Loudoun Street Mall Phase I ends with mixed council votes
Winchester moves to establish a pedestrian mall on Loudoun Street replacing a vehicular path. The council approved the ordinance 9 to 1 with 3 abstentions. Debate centered on allowing limited vehicle access at north and south ends and on safety concerns for pedestrians. The Star urges strict pedestrian priority and responsible funding of any vehicular safeguards.
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Winchester’s
Loudoun St
Star
C.L. Riley
The
Commercial and Savings Bank
Roy W. Bayliss Jr
C & S Bank
Thomas C. Glass
Loudoun St. Mall
Glass
Michael M. Foreman
Garber
William Keyton
William Mote
Stewart Bell
First Presbyterian Church
Bank
Church
Piccadilly St
Phase II eyed for downtown Winchester mall facelift
The Loudoun Street Mall in Winchester moves from phase I completion to phase II planning. A subcommittee led by Ben Belchie proposes free preliminary architectural sketches for owners to harmonize storefronts with the pedestrian mall and attract investments.
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Loudoun St. Mall
Ben Belchie
William Kerfoot
Sam Crovatto
David Juergens
Rubbermaid
Winchester
DDC
Belchie
Letters praising community kindness and helpers
A letter to the editor highlights Jessica Sullivan's articles about Helen Dodson inspiring helping, the Rescue Squad to the Bike Hike, Deputy Sheriff Al Johnson and Sergeant Holmes Smoke managing youth safety, and neighbors who volunteered. It celebrates visible goodwill and community spirit in White Hall.
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Jessica Sullivan
Helen Dodson
al Johnson
Sargeant Holmes
Ford Energy Initiative Fades as Congress Flushes Plan
Congressional Democrats defer a national energy policy in a Memorial Day recess. Ford to push his plan via executive action, imposing a 1 per barrel oil import fee and seeking lifting of federal price controls. House Ways and Means factions split over stiff taxes with a 23 cent gasoline levy unlikely to pass, leaving the President’s program likely to go forward.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
U.S
Congressional Democrats
Ford
Congress
House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D Mont
Washington Post
Gulf Oil
South Korea
Rene Barientos Ortuno
United Brands
Honduras
SEC
Ashland Oil
Phillips Petroleum
Northrop Corporation
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
America
National Right To Work Committee
House Committee On Education and Labor
Commerce Committee
American Airlines
NATO Summit Refones Core Alliances and F-16 Choice
South of the Détente border the Brussels meeting yields a broad NATO reassessment. The talks confirm the F-16 as the preferred next generation fighter over the Mirage while easing some long stalled questions. Southern Mediterranean tensions rise with the Cyprus crisis and Greek Turkish strains, as Italy expands naval programs to bolster NATO.
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Brussels
NATO
Helmut Schmidt
Gerald Ford
Europe
North America
U.S
Meditative view on NATO and Mediterranean diplomacy
James J. Kilpatrick argues in Washington that hypocrisy and political posturing cloud policy while the Mediterranean frontier tests NATO detente. He notes Soviet gains in Libya and Egypt and calls for decisive diplomacy to protect alliance members amid polarized regional tensions.
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Portugal
Atlantic
Mediterranean
NATO
Brezhnev
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Egypt
Sadat
Soviet Union
Middle East
Moscow
Libya
East Lawns at UVa inspire garden clubs gathering
Winchester Clarke and The Little Garden Club attended the University of Virginia event presenting East Lawns by the Garden Club of Virginia. Jim Fleming attended the Norfolk state chamber convention. Winchester chapter earned recognition for Speak Up Contest and Boy Scout Explorer Post sponsorship.
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Winchester Clarke
Little Garden Club
University of Virginia
Garden Club of Virginia
University
Jim Fleming
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Norfolk
Winchester
Boy Scout Explorer Post
Little Decision on Cartels Shapes Ford Kissinger Plan
William Safire argues President Ford erred by embracing a plan to jawbone raw material price talks with Third World nations. He warns separate commissions risk legitimizing price fixing and expanding state controls, urging rejection of cartel discussions and defense of free market principles.
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Ford
Europe
Treasury
William Simon
United States
Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
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Shirley Bly
Pannill Jones
George
White Hall
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Mildred Taylor
Margaret Luttrell
Winchester Evening Star
Thomas T. Byrd
Lewis H. Ebert
David H. Smith
Douglas 8. O'Connell
Eugene P. Miller
Ford Has
Rep
Sam Gibbons
Florida
al Ullman
Ways and Means
Ultman
Ullman
Rep. Gibbons
Joseph E. Karth
Minnesota
Democratic Party
By C. L. Sulzberger
Detente
Schmidt
Italy
By James J. Kilpatrick
AQI
Securities and Exchange Commission
New Republic
Frederick County
Winchester Board of Agriculture
BY William Safire
N.Y. Times News Service
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