Foreign Aid Drive Shifts to Senate
After a House gain the administration pushes foreign aid funding to the Senate. The House bill totaled 3.66 billion, down 596 million from the enabling act but 300 million above the Appropriations Committee. Restoring cuts faced mixed votes with Ford urging 300 million restore and leadership split on initial votes.
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Senate
C. Yates McDaniel Washington
House
Congress
Kennedy
House Appropriations Committee
Mili
Senate Appropriations Committee
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Otto Passman
D-La
Gerald Ford
R-Mich
John McCormack
D-Mass
Rep
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Ford
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Jury Indicts Nichols with Continued Search for Linden Man
Four indictments were returned by a Warren County Grand Jury naming Bryan Jennings Nichols Jr. as defendant. He is charged with shooting his wife and two others and breaking into his brother’s Linden residence. Police continued the search as a capias was issued by Judge Elliott Marshall.
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Front Royal
Bryan Jennings Nichols, Jr
Warren County
Linden
Helen Nicholds
Diana Taylor
Michael Nichols
Elliott Marshall
Nichols
Armstrong Heads Shenandoah Bank Trust Committee
Harold G. Brown announces that Armstrong will head the Shenandoah Valley National Bank trust committee succeeding the late H. K. Benham. Armstrong, president of National Fruit Product Co., has served on the trust committee for eight years and has been a bank director since 1937.
Clarke County Farmers to Inspect Demonstration Corn Plots
Clarke County farmers can tour modern corn production practices this Friday with demonstrations on two acres at each of two nearby farms. County Agent John Gerken announces tours from Clarke County Courthouse at 9:15 a.m. 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The aim is to show atrazine weed control soil-based fertilization and higher planting rates. The events are organized with Plant Food Institute and Virginia Extension Service and involve local farmers fertilizer dealers.
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Clarke County
John Gerken
Plant Food Institute
Virginia Extension Service
Marvin
Cecil P. Wolfe
Arthur Weiss
Richard Williams
John Days
Baugh and Sons, Co
Miler Chemical Company
Green Chemicalompany
Gerken
Castro Urges Cubans to Learn Russian Language
Fidel Castro declares Cubans must learn Russian with 100 Soviet professors for 2000 teachers. He says English should also be learned for future interactions with English speaking countries and North American revolutionaries, while Russian remains key for science leadership.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
National Congress
Castro
Soviet Union
F M Bank Receives National Award for Local History
Farmers and Merchants National Bank earned an American Heritage Society award for its local history efforts in Winchester. The bank funded What I Know About Winchester Vol 3 and ran historical sketches in ads and published booklets on streets and churches, announced by Dr. A Russell Mortensen at the San Francisco meeting.
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Amerity Historical Society
Association
Winchester
The
Historical Society
A. Russell Mortensen
San Francisco
America
Red Cross Seeks Aid for Ball Family's New Home
Winchester Frederick chapter of the American Red Cross appeals for household items for Richard Ball and family after a April fire. They need a kitchen cabinet table stove refrigerator living room furniture chest of drawers utensils china linens blankets and electric lamps. Salvation Army provided one bed and other items. Call MO 25412 to donate. A 16th century law requires gondolas in Venice to be painted black.
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Winchester-Frederick County
American Red Cross
Richard Ball
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Speed Limit Reduction Asked in Clarke
Moore and Dorsey Inc and Berryville Basket Co requested lowering Boom Road speed limit from 35 to 25 mph. Hobson C. McGehee, Battletown District supervisor, presented the request to the Clarke Board of Supervisors, which sent the inquiry to the state highway department.
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Berryville Two
Moore and Dorsey, Inc
Berryville Basket Co
Hobson C. McGehee
Board of Supervisors
Battletown
State Highway Department
Speed limit in effect cited as hazard and board approves court house repairs
The report notes the current speed limit is considered too high and dangerous. It also states that at yesterday's board meeting window repairs were authorized for the Court House.
Civil Defense Official to Address City Council
Stanley N. Collins regional deputy Civil Defense coordinator from Warrenton will speak to the City Council on Civil Defense matters at its meeting next Tuesday. He will explain the new organization of Civil Defense which has been in charge of defense.
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Council
Stanley N. Collins
Warrenton
City Council
Mr. Collins
Civil BB
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