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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1971
Page
2
Mostly clear and cooler tonight with a low near 60s. Wednesday will be fair with highs around 80s and a 10 percent rain chance. Extended forecast calls for showers mainly in the mountains Thursday and daytime highs in the 80s with overnight in the 60s.
Nellie M Morris 91 of Clarke County born Aug 18 1879 dies. Survived by four children and four grandchildren. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. at John H Enders Funeral Home with Rev M C Cook. burial Green Hill Cemetery. Family receives friends Wednesday 7-9 p.m. Wilma Lee Carroll 15 of Clarke County killed by car to have funeral Wednesday 2 p.m. Mt Carmel Methodist Church. Burial Mt Carmel yard. Pallbearers listed. Samuel A Bock Jr 61 of 709 S Braddock Street dies. service 11 a.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Rev John E Staples. burial Shenandoah Memorial Park. Pallbearers named.
A Phil ippines cable from 1961 quotes Gen Taylor urging 8000 ground troops in Vietnam. The Globe notes Kennedy covert actions increasing advisors to 16000 before his 1963 assassination, and Johnson’s 1968 choices on Vietnamization and troop levels. It cites Westmoreland’s 206000 request and Tet offensive as pivotal, with Wheeler noting a near-successful initial attack.
Lord Fairfax Community College reports remaining full time summer jobs for fall entrants or current students. Call Charles Via, Guidance counselor, at 869-1120 for more information.
The WSCS group will gather at Mrs. George Life home in Frederick Heights on Thursday at 8 p.m. Colleen Aldrich will lead devotions. Boy Scout Troop 1 plans a scrap paper drive next week with pickup offered by calling 667-1196 or 662-6869.
Washington AP report says end the war senators move toward another vote on a compromise Indochina pullout plan. The measure would require all U S forces out nine months after enactment if a prisoner release deal is reached within 60 days. Bipartisan sponsors include Cook Eagleton Stevens Hartke.
The board discussed making Memorial Day a future school holiday if snow days remain unused. It approved one joint training range project with Clarke and Frederick Counties on Dowell J. Howard Vocational School grounds and allowed Winchester schools to transfer pupil records to Clarke or Frederick Counties upon request. The board heard about a city drug curriculum for grades 1–8, a reading workshop for elementary teachers, and nine filled plus nine remaining positions for 1971–72. It also approved use of Handley School facilities for a Jehovah’s Witnesses circuit convention and reviewed two pregnancy-related teacher contract rulings.
Winchester police report two color portable television sets valued at 688 dollars stolen from Sears Roebuck on N Loudoun Street after entry by climbing fence and forcing a door. A 15-year-old suspect was later taken into custody in a separate Sears warehouse break-in at 422 Smithfield Avenue.
Kansas City AP reports former First Lady Bess Truman is at Research Medical Center for a routine physical examination.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports about 4 million rank and file workers saw May pay rise to 125.46 dollars weekly, up 1.41 and six percent from a year earlier. After price adjustments earnings were 0.97 dollars above April and 2.5 percent above May 1970, with higher purchasing power for a fifth straight month despite a 0.5 percent rise in living costs in May.
The kea, a New Zealand parrot of medium size with rusty green color, is reported to attack live sheep to obtain fat from their kidneys.
Wall Street prices continued downward pressure with the Dow Jones 30 industrials at 872.23 at 10:30 am, down 4.30. Advances trailed declines two to one on the New York Stock Exchange as brisk trading persisted and analysts linked losses to ongoing retrenchment and inflationary pressures.
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