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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1962
Page
3
West Berlin authorities order poisoning of about 40 000 doves after pigeon lovers clash with police. Bird fans view the flocks as a divine omen and a symbol of strife while officials say the birds are too numerous to tolerate and must be reduced.
In East Berlin police ran a dove poison drive, targeting dense dove areas, while a local animal protection group countered with dove protection patrols. Pigeon lovers meanwhile feed the birds to deter poison, cutting daily dove kills from 400 to 70 and spurring talks of relocating 40 000 plus doves to West Germany as morale tactics.
A pajama clad mental patient wielding a razor blade stalked a Bedford area community for six hours. After encounters with two ambulance attendants and repeated evasions by residents, police and troopers captured him at a woman's door where he was restrained. He is an ex sergeant being moved from Roanoke hospital to a veterans hospital in Salem.
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