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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 24, 1968

Page

18

Dirksen Loses Bid to Keep Subversive Activities Board Alive

Senate defeats Dirksen proposal to extend the Subversive Activities Control Board. He argued Attorney General Ramsey Clark blocked prosecutions, citing support from President Johnson, but the 49 to 27 vote ends the board unless at least one case is filed by December 31. The board has long sat idle since 1966, its authority eroded by Supreme Court rulings.

Washington Senate Everett M. Dirksen Dirksen Simon F. McHugh Jr Johnson Congress Joseph R. McCarthy R.wis Supreme Court Clark

Classified notices advertise jobs and local services

Vacancy in Rest Home and contact number. G and M Used Clothing Store on Dicks Hollow Road offers new clothing and shoes for the family with half dollar work pants and shirts. Open daily 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Take soil away from carpets and upholstery. Rent electric shampoo over $1. Leggett's Roofing and Carpentry offers additions remodeling roofing gutters repairs. Call Tom Marks at 667 7671.

Dicks Hollow Road A-1 Vailly Leggett’s Tom Marks

Gold Prices Rise Modestly in Europe Amid Currency Nervousness

Gold prices edged higher in London and Zurich as traders cited nervousness about the British pound and currencies. Dealers said the move was a routine fluctuation with ordinary buying and selling, not signaling a new peak, while French crisis fears kept values steady to lower.

London Europe Zurich Britain France

Belling the Cat Phrase Origin Traced to Piers Plowman

The saying belling the cat expresses taking a dangerous duty for others. Scholars link its origin to the medieval ballad and the early English poem Piers Plowman, highlighting the risk and collective action implied.

Piers Plowman

Army Air Corps veteran finally receives four medals

William M. McElyea who served in the Air Corps at Pearl Harbor discovered after contacting the Pentagon that he had not been promoted to sergeant and had not received that rank before his 1943 discharge. He later learned he had indeed been awarded four medals but had not received them earlier.

William M. McElyea Air Corps Pearl Harbor Pentagon

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