12 May 1967
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1967
Page
1
Pop Bailey celebrates his 101st birthday amid humor and memories of a life from horse drawn wagons to modern parades. He insists on mowing his own yard at Millwood Avenue, recalling early parades and admiring the majorettes while noting his keen memory despite poor hearing.
The Scout Show opens at 7 p.m. featuring more than 2500 boys from the Shenandoah Council of Scouts. The event fills the large hangar at Martinsburg Air National Guard Base in Martinsburg West Virginia with over 100 booths displays and exhibits.
Rain is likely tonight and tomorrow with a possible shower on Sunday. Forecast lows around 46 to 52 degrees, rising into the 60s later. Morning temps dipped to 48 and climbed to 58 by noon. Jackson and Perkins container grown roses at Smalts Garden Center.
Hong Kong reports escalating anti-British violence with Communist led crowds attacking police, setting two vans on fire, smashing shops, and storming a resettlement housing complex in Kowloon. Police vehicles overturned and a caretaker’s office looted as unrest widens.
National Guardsmen remained posted in Jackson after a violent night at Jackson State College and Lynch Street where a 22 year old truck driver Benjamin Brown was killed. Police fired shotgun blasts injuring Brown and a student Cleothus Jackson while a highway patrolman suffered a neck wound. Guardsmen and a curfew followed as crowds dispersed and life returned to the area.
In Hannibal Missouri weary rescuers finished a fifth and final search of Murphy's Cave for three missing boys Joel Hoag 13 Billy Hoag 11 and Edwin Dowell 14. Despite hours of crawling passages and dogs indicating no sign of entry authorities and volunteers remain hopeful but skeptical.
U S strategy in Vietnam is a colossal error of judgment, says Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. He argues the plan prolonged the war and increased casualties. Byrd told the Senate the policy allowed the Communists to grow their arms and supply networks while civilian leaders dictated military moves.
Washington AP reports Dr. Joseph Kovach of the Menninger Foundation found that a single 33 percent grain alcohol dose made five white Leghorn roosters exhibit motherly behavior toward hatchlings, sheltering chicks while five control roosters drank water and neglected or killed their chicks.
Senator Henry M. Jackson argues National Guardsmen and Reservists will need to be ordered to active duty to meet manpower needs in Vietnam. He says there is no other way to obtain the needed troops, as total U S forces in Vietnam rise toward 470000. Pentagon plans reveal a new 198th Infantry Brigade of about 5600 men from Ft Hood, Texas, may take nine months to prepare for combat.
Community event notices for Stephenson Methodist Church offer a Chicken Bar-B-Q Supper on Wednesday June 14 at 5 PM. A Smalls Garden Center sale runs from 1 to 5 PM on May 14 at the same location.
Communist rockets and mortars struck Bien Hoa and Phuoc Vinh near Saigon. Six Americans killed, about 100 wounded, and 25 planes damaged or destroyed. Marine positions Kee Linh and Con Thien also bore raids as helicopters evacuated the wounded and crews assessed light to moderate damage.
A low pressure area moving into Virginia will bring cloudy skies and rain to portions of the Old Dominion today.
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