Taxes Are City's Major Concern By Mary Whittle
Winchester resident Mary Whittle announces her run for City Council from the South Ward. She cites fiscal steadiness, public safety, education, and industry growth, and speaks on taxes, the city county complex, water and sewer rates, and traffic congestion.
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Winchester
Council
Valley Avenue
Paper Mill Road
Featherbed Lane
Pleasant Valley Road
Paper Mill
Democratic Party
Return the Gift to Frederick County School Board
The Frederick County School Board faces a dispute over a 40 acre gift from C L Robinson Corp intended for a new county high school. The donor seeks return or deed amendment while the board argues remaining use is not required by the gift.
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C.L. Robinson Corp
C. L. Robinson
C. L. Robinson Corp
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UVA Board Supports Dalton Plan While Guarding Academic Standards
Virginia's Jefferson's University of Virginia board of visitors votes to participate in the Dalton Plan for desegregation but rejects compromising admission standards or academic performance. The plan aims to admit up to 202 black freshmen by 1982 83, while preserving academic quality despite potential loss of federal funds. Other state colleges will decide in coming months how to respond.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
U. Va
HEW
State College and University Boards of Visitors
University of Virginia
Neutron bomb debate tests NATO unity and Carter policy
In 1978 analysis, Carter delays neutron bomb production amid Western resistance and Soviet propaganda. Haig warns Warsaw Pact tanks threaten Europe, while NATO allies waver under political pressure. Schmidt faces domestic limits, Moscow exploits NATO discord, and Carter risks harsher attack for buckling to politics.
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Field Enterprises Inc
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West Germany
Helmut Schmidt
Schmidt
Social Democratic
U.S
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Soviet Union
Western Europe
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Warsaw Pact
European
Pandemonium in Coke Bottle Market Currency
A Washington Star syndicated column describes a dramatic revaluation of the Coca-Cola bottle currency, with returnable deposits shifting from five to ten cents in Kentucky and Virginia. The piece likens the CB to a fluctuating market, notes broader dollar weakness, and cites a bank manager’s fevered trading chatter as signs of a shifting, unstable exchange system. The narrative ties bottler pricing to consumer behavior and warns of global market unease.
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Washington
Georgetown
Alexandria
Manassas Warrenton
Sperryville
Kentucky
Louisville
Shelbyville
Lexington
Indiana
Virginia
Culpeper
Ralph
Foreign Exchange
Winchester
Woodville
Charlottesville
Fredericksburg
Albermaine
Morgantown
London
Bonn
Zurich
Policy Editor's Note on Letters to the Editor
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Union Reform Law Needed to Stop Company Violations
Letters accuse J P Stevens Co of 15 years of intimidation and unlawful tactics to block union organizing. They argue the Labor Reform Law is needed as the company delays bargaining and disregards the NLRB fines. Also a resident complains of a long standing sewer and sanitation failure near Chestnut and Woodland, urging voters to demand action.
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J. P. Stevens Co
Amalagamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
National Labor Relations Board
the Star
City Hall
Chestnut
Woodland
E. M. Rinker
Euclid Ave
Winchester
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