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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1972
Page
2
Mrs Effie Cameron of Front Royal died today in a Winchester nursing home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is at Maddox Funeral Home in Front Royal. A note on geese explains that a group on water is a plump and when airborne forms a skein. On ground they are a gaggle.
Woodrow Wilson McBride 59 of Augusta WV died at his residence from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Survived by widow Sylvia and eight children plus siblings. Funeral services set at McKee Funeral Chapel with viewing today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Burial in Augusta Cemetery.
President Idi Amin was admitted to a Kampala hospital and ordered to take a complete rest. Radio Uganda urged the public not to visit and said ministers and Defense Council members would be received during normal visiting hours. Amin had just returned from Northwestern Uganda after a mass meeting.
Dorsey Wilbur Loughry 39 of 737 W 14th St Front Royal died suddenly at home. Born Sept 2 1933 in Germania WV he was son of Hugh King and Myrtle Brown Loughry. Surviving include six brothers six sisters several half siblings and multiple children. Funeral tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Robertshaw Funeral Home Front Royal with burial at Prospect Hill Cemetery. American Legion Post 53 to provide pallbearers.
The first National Black Assembly ends with a unity pledge from 270 delegates at a South Side Chicago motel. Delegates urge keeping dissension in state caucuses and redefine co chairmen roles while referring key issues to the 51 member National Political Council.
Front Royal Town Council holds the second reading of a proposed ordinance to place a one percent sales tax on motel rooms. The measure, per Town Attorney Duncan C. Gibb, applies to stays under 90 days and mirrors a Petersburg area four percent rooms tax. Two public hearings planned.
Officials said little hope remained for more survivors from the Olympic Airways YS11 crash near Athens. Seventeen people swam 500 yards to safety after the rainstorm crash during a landing from Corfu. the Japanese twin turboprop sank minutes later with 93 aboard.
Reports of air transport unit alerts at McGuire Travis Dover McChord and Charleston AFBs were lifted after 32 hours. Pentagon dismissed links to any prisoner of war evacuation and said no unusual action was taken. A McGuire source noted crews prepared planes for medical evacuation before the alert ended.
In Danville Virginia a free rally for Senator Barry Goldwater and Senate candidate William L. Scott will be held at 7 45 p m at the Nor Dam Shopping Center. A private reception at Gary Bengston's home charges 100 per couple to meet Goldwater and Scott. Additional GOP officials are listed as attendees, with Governor Holton's attendance unclear due to Veterans Day.
Raleigh AP The North Carolina State Fair concluded its 1972 run with an estimated 300 000 paid attendance a new all time high and total attendance near 600 000. Final day attendance was about 110 000. A Raleigh traffic jam of that day rivaled the 1970 closing day amid 39 300 ECU football game attendees.
Historical note credits Sir Winston Churchill with coining the phrase Iron Curtain to describe the division between Eastern and Western Europe during the early Cold War era. The term appeared in his 1946 speech outlining postwar geopolitical tensions.
The extended forecast calls for fair conditions Wednesday followed by a chance of showers Thursday and Friday. Daytime highs will average in the 60s with nightly lows in the 40s and low 50s.
A sharp broad advance on Wall Street today fueled by reports of progress toward a cease fire in Indochina. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 10.76 to 953.57 at 10:30 a.m. with many leading issues higher.
Boston AP reports Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot L. Richardson said President Nixon might impound funds Congress appropriated to curb federal spending. He warned withholding grants for education and social security would be difficult or illegal while construction grants could be deferred or not obligated, delaying new building contracts.
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., awarded in 1964 at age 35, marking a landmark in global recognition of civil rights leadership.
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