Rusk Offers to Stop Bombing To Get Peace Talks Going
Secretary of State Dean Rusk proposes halting bombing of North Vietnam to advance peace talks. He testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee defending a negotiating opening and the administration's foreign aid bill while facing Fulbright's criticisms over Gulf Tonkin and war aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rusk
Washington
Dean Rusk
North Vietnam
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Fulbright
Gulf of Tonkin
Vietnam
Iong
Johnson
Sec. of State
Vietnamese troops claim major DMZ clash as base shelled
South Vietnamese infantry reported 102 enemy killed in a northern frontier fight that lasted eight hours near the DMZ. U S naval base at the mouth of the Cua Viet River was bombarded with ammunition stockpiles exploding and fires, while U S Marine positions faced heavy shelling and air strikes in the region.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Dong Ha
Cua Viet River
U.S
3Rd Marine Division
Khe Sanhi
Khe Sanh
Hue
Dak To
Camibodian
William C. Westmoreland
South Vietnam
Youth Is Indicted In Slaying in Clarke County
Roger Lee Cook a 16 year old West Virginia youth was indicted on a murder charge by a Clarke County Circuit Court grand jury in the death of James J Russell Jr 79 of near Brucetown. Russell was shot and beaten to death December 18 his body recovered that night from the Pequon Creek. Cook was arrested December 20 and held in Charles Town before transfer to Clarke County jail. The case was certified to circuit court after a January 23 juvenile court hearing.
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Berryville
Roger Lee Cook
West Virginia
Clarke Coune Ty
James J. Russell, Jr
Brucetown
Mr. Russell
Pequon
Charles Town
Clarke County
Nixon Seeks Huge New Hampshire Victory In Primary
Nixon stages final NH blitz urging Republicans to turn out for Tuesday's vote. Rockefeller draft talk surfaces in New York as Nixon vows to campaign on issues if he faces a stronger rival. McCarthy says 25 percent would signal criticism of Vietnam policy.
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Manchester
N.H
Richard M. Nixon
Eugene J. McCarthy
New Hampshire
Nixon
Nashua
America
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Oregon
Tom McCall
Dacy
George) Romney
Michigan
Romney
McCarthy
Minnesota
Johnson
Vietnam
Fireman's Convention Set Here in Winchester
The Northern Virginia Fireman's Association meets June 20 to 22 in Winchester with headquarters at the George Washington Hotel. A banquet, dance, parade, memorial service and business meetings plus officer elections are on the agenda. Co chairs are James Knicely and Charles Boswell, with Mrs. Kitty Sirbaugh aiding the auxiliaries. Interested exhibitors may contact Box 1004, Winchester.
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Northern Virginia Fireman’s Association
Winchester
George Washington Hotel
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Cy2mar
James Knicely
Rouss Fire Company
Charles Boswell
Round Hill Fire Company
Kitty Sirbaugh
South End Fire Company
Four Fredericksburg Students Die In Car Crash
Four Fredericksburg area high school students died when their car struck a tractor trailer on Virginia 208 after attempting to pass another vehicle. The victims were James Marvin Moore 16 Dionne Taylor 16 Alex F MacKinzie Jr 17 and Mary Lynn Dempsey 16. Two other occupants were slightly injured as the trailer toppled onto the car.
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Associated Press
Fredericksburg
Virginia 208
James Marvin Moore
Dionne Taylor
Partlow
Alex F. MacKinzie Jr
Spotsylvania
Mary Lynn Dempsey
Moore
Spot County
Woodstock
Alisa Beck
Riverdale
N.Y
U.S. 11
Shenandoah County
Richmond
Betty Wesner
Petersburg
James Samouel Braswell
City Man Charged in Shooting
Winchester police charged Freddie Lee Griffin forty one with felonious assault after Eddie Crawford White forty five was shot four times Saturday night in front of 44 Chase Street. White was in satisfactory condition in Winchester Memorial Hospital ICU. Griffin was arrested near Kern Street and Highland Avenue and is in Frederick County jail awaiting preliminary hearing. In a separate case Thomas Stern was held to answer murder charges for the slaying of Eugene Weedlock thirty three at 107 West Leicester Street with multiple lacerations from stab wounds.
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Eddie Crawford White
Chase St
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Freddie Lee Griffin
Kerns Row
White
Griffin
J. D. LeMarr
J. A. Johnson
Kern St
Highland Ave
Thomas. Stern
Eugene E. Weédlock
Leicester St
Mr. Welock
Bunker Hill Youth Dies of Gun Wound
Ralph Edward Dusing, 15, of Bunker Hill West Virginia died on arrival at Martinsburg City Hospital from a gunshot wound. A hearing is planned this week. a second youth was released to his parents. Dusing, born June 30 1952 in Winchester, attended Musselman High School and Assembly of God Church. Funeral set 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Assembly of God Church with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
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Ralph Edward Dusing
Bunker Hill
W. Va
Martinsburg City Hospital
West Virginia
J. E. Elkins
Dusing
Winchester
Holmes E. and
Love Campbell Dusing
Assembly of God Church
Musselman High School
Gerald Dusing
Pikeside
Barbara Carbaugh
Dorothy Darby
Thurmont
Edward Dusing
Frederick
Ralph Campbell
Inwood
W.va
Assembly of God
H. L. Wigfield
Comedian Jonathan Winters' Son Hurt in Drag Crash
In Burbank California Jonathan Jr Winters 18 was in satisfactory condition after an auto crash that killed driver John F Hyson 17. Hyson died on arrival at a hospital after the car rolled over twice during drag racing police said
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Burbank
Calif
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Jr
John F. Hyson
Hyson
Winchester annexation suit set for Oct trial
Winchester plans to annex 5.9 square miles of Frederick County with a trial scheduled for October 21. Judge Elliott D. Marshall will oversee a two week trial, with two other judges named to hear the case. The pre trial conference also set June 1 for interrogatory responses and June 17 for another pre trial meeting.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Elliott D. Marshall
Front Royal
Marshall
Earl L. Abbott
Virginia
Aubrey Matthews
Southside
E. Eugene Gunter
Board of Supervisors
Weather brings cool sunny day to most of Virginia
Colder air from the north and a southwest low pressure system bring cool sunny weather to Virginia. A family death leads Schenck Food Co to close Tuesday March 12. Howard Johnson's advertises a Luncheon Special Clam Roll with tartar sauce at 75 cents.
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Richmond
Virginia
Family Schenck Food Co
Howard Johnson
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