Auto Workers Strike Shuts Parts Complex and Chrysler Plants
About 12,000 auto workers walk off across GM and Chrysler sites. In Saginaw Michigan talks resume over a three year local pact as 8,650 workers at the Saginaw Steering Gear complex remain off the job. Chrysler faces a 12:01 am Saturday strike deadline at Fostoria Ohio with 800 Local 446 members. Production cutbacks loom for GM Ford and AMC say no immediate impact.
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Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler
Saginaw
Mich
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
UAW
Fostoria
Ohio
Indianapolis
American Motors
Ford
AMC
Carter Pardon Sparks Revisions in Draft Review Process
The pardon frees draft evaders from prosecution and allows those in exile to return. It covers those with clemency in public service, releases at least five from federal prison, but excludes deserters. Powell described an expanded review for less-than-honorable discharges and a broad slate of potential affects, with tens of thousands possibly impacted. Leaders and veterans react diversely while Carter remains hopeful for limited criticism as supporters celebrate public events.
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Carter
United States
White House
Jody Powell
Pentagon
Powell
Justice Department
Ford
Clarke County boards discuss school finances and plans
Clarke County School Board met with the Board of Supervisors to review finances and outline future high school plans amid rising fuel costs. The group urged a new high school building as a sign of forward planning rather than piecemeal additions to the existing facility.
Sale of Old Post Office Discussion Tuesday
Area officials urge a strong turnout at a 7 30 p m meeting Tuesday at Daniel Morgan Middle School to discuss selling the citys old Post Office at Braddock and Piccadilly Streets with postal and federal authorities. Rep J Kenneth Robinson says a substantial public show of interest will motivate federal agencies to attend.
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Star
City
Braddock and
Piccadilly Streets
Daniel Morgan Middle School
J. Kenneth Robinson
BB Gun Spree Hits Businesses Homes and Cars
Winchester police investigated eight BB gun related incidents damaging Car Parts Inc Circle Tire Co Plaza Realty Dairy Queen Western Auto A&P warehouse and a residence on Euclid Street as well as a car on Roberts Street. Police seek tips on a bluish gray Virginia registered vehicle CVE-529 and report a separate robbery of Star carrier Anthony Day.
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Car Parts, Inc
Roberts St
Circle Tire Co
Valley Ave
Plaza Realty
Dairy Queen
Valley
Western Auto Store
Piccadilly
A&p
Euclid St
Chagall Window to Memorialize Daley at Chicago Art Institute
A memorial window by Marc Chagall valued at 150000 to 200000 will be installed at the Art Institute for Mayor Daley. It is slated for unveiling on Daley's birthday May 15 with funds from city hotel tax revenue. Chagall works from France as plans move forward amid debates on downtown postal service building sales and school expansion. Public meetings were set by Robinson and Mayor Stewart Bell to discuss postal authority plans and possible federal office use of an old building. Local leaders urged early planning for growth while considering alternatives to selling the downtown site and pursuing a new senior high school.
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Chicago
Marc Chagall
Richard Daley
Art Institute
Daley
Robinson
Winchester
Stewart Bell
U.S. Postal Service
Postal Service
Berryville Ave
Wade Johnson
Johnson
Johnson-Williams Intermediate
Board of Supervisor
Jack Hardesty
Board of Supervisors
Weather rounds up in Northern Valley and Virginia forecast
The Northern Valley is clear and cold tonight with lows of 10 to 15 degrees, followed by sunny, milder Sunday. Virginia sees very cold lows near zero to 10 in the mountains and near 20 along the coast, with a partly sunny to cloudy weekend and highs in the 20s to 30s. The extended outlook calls for a risk of snow Monday then fair Tuesday, with continued cold through the period. Johnson discusses Clarke school budget pressures and need for census data, fuel costs, and school bus additions, plus recreation use of facilities and funding sources. Rainfall data and January moon phases are reported, noting 0.90 inches rainfall for January to date and historic monthly averages and extremes.
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Virginia
Johnson
Clarke
Hardesty
Andy Overstreet
Shenandoah Soloists to Perform with Shenandoah Symphony
Winners of the sixth annual Student Soloist Competition at Shenandoah College will join the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra for a free concert tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Armstrong Auditorium. Prize winners include Valerie Bitting Sharon Faust Donald Marzee and Janice White. Conductor is Donald Black with featured soloists and student conductor Reginald Rice.
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Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music
Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra
Armstrong Auditorium
Valerie Bitting
Shenandoah
Temple
Sharon Faust
Middletown
Donald Marzee
McSherrystown
Janice White
Chesapeake
Donald Black
Randall Faust
Robert Schumann
Todd Medcalf
Lukas Foss
Hector Berlioz
Mendelssohn
Reginald Rice
Samuel Barber
Donald Marzec
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