Miners rally in Virginia support for contract talks
About 2000 United Mine Workers and families gathered at a small armory in Big Stone Gap to back ongoing negotiations. Sam Church Jr. cited picket-line arrests and urged restoration of full health and retirement benefits, signaling a contract expected by February 1.
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Big Stone Gap
United Mine Workers
Culard Armory
Sam Church Jr
UMW
Virginia
Our Brothers
Church
Mills Godwin
Sloppy Translation Embarrasses Carter in Poland
President Carter faced embarrassment in Warsaw as a State Department translator misrendered his remarks. The translator Stephen Seymour was relieved after errors included misrendering Polish phrases and substituting Russian terms. The mistakes drew laughter and later criticism of the translation work.
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Warsaw
Poland
Carter
State Department
Stephen Seymour
United States
Seymour
Lombardo’s Royal Canadians to appear but without Lombardo
The 49th New Year’s Eve broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria will feature the Guy Lombardo family band now led by Victor Lombardo after Guy’s death. The CBS-TV program includes Kenny Gardner and Ty Lemley with performances of standards and hits alongside Leslie Uggaitis and Paul Williams. The Times Square countdown ends with Auld Lang Syne as the band’s signature closer.
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Guy Lombardo
Royal Carodians
Guy
New York
Grand Ballroom
the Waldorf-Astoria
Lombardo
Heaven
Lebert
Torse
Cbs-Tv
Kenny Gardner
Ty Lemley
Love
Leslie Uggaitis
Paul Williams
Times Square
Lee Jordan
Ben Grauer
Allied Chemical
Powell Convicted of Drug Possession. Faces City Jail Time
Henry Powell, 33, of Portsmouth, convicted by a Circuit Court jury of possession of heroin and cocaine. He will serve 12 months in the Portsmouth city jail, not the state prison system, after testimony about being blinded in 1973 at Powhatan State Farm. Powell testified to a 16 year addiction and past imprisonment.
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Portsmouth
Henry Powell
Powell
Early Griffin
Powhatan State Farm
Ben Belchie Dies Local Historian Remembered as Doer
Ben Belchie aged 69 died yesterday leaving a legacy as a Winchester Frederick County historian who spurred research and community projects. He ran The Workingman Store on Loudoun Street and mentored many through local archives and preservation efforts. He touched Belle Grove and numerous organizations including the Izaak Walton League Red Cross and Shenandoah College. His contributions extended to portraits in the City Courtroom and historical society work.
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George Smith
Belle Grove
Workingman's Store
Loudoun St
Winchester
Stewart Bell
Bell
Belchie
Winchester City Corporation
John Marshall
Marshall
United States
Supreme Court
Wynn Lee
Ben
Middletown
National Trust For Historic Preservation
Lee
Rod Sirbaugh
Lion's Club
Izaak Walton
Shenandoah College
Beth-El Temple of
Ben Belchie
Frederick County
Kern Reelected BAR Chairman
Robert Kern was reelected chairman of the Winchester Board of Architectural Review. Jack Phillips was reelected vice chairman and Reed Nester secretary. The board met on Piccadilly Street to consider James Pappas remodel request and tabled action until next month. The panel approved Jim's Variety store signage at 37 E. Boscawen St.
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Robert Kern
Winchester Board of Architectural Review
E. Piccadilly St
Jack Phillips
Reed Nester
Piccadilly Street
James Pappas
Pappas
Jim's Variety Store
E. Boscawen St
Shenandoah Offers Upper Level Biology Course Biology 211
Shenandoah College announces Biology 211 molecular biology offered in spring with the nursing program atastern Mennonite College of Harrisonburg. The 4 credit course is open to non nursing students with Dr. Robert Bardwell approving. Special students contact admissions. fees apply.
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Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music
Shenandoah
Astern Mennonite College of Harrisonburg
Robert Bardwell
Shenandoah Science Faculty
Bardwell
Rotary Picks Board Members
Five members elected to the Winchester Rotary Club's board of directors will join five incumbents and take positions in July. Newly elected directors are Jacob L. Johnson, Dr. John P. Arthur, Virgil R. Strader Jr., Dr. Thomas J. Mills and Philip H. Sprenkle.
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Winchester Rotary Club
Jacob L. Johnson
John P. Arthur
Virgil R. Strader Jr
Thomas J. Mills
Philip H. Sprenkle
Virginia Prisoner Improves After Medical Treatment
Virginia inmate Henry Tucker, 40, who developed maggot-infested bedsores at the state prison hospital, has significantly improved after skin grafts and physical therapy at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital. Doctors now say amputation isn’t necessary, with frozen joints also responding to therapy.
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Richmond
State Penitentiary
W. L. Wingfield
Virginia Corrections Department
Henry Tucker
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Tucker
MCV
Wingfield
Clrfax County
No Damage In Flue Fire Near Boyce Fire Hall
About 10 members of the Boyce Volunteer Fire Company and two units battled a flue fire at the Roy Baker residence yesterday evening at 5 51 p.m. The house near Boyce Fire Hall suffered no damage and volunteers spent about 30 minutes cleaning the chimney area.
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Boyce
Boyce Volunteer Fire Company
Roy Baker
Weather overview and rainfall figures from northern Valley and Virginia
Travelers advisory tonight expects occasional rain or freezing rain with lows around 32 in the northern Valley and rain in Virginia with mixed precip in the northwest. Extended forecast shows mix of rain and snow possible Monday to Tuesday with highs in the 40s and 50s, and mountains colder. Historical rainfall tallies and moon phases provided.
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Rockies
Central Plains
Atlantic Coast
Northern Valley
Virginia
Sketches Withheld In Comedy of Errors
In Los Angeles the release of composite sketches for Hillside Strangler suspects was halted after officials learned the drawings depicted two police officers. Assistant Police Chief Daryl Gates said the men were contacted and not involved. Lt. Dan Cooke said the officers were truthful about a routine traffic stop. Separately, Stephen Devezin, 40, faces murder and gun charges in two strangulations. Thomas Davis, 24, was released for lack of evidence. Police call the killings copycat and not linked to the Hillside Strangler case.
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Los Angeles
Hillside
Daryl Gates
Gates
Associated Press
Dan Cooke
Cooke
District Attorney's Office
Stephen Devezin
Thomas Davis
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Virginia Electric & Power Co
North Anna
Edson Case
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Vepco
Louisa County
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Norfolk
Army
Newman A. Howard Jr
Norfolk District
Corps of Engineers
Howard
Hampton Roads Energy Co
North Atlantic Division
Chief of Engineers
Pulaski County
Pulaski Duchy
Gladys L. Butler
Funeral Love
Benjamin Belchie
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Victor
Brother Lebert
Ferent
Mississippi
Bing Crosby
Robert F. McMurran
Ben Belchic
Braddock St
Kern
BAR
Rotary
Corrections Department
Central State Hospital
Petersburg
Mental Hospital
Penitentiary
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Winchester Evening Star
Clore &Ohnson, Inc
Amherst Street
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