Citizens Fight For Last New Orleans Streetcars
In New Orleans, public support keeps Canal Street streetcars alive amid vows by NOPSI to keep them running. The piece profiles motorman August Louis Hesse, the aging system, and historic context from 1831 to 1926, noting preservation efforts and uncertain future.
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New Orleans
Desire
New Orleans Public Service Inc
NOPSI
Canal Street
Aurio
Louis Hesse
Hesse
Hayfield News Briefs Recap of Local Visits and Travel
Hayfield residents share travels across the British Isles with visits to Hillarney and Blarney Castle in Ireland, Edinburgh and Loch Ness in Scotland, and London. Local social updates note hospital stays, family visits from Pennsylvania and Berryville, weekend guests from Staunton, and friends in Star Tannery and Huntington.
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England
Robert Boyd
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Emmet Strom
Gary Strom
Pennsylvania
E.W. Bryan
W.B. Solomon
James Morris
Berryville
Kirby Teets
Staunton
Don Ratcliff
J.C. Bayliss
Russell Ramey
Hayfield
Walter Jackson
Albert Lacy
Luther Larrick
Boyd
John Hammack
Stephens City
Mabley Stickley
Shenandoah
M.A. Wiley
Bryan
Ernest Adams
Vernon Unger
Lloyd Cooper
Ray Phelps
Frances Brengle
Harold Slater
Ava Mosley
John Mosley
Donald Burkhart
Henry Leigh
New York
Charles Wepley
Jackson
Reynolds
Huntington
W.va
Solomons
Benny Solomon
Solomon
Hawley Jackson
Star Tannery
Byrd's Amendments On Senate Floor Through 1969
During nearly five years in office Senator Byrd introduced 17 amendments to legislation on the Senate floor. Thirteen were approved by the Senate while four were rejected. One rejection failed by one vote and another by two. From 1966 to 1969 he voted on 97 percent of roll calls and presided over the Senate more than any other member.
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Byrd
Senate
Byrd votes on hospital aid water quality and debt limits
Senator Byrd supported extending Hill Burton hospital construction aid and the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970. He voted against a 12 billion dollar debt increase, backed a $20 000 cap on federal farm subsidies, opposed federal control of voting rules in the South, and supported anti crime, education, and limited defense loans measures.
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Byrd
Senator Byrd
Virginia
South
District of Columbia
Defense Department
Virginia Senate
United States Senate
Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
America
Vietnam
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NEA, Inc
SEN
Harry F. Byrd, JR
Department of Transportation
Urban Mass Transit
Congress
China
Sponsored
North Vietnam
National Eye Institute
Office of Economic Opportunity
Supreme Court
Loudoun St
aCme
Atml West
Public Broadcasting Act
United States
U.S
United Nations
Soviet Union
Antipoverty Agency
Okinawa
G. Harold Carswell
Harry A. Blackman
Southern
Hill- Burton
Winchester Committee
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