Teacher sues over controversial textbook in Morgan County
Joan Rypkema, a Berkeley Springs high school English teacher, filed a $450000 damage suit in U.S. District Court claiming wrongful dismissal by the Morgan County Board of Education. She seeks $300000 in punitive damages, backed by the NEA and WVEA, after the board did not renew her contract following protests over The Little Red Schoolhouse and her teaching methods.
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Elkins
W. Va
U.S
Morgan County Board of Education
Joan Rypkema
Berkeley Springs
Little Red
National Education Association
West Virginia Education Association
Rypkema
Virginia growers urged to match apple prices with Michigan and New York
About 60 to 70 area growers attended a Winchester Cold Storage meeting sponsored by the Virginia Farm Bureau marketing division. New York Michigan Maryland and West Virginia representatives urged keeping prices at 7.25 per hundredweight for top grade and 3.75 for juice apples set by the American Association of Marketing Associations in New York. J Robert Russell of Frederick County represented Virginia.
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Lulu Williams
Michigan
New York
Winchester
Virginia Farm Bureau Marketing Division
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
American Association of Marketing Associations
J. Robert Russell
Frederick County
Virginia
AAMA
National Fruit Product Co
Tom Moore
Aama Horticultural Crops Division
Moore
Richard Wrenn
Agricultural Marketing Association of Virginia
John Parker
Senators Read Wiretap Summaries in Kissinger Hearings
Attorney General allows reading FBI summaries of wiretap findings involving 13 government officials and four newsmen. Richardson blocks full access fearing leaks and reputational harm. Fulbright proposes limited subcommittee access to move Kissinger’s nomination forward.
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Richardson
Clifford P. Case
Rn.j
John Sparkman
D-Ala
FBI
Kissinger
National Security
Fulbright
Skylab Voice Prank Delights Crew During Orbit Stay
A woman’s voice pretending to be from Skylab beamed down to Houston as astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma carried out their 46th day in a 59 day mission. Garriott later explained his wife Helen had recorded the voice during a private chat.
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Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Skylab
Houston
Bob
Helen
Roger
Crippen
Center
Garriott
Army Calls For Allende's Resignation
The Chilean armed forces rose up against President Salvador Allende and demanded his resignation. Air force planes circled Government House in Santiago while troops and tanks surrounded the building as Allende pledged to resist. The coup, led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet and other military leaders, followed months of political and economic unrest and reflects Chile's first freely elected Marxist presidency challenging military opposition.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Kompong Cham
Sosthene Fernandez
Khmer Rouge
Balaing
Am Rong
Mekong
Saigon
Associated Press
Salvador Allende
Argentina
Santiago
Allende
Chile
Andean
Carabineros
Buenos Aires
Augusto Pinochet
Gustavo Leig
Adm
Jose Toribio Merino
Cesar Mendoza
Navy
Valparaiso
Radioemisora Corporacion
Socialist Party
Marketing Leaders Named to Regional Board
J. Robert Russell of Frederick County, a board member of the American Association of Marketing Associations, is associated with the Apple Division as part of the Bureau Marketing Association.
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Bureau Marketing Association
Apple
J. Robert Russell
Frederick County
The
American Association of Marketing Associations
Winchester considers bonds for water and sewer upgrades
City council plans a referendum in the November 6 election on issuing 5 million dollars in bonds for water and sewer improvements including extensions into the annexed area a standby storage tank and plant upgrades. Roy W Bayliss Jr notes hookups cost 500 per customer as extensions near Wea Villa and Dye subdivisions are finishing. A third reading is set for rezoning Chapman Motor Co properties on Amherst Street from R-5 and M-1 to B-1 Local Shopping.
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Winchester
Roy W. Bayliss, Jr
Council
Bayliss
Wea Villa
Dye
Chapman Motor Co
Amherst St
William S. Keyton Sr
Mitchell seeks delay as lawyers request more time
Former Atty Gen John Mitchell and co counsel ask federal appeals panel for postponement to prepare a defense to conspiracy perjury charges His attorney cites Watergate probes and Senate hearings expanding time pressures and requests postponement through November 1 or at least one month.
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NEW York
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Maurice H. Stans
Secretary of Commerce
Peter J. Fleming Jr
William G. Hundley
Washington,d.c
Fleming
Handley
Senate
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C.D. Taylor
David B. Grim
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Weber & Sons Nursery
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