More Klan Members Testify in 1964 Slayings Case
Meridian police sergeant Carlton Wallace Miller testified before a federal jury about the Ku Klux Klan elimination plot behind the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. Miller said the imperial wizard approved the plan and that he was paid by the FBI for information.
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Meridian
Miss
Justice Department
Ku Klux Klan
Miller
FBI
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
New York
James Chaney
James Edward Jord Dan
Jordan
Georgia
U.S
John Doar
Klan
R Medirt
Killen
Schwerner
Neshoba County
Doar
Goodman
Chaney
Philadelphia
George Burley
Apple Blossom Festival Offers Materials for School Apple Week
Town Crier note says the Apple Blossom Festival 6 headquarters at 109 E Piccadilly St provides posters banners and display materials for local schools during National Apple Week running today through next week. Materials available by calling the Apple Blossom office weekdays 9 to 5. Also a notice to borrow $1500 on interest for 3 years with Box 74 Winchester Evening Star.
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Apple Blossom Festival
E. Piccadilly’ St
Apple Blossom Office
Winchester Evening Star
Fire Dept Ready If Victory Comes
Boston prepares for the first World Series title since 1918 as the Fire Department stands ready to parade engines and sound sirens if the Red Sox beat the Cardinals. Weather forecasts offer cloudy sun and upper 50s with a 20 percent rain chance as Dick Williams names Lonborg to face Gibson in game seven.
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Boston
Jim Lonborg
Boston Red Sox
Bob Gibson
St. Louis Cardinals
Lonborg
Gibson
Dick Wiliams
Champagne
Red Sox
St. Louis
Fulbright Statement Not True Says Rusk
Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Fulbright's claim that the United States bears more responsibility for UN action in Vietnam as not true. Rusk defended U S policy, condemned North Vietnam for not responding to peace proposals, and urged careful handling of the middle ground in Vietnamese policy.
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Rusk
Washington
Dean Rusk
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
United States
Soviet Union
United Nations
Fulbright
Senate
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Soviet Youth Training Program and Dimished Draft Ages
Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko unveiled a plan for part time military training for 16 and 17 year olds and announced lowering the oath age to 18 and reducing active service from three to two years. He accused the United States of imperialism and said the program aims to speed 18 year olds into modern military techniques. Continued on Page 2.
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Moscow
United States
Andrei A. Grechko
Marshal Grechko
Supreme Soviet
Grechko
Vietnam
Middle East
Sailor Missing After Cutting Spree Aboard Destroyer
A sailor who stabbed 11 aboard the USS Mullany off Long Beach and then jumped overboard remained missing. Navy officials reported 11 wounded sailors, with seven in good condition, and the ship returned to routine maneuvers after docking at Long Beach for treatment.
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Long Beach
Calif
Navy
Roy A. Sattiewhite
San’ Diego
Sattiewhite
Mullany
Lo Beach Naval Hospital
San Diego
Pay Raise Bill Passed By House
The House approved a federal pay raise plan with Postal workers getting 6 percent and all federal employees 4.5 percent, plus larger raises in the next two fiscal years. Costs are pegged at 1.9 billion and 2.6 billion respectively, with White House tax surcharge pressure and GOP opposition urging spending cuts before any tax hike is approved.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Melvin R. Laird
Wsconsin
House Republican Conference
White House
Laird
Off Coast of Turkey 66 Presumed Killed in Airliner Crash
A BEA Cypriot Comet 4 jetliner crashed into the Mediterranean off southwest Turkey near Kastellorizon. All 66 aboard are presumed killed. The London Athens Nicoseia flight carried 59 passengers and seven crew. Rescue ships recovered bodies and wreckage. no distress signal was sent.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Turkey
Royal Air Force
British European Airways
Cyprus Airways
London
Athens
Dodecanese
Kastellorizon
BEA
RAF
Air Force
U.S. Air Force
Katellorizon
Campbell Named To Raritan Post In Zone Dinner
Leslie Campbell of Gaines-art Jolliffe elected 1968 Zone Governor at Zone 1 dinner at Lee-Jackson Restaurant. Campbell, veteran of WWII and Korea, serves as chaplain and Rural Church Committee chair. He will take office January and leads Gainesboro activities, with wife Mary Janice and two children.
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Leslie Campbell
Bere Raritan Club
Lee-Jackson Restaurant
Campbell
Gainesboro
Burnt Presbyterian Church
American Brake Blok
Nain
Mary Janice
Patrick
Barbara
Raritan
David Childs
Clarke County
Ralph Frye
Round Hill Club
Gov. Barley
Navy pilots may face third combat tours in Vietnam
Navy carrier pilots could endure a third tour of seven to nine months if air war against North Vietnam extends 14 to 18 months, amid pilot shortages and rising early resignations. Generals warn similar strains affect Air Force and Army operations as Congress weighs the impact on families and service readiness.
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Washington
North Vietnam
Congress
Pentagon
Senate
Air Force
Army
John P. McConnell
Vietnam
Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
China Sets and Pottery Half Price at Rhodes Jewelry Sow
Country church supper benefit at Stephens City Meth Church Fellowship Hall begins 5 p.m. Saturday October 14. Proceeds fund kitchen equipment. Menu includes ham at 1.50 and turkey at 1.25 with children 0.75. Sponsored by The W.S.C.S.
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China & Pottery
Rhodes Jewelry Co
Stephens City
Improper Front Page Ad Traced to Anonymous Source
The Star reports a front page advertisement credited to Sportsmen of Frederick County may be misleading. The Frederick County clerk’s office check found no such organization. Bill Duncan of the local Izaak Walton League chapter and others were unable to verify it. The ad, paid in full, was accepted without proper identification despite the policy against unnamed advertising.
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Star
Frederick County
Jack F. Davis
The
Bill Duncan
Izaak Walton League
Thieu proposes week long bombing pause and talks with Ho Chi Minh
Saigon AP reports South Vietnamese Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu plans a formal letter to Ho Chi Minh offering a one week pause in bombing and a face to face meeting. U S officials say they have no prior knowledge of the peace initiative as monsoon weather slows air and ground operations.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Ho Chi Minh
Thieu
U. S. Command
Demilitarized Zone
Mekong Delta
Chau Dochard
Weather in Virginia Brings Clear Skies and Cooler Temperatures
A high pressure system moved into Virginia bringing clear skies and cooler temperatures across the state today according to AP reports from Richmond.
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Richmond
Virginia
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William C. Westmoreland
Off Coast OF
Raritan Post
W. E. Barley
Paul Moore
Leslie ‘Campbell
South Vietnam
Hoa Lac
Beaver’s Drug Store
Nancy Ricketts
S. Cameron St
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