New Plant to Build Auto Trailers Here
Dale T. Skinner of Fleetwood Enterprises announced a new 40,000 square foot Terry Travel Trailer plant at Winchester Frederick Industrial Park. Ground breaking begins soon with 75 to 150 local hires. The project is valued over 250000 and aims at national distribution from Fleetwood’s six existing mobile home and three Broadmore plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale T. Skinner
Vicerprises, Inc
Winchester-Frederick
Terry Travel Trailers
United States
Guy E. Kelly
Frederick Maryland Business Properties Company
Lessee
Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc
Terry Industries
Fleetwood
John C. Creen
California
Terry Travel
el Monte
Skinner
Winchester-Frederick County
Exhibits to Move to VMI Facility on Battlefield Site
About $60 000 worth of Civil War Centennial Center exhibits in Richmond will be sent to a Virginia Military Institute facility on the New Market battlefield. The move follows a vote by the Centennial Commission executive committee to turn the collection over when the center closes November 30. VMI commandant Maj. Gen. R. E. Shell said a home for the exhibits and a library for Civil War documents will be built on the battlefield where VMI cadets fought the Union army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Military Institute
New Market
Virginia Civil War Centen Nial Commission
VMI
R. E. Shell
City News Roundup Aims at Tax Tickets and Blood Drive
Town Treasurer Marvin D. Weaver announced the city will mail tax payment tickets next week with a December 5 deadline to avoid penalties. The Red Cross Bloodmobile met its 150 pint quota, including 19 pints of O positive for Washington. Lions Club sponsored with Robert E. Ayler as recruitment chairman. Mrs Zela Shaw reports Cereus blooming tonight with six buds ready to open around 9 o'clock. A one year old boy was found wandering East Street and police located his parents shortly after.
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Marvin D. Weaver
Winchester
RED Cross
Washington, D.C
Stephens City
Zela Shaw
Shenandoah Ave
East St
Charles Hill
Carroll Mauck
Bell elected vice mayor in Winchester city council meeting
Stewart Bell Jr was chosen vice mayor for a one year term at the Winchester City Council annual official election. Also re-elected for one year were City Manager Lee Grant Clerk of the Council B M Por Rero City Solicitor J Randolph Larrick Fire Chief Bernard F Groves Jr Fire Inspector W N Gochenour Sr and several fire wardens. Mervell Adams was re elected to a two year Plumbing Board of Appeals ending Sept 30 1967. Bell has served on the council since 1954 and leads the Finance Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Grant
B. M. Porrero
Randolph Larrick
Bernard F. Groves, Jr
W.N. Gochenour
Robert D. Grove
Friendship Fire Co
John F. Morrison
Rouss Fire Co
Richard B. Brown, Jr
Sarah Zane Fire Co
Richard A. Comer
South End Fire Co. Mervell
Adams
Plumbing Board of Appeals
Civic Center Site Unchanged in Winchester
Planning Commission recommended to the City Council that no site change be made for the Winchester Civic Center. The present site is behind the Winchester Armory in Rouss Park, with more study pursued after a July proposal. Over $175,000 has been raised toward a $350,000 campaign.
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Planning Commission
Winchester Civic Center
Winchester Armory
Rouss Park
War Memorial
Armoury
Wayne A. Whitha
Parks and Recreation Board
Planning and Zoning Commission
Floodwaters Drive Thousands From Homes
Floodwaters sweeping Iowa Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma forced thousands from their homes and damaged crops and property. Rivers overflowed from Missouri and Kansas snowstorms spread west and a new storm headed in.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Teacher Shot to Death in Bath County Car Crash
Authorities say 22 year old Diane Wickersham, a Alleghany County teacher from Decatur Georgia, was murdered and found in her wrecked car at the base of a 130 foot cliff on Warm Springs Mountain Bath County. Police expect to release details at a news conference and an autopsy is pending.
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Richmond
Alleghany County
Diane Brewster Wickeresham
Decatur
Warm Springs Mountain
Bath County
Collins
Covington
Mann
Hurricane Carol Expected to Turn Today
Hurricane Carol drifts in the mid Atlantic and forecasters expect a northwest or west turn. Meteorologist Raymond Kraft says prediction remains uncertain as the storm sits about 1,400 miles east-southeast of Bermuda moving north at about 18 miles per hour.
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Miami
Fila
Carol
United States
Raymond Kraft
Miami Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Bermuda
Weather Pattern Pushes Warmth Into Virginia
A large high pressure center off the Atlantic Coast continues to push warm humid air from the Gulf of Mexico into Virginia under fair skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Atlantic Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
Commanders Seek Use of Tear Gas in Viet Nam War
Saigon officials say Washington was asked to review nonlethal tear gas use under special circumstances. A Marine field commander previously used gas to rout guerrillas from a civilian tunnel. Viet Cong launched wide attacks in the Mekong Delta as U.S. forces reported 21 killed, 106 wounded, and 2 missing or captured in the week ending Sept 18. U.S. planes and B52s attacked targets in North Vietnam and Binh Duong Province.
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Viet
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Washington
Mekong Delta
Mee« Kong
Dinh Tuong
1St Cavalry Division
An Khe
101St Airborne Brigade
101St Aireborne
War Cease-Fire Effective At 5 P.M. In Kashmir
India and Pakistan agreed to a cease-fire effective 5 p.m. EST after three weeks of hostilities. Prime Minister Shastri announced the truce in Parliament as Ayub Khan spoke from Karachi, with Kosygin offering a possible Soviet-brokered meeting. Both sides planned to hold positions along the 1949 cease-fire line as China warned of further moves in Tibet.
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New Delhi
India
Kashmir
Pakistan
Red
China
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Shastri
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Ayub
Karachi
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
United Nations
Tibet
Himalayan
Peking
Sike Kim-Tibet
Ticbet
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
U.N. Security Council
New York
Sikkim
Winchester Radiologist Sails to Join Project Viet Nam
Dr John M Adams a Winchester radiologist sails Sunday as part of the second group in Project Viet Nam a cooperative medical effort aiding rural South Viet Nam. He will serve two months without pay under four teams aiding civilians with war wounds and natural illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Adams
Winchester
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Adams
Jesse Clare
Lilburn Talley
James Lynde
City Council asks state to program highway projects
The City Council asked the Virginia Department of Highways to program development of primary highway extensions in the city. Projects include Commercial Street, Virginia Avenue, and National Avenue with cost sharing by the city at 15 percent. Studies will take several years as part of a long range plan for Route 7 and related routes.
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Virginia Department of Highways
Commercial St
Virginia Ave
National Ave
Marvin E. Gore Ahan
Defense Dept Draft Call Aims to Boost Medical Corps
The Defense Department seeks to draft 1 979 doctors dentists and veterinarians and calls 1 529 doctors 350 dentists and 100 veterinarians to service in the Army Navy and Air Force starting January. The move supports the 340 000 man armed forces increase approved by President Johnson and stems from a shortage of medical volunteers for the Vietnam war.
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Washington
Defense Department
Pentagon
Selective Service
Army
Navy
Air Force
Johnson
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Winchester-Frederick County Industrial Development Corporation
and A. J. DeBellis
The
Potomac Edison System Area Development Department
Bell
Stewart Bell, Jr
Welfare and Claims Committee
Ordinance
Mr. Bell
Win
Civic Center
Smithville
Little Platte
Mosby
Tracy
Clay Center
Kan
Chillicothe
Nebraska
Leavenworth County
Kanesas City
Independence
Little Grand River
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Iowa City
Sigourney
Wyoming
Ottumwa
Snowy Range
Laramie
Montana
U.S. 212
Copalaswami Parthasarathi
Bhutto
Security Council
Guam
North
Dr. Adams
Council
Highway “Department
Cameron St
Loudoun St
Berryville Ave
Gray Ave
Braddock St
East Lane
Life Ins. Co
South
Denny’s
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