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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1973
Page
8
Winchester firemen's executive committee president Loring Wright inspects equipment with Kenneth Lewis Sr. of Rouss Fire Company. Wright, former president of Rouss, was elected president of the association in January.
An editor explains the differences between a sanitation authority and a sanitary district and clarifies their relationship. The article outlines essential points of each entity and how they function in local waste management.
Frederick County considers three sanitary districts to provide water and sewer, trash pickup, street lights, patrols, curbs, storm drainage, signs, and parks. Districts would be created by the circuit court with boundaries set by signatures, and residents would pay via flat fees or a property tax surtax. About 2,000 children die yearly in Canada from home accidents.
Steven Allen Marquess a Handley High School senior is among 19 Virginia students named in the 32nd Annual Science Talent Search. He placed in the Honors Group for his project Reciprocity Failure Effect in Photographic Film, building a densitometer to study exposure density relationships.
Four crashes occurred as a light rain turned to ice on area highways. Maryland driver Paul Burcham, 40, was injured in a single car crash east of Berryville after his car slid and overturned on ice. Dorothy McKay of Winston-Salem was hurt in a separate I-81 collision and is in satisfactory condition. A chain reaction on N Washington Street injured Herbert Robinson and Mildred Luttrell, with Barton of Papermill Road hurt at Millwood and Springcrest cross.
Loring Wright, newly elected president, says the association coordinates fire companies while municipalities control alarms. Shawnee becomes a city company, Greenwood takes over duties, and volunteers are needed for daytime coverage. The group funds equipment and plans a training classroom at Woodstock Lane with a second-floor addition.
A public meeting set for 8 p m Friday Feb 9 at Middletown s Wayside Theater will discuss the VEPCO PEPCO THE LINE 500 000 volt project routing a 110 mile line through five Virginia counties including Frederick and Fauquier The meeting features R Phillip Irwin of the Rap pahannock League for Environmental Protection and is sponsored by Ecology Action Public hearings by the State Corporation Commission will follow and donations to support the environmental group are requested
The Virginia Hereford Association will hold its annual meeting at the Sheraton Motor Inn in Fredericksburg on Feb 8–9. Banquet speaker B C Snidow Jr of the American Hereford Association will present the Mills Award, with other awards and talks by Milton B Wise and Henry Matthiessen Jr. Officers include Harold H Dice president and Rosemary S Moore secretary.
Luther the Pumpkin Ridge groundhog refused to emerge through the morning and did not acknowledge his prize winning sign. Reported to have peeked at a wooly worm prognosticator body in his paw could not be confirmed. The scene shows his sunning rock and habitual summer setting.
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