Storms Leave Tornado Toll Across Midwestern States
Storms swept from Texas to the Great Lakes with tornadoes wind hail and heavy rain. At least four people dead and many treated for injuries as twisters winds and high storms battered the region. Snow and power outages hit Utah and Wyoming with 22 inches in central Utah. Chicago area winds toppled mobile homes and caused outages while Illinois Missouri and Arkansas reported lightning deaths and damaged infrastructure.
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Texas
Great Lakes
Utah
Wyoming
National Weather Service
Arkansas
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Michigan
Midwest
Missouri
Chicago
Calumet Park
Lake Shannon
Springfield
Columbia
Fairfax Car Wash Favors Back Wages and Reinstatement
The Finnegan’s car wash owner will pay 3340 in back wages to nine employees who were fired after filing a complaint with Fairfax County Human Rights Commission alleging discrimination. Four workers are to be reinstated and five laid off workers receive severance as they find new jobs. The complainant Christopher Smith is among those receiving severance.
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Fairfax (Ap
Baileys Crossroads
Fairfax County Human Rights Commission
News the Nine
Milton Barlow
Finnegan's
Christopher Smith
Fairfax
Bobby L. Wynn Jr
Springfield
Annandale
Wynn
Alexandria
Arlington
Aes
Garcine
Guy”’ Black
U.S. District Court
Black
Chincoteague
Assateague Island
Harry C. Bunting
Weaver Elected President of SVARC
John W. Jack Weaver of 1440 Kent Circle was chosen as president of the Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club Inc for the coming year. The group also named John Kanade as vice president, Carl S. Horner as treasurer, Garry Drummond as secretary, Charles E. Marshall activities manager, and Philip N. Hunter to the Board of Trustees. The SVARC provided sound for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival events and hosts its annual Ham fest, a major summer gathering.
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John W
Jack) Weaver
Kent Circle
Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club, Inc
Weaver
American Telehone & Telegraph Co
Long Lines Dept
SWARC
John Kanade
Boyce
Carl S. Horner
Martinsburg Pike
Garry Drummond
Eastville
Shenandoah College
Conservatory of Music
Charles E. Marshall
Front Royal
SVARC
Shenandoah
Handley High School
Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music
Eastern Seaboard
Club
First Lady Betty Ford Visits Camp Pendleton Refugees
First Lady Betty Ford plans a personal visit to Camp Pendleton to meet Vietnamese evacuees. She travels from San Diego during a four day California tour focusing on the arts and will report back to the President on refugees awaiting processing for U.S. homes.
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San Diego
Calif
Betty Ford
Camp Pendleton
Palm Springs
Ford
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
United States
U.S
Saigon
South Vietnam
Burke Presses for Immediate Social Security Tax Increase
House Ways and Means Social Security panel chair James Burke demands action this year on higher payroll taxes to shore up a deficits forecast of 3 to 5.8 billion dollars over the next three years. Weinberger opposes new taxes before 1977 and warns against dampening economic recovery.
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Washington
House
Social Security Panel
Ford Administration
Congress
James A. Burke
D-Mass
Ways and Means Subcommittee On Social Security
Burke
Health, Education and Welfare
Caspar W. Weinberger
Weinberger
Federal
Ford
Butterfield Denied Return to Military Status in Senate Vote
The Senate, by 47 to 42, blocked reinstating Alexander Butterfield to retired Air Force status after he quit as FAA head. Culver argued the move would breach civilian military separation. Cannon cited fairness and past exceptions for Quesada and McKee. Butterfield would gain civil service retirement benefits, losing only a few military perks.
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Washington
Senate
Alexander P. Butterfield
Federal Aviation Administration
Armed Services Committee
Butterfield
John C. Culver
Iowa
John Stennis
D-Miss
White House
Senate Watergate Committee
Richard M. Nixon
H. R. Haldeman
FAA
Culver
Howard Cannon
D-Nev
Cannon
Congress
Agency
Elwood R. Quesada
William F. McKee
Quesada
McKee
Air Force
Future of Detente Ties to Fate of West Berlin
Secretary of State Kissinger linked detente to West Berlin's fate calling it the acid test of East West relations. He spoke to Berlin's House of Representatives stressing Berlin's security as vital to Europe and noted Soviet acceptance of ties with West Germany. He visited Bonn Geneva and planned to Turkey for Cyprus talks.
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Berlin
Henry A. Kissinger
West Berlin
House of Representatives
Kissinger
Europe
America
Ford
United States
Soviet Union
Federal Republic
West Germany
Weather Outlook Northern Valley and Virginia
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the 60s and highs in the upper 80s. Thursday brings a risk of thundershowers in the Northern Valley and showers in Virginia with highs around 80s and 85. The period features a full moon and total lunar eclipse Saturday night.
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Virginia
Rainfall Totals and Averages Over 62 Years
Rainfall data shows 24 hour total at 8 30 am none for today May to date 4 37 1975 year to date 15 41 average annual rainfall 62 years 36 76. Five year Jan through Dec totals 1974 36 16 1973 42 45 1972 53 02 1971 38 28 1970 41 42. Monthly averages listed. highest 53 02 in 1972 lowest 17 15 in 1930.
Flint Hill Man Charged In Murder Near Washington
Maurice Allsberry of Flint Hill has been charged with murder in the shooting of James Gatewood of Sperryville at the Pine Knot Inn on Rt. 522 near Washington. Gatewood died at Culpeper Hospital after being shot near the heart with a .22 caliber pistol. The case was investigated by Sheriff John Walker Jenkins and State Trooper Rufus Baynes.
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Washington, Va
Sperryville
Rappahannock
John Walker Jenkins
Rufus Baynes
Walker
James Gatewood
Culpeper Hospital
Pine Knot Inn
Washington
Baynes
Pine Knot
Gatewood
Maurice Allsberry
Flint Hill
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Wyo
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Bernard F. Groves
S. Braddock St
Winchester
Ops Guneral Aone
Amherst ST
Dial
Young Winchester
Bob Donnelly
WINC
Omps Funeral Home
Memeen
Lloe the Golden
euLe
Mrs. Ford
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Clarke County
Pisden Sheng Cannes
Face Eee Abram
Rey
Stevens
Coneas Sa Sheriff
Oske Concern
Wine. Hospital
Front Royal Hospite
N.Y. Times News Service
W. Berlin
Masons
New England
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Millwood Ave
Oklahoma
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Hearing Aid Service
Main St
George Eee
Cameron and
Piccadilly Streets
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