Winchester awaits new traffic signal system deadline
The city confronts delay in Bryant Electric Co’s 180 day contract to install synchronized signals. Work started May 15 1978 with multiple postponements due to labor, weather and an obsolete 1974 car count. A new count prompts a target completion around July 1 with penalties yet unclear.
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Winchester
State Highway Department
Bryant Electric Co
High Point
N.C
Bryant
New York
Gary Lofton
Lofton
Silence Falls on Winchester As Cicada Brood Passes
Residents of Frederick Clarke and Warren counties face a cicada lull as Brood Two avoids the Blue Ridge area delaying the expected emergence. entomology expert Dr Clarence Hill notes the Winchester region will see activity in 1987 allowing locals to recall 1970 1953 1962 and 1945 events while awaiting the next surge.
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Winchester
Frederick, Clarke
Warren
Clarence Hill
V.P.I
Winchester Fruit Lab
Blue Ridge
Korea
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Letter to Editor Permissiveness on the Death Penalty
William Ballinger Jr. argues for the death penalty as a deterrent to murder and condemns permissive culture. He cites David Roberts in Indiana and Ruth Goode in Florida as examples of killers lacking remorse and calls for holding individuals accountable through capital punishment.
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the Star
Indiana
Otis Brown
United States
Mercy
David Roberts
Ruther Goode
Falls Church
Florida
Goode
William Ballinger, JR
Bisemont
How Carter Plays in Columbus
Columbus observers weigh Jimmy Carter’s leadership as doubts grow about his policy focus and staff changes. Analysts say Congress constraints and creeping disillusionment threaten a second term, while Fallows and Connally praise Carter’s steadiness amid calls for more decisive action.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Congress of
United States
White House
House of Representatives
Congress
David Broder
Washington Post
Britain
Canada
Carter
Fallows
National Security Council
Zbigniew Brzezinski
John Connailly
Texas
Georgia
Capitol Hill
James Fallows
Atlantic
Connally
Reagan
Kennedy
Brown
Our Mercenary Military System
Open Forum by Jack Caldwell argues the all volunteer military is costly, nonrepresentative, harms reserves, and recruits the less capable. He endorses a return to some draft concept like McCloskey’s national service options as a workable alternative to straight conscription.
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Jack Caldwell
Congressional Armed Services Committees
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Dept
Congress
Korea
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
California
America
NATO
Marshall
Navy
Vietnam
Belgium
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Winchester Evening Star
By James Reston
the Atlantic
Secretary of the Treasury
Mike Blumenthal
Open Forum
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