Deal of a Lifetime Leaves Walker Flooded with Worries
After a spring purchase in Frederick County, Roy Walker faces recurring floods and a contaminated water supply on a four bedroom home built by the Cathers with FHHA financing. An unsigned easement blocks drainage to a Perry Quarry pond, drawing county scrutiny and calls for a storm water plan while Walker searches for affordable alternative housing unseen by insurance or loan programs.
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Star
Roy Walker
Garland
Louise Cather
Frederick County
Back Creek
Farmer's Home Association
FHHA
Walkers
Walker
Stanley Pangle
Cather
Walker’s
Stuart M. Perry
Highway and
Health Departments
Perry
Perry Pond
Catherland
Health Department
Pangle
Butler
Highway Department
R. C. King
Ing
Cathers
Fmha
Fire Levels Controversial Plant in Roanoke
A fire believed sparked by an explosion leveled the American Packaging Corp plant in Roanoke, causing losses likely in the hundreds of thousands. Plant manager James Culhane said the building and its contents were insured, and a large empty tractor trailer outside escaped damage.
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Roanoke
American Packaging Corp
James Culhane
Paul Webb
Culhane
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Centre Avenue
American
Dixie Container Corp
Richmond
American Packaging
Southwest Virginia Community Development Fund
U.S. District Court
James Turk
4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Boswell Realty v
Oil Leak After Barge Grounds On Potomac River
A barge owned by Interstate Barge Lines ran aground and leaked heating oil into the Potomac near Port Tobacco Maryland. About 78 000 gallons of No 4 oil were aboard and 500 gallons had spilled with the leak at roughly 170 gallons per hour. Coast Guard state authorities and the Navy contained the spill with booms and investigated the cause amid heavy fog. no injuries reported.
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Port Tobacco
Potomac River
Coast Guard
Interstate
Mike Waller
Baltimore
Waller
Washington
Navy
Farnham to Address Winchester Exchange Club on Landsat Talk
Lee L. Farnham vice president of GE Space Division will speak at the Winchester Exchange Club meeting Monday Oct 22 at Duff's Pagoda Room. His slide talk covers the Landsat satellite program, its earth images from a 570 mile orbit, and uses in agriculture forestry geology and hydrology.
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Lee L. Farnham
General Electric Company
Winchester Exchange Lab
Duff
Pagoda Room
Arnham
Landsat
NASA
Detec
Farnham
Tufts College
Philadelphia
Space Division
Front Royal
Winchester Golf Club
Exchange Club
Marshall Novick
Iraqi buyers insist sugar bags lose six pointed star logo
Iraqi buyers refused to accept 37 000 bags of sugar until the six pointed star trademark matching Israel’s symbol was removed from the Sugar refinery bags. The stars were removed and loading of the sugar was to proceed on Tuesday.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Israel
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John Riley
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Perrys
Amchester Evening Star
Larry Sullivan
Potomac
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Bigman's Fried Chicken
Jies
Front Royal Road
Winchester
Lowe's
Little Cowboys
JR. Sizzling Burger
Valley Avenue
OS Lee-Jackson
Save Gas
Maix
Iran
Millwood Ave
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