Redskins Help Kick Off 1970 Apple Week
The Redskins practiced at Kennety Stadium in Washington D C to start National Apple Week October 8 to 17. Co Captain Len Hauss and Chris Hanburger lead players taking an apple break alongside Charley Taylor and Mike Bass with Cynthia Whithed from the Agriculture Department.
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Redskins
Kennety Stadium
Washington, D.C
Len Hauss
Chris Hanburger
Charley Taylor
Mike Bass
Jis Cynthia Whithed
Department of Agriculture
High Court Advised Not to Alter Death Penalty Rules
The Nixon administration urged the Supreme Court not to change state death penalty procedures. The Justice Department argued no standards for jurors nor separation of sentencing are required, warning such changes could raise death sentence rates in test cases Krampton and McGautha.
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Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Erwin N. Griswold
Philip A. Lacovara
John N. Mitchell
James E. Crampton
Toledo
Dennis McGautha
Los Angeles
On This Date In History October Sixteen Highlights
Events spanning 1964 China tests nuclear bomb making it a power. 1790 Congress creates the District of Columbia. 1793 Marie Antoinette’s guillotine moment. 1815 Napoleon reaches St Helena. 1840 New Zealand becomes a colony. 1859 Harper's Ferry raid. 1941 Odessa falls to Germany. Weathered notes include church service change in West Virginia.
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Congress
District of Columbia
U.S
Marie Antoinette
France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Island of
St. Helena
New Zealand
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Odessa
East Pakistan
Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
United States
Washington
South Vietnam
Hints From Heloise Fun Center Hits Young Visitors
Readers share practical home hints from 1970 including a toy display idea for visiting children called a fun center painted shelves with donated toys. Other notes describe onion tears, telephones, tracing darts with a pizza cutter, using ketchup lids as mover feet, DIY dish mop from fiber cloth and hanger, and egg carton foam cups as spoon holders.
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Heloise
Fish Kill Threat Seen Abating Along Jackson River
State Water Control Board officials say the threat of a major fish kill is diminishing as untreated waste drifts slowly down the Jackson River from Covington. The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co plant explosion and shutdown caused a large discharge, but oxygen depletion is easing and no dead fish have been spotted.
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State Water Control Board
Jackson River
Covington
West Virginia
James River
Jennings
Lindsey
First US President to Cross Atlantic While in Office
Woodrow Wilson the Virginia native became the first sitting president to cross the Atlantic Sea visiting France in December 1918 marking a pivotal postwar diplomacy moment.
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Woodrow Wilson
Virginia
France
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