Cadets Start Four Day Maneuver At VMI Camp
Virginia Military Institute cadets pitched pup tents on Rockbridge County land about 10 miles from Lexington to begin a four day maneuver. They will perform three days of exercises with two nights of troop movement training and a three mile march before returning Saturday. Army cadets will fight defensive and offensive positions at dawn after Friday night march. Air Force cadets will join separate night training. Courses include leadership reaction, airborne ranger, camouflage and field survival.
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Lexington
Virginia Military Institute
Rockbridge County
Air Force
TVA Tax Payments To Cities In Tennessee Valley
Federal TVA tax payments to state county and municipal governments in Tennessee Valley total nearly 12 million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30.
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Knoxville
Tenn.p
Tennessee Valley
TVA
Twining Warns Against Cutting Nation's Defenses
Gen. Nathan F. Twining Air Force chief of staff warned that any defense cuts could trigger disaster and called current military spending a "great bargain" noting 10 percent of GNP protects 90 percent of Americans He urged maintaining strong armed forces across weapons for total and limited war and support for using nuclear arms in small wars when vital to national interests.
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New York
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
U. S
Twining
Eisenhower
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lotos Club
United States
Second Young Whooping Crane Makes Appearance
In New Orleans Audubon Park Zoo, Jo the crane mother helped hatch a second chick after a 24 hour struggle. Papa Crip and Jo shared sitting duties as the egg finally opened, bringing the total known wild and zoo resident whoopers to 29 with 24 in the wild and one at a San Antonio zoo.
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New Orleans
Josephine
Papa Crip
Audubon Park Zoo
George Douglass
San Antonio
Tex
Locusts Expected to Be Plentiful in Frederick County
Virginia entomologists at Virginia Tech warn that 17 year cicadas or periodical cicadas will be plentiful in Frederick and Rockingham counties this year. They advise delaying sprays until adults emerge and lay eggs, using phosphatic insecticides with extreme caution, applying at night, and protecting young trees with cheesecloth.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
VPI
Frederick
Rockingham
Superstitions Around Cicad Wings and Sting Beliefs
The text notes sayings from entomologists about cicads and happiness for a father and his mute wife. It describes two superstitions: cicads cannot sting despite claims of danger, and a wing mark forming a W is thought to foretell war.
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Strosnyder
S. Loudoun St
VMI
TVA Payments
Miller's Hardware
BOW & Arrow
Sporting Goods
N. Lowdown St
Vincent Kirk
Aldo Vaharo
Suva
Plymouth
the Angels
Betty White
Lawrence Welk
Loudoun ST
Fiat
Coleman Stove
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