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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1970
Page
11
A Greenwood Volunteer Fire Company special meeting is set for May 30 at 6 30 p m at Senseny Road Elementary School. Members request by by laws to organize the new company and discuss a radio marathon to raise funds to get the department underway on WINC WRFL.
Walter L. Wescott of Norfolk Virginia was sentenced by Criminal Court Judge J Gilbert to the maximum five years after being convicted of transporting about 19 000 dollars worth of near pure cocaine. He will return for a bail hearing later and was arrested January 15 at Friendship International Airport after arriving from New York. Prosecutor Joseph Harlan said the cocaine would fetch about 60 000 dollars on the street and noted Wescott is the brother of James T. Wescott, a suspected major narcotics supplier in Baltimore who faces charges in Cleveland.
Wake Forest players have taken in 12 year old Esperanza Tolentino as a foster child, with coach Jack McCloskey hoping the program will spread to college athletes nationwide.
The Robert E. Aylor Carolers presented “An Evening in May” for the Senior Citizen's Club at the War Memorial Building, featuring 68 young performers in 11 selections with Mrs. Patricia Madison directing and Beverly Bowman and Glenn Bowman as accompanists. Seventy club members attended. Arlie Long chaired the program and noted a busload from Chesapeake visited the Rose Garden.
Claudia Sloat of Winchester has accepted a position with Ralph and Mrs Emerson of Nashville and is nominated as a candidate for governor. She moved to Winchester in 1963, attended Handley High School, and has taken part in the Blossom Festival pageant and parade floats for six years. She is the daughter of Susan K. Sloat.
Virginia Beach School Board temporarily suspends mandatory final exams for all pupils and allows optional finals for this year's honor graduates. Superintendent E. E. Brickell notes staff is considering phasing out exams entirely, signaling broader move toward elimination.
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