Million-Dollar Loss Spurs Winchester Shoplifting Campaign
An anti-shoplifting campaign launched by the Winchester Frederick County Chamber of Commerce targets youth and adults. It cites about 1 million dollars yearly loss in the area and promotes legal consequences and education through assemblies at local schools.
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Winschester-Frederick County
Handley, James Wood
Frederick County Jr. High
Winchester Intermediate School
Clarke County High School
Virginia Retail Merchants Assn
Melton Wright
Frederick County
Irvin Shendon
Shendon
Cather’s Farm Market
Mary Helen Massie
New York City Teachers Vote on Tentative Settlement
In week eleven of the NYC education crisis, 11th week of closures as 55 000 teachers vote on a tentative contract to reopen for 1.1 million students. UFT vote resumes as union members seek to end a strike tied to Ocean Hill Brownsville.
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New York
New York City
UFT
Albert Shanker
Shanker
Madison Square Garden
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
Brooklyn
Herbert
James E. Allen Jr. Johnson
Rhody McCoy
Allen
McCoy
Peeetas
Glasgow warehouse fire claims at least eighteen dead
A Glasgow waterfront warehouse fire killed at least 18 people with 26 workers believed trapped. Fire units battled inferno conditions as smoke blanketed the docks and the roof collapsed, while three escaped and were hospitalized.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Wuiltistry
Glasgow Docks
Bloodmobile visit in Winchester aims for 185 donors
The November Bloodmobile sponsored by the Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad opens at 10:00 a.m. at Epist 1 Church Parish House and runs to 3:45 p.m. for a 165 pint goal. Book appointments by calling the Red Cross at 662-5412. Also, a dance at the Silver Diner features Gim Shelling Tonight and The Velvet Tones for the rest of the week.
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Winchester
Silver Diner
Heavy Fighting Below Da Nang Signals Winter Offensive
Allied forces report 416 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in heavy Sunday battles along the coastal lowlands below Da Nang. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam says the fighting opens the enemy winter campaign with attacks forecast on smaller towns and district posts rather than major cities. Twelve South Vietnamese soldiers died and 72 were wounded. seven South Koreans killed and two wounded. no American casualties.
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Saigon
da Nang
Hoang Xuan Lam
Hue
Quang Tri
Quang Ngai
Hoi An
Tam Ky
Lam
Czech Students Stage Sit In At Schools
Thousands of Czech students occupied classrooms in Prague and across Bohemia and Moravia in a sit in against the Central Committee reforms led by Dubcek. About 30,000 students joined the action as police prepared to intervene, while university and youth groups tried to distance themselves from protests.
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Prague
Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
Party
Dubcek
Bohemia
Moravia
Haniversity
National Museum
Old Town Square
Opening deer season yields 32 kills with 31 bucks reported
The damp opening day saw 31 bucks and one wild turkey killed by mid morning at area stations. The season runs through November 30 with a possible change allowing does only on the last day. Showers and mild temperatures gave way to cooler weather tonight and tomorrow. Local residents and shops list several hunters with various point totals.
Heidi TV fiasco sparks flood of calls and AFL game mixup
NBC faced a wall of viewer complaints after Heidi aired during the New York Oakland game, delaying the broadcast of the football finale. Oakland struck twice in the final minute for a 43 32 victory, provoking NBC president Julian Goodman to call it a forgivable human error.
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New York
Daddy
Heidi
NBC
Oakland
West Coast
Julian Goodan
WNBC
GOP Congressman Sees Future Need of Surtax
Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin says the 10 percent income surtax must continue unless Vietnam War funding falls. He notes abolition or a cut could come if fighting ends in three months, while Wilbur Mills of Arkansas opposes early cuts. Nixon campaign rhetoric emphasized the tax as a war levy.
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GOP
Washington
House
Ways and Means
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Richard M. Nixon
Byrnes
Nixon
Wilbur D. Mills
Ways and Means Committee
Arkansas Democrat
Mills
Final step seen in Saigon talks on Paris peace delegation
Washington officials said a Saigon accord on sending a South Vietnamese delegation to the Paris talks could come within days. Ambassadors Bunker and Thieu work out details with a plan to appoint US and South Vietnamese co chairs to lead the allied delegation while excluding the Front as an independent body.
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N.Y. Times Service
Washington — Administration
Saigon
Paris
Ellsworth Bunker
Nguyen van Thieu
United States
North Vietnam
W. Averell Harriman
Nguyen Cao Ky
North Vietnamese National Liberation Front
Bunker
Thieu
Justicians
Liberation Front
Vietcong
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Front
Pilot Killed In Light Plane Crash Near Charlottesville
Raleigh H. Payne of Blairs a 45 year old Leggett Department Stores pilot was killed when a four passenger twin engine plane crashed in a yard near Charlottesville airport. The crash occurred about 730 am in the Rio Road area striking trees and stopping 50 feet from a house. Payne died on arrival at the hospital 35 minutes later.
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Charlottesville
Pittsylvania County
University of Virginia Hospital
Raleigh H. Payne
Blairs
Leggett Department Stores
Leggett
Orange
Payne
North Carolina
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Frederick
Preston Jolley
Rt. 5
United Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
John V. Lindsay
Gracie Mansion
British Isles
Brighton
England
Dodson
Mt. Falls
Daniel Alger
Rt. 1
Winchesterer
Bayliss Market
Bloomery Star
Lanie Gardner
Hunting Ridge
Robert Martin
Miller Bros. Grocery
Hayfield
Vaughn Johnson
Gore
Gore-John
Gunn’s Beauty Salon
Rt. 50
West
London
Jack Dover Wellman
Navy
Air Force
Howard Johnson's
Elliott Brothers
Pingley & Carper Cleaners
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