Ribbon Cutting for One of Largest Fruit Research Stations
The Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville West Virginia dedicated as a 500 acre facility with 100 staff aims to boost fruit quality yields and reduce losses for growers from Maine to Georgia. Senator Byrd will speak. Research targets apples peaches pears apricots strawberries and thornless blackberries with emphasis on disease and frost resistant varieties and support for pick your own operations.
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U.S
Kearneysville
W.va
Kenandoah Valley
Blue Ridge
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Appalachian Fruit Research Station
Maine
Georgia
Appalachian Station
Butt
Virginia-West Virginia
Maryland
Gov Dalton to Cut Interstate 66 Ribbon in Front Royal
Gov John Dalton will lead officials in opening a 13.9 mile I 66 segment in Warren and Fauquier Counties from the Front Royal line to the Apple House area. The ceremony starts 2 p.m. with Guest introducing the governor. the new segment cost about 40 million dollars and connects I 81 to the Capital Beltway.
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Gov. Dalton
Front Royal
John Dalton
Warren
Fauquier
Markham
Irasburg
Marshall
Highway Department
Gainesville
I-81
I-495
Stowe Woodward Plant Workers Vote Union in Middletown
Twenty five Stowe Woodward Co paper roll grinders joined the Inter national Association of Aerospace Workers after a 3 to 1 vote in a National Labor Relations Board sponsored election. Eighteen ballots favored unionization. IAMAW plans contract talks within sixty days. A union spokesman called for a cooperative yet cautious relationship with the company.
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Middletown
Stowe- Woodward Co
International Association of Aerospace Workers
National Labor Relations Board
IAMAW
Althoug
Wirhed Esman
Winchester
Crown Cork & Seal
Weather forecast and rainfall data for Northern Valley and Virginia
Partly cloudy and humid with possible showers or thunderstorms today through Sunday. Highs in the 80s and 90s, lows in the 60s to 70s. Extended Virginia outlook shows partly cloudy with thundershowers daily. highs upper 70s to mid 80s, lows 60s. Rainfall totals noted, August and 66 year averages listed. August moon phases and forecasted showers later in the month.
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Virginia
National Weather Service
Confessed Killer Seeks Stay Before Nevada Execution
Confessed killer Jesse Bishop argues his rights to execution. He appeals to the Pardons Board led by Gov. List to commute or stay his death sentence in Nevada's gas chamber. The 9th Circuit rejected delays as Bishop faces possible execution.
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Carson City
Nev
Jesse Bishop
Nevada
Bishop
State Pardons Board
Pardons Board
Bob List
San Francisco
S. Supreme Court
9Th Circuit Court of Appeals
American Civil Liberties Union
Amacadaa
Stan
Ford University
Anthony Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Kirk Lenhard
George Franzen
David Ballard
Baltimore
Las Vegas
Israel-Lebanon Front Lines Narrowed Amid Shelling
Israelis pressed by ongoing shelling along a 59 mile front from the Mediterranean to Mount Hermon while Beirut and Washington weighed pressure to halt attacks. Lebanese ambassador Kahlil sought intervention as Yasser Arafat's PLO remained active.
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Beirut
Mediterranean
Mount Hermon
Washington
Kahlil
Res Eedet
eSec
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation
Israeli War Aims Against Guerrillas Escalate in South Lebanon
Organization says Israel and its Lebanese Christian allies led by a renegade Lebanese figure are pursuing a war in southern Lebanon with cross border raids and attacks. The report notes Israeli actions against guerrilla groups as tensions rise in the region.
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Israel
Et Sond Eae Soeeeman
Tion
Lebanon
Local Delivery and Mail Rates Listing
A rates snippet shows Local Carrier Delivery at 26.00 per year, six month options of 14.08 and three month options of 14.08. Mail and Motor Delivery lists 78.00 per year, six months at 15.08 and three months at 8.00.
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Fauquier County
Crooked Run
State Highway Department
William Butt
Marlene Sena
Denver
Lincoln Park
Marlene
April
Stowe-Woodward
Berryville Ave
Moose Lodge
Izaak Walton Park Sun
Members & i
Fair East
Noaa US
Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Los Angeles Area
Ballard
Winchester Evening Star
Frederick
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