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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1970
Page
1
Vietnamese Communist leaders dismissed President Nixon's peace proposal as a swindle and plot. David Bruce defended the plan saying it aims to halt the fighting now while urging a sincere end to the war at the Paris peace talks.
Virginia's traffic death toll reaches 1000 for the seventh consecutive year Gov Linwood Holton urges drivers to curb highway deaths. The year’s total trails last year’s pace but offers hope for a decline Horace W Taylor 56 of Howerton is the 1000th fatality from an Essex County incident.
The three judge annexation court ruled it expedient for Winchester to annex the requested territory in Frederick County, with a written opinion to follow. The move will expand Winchester to 9.3 square miles and a population of 19,511, while Frederick County will shrink to 425.8 square miles and 23,619 people.
The Canadian government invoked the War Measures Act amid fears of a pre election terrorism campaign by Quebec separatists. No major new leads in the Laporte murder case or Cross kidnapping were reported, though Minister Jean Marchand cited broader threats as justification for the measure.
Weather observer Walter Rutherford reports Berryville received 1.65 inches of rain from 6 a.m. yesterday to 6 a.m. today, while Winchester Research Laboratory logged 1.28 inches in the same period. A street scene shows a man using a power mower to blow leaves off the sidewalk rather than sweeping them into the gutter.
Unidentified assailants opened fire on Gen Rene Schneider Chile's army commander injuring him seriously and sending him to a military hospital. The attack occurred in the El Golf district as security measures began and a manhunt followed. The timing coincides with Congress to elect Salvador Allende president amid political tension.
About 1,800 Palestinian guerrillas crossed from Syria into Jordan and moved to positions near the frontier village of Moghayer. Brig. Atta Gasib, northern Jordanian commander, said the advance was supported by 14 tanks.
Soviet and Turkish forces joined the search for a twin engine V8 plane missing near the Turkish Soviet border with Maj. Gen. Edward C D Scherrer and Brig. Gen. Claude M McQuarrie aboard. The aircraft disappeared on a 120 mile flight from Erzurum to Kars amid bad weather.
In Santa Cruz California a note found after five people were slain threatens further deaths for those who misuse the environment. Signed by four Knight cards from a tarot deck the note names the People of the Free Universe and warns of war and death as a motive. Authorities urge calm as they investigate the Ohta family killings and search for two men and a girl seen near a car.
Police described a brutal family murder at a mansion near Santa Cruz where Dr. Ohta his wife Virginia 43 sons Derrick 12 and Taggart 11 and secretary Dorothy Cadwallader 38 were found shot in the back and dumped in a pool after a fire. The stolen 1968 green Oldsmobile station wagon was later found damaged in a Felton tunnel with footprints leading away. Investigators questioned local transient populations as they pursued possible hippie connections amid a redwood country search.
A weather bulletin reports a low pressure area moving off Virginia’s coast by evening bringing drier air and clearing skies to the state. Minor showers were possible earlier, but brighter conditions were expected to follow across the region.
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