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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1970
Page
7
Eighty five children aged four to fourteen entered the Izaak Walton League Fishing Rodeo held last Sunday at the Lake on Route 50 East. Winners posed with prizes including Ramona Miller, 13, who earned the grand prize for catching the largest fish during Winchester chapter’s annual event.
Gov. Linwood Holton selected Vern Hill of Oregon as the new motor vehicles commissioner, naming him to succeed Chester H. Lamb. Hill headed Oregon’s DMV for 10 years and was chosen after considering Sen. Mark Hatfield’s views.
Virginia Governor Linwood Holton told dissenters that taxpayers are angry and urged a return to classes. He defended lawful student protest while warning opponents’ rights will be protected. He noted a Farm Bureau suggestion to withhold funds and praised moderate students at UVA and other campuses. Holton predicted a calmer Virginia, planned a 10 day state trip to France, and said Nixon favors a free Cambodia but would avoid campus dialogue if demonstrations persist.
Frederick County supervisors approved a 1600 acre Holiday Lake Estates recreation town rezoning with no protest at the public hearing. Dissent was noted on a separate comment about effluent disposal into Isaac’s Creek.
Rep. Watkins Abbitt of Virginia blasted Justice William O. Douglas as a prime contributor to national disorder. He told the House Judiciary Committee that a breakdown of law and order has been aided by Supreme Court rulings and campus rhetoric and urged a probe into Douglas and the liberal movement.
About eighty percent of the state's commercial vegetables are grown in the Eastern Shore Tidewater and Northern Neck areas, highlighting regional dominance in Virginia agriculture.
Senator Stephen M. Young said an Ohio National Guard lieutenant gave the firing order at Kent State. He urged second degree murder charges and cited witness affidavits as Life magazine published a photo of a guardsman aiming a pistol. Federal inquiry expanded with Jerris Leonard sending lawyers to Ohio. no grand jury decision yet.
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