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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1970
Page
5
At a banquet for Nixon in San Diego 2000 sailors welcomed three battleships as city crowds exceeded 100000. Johnson Reagan and Diaz Ordaz joined a ceremonial dinner where Johnson joked about retirement and book reviews while praising long standing U S Mexico friendship and rapid post presidency talks.
Calvary Baptist Church opens its fall Training Union with the film The Wiretapper by Billy Graham Evangelistic Films. It recounts Jim Vaus’s life as a crime figure who turned to faith after hearing Billy Graham. Vaus later works with youth at Hell Gate Station in New York City.
The Dow Jones average rose 2.25 to 767.52 as advances led declines 5 to 2 on the NYSE. Analysts noted a strong market and a possible up day for bulls ahead of Labor Day weekend while rubber, aircraft and farm implement stocks led gains and blue chips performed well. Early Big Board prices showed Occidental Petroleum up 1.5 percent and Xerox up 0.8 percent.
The Justice Department moved to halt interference by white parents at three Talladega County schools Munford Alpine and Lincoln. The department says about 300 white high school students returned to their previous schools amid a desegregation order and that parents are resisting the plan.
Samuel Orlando Avery, 29, of Norfolk, convicted in the $30,119 Bank of Southside Virginia robbery at Jarratt, draws a 22 year term. Judge Merhige also imposes five years concurrent for violating travel restrictions tied to a $25,000 bail bond. Co-defendant Joseph Sylvaniou Gay, also of Norfolk, received 20 years in the same case.
Kernstown brief notes events and visits. The W S C S class will meet with Mrs Josephine Cammer on Sept 14 with Mrs Loring Ritter as program leader. Families and relatives visited homes and campgrounds in the area.
Republican Ray L Garland assails Sen. Harry F Byrd Jr for leaving the Democratic party and running as an independent in Virginia. He criticizes Byrd for trading on his name while Byrd campaigns in California with President Nixon in attendance. Rawlings counters with consumer focused critique of banks and savings and loan controls at a Hampton reception.
U S District Judge Robert Merhige freed John William Heffron a 49 year old truck driver from St. Petersburg Florida who was sentenced for threatening President Nixon after a lengthy Richmond police call. The ruling follows a principle set by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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