Weekend Weather Forecast and Local Notices
The Times Today reports mostly sunny Saturday with highs around 80 and mostly cloudy nights. Sunday brings further clouds with a chance of late showers and highs near 80, rain chances 10 to 20 percent. Early Thursday saw 89 degrees, 82 at 5 p.m., no precipitation at Eisenhower site. Fire destroys a barn in Adams County. A Waynesboro inmate beating case leads to two men held at $50,000 bail. Seafood store opens on West Railroad Street. Local fundraising by South Central Community Action Programs charity. Adams County Little League playoff suspense after McSherrystown beats Littlestown 10-5. Unemployment at 9.8 percent for July prompts policy debate. Boxing prep for Muhammad Braxton WBC title fight featured. Transportation notes and regional event blurbs.
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Northeast apple growers set minimum price for apples
Eight state apple growers in the region met in Washington DC to set recommended minimum prices for the season. The two prices are 7.85 dollars per 100 pounds for canning apples and 5.25 dollars for juice apples. Pennsylvanian growers hoped for 8.35 for canning apples but accepted the negotiated figures as minimums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington D.C
Guy Donaldson
Adams County
Pennsylvania
onaldson
Donaldson
Citizens split on nuclear arms race and arms reduction
A survey finds varied opinions on nuclear weapons with some calling for immediate reductions while others defend buildup as necessary for peace. Respondents caution about practicality of treaties and fear potential use, citing politicians and past experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Eric Dukatz
Detroit
Rebecca Gustafson Brown
Reagan
Goodling Faces Vote Controversy Over Nuclear Freeze
Adams County activists criticize U.S. Rep. William F. Goodling for voting present in a key House substitution on a nuclear freeze measure. The 204-202 Reagan-backed substitute narrowly passed, moving a Broomfield resolution ahead of Zablocki’s immediate freeze proposal. Elaine Jones, a local leader, argues Goodling should have opposed the substitution given his Foreign Relations Committee role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County
U.S
William F. Goodling
R-19
Capitol Hill
Goodlin
Elaine Jones
Goodling
United States
Soviet Union
William 8. Broomfield
R-Mich
Clemet J. Zablocki
D-Wis
House Foreign Relations Committee
Jones
Zablocki
Broomfield
County hires couple for youth center
Adams County Commissioners approve Randy and Laura Ackley as houseparents for the Chil dren and Youth Services sheltered care facility in the county services building west of Gettysburg. Each will earn 7488 dollars annually during a probationary period. The Meckleys were praised as highly experienced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County Commissioners
Randy
Laura Ackley
Children and
county services
Route 30
Gettysburg
Catherine W. Cowan
George Stock
Cowan
Youth Services group
Meckleys
Coupon book mailed for Fall edition of Gettysburg Times
The Fall edition coupon booklet, 32 pages, will be mailed to about 46 659 addresses in Adams County and nearby areas including Hanover Chambersburg Dillsburg and parts of Frederick and Carroll Counties Maryland. Discounts include half price furniture and ice cream sundae 2 off pizza 50 cents off dried fruits 15 percent off lawn mowers.
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Gettysburg Times
Adams County
Edward G. Puhl
Hanover
Chambersburg
Dillsburg
Frederick
Carroll Counties
Maryland
The Times
Martha C. Starner
Teachers Embrace TRS-80 Computer Literacy Inservice
In Gettysburg junior high staff completed a 20 hour inservice to learn computer literacy using the TRS-80 Model III. The program aims to make computer literacy a required course for seventh graders and covers operation, programming in BASIC, social implications, and teaching techniques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal
Bill Leslie
Leslie
George White
White
Gettysburg woman wins right to new murder trial
Judge Oscar F. Spicer ordered a new trial for Alice Keiser Cullison of Gettysburg after finding trial counsel failed to call a defense witness. The 21 year old, convicted of solicitation to commit murder in 1978, remains free on bail as co defendant Mark Arentz serves a four to ten year term. Prosecution claims a key witness could have aided the case. defense opposes, noting witness availability and relevance.
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NANCY DI BLASI
Gettysburg area
Oscar F. Spicer
Adams County
Alice Keiser Cullison
Gettysburg
Spicer
attorne
Cullison
Michael W. Keiser
State Industrial Home for Women at
Moncy
cet
Gary E. Hartman
Sandy Jones
PCHA
Jones
Catherine J. Gault
Hartman
Gault
Commonwealth
Cpl
Bernard A. Vannetti
Pennsylvania State Police
Hershey
Norfolk
Keiser
Mark A. Arentz
Gettysburg R. I
Arentz
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