Nicaraguan ambassador attends 1973 Apple Blossom Festival queen event
Queen Shenandoah XLVI Edda Sevilla-Somoza Sacasa arrives in Winchester with her father Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa and family in rainy welcome. The ceremony unfolds tomorrow with forecast clear weather. The party visits the home of Mr. and Mrs. Battaile as their official residence while in Winchester.
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Edda Sevilla
Somoza Sacasa
Winchester
Shenandoah
Clyde A
Chip) Johnson Jr
Miss _ Sevilla-Somoza Sacasa was her father, Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Mario Sacasa
Charlotta Bolanos
Mrs. Battaile
Tennyson Ave
Apple Capital
Ex-Aides Haldeman and Ehrlichman See Watergate Prosecutor
H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman met chief Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert in Washington as they resigned from top White House posts. They said they asked to talk to Silbert and plan further talks with Senate investigators. They face possible indictments over a White House coverup tied to wiretapping.
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Ehrlichman
Washington
White House
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John D. Ehrlichman
Earl Silbert
Nixon
Silbert
Senate Watergate Committee
Spiro T. Agnew
Washington Evening Star
John W. Dean III
Dean
Administration
Steagall Will Lead Units from 10 States Fire Parade
Firemen's Marshal Red Steagall will head a parade tomorrow evening with nearly 270 units from 10 eastern states. The event starts at 6 p.m. in front of the George Washington Hotel and includes about 60 fire companies and 70 marching bands from Virginia to Kentucky.
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George Washington Hotel
Steagall
Sling Red Simpson
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
North Carolina
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
Handley High School
Greenwood Fire Company
Charles E. Dunn
Winchester
Frederick
James Wood High School
Smokey the Bear
Virginia Division of Forestry
Firemen Parade Route Mapped For Tomorrow Evening
Firemen parade begins at 6 p.m. at Piccadilly and Cameron, heads west two blocks to Braddock, then follows a sequence of lefts and rights through Cork Loudoun Germain Stewart and Handley to the official reviewing stands on the west side. Units disband at Gerrard and Loudoun.
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Cameron St
Braddock St
Cork St
Loudoun St
Germain St
Stewart St
Handley Blvd
Gerrard St
Nixon Pompidou to meet in Iceland in May and June
President Nixon and President Pompidou will hold talks in Iceland on May 31 and June 1. The summit was previously announced with dates now confirmed by American and French sources.
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Pompidou
Iceland
Washington
Georges Pompidou
France
Judge Asks Briefs On Dismissal In Pentagon Papers Case
Los Angeles AP The Pentagon papers trial judge directed attorneys to file briefs on dismissal and mistrial motions and questioned whether the case will go to a jury. Judge Matt Byrne will not allow deliberations before examining burglary facts involving Ellsberg’s psychiatrist and alleged White House links. He also pressed for more detail on G Gordon Liddy and E Howard Hunt Jr. roles in the burglary and related probe.
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Pentagon Papers
U.S. District Court
Matt Byrne
Daniel Ellsberg
White House
Byrne
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Pentagon
Coronation plans for Queen Shenandoah at Apple Blossom event
More than 80 participants will take part in the coronation of Queen Shenandoah at Handley High School steps. Edda Maria Sevilla-Somoza Sacasa will be crowned by her father Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa with Sen. Harry Byrd Jr. and Virginia AG Andrew Miller presiding. The ceremony includes 30 princesses, maids, a four- member escort, and parts from Randolph-Macon Academy.
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Shenandoah
Handley High School
Edda Maria Sevilla
Somoza Sacasa
Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Andrew P. Miller
Virginia
William A. Bowman
Miss Sacasa
Handley
Front Royal
Randolph- Macon Academy
Herald Buglers
Color Guard
Sabre
U.S.A
Maureen Sikorsky
Nations
Kirsten Borjesson
Denmark
Miller
Sacasa
Bowman
Borjesson
Handley Band
High Rise Shelling Escalates in Beirut Battle
In Beirut Lebanon tank cannons pounded high rise apartments as army guerrilla fighting spread northward. A 500-strong guerrilla group clashed with forces near the Dbaye refugee camp five miles north, with sightings of guerrillas in a monastery near the camp. Cease-fire efforts failed amid heavy shelling at Tel Zatar.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Sranjieh
Dbaye
Tel Zatar
Queen Shenandoah XVII Returns in 1940 Apple Blossom Recall
The Star revisits the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival of 1940 on page 8 noting Queen Shenandoah XVII Maria Sevilla-Somoza Sacasa, daughter of Mrs. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. The article reflects on three decades since the historic coronation.
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Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Maria Sevilla
Somoza Sacasa
Wholesale Food Prices Dip After Six Months of Rise
In April wholesale food and farm products fell for the first time in six months, led by a 2.9 percent drop in meat prices amid a meat boycott and Nixon price ceilings. Industrial raw materials rose 1.4 percent, the largest monthly gain since January 1951, pushing the overall index up 0.8 percent.
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Washington
Nixon
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Industrial Commodities Index
BLS
Attorney General Roles in Coronation at Handley High
Virginia Attorney General Andrew P. Miller will serve as Minister of State at the coronation of Queen Shenandoah XLVI at 2 30 p m tomorrow on Handley High School steps. Miller born 1932 Fairfax Princeton UVA Law Army service 1955 57 admitted 1960 practiced Abingdon 1963 69 active in civic groups and Democratic Party.
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Andrew P. Miller
Handley High School
Miller
Fairfax
Princeton University
University of Virginia School of Law
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Abingdon
Washington County United Fund
Virginia Highlands Festival
Virginia State Bar Assa
Democratic Party
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Julia
Pickens
Elsie
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