Obituaries From Winchester Area Include Shutts and Hall
Obituary notices report the death of Mrs. Mary Esther Shutts 77 of Winchester who died at her daughter’s Front Royal home. She was born May 17 1892 in Shepherdstown and survived by children grandchildren and great grandchildren with funeral services set at Jones Funeral Home. Also noted is Mrs Minnie Bell Hall Strasburg a retired midwife who died at Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital and will be laid to rest at Mt. Zion Methodist Church with services conducted by Rev. Hallill and Rev. Lucas and burial in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
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Mary Esther Shutts
Brucetown
Front Royal
Shutts
Shepherdstown
W. Va
David and
Nora Ann Jarvis
Eugene A. Shutts
St. John Catholic Church
Gladys Golightly
Aurburndale
Fla
Claude T. Gore
F. D. Fields
Charles E. Murphy
Alton Ashby
Brucetown Cemetery
Minnie Bell Hall
B. St
Strasburg
Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital
Woodstock
Hall
George and
Mary Conway
Charles B. Hall
Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Ray L. Bell
Albany
N.Y
Greta Wingiey
Jennett J. Hall
Washington
Lillian Hall
Richard W. Hallill
John B. Lucas
Samuel Banks
Charles Nickens, Jr
Eddie Grandison
Wilbert Mitchell
Freddie Jackson
William Payton
Joe Williams
Raymond Thompson
Ray Mitchell
Herbert Thomas
Lee Thomas
Dallas Witherall
Mt. Zion Church
Mt. Zion Cemetery
Stover
Italy Cultural Walkout Threatens Museums and Sites
A three day government employee strike across Italy could shut museums galleries and archaeological sites from the Alps to Sicily. The union seeks higher pay and better funding for the nations artistic heritage while other public workers also plan protests.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Alps
Sicily
Rome University
Ministries of Treasury, Budget and Finance
Aberystwyth
Wales
Prince Charles
Vehicle crashes cause injuries and damage in Winchester area
State Police report a Waterloo crash at Route 340 and 50 injuring two, with Robert Riggs 20 of Westernport Md and Dilly O'Donnell 26 of York Pa among the injured. A Route 664 incident left Pamela MacMillan with a lip laceration. City police logged three additional accidents with $1,850 in damage and a hit and run on Ce cil Street.
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Waterloo
Robert Riggs
Westernport
U.S. Army
Theodore Copp
Staunton
Dilly O’donnell
York
Pamela MacMillan
Allen Drive
Winchester
Loudoun St
Piccadilly
K. Armstrong
F. Kalafat
Hays Clifton Strawderman
Southwerk St
Merle Woodrow Kater
Whitlock Ave
Thomas E. Ritter
Route 1
Ban on Double Jeopardy Applies to State Trials
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 2 that the constitutional ban on double jeopardy applies to state criminal trials. Reversing a Maryland man’s larceny conviction, the court called the protection fundamental to the American justice system and stated it bars retrying the same offense after acquittal.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Maryland
Inscriptions on the Liberty Bell Quoted From Leviticus
The inscription on the Liberty Bell reads Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. It originates from the Bible, specifically the Book of Leviticus.
Rate Boost Necessary Solons Told
Chase Manhattan Bank raised its prime rate to 8 2 percent with reluctance, claiming it was absolutely necessary due to money market conditions. David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase, prepared testimony for the House Banking and Currency Committee stating the move aimed to prevent shifts to competing banks and markets, and that inflation drives interest rates rather than vice versa.
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Washington
Chase
Manhattan Bank
David Rockefeller
Rockefeller
The
New York Bank
House Banking and Currency Committee
Viet troops hit by mortar and sapper attack near Duc Pho
Overnight battles left eight U S soldiers wounded as the 11th Light Infantry Brigade base near Duc Pho came under about 100 shells and a sapper assault. North of Duc Pho, the 101st Airborne found an enemy hospital complex with huts bunks kitchens and a mess hall. In Da Nang area a ballot box attack killed two militiamen and two village officials with three wounded. Twenty six enemy rocket and mortar strikes caused light casualties and damage.
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11Th Light Infantry
Duc Ph
da Nang
U.S
Duc Pho
Quang Ngai City
101St Airborne Division
Virginia Weather Forecast Outlook Through Saturday
Partly cloudy today with a chance of thundershowers through Tuesday. Highs in the 80s to 90s, with cooler midweek and a warm weekend. Five day forecast shows above normal temps 84 to 90, lows 55 to 70, and average rainfall over an inch in the mountains and about three-fourths of an inch elsewhere. Showers and scattered storms remain likely most days.
Rainfall totals and averages across months and years
The article lists rainfall figures for the past four and a half hours ending 8 30 am on June 2 1969, totals to date, and long term averages by month over 56 years. It also provides five year January to December totals and the overall 56 year average, plus scattered unrelated fragments about piano ship and lunar seas.
Warren court expands criminal rights sparks political backlash
The Warren Court’s rulings in segregation, apportionment, and individual crime rights drew intense conservative opposition and impeachment calls. Critics argued the chief justice and court were soft on crime, while Warren stayed quiet about his off bench role.
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Warren
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