Midway buzz fades as cotton candy fades this season
Midway has been filled all week with cotton candy loud music and people playing Soon it will be empty except for a discarded popcorn box or ticket stub and happy memories.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1975
Page
11
Midway has been filled all week with cotton candy loud music and people playing Soon it will be empty except for a discarded popcorn box or ticket stub and happy memories.
Frederick County Planning Commission held an executive session with Commonwealth's Attorney Lawrence Ambrogi as staff were sent out of the room. Chairman Keith Williams urged a move to secrecy over legal matters while Supervisor Richard Madigan and county officials exited the closed session.
The School of Continuing Education of the University of Virginia via the Valley of Virginia Consortium will offer several three semester hour graduate level courses in the upper Valley during fall 1975. Classes meet one night weekly for 16 weeks starting Sept 8 with tuition $72. A non credit American Antiques class at Dowell Howard Vocational Center begins Sept 8, tuition $35.
Congressman J Kenneth Robinson promotes a bill to require federal departments to submit proposed regulations to Congress for review and possible veto. A veto would hinge on findings that the regulation exceeds the law's intent and Congress cannot foresee every contingency.
Frederick County Republican chair candidate Donald Baughman says he opposes county employee collective bargaining. He calls it a national drive by groups willing to use any means to achieve goals and questions fiscal control and the balance of power between elected officials and employees.
Warren County Sheriff R N Rollason faces a five percent cut to the 1975 76 budget from the State Compensation Board with two thirds of enforcement costs funded by the state. The directive halts new hires and requires vacancies to be approved, forcing more part time work and longer hours for deputies. Rollason proposes two extra part time deputies but the Board of Supervisors rejects, offering alternative appointments for the warden positions. The sheriff warns of reduced road coverage and increased reliance on special police to maintain law enforcement and jail security amid rising costs and illness among inmates.
Middletown hosts a Sunday Civil War reenactment of Cedar Creek with 40 regiments from as far as New York and Alabama. Events begin 10:30 a.m. Saturday with drills at the Miller farm and continue Sunday 3 p.m. battle, 1 p.m. arms inspection, and a 7:30 p.m. Blue and Gray Ball. Admission is free.
Three accidents yesterday resulted in three people treated at hospitals but with no serious injuries. A Hagerstown man, Earl M. Leigh Jr., lost control on I 81 north of Middletown and was treated for back injuries after his van hit a culvert. A 15 year old boy riding a bicycle on Rt 803 was struck by a pickup mirror near Round Hill and treated for a head bump. A driver on Rt 50 west was slightly injured when a vehicle crashed on a downhill grade near Front Royal.
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