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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1972
Page
10
A batch of Dear Abby letters covers marital strain and fidelity, vacation planning with kids, elderly widows at parties, and recipe sharing. The column offers blunt, practical guidance while preserving tone and reader concerns.
Thomas Thomson Byrd, business manager of The Star, was elected a director of the Old Dominion Savings & Loan Association at the annual meeting. Robert B. Dale Jr reported a 37 percent savings increase to 5.93 million dollars and 367 new mortgage loans totaling 7.84 million dollars. Crown Cork and Seal Co. reported improved 1971 earnings per share and higher annual and quarterly sales and profits.
C. D. Chet Litten, former State Forester in charge of the Winchester sub-district, resigns to offer consulting forester and land management services in Winchester under Northwestern Virginia Landowners Service. Services include timber cruising and sales, tree surgery, planting, landscape maintenance, and fence erection. He and his wife Louise live in the Wea Villa area with their three children.
M. Donald Martin named manager of Rouss Finance Company after ten years at American Finance and previous roles in Farmers & Merchants National Bank Installment Loan Dept. A Front Royal native and Warren County High School graduate, he lives with wife Marlene Ford and children Davis and Heather on West Whitlock Ave. members of Montague Avenue United Methodist Church.
Clearbrook Woolen Co opens Clearbrook Welding and Repair with Edward Lawrence as manager and Leonard Williamson as shop foreman. The shop, moved to larger quarters at the mill east end, operates weekdays 8 am to 5 pm and Saturdays 8 am to noon.
Two Shenandoah Apple Co-Operative employees Garland Owens of Berryville and Jess Matheney of Winchester left February 28 to attend a two week mechanical school in Wankagan Indiana.
Geneva based church groups led by the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation join with East Asian Christian Conference to launch a large relief and rehabilitation effort for the new state of Bangladesh. The initial phase is budgeted at about 5 million dollars and will run for roughly one year.
The Agriculture Department reports that last year 8000 acres in Mississippi Louisiana and Alabama were treated with malathion reducing boll weevil populations by 90 percent. Defoliation and stalk destruction followed to deny food and shelter to survivors. Plans for 1972 include aldicarb insecticide and chemical sex attractants in early plots and late aviation applications.
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