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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1978
Page
2
Southwest counties seek coal severance tax to fund repairs on secondary roads. Bills advance in House and Senate to levy 0.5 percent in 1979 rising to 1 percent the next year for a dedicated local repair fund.
Rileyville man Gary C. Huffman, 32, is charged with burglary and possessing burglary tools after a break-in at Trouts Drug Store in Front Royal. He is held on 6000 bond. police found him overdosed at 2 a.m. and the investigation continues. Sgt. Eddie Long and Officers Brown and Santmyers handle the case.
With no settlement of the coal strike seen soon, the company moves toward Step Three of its conservation plan. Step Three calls on the governor to enforce a 30 percent reduction in industrial electricity use, based on the prior year’s average.
Designer Calvin Klein ends 10 hour abduction saga as he pays 100000 dollars ransom at the Pan Am Building. His 11 year old daughter Marci is located safe with him and an unidentified woman after a process involving police and FBI investigators.
Del. Alson H. Smith Jr. spends weekend in Richmond preparing for Appropriations Committee budget reviews while Sen. William A. Truban fights a proposed one cent sales tax increase. Truban argues the tax is unnecessary, regressive and would boost bureaucracy.
Virginia Electric and Power Co plans a pilot in South Boston with 1000 volunteers to control water heaters by radio. Off peak operation 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. aims to cut peak demand and lower bills, with volunteers recruited this spring for a program that begins later this year.
Four brothers aged 10, 8, 4, and 1 perished when a duplex near the Norfolk Naval Base burned after 4 AM. Police say the children were home alone, the father served aboard the USS Guam, and the fire’s cause is under investigation.
Cold and sunny today with highs near 30, increasing clouds and a chance of snow tonight and Sunday. Virginia area tops in 30s with similar chances of snow, extended into Monday to Wednesday with fair but cold days and tepid mountain warmth. Rainfall totals for the past 24 hours show none, with five year monthly and annual rainfall histories provided.
A 1972 Jeep Commando owned by H. Benjamin Crim was stolen from the Coun try Store lot on Senseny Road between 6 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. yesterday and recovered near midnight after a Winchester Police sighting at the Greyhound Bus station. A suspect is in custody and charges are pending. Officers Sgt. Lou Riley Deputy Charles Brill and Deputy Jack Hiller led the investigation.
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