Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival marks 49th year in Winchester
Volunteers power the annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester now in its 49th year. The event celebrates spring with parades contests luncheons and an aerial fireworks display at Handley High School as crowds gather and organizers led by Festival President E Michael Luby coordinate extensive volunteer staff and multiple chairpersons across departments.
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Winchester
Shenandoah
Mary Frances Crosby
Bing Crosby
Handley High School
E. Michael Luby
Frank Armstrong III
First Yankee Stadium visit and Mantle memory
In 1954 a young narrator recalls his inaugural Yankee Stadium trip with family. He meets Mickey Mantle by name through a snack vendor asking for a favorite player and learns Mantle’s fame while seeing the ballpark from the third deck.
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Tom McCabe
Mickey Mantle
Sonny
Mantle
Remembering Mickey Mantle as a Boyhood Hero and Apple Blossom Meeting
A nostalgic reminiscence of Mickey Mantle's 1956 triple crown, 52 home runs, and Yankee dominance. The author recalls loving baseball in New York, admiring Mantle, and the chance to meet him at Apple Blossom, with a later reflection on missing that moment at Kennedy Airport and Mantle's 1969-70 season absence.
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Yankees
Mel Allen
Mantle
Mickey Mantle
New York Area
Apple Blossom
Kennedy
Texas
Vietnam
Dallas
Stars and Stripes
Number 7
Mickey
Star
Supreme Court to hear case shaping rights versus state power
James J. Kilpatrick discusses the upcoming Supreme Court review of Frank Irey Jr. Inc. v. OSHA, examining how administrative adjudication could erase jury trial rights under the Seventh Amendment. He argues for warrants in OSHA inspections and cautions against expanding government power at the expense of fundamental liberties.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA
Department of Labor
George Mason
Frank Irey, Jr., Inc
Irey Company
Monongahela
Morgantown
W. Va
Review Commission
Irey
Third
U.S
Supreme Law of Our Land
Third Circuit
Congress
West Virginia
A Time to Remember At Apple Blossom Festival Car
The 1925 best decorated car at the Apple Blossom Festival won $100 and was designed by Mildred Shryock, now Mrs. Lodge Bowles, with Ruth Yost Shryock as passenger. The team had handmade decorations and also won first prize in 1924 at the inaugural festival.
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Winchester Fairgrounds
Mildred Shryock
Lodge Bowles
Boyce
Dencodglin
Ruth Yost Shryock
Reporters as U S Agents Raise CIA Spy Questions
Senate report cites CIA use of U S reporters academics and religious leaders as paid spies abroad. It notes continued covert links with about 50 journalists and more than a dozen news organizations, urging congressional oversight while criticizing both CIA secrecy and press complicity. The piece remarks on President Ford’s stance and calls for action.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
U.S
Senate Committee
House
Senate Intelligence Committees
United States
Voice of America
Ford
Intelligence Committee
OSS
Congress
George Bush
Votes urged in Winchester city council race
Letters to the Star Editor support multiple candidates in Winchester elections. Effie Davis seeks South Ward council seat citing experience and fiscal prudence. Bill Shendon backs by community and church board service. Joseph Haines, North Ward candidate, praised for integrity and civic service as postmaster and neighbor.
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the Star
Winchester
Effie Davis
Shendow
Bill Shendon
Bill
Clay B. Carr
Fox Drive
Joseph Haines
North Ward
Joe
Joe Haines
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Winchester Evening Star
Thomas T. Byrd
Lewis H. Ebert
Douglas 8. O'Connell
Eugene P. Miller
By James J. Kilpatrick
Council
Friendship
Noble C. Pierce
Leicester St
Favor Haines
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