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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1978
Page
1
House leaders seek to unite a fuel efficiency tax and home insulation credits with existing Carter energy measures to boost passage. The energy package includes a gasoline tax, insulation credits up to 300, solar credits to 2200, and faces Senate delays and auto industry opposition.
April deadline looms for Project Hope to complete its move from Washington DC to Millwood regardless of Carter Hall readiness. Clarke Compass provides the details this week. Ross Glass retires to collect beer cans for recycling and finds notable success. Clarke and Handley face tomorrow in a potential Northwestern District Championship deciding game. World Series notes Dodgers lead Yankees by two games.
Republican lawmakers tied to the Roth-Kemp plan distribute cigars labeled Son of Roth-Kemp during a Washington news conference. They frame their message as opposing a Democratic authored plan that passed approval.
President Carter urges Congress to hold down the 1979 tax cut as Republicans push for broader future cuts. He meets with Sen. Long and Rep. Ullman to shape the conference bill. The Nunn amendment links multi year cuts to reduced federal spending amid a tense budget fight with elections near.
Frederick County supervisors approve eight thousand six hundred twenty five dollars for a central fire dispatch system with Winchester. The plan, expected to begin January 1 1979, may require a 91 1 number later.
At Blair House with a UN flag, Egypt and Israel start final treaty talks urged by President Carter to settle decades of conflict. Delegations include Kamel Hassan Ali and Boutros Ghali for Egypt, Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman for Israel.
The 1978 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith of Johns Hopkins and Werner Arber of Basel for discovering restriction enzymes and applying them to molecular genetics. They share 165000 dollars. the award underscores USA dominance in science with implications for genetics and potential ethical debates on genetic engineering.
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