Moon Highlands Rocks Go Under Scientist Scrutiny
Apollo 16 astronauts John Young Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly returned with 245 pounds of lunar material from the Descartes highlands. Scientists will study sealed samples in nitrogen cabinets for years to piece together the moon s history and early solar system evolution.
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Moon
Descartes Highlands
Young
Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
Ellington Air Force Base
Winchester City Election Officials Named for Five Precincts
Election officials for five Winchester precincts have been announced for the municipal election tomorrow. Shawnee precinct includes William Sager and six others. Friendship precinct lists six volunteers led by Mrs. Martha Ryan. Virginia Avenue precinct features six workers including Antoinette Rudolph. Sarah Zane precinct assigns Albert Seal and five others. Reuss precinct names Loring G Wright Jr and six more including James Kincaid and Eppa Griffith Jr.
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Winchester
Shawnee
William Sager
Louise White
Pat Jordan
Mary Jo Carter
Doris Nester
Ruth Nagley
Friendship
Martha Ryan
Francis Loy
Jacqueline Fauver
Frieda Fuller
Peggy Flowers
Billy Sutton
Virginia Avenue
Antoinette Rudolph
Marie Fauver
Four More Honorary Chief Entrants Named for Friday Contest
Honorary Fire Chief contest chairman Jim Knicely announced four more entrants for Friday at Ward Plaza at 3 p.m. The teams include Highland County Volunteer Fire Department Monterey Strasburg Fire Company Berkeley Springs Volunteer Fire Department Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department. Elizabeth Ann Newman 18 Blue Grass represents Highland County. Mitzi Sue Music Strasburg. Karen Marie Miller Berkeley Springs. Paige Ellen Turner Front Royal.
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Ward Plaza
Highland County Volunteer Fire Department
Monterey
Strasburg Fire Company
Strasburg
Berkeley Springs
Elizabeth Ann Newman
Blue Grass
Apple Blossom
Madison College
W.H. Newman
Mitzi Sue Music
Strasburg High School
F.H.A
Girl Scouts
W.D. Kline
Karen Marie Miller
Front Royal
Paige Ellen Turner
Joe F. Turner
Jamestown Road
Warren County High School
Miss Turner
Keyettes
S.C.A
Theta Sorority
Jobs Daughters
May Day marches spread across foreign cities heavy with Soviet displays
Millions of workers joined May Day demonstrations worldwide. East European capitals staged celebrations while East Berlin showed missiles in a parade deemed provocative by Western allies. In Moscow, Podgorny condemned U S actions in Indochina as Nixon looms. Japan held 648 rallies with 1.2 million participants, calling for Sato's resignation and better living conditions.
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Associated Press
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East Berlin
Moscow
United States
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Nixon
Nikolai Podgorny
U.S
Indochina
Warsaw
Communist Party
Edward Gierek
Vietnam
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Chima
Mao Tse-tung
Eisaku Sato
Tokyo
Europe
Latin America
International Trade Union Movement
Chicago
Haymarket
Obituary of Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller
Maj. Gen. Luther Deik Miller died at 81 in Washington. A former chief of Army chaplains, he joined the Army as an Episcopal chaplain in World War I and led the chaplains from 1943 until his 1949 retirement.
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Luther Deik Miller
Washington
Army Chaplains
Miller
Army
Housing Probe Opens Into FHA Losses and Scandal
Congressional panels in the House and Senate launch a joint inquiry into the federal housing program losses. Investigators focus on fraud tied to New York City cases involving Dun and Bradstreet and nine other firms, with broader hearings planned on Philadelphia Detroit Chicago St Louis.
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Senate
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Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
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Dun & Bradstreet
FHA
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Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Pension Funds
Federal National Mortgage Association
Antitrust Subcommittee
Three West Virginia colleges send fete princesses to Apple Blossom
Miss Patricia Jean Wehner of West Virginia University Miss Deborah Copeland Pugh of Greenbrier College and Miss Patricia Ann Branagan of Potomac State College will join the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival court joining Grand Marshal Billy Graham and Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. in the festival welcome to spring and the apple blossoms.
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West Virginia
West
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Sigma Iota Chi Sorority
Panhellenic Council
Women’s Residence Council
Circle K Club
Billy Graham
Freddie Hart
Howard Cosell
Arch A. Moore, Jr
Earle G. Wheeler
Apple Capital
Bands Compete for 25000 Prize in Dallas Memorial Armstong
On May 12 the marching bands from Bishop College Dallas Grambling College Grambling La Jackson State College Jackson Miss and Southern University Baton Rouge will vie for prizes totaling 25000. The event at Texas Stadium honors Louis Armstrong with four bands sharing 10000 to first 7000 to second and 4000 each for the other two.
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Bishop College of Dallas
Grambling College of Grambling
Jackson State College of Jackson
Miss
Southern University of Baton Rouge
Louis Armstrong
Texas Stadium
Dallas Cowboys
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Kingwood
W. Va
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Greenbrier College
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Lewisburg School
William E. Pugh
Lewisburg
Greenbrier College Preparatory School
Women’s Athletic Association
Bit & Spur Club
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Potomac State College
Keyser
Richard W. Branagan
Bordentown
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Patricia Branagan
Bill Mote
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W. Raymond Jennings
William M. Mote
Council
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Citizens At Heart
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H. Delmar Robinson, Jr
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