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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1968
Page
2
Obituaries detail Charles Edward Strosnider 88 of Star Tannery and Winchester with funeral services at St James Lutheran Church and burial Riverview Cemetery. Also announced is the death of Ann Elizabeth Harris 21 of Winchester with a Mt Carmel Baptist Church service and multiple survivors listed.
Samuel R. Shiley of 15 S Stewart St died Sunday. A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 12 noon at John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville conducted by Rev Jesse Tate. Pallbearers: Robert Buckley Edward B Lee James Clevenger Clifford Hall Philip McIntire William E Sandy. Burial in Green Hill Cemetery Berryville.
The letter says the speaker will be the first county executive of Baltimore County and will discuss how government works and its creation. Baden invites officials to attend as guests, along with other governing body members.
The first in a series titled Music at Shenandoah Conservatory will be telecast tomorrow at 9 p.m. on Cable TV channel 6. Shenandoah Jazz Ensemble conducted by Paul B. Noble Jr. performs with Dr Verne Collins as moderator. Each 30 minute program airs on the first, third, and fifth weeks.
The Committee for Better Government led by Kermit Racey urged an impartial county inquiry into the Welfare Department with 1000 signatures. The board denied the request, citing state control and limited authority, and suggested pursuing the matter with the state department.
The board heard that the $2.50 tax rate is among the lowest in the state and that the average assessment ratio is about 25 percent. Neff urged retaining current local assessors for public hearings after reassessment books open, offering two of his men for on site talks. Notices will not be mailed. ads will announce completion and book access. Hearings will follow with district time. Assessors seek a 60 day extension from Judge Elliott Marshall. work must finish within 60 days or lose current year use. Board unanimously accepted the assessor recommendations to retain the present assessors.
Republican candidate Delegate A R Pete Giesen Jr will campaign in Winchester Frederick and Clarke Counties tomorrow. A 10 am car caravan will start Middletown and travel through Frederick County to Winchester then Clarke County. He will address at the Elks Lodge and attend Denny’s Auction before overnighting in Edinburg.
Nixon, greeted by reporters, touted two press releases from his staff claiming he leads in eight key states. The Detroit News poll released Sunday shows him ahead by one point in Michigan amid heckling in Pittsburgh by grape-pickers movement backers. He condemned the demonstrators as voices demanding law and order. He mocked their chants with a bow and action.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors approved Planning Commission rezoning recommendations and scheduled public hearings for November 11. One proposal seeks to rezone seven acres on Senseny Road from R-1 to R-2 for a three story apartment complex with pool and parking. The other would rezone the southwest corner of Route 522 and Fox Drive from A-1 to B-1, with 1008 acres across from Stine's Chapel under option to Pure Oil from J Kenneth Robinson and others. Hearing times requested as 2:30 p.m.
McCarthy argues Humphrey better understands domestic needs and would act more decisively than Nixon. He says Humphrey could help scale down the arms race, reduce global tensions, and criticizes Humphrey’s Democratic reform stance as insufficient. He notes supporters have largely decided how to vote while he weighs his own decision.
Variable cloudiness and colder tonight with lows of 28 to 33. Wednesday will be fair with highs in the low to mid 50s. Thursday looks fair and slightly warmer. Noon high and low today listed with sunrise sunset and lunar details including Hunter's Moon on November 4.
Rainfall data show 24 hour total to 8 am today and October and yearly totals. Five year and 55 year averages are provided for monthly and yearly rainfall, with January through December averages and an overall annual mean of 36.50 inches.
More than 100 administrators and teachers from Winchester Frederick and Clarke County schools attend the Virginia Education Association convention. Superintendents from the three systems join yesterday's opening session while about 25 faculty members prepare as delegates. Delegates participate in assemblies and sessions with up to 15 000 others statewide.
The report outlines Agnew’s assets at about 110 084 dollars with 35 000 to 40 000 inherited. It notes prior to his governorship he disclosed bay bridge land ownership, deeded to a trust to be sold for charity profits, and that the land sold for the purchase price. The Times editorial discusses questions about the sale timing and profits, while the piece also covers Frederick County and Winchester educators’ association activities and the Virginia Education Association convention plans.
The report highlights a bumper crop in Copra tied to shipments to Japan and Paris France. It mentions Spanish American interests and references Joel Chandler Harris in a wireless telephony context about global communications. The Earth figure remains a broad observance in the discussion.
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