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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1969
Page
18
A local notice lists an event titled Winchester Evening scheduled for Friday May 16 1969. The brief item indicates community activities or a social gathering to be held in Winchester.
Thieves stole nearly $35,000 in cash and checks from the Abingdon Livestock Market early Wednesday. Police say the safe was drilled open with no forced entry and most cash came from a special sale of quarter horses held Tuesday.
U S Sen William B Spong Jr of Virginia schedules three Shenandoah Valley appearances over the weekend. He will speak at the Waynesboro Public Library dedication Sunday afternoon and meet youth groups in Lexington Staunton Buena Vista Clifton Forge and Covington that night. The next day he will headline the Virginia Citizens Planning Association banquet at Natural Bridge.
In Kuala Lumpur the National Operations Council took power to halt Malay Chinese clashes. Newsprint bans and censorship underway as fires rage, shelters fill with refugees, and police and troops patrol the city. Death toll reaches hundreds with thousands displaced.
Federal water pollution chief reports four complaints about the South River near Waynesboro Augusta County linked to Interstate 64 roadwork. Eugene T. Jensen asks the U S Bureau of Public Roads to send an engineer to meet with his staff to curb this highly visible source of contamination.
Michael G. Hicken 19 of Pound Virginia faces unlawful possession of narcotics and instrument charges plus unlawful use of a hallucinogen. Police found LSD and amphetamine tablets and two syringes in a parked car where Hicken and Leroy Roberts of Cincinnati sat.
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