Wall Street Advances on Election Doubt Early Wednesday
The market rose moderately with the Dow up about 4 points as gains outweighed losses 5 to 3. United Fruit and Xerox fell. Cities Service, General Motors, Allegheny Ludlum, Simonds Precision, IBM and Pfizer posted fractional to full point gains. Penn Central slipped after news of the Kayser Roth merger cancellation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dow Jones
New York Stock Exchange
United Fruit
Xerox
Cities Service
General Motors
Allegheny Ludlum
Simonds Precision
IBM
Pfizer
Owens-Illinois
Control Data
Phelps Dodge
Penn Central
Kayser-Roth
Chrysler
U.S. Steel
Polaroid
Eastern—Air
Local Fire Victim Dies in Hospital
Mrs. Agnes Henrietta Markwood a 74 year old resident of 690 N Loudoun died at Winchester Memorial Hospital from burns received in a blaze at her home earlier in the day. The fire started in her bedroom about 1 15 am and she was carried to safety by two Winchester policemen and then by rescue workers. The Volunteer Rescue Squad took her to the hospital where she died about 17 hours later. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Josephine Beaty West
Woodstock Lane
Winchester Memorial Hospital
West
Warren County
Robert
Elizabeth Henry Beaty
Melvin Dean West
Helen Ramey
Front Royal
Isaac
William R., Jr
Charles R
James Ity
Nellie Dempsey
Anna Berry
Cora Lee Butler
Maddox Funeral Home
H. H. Hughes
Prospect Hill
William I, Beaty
Jackie Beaty
Daniel Beaty
Joseph Beaty
William C. Beaty
James E. Butler, Jr
Sarah Elizabeth Shiley Buckley
Arthur C. Buckley
White Post
John H. Enders
Berryrile
Jesse Tate
Boyce
Seth J. Martin
Philip G. McIntire
Green Hill Cemetery
Berryville
Willa Ann Hensell
Route 1
Middletown
Hensell
Takoma Park
Willa R. Hufffer Dovell
Reliance
G. Eldon Dovell
Warren-Rappahannock County
Warren County Education Association
Viriginty
Virginia Education Association
Woodrow W. Kerns
E. Baker St
Mr. Kerns
Bloomery
W.va
Jefferson
Emma Reedy Kerns
Hazel Cougill
H. J. Heinz Company
Guiding Light Gospel Center
Mary Jane Kerns
Martha Rose Kerns
Winchester
Raymond J. Kerns
Clarke County
Brandon J. Kerns
Lynn Kerns
Donald Kerns
Hartley Kerns
Good
Mildred Kerns
New York
N.Y
Emmett B. Kerns
Sarah Lombards
Perry Kerns
Clarence Kerns
Bunker Hill
Jones Funeral Home
Agnes Henrietta Markwood
N. Loudoun
Markwood
Ronald Miller
Hospital
Marie Crider
Voters discuss bond issue and 1968 candidates
The page captures residents weighing the bond issue's potential to fix issues and expressing preference for Hubert Humphrey or Richard Nixon. Quotations show mixed opinions on Vietnam policy and desire for White House change, with unnamed residents voicing support for Humphrey and skepticism about Nixon's approach.
Virginia vote mixed as Nixon wins state and bond issue passes
Republicans secure Virginia win as G William Whitehurst defeats Frederick Stant Jr. 53 806 to 48 215. An $81 million bond plan for mental hospitals and colleges advances debt free. Liquor by the drink wins in 43 localities, with 27 approving and eight rejecting, in a statewide turnout affecting politics and policy.
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Folk
Portsmouth
G. Wiliam Whitehurst
Frederick T. Stant Jr
Virginia
Kennedy
Wallace
Nixon
J.C. Kelchner
Rt. 4
Winchester
Humphrey
House (of Representatives
Marsh
Barbs by Phil Pastoret on Health Day and retiree gift
In our neck of the woods Wednesday is the healthful day as doctors take off midweek. When a shop retiree leaves, the crew chips in for a gift watch and the gang provides a mimeographed sheet teaching the retiree how to read a watch.
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Our
Neck of the Woods
Nixon Humphrey Fight To Finish In Close National Vote
Election tallies show Nixon leading in 26 states with 191 electoral votes and Humphrey in 11 with 151. Popular vote closish with Nixon about 43 percent to Humphrey 43 percent. Wallace lingers with electoral potential. Analysts debate impact of Wallace and Johnson's Vietnam halt on outcomes.
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Klein
Nixon
Humphrey
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Harry S. Truman
Wallace
House
Senate
Herbert G. Klein
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
New York
Texas
Deep South
New Jersey
Johnson
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Paris
Vietnam
South
Five Day Virginia Weather Forecast for Winchester
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions tonight and Thursday with chances of rain. Temperatures range from lows of 46 to 52 and highs of 54 to 60, with cooler conditions into the weekend and a slight warm trend by Monday. Precipitation expected about Thursday and again Monday, totaling around half to three quarters of an inch. Sunset is 5:06 PM and moonrise 5:43 PM with Last Quarter on November 13.
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Winchester
Monthly and annual rainfall totals over decades
The report lists rainfall figures for November 1968 and year to date 28.77 inches. It shows five year January to December totals from 1963 to 1967, and monthly averages for 55 years, with an overall January–December average of 36.50 inches.
Quiz Answers Reveal Themed World Facts
The prompt lists a set of trivia items including New York City and Whales as mammals, Borneo as a location, Edgar Hoover as a person, the color Black, a baseball bat as an object, and the year 1927 as a number.
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New York City
Borneo
Edgar Hoover
Black
Vatican says Kennedy Onassis marriage did not trigger excommunication
The Vatican weekly L Osservatore della Domenica stated that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis marriage to Aristotle Onassis did not excommunicate her but was effectively a renunciation of her faith. The article echoed comments by Vatican press chief Msgr Fausto Vallainc and did not name Mrs Onassis directly.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Jacqueline Kennedy
Aristotle Onassis
L’osservatore Della Domenica
Msgr
Fausto Vallainc
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Melvin D. West
Buckley Service
Vernon W. Hensell
Richard E. Dovell
Reliance Evangelical United Brethren Church
Floyd Wine
H. Eugene Baker
Gary Eaton
Edward Kirby
Robert Kuser
Hoyt Wooddell, Jr
David Pomeroy
Robert Mead
Warren County Schools
Warren-Rappahannock
Stover
Strasburg
Agnes Markwood
Jones Funeral Home, Inc
Smalts, Lorist, Inc
Cm Funeral Home
Loudoun Street
Cum Service
ROK
Bernard F.groves
Monumen
Boscawen St
Bolero
John W. Rosenberger
Quarles School
Commerce St
Wall Street
Qverles School
Fama
Philip. Harris
West Lane
Humphrey Noa
Viet Nam
Mazié Nicholson
White House
William Groves
Rt. 2
Mrs
Robert Pizzano, Peye
Ton St
Giesen
Smith
Kent St
Phil Pastoret
Pioneer Saws Ltd
Outboard Marine Corp
Johnson and Evinrude
Ghain
C.1
Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
Donnybrook
Ray Bliss
GOP
Ohio
Wisconsin
Bliss
Dallas-area
California
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Edward Gurney
Florida
Delaware
Indiana
Idaho
Maryland
Nevada
West Virginia
Winchester Savings
Baseawer x
Woedan Her
Vis
H.L. Mills
Valley Avenue
Thurs
Prestone Zerex
Zerone
Ee L. Gasoli
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