Snow and Rain Hit Virginia Streams and Roads
Snow and rain battered northern Virginia with rapid stream rises and flooded roads. The Shenandoah and Opequon rivers rose as much as four feet, with Cedar Creek and Back Creek spilling banks. Rain totals included Martinsburg 2.25 inches and Harpers Ferry 2.40.
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Bartonsville
Back Creek
Cedar Creek
Shenandoah
Harpers Ferry
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
W. N. Rutherford
Martinsburg
Front Royal
Crooked Run
Embassy Attacks End. Moscow Restores U S Embassy Security
In Moscow the U S Embassy, battered by student protests, sees 210 ink stains on walls and 310 broken windows. Police return to duty and normal business resumes as U S and Soviet leaders trade tests after rioting by Red Chinese and Vietnamese students.
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Moscow
U.S
Teenage cookies theft at Country Store on Senseny Road
Report of six boxes of Girl Scout cookies taken from the Country Store on Senseny Road Wednesday night. Mrs. W. M. Miller praises two James Wood boys for helping start her car after a stalled ride at Amherst Street. Vivian Royston reports signs of changing seasons including a robin and forecasts of snow and spring.
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Senseny Road
W. M. Miller
George St
Miller
Amherst St
James Wood
Vivian Royston
Berryville
Crier
Mosby St
National beer tapper keg take home draft beer
S and F Distributing Co promotes a take home draft beer program encouraging customers to call their retailer for keg service and home draft options.
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National
S & F Distributing Co
Paper Mill Road
Manpower Report Urges Domestic Program to Cut Unemployment
President Johnson presented the 276 page manpower report to Congress urging approval of education antipoverty and job training programs. He cited an expected rise in output and a three percent unemployment goal amid a growing 18 to 24 year old labor force and a $39 billion gross increase in national output from the tax cut.
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Congress
Labor Department
White House
Johnson
Rural home area resembles battlefield near Natchitoches
A rural area near Natchitoches Louisiana appears war torn with five homes leveled and melted cars after a disaster. Seventeen people remain unaccounted for as responders search the wreckage.
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Natchitoches
Louisiana
Geyser Blast Kills Nine Children In Louisiana Explosion
A natural gas pipeline blast near Shreveport Louisiana killed nine children and injured eight others. Officials estimate property and pipeline damages over 1 million dollars. Families from Rond Van Meter Ammons and Gilcrease clusters lost members in the disaster.
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Louisiana
John McKeithen
Ad Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
South Texas
New Engand
W. C. McGee Jr
Houseton
Tex
Natchitoches
Shreveport
Sig Corbett Smith
Tennessee Gas
J. R. Rond
Jack van Meter
van Meter
Lawson Antley
William Ammons
Lewis Gilcrease
H. G. Martin
Visitors Briefed On War
Reinforcements were airlifted into a major battle zone near Da Nang as a large sweep east of Saigon failed. Gen. Westmoreland and Ambassador Taylor met visiting U S military leaders led by Gen. Johnson. Casualties included a Special Forces sergeant wounded near Da Nang. The Saigon operation moved 3 000 troops but failed to contact Viet Cong. four Vietnamese soldiers died in air strikes and two more in mortar attacks.
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U.S
North
Viet Nam
Foy D. Koheler
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Gove
U.S. Army
Harold K. Johnson
Tan Son Nhut
Saigon
South Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
da Nang
Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Johnson
Army Special Forces
Viet An
Nha Trang
Phuoc Tuy
Rung la
Rusk briefs Latin ambassadors on Vietnam war stance
Secretary of State Don Rusk outlines U S policy to Latin American ambassadors in New York and announces planned meetings with other regional envoy groups to build international support for the U S position in Southeast Asia He cites aggression by Communist forces and endorses a broader global response with ongoing consultations.
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Washington
Don Rusk
U.S
Southeast Asia
State Department
Rusk
New York
Viet Nam
United States
South Viet Nam
Freedom School in Indianola Destroyed by Fire
Fire gutted the Freedom School in Indianola Mississippi soon after a civil rights mass meeting. No one was inside. records books and desks were destroyed. COFO director John Harris reported two fires at the school, four blocks from the Sunflower County Courthouse, leaving only brick walls.
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Shenandoah River
Front Royal
Clarke County
Indianola
Miss
Sunflower County Course House
Harris
Birmingham
Ala
Jenkins Receives Three Terms in Traffic Deaths
Harold Junior Jenkins of Winchester was sentenced to three concurrent two year terms for three manslaughter charges stemming from a Aug. 15 crash near Martinsburg that killed Earnest Dyche his wife Martha Dyche and daughter Norma Price. The plea was entered as guilty after evidence was heard. A habeas corpus writ was filed today for Joseph Vance Shrout over felonious assault with a ruling set for March 15.
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Harold Junior Jenkins
Winchester
Jenkins
Marshall
Martinsburg
W. Va
Earnest Jack Dyche
Martha Virginia Dyche
Norma Jean Price
Dyche
Rt. 11
Joseph Vance Shrout
Shrout
Urgent Moscow protest note hints at pressure over Vietnam
AP analysis notes Moscow’s protest to the United States intensifies as U S air attacks on North Vietnam continue. The note warns such bombing undermines peaceful coexistence and signals possible Kremlin moves, perhaps toward a Geneva conference with other powers. It cites Soviet nervousness and urges Washington to ease pressure while Communist leaders meet in Moscow.
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William L. Ryan
Moscow
United States
Kremlin
Viet Nam
U.S.S.R
U.S
France
Washington
North Viet Nam
Weather Bulletin for Richmond Virginia
A low pressure system over central Virginia will move north northeastward. Expect cloudy and windy conditions across the Old Dominion with light snow flurries in the mountains.
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Richmond
Virginia
Old Dominion
Weekend Special Lemon Coconut Cake At Ward's Pastry Shop
Special Apple sale packed Stayman two fifty per bit Red Delicious and Red Romes priced at one fifty per bit Butler’s Packing House at 205 Wyck St offers insured savings. Federal Savings and Loan and Winchester Savings advertise savings plans with deadlines and dividends.
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Butler’s Packing House
Wyck St
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Associated Press
Culpeper
Hann
Rixeyville
Hazel River
Monumental Mills Road
Oweerwe
Newberrys
D. W. Bryant
Vietnam
John Harris
The
Council of Federated Organizations
COFO
Elliott Marshall
Kinney
Cuba
Viet
Drug Fair
Penney
Dan Smoot
WRFL
Federal Savings & Ana Insurance
Winchester Savings & Loan Corner Boscawen
Waghington
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