Prayer Resolution Beaten in 1972 Election Issue
The House denied a constitutional amendment to allow school prayer, 240 to 162, falling short of the two-thirds needed. Supporters blamed absenteeism and organized opposition. critics argued the proposal was vague and too sweeping.
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Washington
Supreme Court
House
Senate
John Buchanan
R-Ala
Chalmers P. Wylie
Rohio
Judiciary Committee
Citizens of Public Prayer
Winchester council to hold two public hearings tonight
The Winchester City Council meets at 7:30 in Rouss City Hall with two hearings on the Valley Distributor land rezoning from R-5 to M-1 and on 1972 taxicab licenses. A $4 million school bond proposal, license tax ordinance amendments, and land sale to Carper's Valley Golf Club are also on the agenda along with a water and sewer progress report.
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Winchester
Rouss City Hall
Valley Distributor
Bellview Ave
Winchester Municipal Airport
Carper’s Valley Golf Club
Utilities Committee
Roy W. Bayliss, Jr
Wea
Town Crier First Snowfall Forecast
The first snow of the season is forecast with a chance of light wet snow tonight and a low near 30 degrees. Last year the initial snowfall occurred on December 16.
Delegates Leave Peking To Cheers of Thousands
United Nations. Red China’s official delegation to the UN departed Peking for New York amid cheering crowds. Chiao Kuan-hua and about 50 staff boarded a Chinese airliner to Shanghai then a foreign plane bound for the United States. They are due here Wednesday.
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United Nations, N.Y
Red
China
United Nations
Peking
New York
Tanjug
Chiao Kuan-hua
Shanghai
United States
U.N
Chou En-lai
Politiburo
Chinese Communist Party
Chou
Hong Kong
U.S
Columbus Circle
Manhattan
Finals Abolished At Culpeper High On Trial Basis
Culpeper county schools end final exams for high school students with passing grades and acceptable conduct and 90 day attendance. Midterm exams continue under the new policy starting next spring, pending the current semester’s end.
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Culpeper
Culpeper High School
County School Board
Pay Board sets 5.5 percent wage ceiling faces unions
Washington AP reports President Nixon imposes a 5.5 percent general wage ceiling for the year stirring protests from organized labor. The Pay Board rejects retroactive raises but approves deferred increases under contracts, with potential rollback if not aligned to the ceiling. AFL CIO calls contracts abrogated. union and Congress weigh remedies.
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Washington
George Meany
Aflcio
Afl-Cio
Miami
Labor Industry-Public
George Boldt
Congress
Capitol
House Banking Committee
Labor
Paul Jennings
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Mrs. Anderson Sentenced 28 Years for Murder in Frederick
Patricia Anderson, 38, of Armel, received 28 years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to the murder of her husband John C. Anderson Jr. at their home on January 31. A jury hung in August before a plea was entered and the felony verdict was finalized.
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Frederick County
Robert K. Woltz
Patricia Anderson
Armel
Mansfield to Oppose Stop Gap Foreign Aid
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he will oppose stop gap foreign aid funding until Congress finalizes a renewal package. He warned action likely won’t finish before current spending authority expires next Monday.
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Mansfield
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Congress
House
State Department
Hugh Scott
Disaster Strikes at Sea and Air Over Italy and Atlantic
The Associated Press reports a British air force C130 carrying 46 Italian paratroopers and 6 British crew crashed in the Ligurian Sea amid joint British Italian exercises. Nearby a French freighter Maori reportedly broke up in the Atlantic. a British tanker Heythrop caught fire off South Africa with all on board saved. Wreckage of the Madri nickel ship was seen west of La Rochelle as rescue ships gathered.
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Atlantic
South Africa
London
Ligurian Sea
Méloria
Leghorn
New Caledonia
France
la Rochelle
Heythrop
Japan
Durban
Alec Matthews
P. and O. Steam Navigation Co
Frederick supervisors clash over clerk office bill and purchasing
Secretary Roger Alderman grilled the county clerk’s office for a $1 295 deed book filing cabinet bill dated Oct 15 without a purchase order or bids. He attacked legal advertising charges, and officials debated the new central purchasing rules enacted July 1.
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Audrey Coleman
Frederick County Clerk’s Office
Winchester Evening Star
Winchester’s. Sewerage
Roger Alderman
Donald Baughman
Alderman
Star
Davis
The
Clarke County Health Welfare funds potentially withheld
The state Attorney General ruled that the Department of Welfare may withhold part of Clarke County's sales tax revenue. Clarke Board of Welfare had refused raises for local welfare workers prompting the withholding to equal the disputed amount, affecting funds for education.
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Berryville
Department of Welfare
Clarke County
Edward McC. Williams
Attorney General
Clarke Board of Welfare Department
Unsettled Virginia Weather with Cold Ridge Persists
A high pressure ridge over the mid Atlantic holds Virginia cold and cloudy with a chance of wet snow in higher elevations later today. Advertisements note a JC fruit cake offer and a shoe promotion with low prices at local retailers.
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Richmond
Mid- Atlantic States
Virginia
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Council of Economic Advisers
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