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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1976
Page
2
Virginia Republicans report state party leaders including George McMath will travel to Atlanta Sunday to discuss the national chair race left by Mary Louise Smith. Judy Peachee of Chesterfield also remains uncommitted on Smith's successor.
Wester Gainesboro firemen fought last night smoldering ruins of a 250 year old Pack Horse Trail area home owned by Clinton L. Ritter Sr. The 6 room structure, built by Joseph Clark in 1730s, housed a field office and later a hunting lodge. Burglary earlier that day netted $710 in valuables from Helen C. Allen at 200 E Southwerk St. Officers Fox and Goldizer investigate.
The State Corporation Commission studied Central Telephone Co. temporary rate hike request of 2.5 million dollars and deferred a decision after a Richmond hearing. Assistant Attorney General Owens urged a short hearing, but Judge Shannon noted hearings aid public interest. The commission trimmed about 700000 from the original request through SCC accounting adjustments. Center serves Charlottesville Martinsville South Boston Front Royal Lexington and about 15 central Virginia counties.
New York City's Christmas tree is described as a mirror of the city's finances being unbalanced and lean. A Parks Department spokesman asks to withhold judgment until patching begins and notes extra branches may be added. The 46 foot tall 20 foot wide tree cost 950 dollars, down from previous trees that reached 60 by 30 feet and cost about 2350. The nursery cited budget cuts for reducing the site space.
World news reports Benjamin Britten, renowned 20th century composer, died at his Aldeburgh country home after weeks with a failing heart. Friends said hospital care could not help. he was respected as a national musical icon and had been made a peer by Queen Elizabeth II last June.
Japan’s Liberal Democratic party faces its best challenge in two decades as voters go to the polls to size up the LDP amid Tanaka’s resignation and the Lockheed bribery affair. The body expands from 491 to 511 seats, widening urban districts where the LDP is weaker.
President Jose Lopez Portillo invites Sinaloa landowners to Mexico City to mediate with landless peasants who have seized private farms. Governor Calderon will meet militants who demand the land, urging an end to takeovers so normal work may resume. Squatters number 3200 to 9000, occupying about 100000 acres, with tractors hijacked and roads blocked.
Five people sustained minor injuries in three crashes yesterday. On Middle Road near Winchester a collision involving Lila Wheeling, her son Danny, and Jacqueline Smith sent all three to Winchester Memorial Hospital, then home. A Pennsylvania resident, Virginia Stepanic, was treated at Winchester hospital for injuries from a Loudoun Street crash. George Graham of Strasburg was treated at Warren Memorial Hospital after a Rt 55 West single vehicle crash near Buckton, with the trooper calling the car a total loss.
Partly cloudy tonight with low temperatures in the low to mid twenties. Sunday will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid forties and overnight lows in the twenties. Extended outlook shows a chance of precipitation Monday night into Tuesday, followed by colder conditions Tuesday night and Wednesday with highs in the forties to near fifty and then in the thirties by Wednesday. Rainfall for the past 24 hours ended today shows none. The 1976 year-to-date rainfall stands at 43.57 inches. Five-year totals show 1975 50.47, 1972 53.02, and 1930 the lowest on record at 17.15 inches. Average monthly rainfall over 62 years is listed for each month, peaking in May at 3.71 inches and finishing with December at 2.47 inches. Highest annual rainfall in 62 years was 53.02 inches in 1972. Lowest annual rainfall in 62 years was 17.15 inches in 1930.
A list of weather descriptors numbered 1 through 31 includes conditions such as partly cloudy cold stormy fair mild rain or snow and unsettled. The sequence reads like a key or shorthand for forecast categories used in the periodical.
Fairfax County school board approves a sex education curriculum for pupils with parental permission. Courses on male and female development will be offered at elementary, intermediate, and high school levels, but will not be coeducational. Abortion birth control homosexuality and masturbation remain banned. The 8 2 vote followed a public hearing with strong opposition and comes after superintendent John Davis upheld censorship of a teen sex article at Hayfield High School.
Firefighters from Middletown were called at 11 45 a m to a trash fire that spread to a hay pile on the Robert Price property in Reliance. They extinguished the flames before reaching the outbuildings. Damage was minor as the hay was old and rotten with no loss estimate available.
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