Gun Surrender Appeal Draws Sparse City Action
An AP survey finds weak public response to gun surrender appeals. Pasadena rejects gun registration, San Antonio debates a hand gun ban for the insane, Miami Beach adopts permits and registration, Chicago reports high compliance yet arrests, Los Angeles mulls a county gun register, San Francisco urges citizens to hand over weapons, and a statue proposal emerges from a gun melt.
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Young Army Wife Freed of Murder Charge
Stafford Circuit Judge Coleman dismissed murder charges against Army wife Darlene Pephe in the starvation death of her 3 year old son Thomas Anthony Pephe. He cited the autopsy findings of malnutrition and ruled the state failed to prove the case. The body was found Oct 27 1967 in the Pephe’s trailer home in Stafford Heights. The father Army Sgt James C Pephe faced jury trial for murder on July 12. The Pephe family includes five other children.
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Embroider Motifs Offered by VEsco Brooks
Vintage knitting and needlecraft promotion listing easy to make embroidery motifs. Includes transfer patterns 7409 six motifs sized 4 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches, mailed via first class with extra handling. Also advertises catalogs and pattern books with prices and ordering details to Alice Brooks, Winchester Evening Star.
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Heloise hints save dresser with old frame idea
Reader Heloise shares thrifty tips from her column. A reader uses an inexpensive old picture frame as a glass-top tray to protect a dresser. The note mentions other household hacks and humorous remarks.
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Kathy Walker
Indian leaders protest at Resurrection City 11 camp
Protesters in Winchester reference violations of the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854 as they rally at a camp dubbed Resurrection City 11. The event, noted in the June 29 1968 edition, centers on Indian leaders and their opposition to treaty breaches.
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Pilgrimage Youth Group Stages Stop in Winchester
The United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth group from Arkansas and Texas, 22 girls 9 boys plus a director and two assistants, halted in Winchester on Wednesday. They planned a six day New York UN visit before Canada. 48 groups will travel to the UN this summer.
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Juveniles urged to commit crimes in Chicago gang case
Senate investigators hear that a $927000 antipoverty rehab program funded Blackstone Rangers and Devil's Disciples in Chicago. Witnesses including Robert Karton say youths were pressured to commit crimes to avoid harsh penalties, while church leader Rev John Fry denies aiding violence.
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Market Prices for Hogs Veal Lambs and Cattle at Front Royal
Front Royal markets list hogs priced 14.60 to 21.20 per hundredweight across weight classes. Veal shows Choice Prime 200-230 lbs at 35.50 to 36.25, with other weights 31.00 to 34.50. Lambs range Prime 28.00, Choice 27.00, Good 25.00 to 26.00, plus slaughter cattle and stock feeder figures for steers heifers cows bulls and weights.
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Berkeley County population projection eclipses current figures
John Fendersmith, a county planning veteran, told the Martinsburg Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce luncheon that Berkeley County will reach a population of 55 000 by 1985 an increase of about 20 000. He cited urbanization driven by industry and highways and predicted boundary expansion toward Nellville Four-Mile Woods Opequon Creek and Pikeside.
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Berkeley County
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Gold Treasures and Fragrant Roses Unearthed in Tutankhamen Tomb
Archaeologists opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen and uncovered gold and jeweled boxes containing dried roses that still emitted a rose fragrance after about 3,000 years. The discovery highlights ancient crafting and ceremonial burial practices.
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First World War II ship sunk in Oct 1941
The USS Reuben James became the first warship sunk in World War II when a torpedo hit it during a convoy escort off Iceland in October 1941, before the United States entered the war.
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