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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1978
Page
10
The Clarke County Fair at Raritan fairgrounds features broad farm produce and garden classes with blue ribbons awarded for the largest pumpkin, best potatoes, and biggest gourd. Exhibits fill the new building as residents view the harvest before entries are removed tomorrow evening.
Winchester and Frederick County officials will likely back a three page study urging Amherst Street area zoning stay residential in the city and agricultural in the county with a nonconforming use reconstruction change. The plan calls for a county west of the bypass low density agriculture and Merrimans Estates east of the bypass low density residential, with Amherst Street north side to residential office and surrounding areas adjusted to medium density residential, plus a nonconforming use reconstruction rule. Joint committee members from city and county planning commissions supported the recommendations at a Planning Commission meeting and a public hearing on nonconforming uses is set for September 28.
Paul K. Creamer, 28, was sentenced in Frederick County Circuit Court to six months in jail and a $1000 fine after being found guilty of unlawful wounding and assault and battery for striking two men with a shotgun butt during a domestic dispute on April 18. The two men, Robert L. Green Jr., 28, and Ralph K. Bettus, 38, testified Creamer forced them from a house at gunpoint.
George M. Stoddart profiles William Berryhill a 47 year old trucker from West Virginia who charges Teamsters leaders with corruption multiple salaries and ties to organized crime He heads PROD a reform group allied with Georgetown attorneys and plans to push changes from within Berryhill outlines safety and work hour reforms and says a panel hearing on charges against Frank Fitzsimmons is a sham He invites Winchester Local 559 members to a Martinsburg meeting while noting broader union reform efforts and upcoming congressional safety legislation In other area news new teachers from Winchester Frederick County and Lord Fairfax Community College were welcomed at Abram's Delight with a tour and reception hosted by local civic leaders.
Winchester moves to recodify its antiquated ordinances with examples of odd 18th and 19th century rules. The 1959 code bans Sunday work, imposes a curfew on under 16s, and includes playful relics like forbidding discharging an arrow in backyards. A Tallahassee firm handles the update, due around next April.
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