Plan $2 Million Hospital Expansion Barge Smashes Bay Bridge
A 235 foot empty barge adrift in gale winds struck the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel near Virginia Beach, tearing a 60 foot road section and prompting likely one month of closure. The incident marked the sixth barge collision since 1964, with no injuries reported. Coast Guard rescued tug Carolyn’s crew as the vessel was beached in rough seas.
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Weeks Dredging and Contracting Co
Elizabeth
N. J
Beaumont
Commission
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New York
Madrona
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Newport News
Virginia
Hampton
Langley Air Force Base
Hampton Roads
Peninsula
James River
Buckroe Beach
Winchester Hospital plans two floor bed expansion
Winchester Memorial Hospital seeks a $3 million two floor addition adding 80 beds, 40 on each level, with 6 private and 34 semi private rooms. The project requires a height variance and involves Ellerbe Architects and Howard Shockey as construction manager. Flooding slows regional recovery as Newport News efforts continue.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital Today
Cork and
Clifford Sts
Carl S. Napps
Winchester
Board of Zoning Appeals
Hospital
Napps
Ellerbe Architects
Washington, D.C
Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc
Agnew Sees Race Won On Principle in 1972 Campaign
Vice President Spiro Agnew at the Ohio Republican Convention argues the 1972 election will hinge on principle over party. Senator George McGovern calls Vietnam the dominant issue. Sargent Shriver says the McGovern-Shriver ticket faces serious financial trouble and could welcome Kennedy family money. Nixon aides allege Democrats withhold Kennedy contributions reports.
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Spiro T. Agnew
George McGovern
Sargent Shriver
McGovern-Shriver
Kennedy
Agnew
Ohio
Columbus
McGovern
Philadelphia
Southeast Asia
Clark MacGregor
U S Rejects Viet Cong Peace Plan at Paris Talks
U S Ambassador Porter at the Paris peace talks dismissed the Viet Cong seven point plan as leading to prolonged warfare and North Communist dictatorship. He said the Viet Cong proposal to cease military activity and pull out lacks concrete measures and is self contradictory.
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Paris
United States
South Vietnam
U.S
William J. Porter
Porter
Fire department seeks film of Sept 7 Bauserman blaze
Winchester Fire Department requests any movie film made at the September 7 fire that damaged Bauserman Petroleum Products bulk plant for use in fire training at the Winchester Fire School. Fire Chief John J. Hawse asks owners to contact him at 662-2584 or 662-7284 to arrange return after use.
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Winchester Fire Department
Bauserman Petroleum Products Bulk
John J. Hawse
Winchester Fire School
Hawse
Arab Plot to Kill Israelis With Letter Bombs Spreads
The plot to kill Israelis with booby trapped mail parcels spread to Africa after bombs were found in North America and across Europe. Envelopes bearing bombs were located in Kinshasa embassy post boxes and linked to earlier blasts in Paris London Brussels Geneva Vienna Tel Aviv Montreal and New York.
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Africa
North America
Europe
Kinshasa
Zaire
Belgium Congo
Paris
London
Brussels
Geneva
Vienna
Tel Aviv
Montreal
New York
Week with no American combat deaths in Vietnam
AP reports for the week ending, no Americans were killed in action in Vietnam for the first time since March 1965. Nonhostile American deaths, seven wounded, four missing. South Vietnamese casualties 409 killed, 1,710 wounded. enemy deaths 4,625. Total war tolls: Americans 45,857 killed, 303,387 wounded, 1,675 missing. South Vietnamese 155,372 killed, 407,160 wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong 890,690 killed.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Harrisonburg Fire Destroys Furniture Warehouse and Adjacent Firms
A fire at Schewel Furniture’s two story warehouse on Warsaw Ave in Harrisonburg spread to Williamson Drug Co Thee Place Restaurant and Valley Medical Laboratory within about 90 minutes causing estimated total losses of 325000 dollars. Fire marshal investigation began to determine the blaze’s cause.
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Harrisonburg
Schewel Furniture
Warsaw Ave
Williamson Drug Co
Thee Place
Valley Medical Laboratory
Bill Humes
Edridge Wilburn
Schewel
Williamson Drug Store
Humes
Medical Arts Complex
Wilburn
Carl Showalter
Broadway
Explosive Devices Found In Mail To UN Israel Delegation
Police bomb squad dismantled one of three miniature devices found in mail addressed to Israel's UN delegation members Yosef Tekoah Jacob Barmore and Uri Gordon. The envelopes resembled booby traps linked to earlier Amsterdam mailings that killed an Israeli diplomat in London.
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New York
Israel
United Nations
Amsterdam
London
U.S
General Post Office
Yosef Tekoah
Jacob Barmore
Uri Gordon
Bronx
Weather Front To Bring Warmer Air Across Mid Atlantic
A cold front from the Great Lakes toward Texas moves through the Middle Atlantic Friday. Temperatures rise into the 70s in the drier air behind the front. An unrelated classified correction notes beef and smoked picnic prices from Grand Union Supermarkets in Winchester.
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Richmond
Great Lakes
Texas
Middle Atlantic
Grand Union Supermarkets
Winchester
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