Winchester Star (Newspaper) - June 27, 2006, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 110TH YEAR NO. 303 28 VIRGINIA 22601, JUNE 27, 2006 www.winchesterstar.com 35 CENTS Growers Are Pleased with National Fruit Plan New Leader David Gum Receives High Marks By STEPHANIE M. MANGINO The Winchester Star The mere fact that National Fruit Product Co. still exists is good news to tickled to death somebody stepped in and took it said Frederick County apple grower John who sells some of his apple crop to National Fruit each The apple which makes White House brand products ranging from apple cider and juice to applesauce and apple an- its intended sale to NFP Holdings LLC on The 98-year-old company has had a manufacturing facility in Winchester since 1915 and has been in the hands of the Armstrong family since 1913. Frank Armstrong IV is the company's current president and The company's manufacturing facilities in Winchester and are to be included in the Between the two the company employees 363 National Fruit spokesman Rick Pomeroy said on See National Page A6 The National Fruit Product Co. processing plant is on Fairmont Avenue in Photo by Taylor Groups Offer Truce In Iraq 7 Insurgent Units Fear Iran Bombings Kill 40 By STEVEN HURST and Press Writers Iraq - Bombs killed at least 40 people at markets in two Iraqi cities on hours after key lawmakers said seven Sunni Arab insurgent groups offered the government a conditional Despite the fresh opening between the government and the militant organizations - which do not include or Islamic terror groups - a top Iraqi commander said Baghdad's forces would not be ready to keep the peace for at least a year in Anbar the insurgent And President Bush brushed aside expectations of a significant U.S. troop drawdown starting in He said decisions on troop strength would be made by the new Iraqi government and based upon recommendations from Gen. George W. the U.S. commander in The latest bombings came as a reminder of just how difficult establishing security can be in many areas of Both markets were jammed with shoppers buying dinner provisions as temperatures began to cool after The deadliest attack was a bicycle bombing in the Sunni insurgent stronghold 35 miles northeast of The bombing killed at least 25 and wounded 33, according to Dr. Ahmed director of the morgue at General Minutes a blast killed at least 15 people and wounded 56 in a mainly Shiite city 65 miles south of the said police Capt. Police reports from across the country listed at least 22 other deaths on victims of sectarian murders or bomb and shooting The U.S. said a Marine died of wounds suffered in combat in See Page A8 The West Nile Virus Is Back For the Summer Page A5 Drier Days Ahead Page A8 The heavy rain left extensive areas of high water along the downtown streets of Manassas on Associated Press Photos Heavy Rain Batters D.C. National Monuments Roads Dozens of People Evacuated in Flooded Areas Ginny Gary Harman of the Montgomery County Burnt Mills Park Service assess the damage to a washed-out road near U.S. 29 and New Hampshire Avenue in Silver on By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - More than a foot of rain washed out highways around the nation's capital on toppled a 100-year-old elm tree on the White House lawn and caused flooding that closed major government departments and the National where the Declaration of Independence is kept under Motorists were stranded during the morning rush commuter trains were halted and emergency crews used boats to rescue dozens of people marooned by high Many government employees were told to stay and tourists found that some of the major landmarks that had drawn them to Washington were just wanted to hear about stuff about America that I haven't heard in my history 10-year-old Loria Hawn of said with disappointment outside the locked National Museum of American The National Archives - See Page A8 Court to Rule On Emission Regulations By DAVID G. SAVAGE Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court entered the debate over global warming on agreeing at the urging of environmentalists to rule on whether new trucks and power plants must be further regulated to slow climate The court's action gave a if victory to 12 and a coalition of environmentalists who say the federal government must restrict the exhaust fumes that contribute to global Their appeal accused the Environmental Protection Agency of having nearly a by failing to act. The court voted to take up the issue over the objection of the Bush Its lawyers questioned whether the government can and should on the extraordinarily complex and scientifically uncertain task of addressing the global issue of greenhouse gas by regulating motor vehicles sold in the United The to be heard in the could be one of the most important environmental disputes ever to come before the If they environmental advocates auto makers could be forced to produce a fleet of vehicles that emit less now hinges on what the Supreme Court said David a lawyer for the Sierra one of the environmental groups that pressed the Until the threat of global warming has prompted much public but little governmental See Page A8 Justices Split In Backing State Death Penalty Law By GINA HOLLAND Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld a death penalty law on Monday in a splintered ruling that revealed deep division among the justices over the fairness of capital punishment in New Justice Samuel Alito had been called on to break a tie in the which was argued twice - first while Sandra Day O'Connor was on the court and then this spring so that Alito could end a The 5-4 outcome was as much a debate about capital punishment as it was a ruling on a unique law in which has just eight death row inmates and has not executed anyone in 40 The law says that juries should sentence a defendant to die - rather than serve life in prison - when the evidence for and against imposing death is Justice Clarence writing for the conservative said precedents establish that a state enjoys a range of discretion in imposing the death But Justice David H. writing for the See Page A8 A Show of force Associated Preis Israeli troops were poised to invade Gaza on Monday after Prime Minister Ehud ruled out with the captors of an Israeli soldier and promised a and military For a see Page Lawmakers Schedule Final Session on Budget Plan By BOB LEWIS AP Political Writer RICHMOND - The struggle that began in December over a billion state spending blueprint is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday - months late and with just two days to spare before a new budget year Virginia's feuding House and Senate return for one final time on Wednesday to examine changes Gov. Timothy M. Kaine made to a delicate budget then accept or reject The Kaine administration discovered a mathematical er- 2006 ror of about million in the at compromise budget the House a v and Senate separately proved last said press secretary Kevin Kaine also will restore million that had been deleted from the compromise to help Lynchburg with federally mandated upgrades to its sanitary sewer and storm drainage The Environmental Protection Agency ordered the projects in Lynchburg and Richmond to prevent raw sewage from washing into the James River after heavy The million for the Richmond project survived the budget but the Lynchburg funding did Both cities have sewage systems in are nearly 100 years Del. Shannon said she couldn't understand why Lynchburg's funding was we're spending historic amounts of money to clean up Chesapeake but we continue to put raw sewage into the James River made no sense to she said in an this is not a nutrient this is a pathogen she Hall said Kaine's fiscal advisers discovered the math error with only six days to scrutinize and amend this year's budget instead of the usual five or six See Page A8 Business | Classified | Comics | C6 Dear Abby | B5 Life | Movies | B6 Sports | MISS YOUR Call 667-3200 from 7 to 11 after business 0608566000375
