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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1975
Page
2
Oxford based defense expert Christoph Bertram warns that better weapons and broken alliances raise the chance of wars in the next 15 years. He notes shifts from deterrence in earlier decades to weapons designed for use, and cites advancing accuracy and range of intercontinental missiles.
Front Royal Town Council hosts a brief session Monday to discuss a tentative August 28 joint meeting with Warren County on consolidation. Items include authorizing signatories for a funds release and Hill Street Beeden Lane improvements, a maintenance request to the Virginia Highway Commission, utility deposit policy for Criser Heights apartments, a Manassas zoning letter, several bids, and a Virginia Avenue water issue.
Richmond AP reports a clash among three state environmental agencies over chlorine's impact on baby oysters in the lower James River. The State Water Control Board refused to order reduced chlorine at Williamsburg SE plant, seeking further study by a governor's task force.
At a Michigan VA hospital acting medical chief confirms tests show Pavulon doses given to patients may cause paralysis or death. FBI probes criminal intent as 23 plus patients suffer heart or breathing failures and eight die. Investigators seek killer amid hospital secrecy.
Blackburg police report two Virginia Tech students arrested on grand larceny charges for stealing camping equipment from the Jefferson National Forest August 18 or 19. One is Michael Arbaugh a Charlotesville resident and second is his roommate Ronald Davis. bond set at 500 dollars.
In Cleveland AP reports jurors move into a second day in the Kent State University shooting damages trial. The six men and six women seek 46 million for nine wounded students and four killed during the May 4, 1970 antiwar rally as guardsmen fired on demonstrators.
The trial of a Winchester man accused of shooting two men has been postponed to August 29. The defendant faces charges stemming from the incident that left two victims injured. Court records show the updated schedule and pending proceedings.
The American Agricultural Marketing Assn and its Apple Advisory Committee propose minimum prices for sauce apples and for juice apples. Sauce variety min is 4.25 dollars per hundredweight for U S number one canner grade apples delivered to processors. Juice apples min is 2.25 dollars per hundredweight delivered to processors. The prices will guide state associations in setting schedules by size varieties and utilization.
The forecast covers warm conditions in the Northern Valley with clouds and chances of rain tonight through Sunday, highs in the 80s and 90s later in the week. Winchester skies report sunset at 7 58 p m and a detailed rainfall history, while South Bend notes Earl L Butz will quit as secretary of agriculture when President Ford’s term ends in 1976.
Recent experiments discussed at the Pacific Science Conference in Vancouver support the idea that pandemics arise after a new flu virus forms by recombining fragments from mammal, bird, and human strains. Researchers suggest a vaccine could be possible if such a virus could be identified before it reaches humans, with a forecast of another pandemic by 1978 to 1980.
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