21 Jul 1976
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1976
Page
1
US government data show a 0.5 percent June rise in consumer prices led by a sharp jump in energy costs including gasoline and electricity. Grocery prices cooled though beef pork and coffee moved. Overall year over year prices were 5.9 percent higher.
Dr. Alexander M. Schmidt says his resignation as FDA head is not due to staff criticism or congressional probes. He will retire December 1 to return to academia, while a Senate hearing cites failures to protect public health and bias toward industry. Schmidt notes his departure is coincidental with the hearings.
AP dispatch from Pasadena reports Viking 1 detected nitrogen and argon in Mars atmosphere during descent, suggesting a past denser, life-supporting environment. Findings, alongside surface water indicators, fuel optimism about ancient biogenesis conditions and ongoing life-detection experiments aboard the lander.
Handley High School head football coach Steve Wilt resigns to become assistant at Shippenburg State College in Pennsylvania. He leaves with a 28-21-1 record and an 8-2 season in 1975, while Winchester officials begin a search for his replacement.
British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs and private secretary Judith Cooke were killed when a land mine exploded as their car left the Dublin embassy gates. Chauffeur Brian O Driscoll was seriously injured, and Brian Cubbon, visiting official from Belfast, was in critical condition. Police blamed a land mine, with IRA involvement possible, as an emergency cabinet meeting was convened in Ireland.
A wildcat strike by coal miners cascaded across West Virginia, idling thousands as workers protested federal court actions seen as meddling with mine safety. The disruption intensified in multiple counties, with crews walkouts and halted production continuing through late July.
Betty Layman operator of the Mister Softee ice cream truck was charged with trespassing after the county banned commercial activity on Rouss Ave in Winchester. Huntsberry disputes county ownership of the street and says the case will go to court. Layman to appear in Winchester General District Court for a hearing on the trespass charge.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors reviewed warning lights for a railroad crossing with two deaths in two years. Clarke County Board focused on central alarm problems at yesterday’s meeting. A local bank purchased an armored car.
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