill PTA meeting held at the Round Hill Community Center. Ada Patterson was named vice president Sarah Woods secretary and Ruth Carr treasurer. Members discussed purchasing music books as the association project for the school.
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Round Hill
Parent Teachers Association
Round Hill Community Center
Judge to Hear Suit to Halt Photographing RICHMOND
A Richmond federal judge will hear a suit challenging police photographing of rallygoers. U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. denied dismissing the case and said a hearing date would be set to address alleged First Amendment violations of speech and assembly.
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Richmond
U.S. District Court
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Merhige
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Mary Catherine Clark
William Fauver
Joint
Committee of Control
Dowell J. Howard Vocational School
Mrs. Emmons
PTA
Betty Emmons
Leonard
Miller's Hardware
N. Loudoun St
Hal
Eee
Thang Fmtte
Burton's Ward Plaza
U.S
Montgomery
Service
Model
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