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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1968

Page

3

Governor Demands Probe Into Cummins Prison Gunfire

At Cummins Prison Farm guards fired eight shotgun blasts into a group of about 75 inmates wounding 24 after a work stoppage protest. Gov. Rockefeller called for full investigation while Supt. Urban defended the action as a reasonable tactic. Police noted disputed details and ongoing inmate isolation actions.

Cummins Prison Farm Ark Victor C. Urban Winthrop Rockefeller Urban Gary Haydis Haydis Tucker Prison Farm Cummins Little Rock Arkansas Thomas O. Morton Morton

Frederick Puts Name on List for Soil Survey

Frederick County moves to join a broad Virginia program for countywide soil surveys with state support. Board members weigh a one year delay amid possible Winchester consolidation, while TAP officials stress the project is nonbinding until signed agreements and cost re-evaluation.

Frederick Frederick County Virginia Board of Supervisors Paul Moore U.S. Soil Conversation Service TAP Winchester Thomas Rosenberger Donald Baughman Thomas Brumback Raymond Sandy J. Robert Russell MR. Moore John T. Wolfe Moore Sam Obenshain Virginia Polytechnic Institute C. J. Kock

Explosion damages U M Institute of Science and Technology

An explosion late Monday night shattered a door and windows at the University of Michigan Institute of Science and Technology on North Campus Ann Arbor. No injuries reported. police secured the area as investigators noted this was the second blast in Ann Arbor and thirteenth in the Detroit area.

Ann Arbor, Mich University of Michigan Institute of Science and Technology Ann Arbor Ap Early Detroit Department of Defense University Great Lakes

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