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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1970
Page
1
Sixty three Americans were killed in action last week in Vietnam, up 11 from the previous week, with total U S battlefield deaths over nine weeks at 623 the lowest in 4 1/2 years. Wounded numbers rose to 585 as allied forces reported new losses and Cambodian counterattacks continued near the Vietnam border.
Dr. Thomas C. Iden of Berryville was elected president of the State Board of Health at its annual meeting. Dr. William W. Royall, Jr. of Newport News was chosen vice president. The board tentatively approved regulations requiring board approval for local waste disposal plans beginning Jan 1, 1972, with the Attorney General's office reviewing the proposal.
Elizabeth Robin Treshane spent summer 1970 in New York NEA offices as she moves from Kent State after the campus shooting. The shooting prompted her to quit school, and she plans to enroll again this fall as semester begins on the rolling campus in northeast Ohio.
The notice states no garbage collections and no city buses on Monday September 7 due to a holiday. Garbage for Monday will be collected Thursday September 10 along with the rest of the week.
In Paris U S Ambassador David K E Bruce met North Vietnam envoy Xuan Thuy to urge conciliation and end deadlock Thuy demanded the United States renounce its war aims and withdraw support for South Vietnam Thuy said North Vietnam supports Viet Cong peace terms while Washington rejected them Bruce emphasized the need for South Vietnam to determine its own future and called for setting aside preconditions and harsh language.
Israeli Premier Golda Meir and cabinet weigh boycotting the United Nations peace talks if Washington does not publicly back Israel’s charges of Egyptian cease-fire violations. Yosef Tekoah’s return to New York remains uncertain as Dayan presses for a firm U S position.
Coronado California expects 100000 to greet President Nixon and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz with a parade 65 units and 700 VIPs including Lyndon B. Johnson. Free buses run countywide, the Coronado Bay Bridge toll is reduced for the day and a four course dinner at Hotel del Coronado follows ceremonies at North Island Naval Air Station. The event features US Marine Band, Grupo Folklorico and pickets by antiwar groups outside the hotel.
NASA will mothball two Saturn 5 rockets costing 185 million each and reassign six astronauts from Apollo 15 and 19 cancellations. The agency plans a space shuttle program with flights from Kennedy Space Center ending Skylab by 1974 and earliest shuttle launch in 1976.
Nixon expressed approval as many Deep South districts opened public schools under desegregation orders. In Montgomery and Richmond readers describe mixed reception with few white students at Black schools and ongoing opposition via bus desegregation challenges, while Georgia cites administrative headaches and absenteeism. A separate report notes a fire damaged mail on a Winchester to Petersburg route.
Brilliant peaches. D.K. Russell and Sons. 662-7825. Weekday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pizza Hut open Labor Day. 2650 Valley Ave. Eat in or carry out. Phone 667-0376. Tonite: 5 p.m. Spaghetti Feast. All you can eat, $1.19. Echo Village Restaurant. 10 percent reduction on all personalized Christmas cards ordered through Oct. 15. Colonial Art & Craft Shop, 25 W. Piccadilly
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