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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1979

Page

3

Obituaries Featured Memorials for Local Residents

Obituaries note James Franklin Fitzwater 89 of Berryville died yesterday in Winchester Memorial Hospital with body at Enders Funeral Home. Henrietta Nelson Hall 78 of Front Royal died in Birmingham Alabama with services at First Baptist Front Royal and burial in Prospect Hill. Memorials to First Baptist Church Front Royal. Funeral arrangements by Maddox and Melvin T. Strider Colonial. Other notices: Charity Belle Palmer 75 Berryville funeral Sunday at Full Gospel Pentacostal Church Middleway West Virginia. Maurice C. Hiett 88 Augusta West Virginia funeral today at Salem Cemetery Slanesville. Pamela Jean Kerns 17 Strasburg died at NIH Bethesda Maryland funeral Saturday Bethel God Church Waterlock Panorama Memorial Gardens. Turner-Robertshaw Funeral Home Front Royal.

James Franklin Fitzwater Boom Rd Berryville Winchester Memorial Hospital Enders Funeral Home Henrietta Nelson Hall Virginia Ave Front Royal Birmingham Ala Hall Stafford County Armistead Henrietta Payne Nelson First Baptist Church Warren County C. Reginald Hall Jr Philadelphia William A. Hall Lucy Page Kennedy John P. Oliver Jr Prospect Hill Maddox Funeral Home Hiett Maurice C. Hiett Augusta W. Va Salem Cemetery Slanesville Donald Swope Giffin Funeral Home Capon Bridge Kerns Pamela Jean Kerns Rt. 2 Strasburg National Institute of Health Bethesda Bethelgeniy of God Church Irvinohnson Panorama Memorial Gardens Waterlock Turner-Robertshaw Funeral Home

Vepco Studies Coal Conversion Feasibility

Virginia Electric and Power Co hired Brown and Root to study converting two unfinished North Anna units to coal fired plants. The study aims to finish by end of 1980, cost capped at 500000, amid high nuclear construction uncertainties and an NRC licensing moratorium tied to Three Mile Island fallout.

Richmond Virginia Electric & Power Co Brown & Root Co Houston Vepco Sam C. Brown Surry North Anna Louisa County Stanley Ragone NRC Three Mile Island Harrisburg

Deductible Options on Health Insurance Urged

A Virginia legislative commission urges mandatory health policy options to curb costs. Proposals include a $100 deductible and 20 percent coinsurance on the first $1,000 in covered expenses, plus a cut in premium taxes and HMO coverage.

Richmond Legislative Commission Virginia General Assembly Blue Cross Blue Shield Virginia Commission National Association of Blue Cross Adelard Brault D-Fairfax William R. Shands Life Insurance Company of Virginia Shands

Readers urged to send letters to The Star editorial page

The Star invites readers to submit letters to the Letters to the Editor section. Citizens may share opinions, concerns, and community thoughts, with the newspaper highlighting reader voices as part of its editorial page tradition.

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The Great Bridge Conspiracy and a Classic Hand

A Chicago Tribune chessboard style bridge excerpt analyzes a six spade slam fiasco from a West led rubber. The piece notes Terry Quinn’s novel The Great Bridge Conspiracy and compares real play to fiction. It cites misunderstandings about jacks as second-highest cards and narrates the doomed spade and diamond sequence that prevented a slam.

Don von Elsner Jake Winkman Terry Quinn St. Martin's Press Diggergy Piper Norths South North West Declarer East

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