Standees on area school buses prompt bus load fixes
Officials in Winchester Frederick Clarke Warren contend with standees as weather and enrollments shift rider counts. Some districts add buses or adjust routes to reduce standing passengers while Winchester reports eight to ten standees on City Transit vehicles, despite no standees on its school buses.
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Pat Robinson
Winchester - Frederick - Clarke - Warren
Tom Line
Frederick County
Bill Overby
Clarke County
Gary Eaton
Warren County
Winchester
City Transit
Old City
Hunter Maddox
Blair Goss
Eaton
Line
Frederick
Clarke
Frederick, Clarke and Warren
Warren
Maddox
Goss
Frederick County Board Reviews Upcoming Topics
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors held a work session to discuss future items. They examined street light requirements in subdivisions and possible billing of residents, a continuous reassessment policy, and plans to stagger supervisor terms. They also reviewed a space request for the county’s court staff and planned meetings with other area supervisors.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Commissioner of Revenue
Eston Rudolph
Virginia
J.C. Ronalds
Frederick
David Simpson
Law and Courts
Virginia Association of Counties
Destination Unknown Terrorists Take Off From Paris Embassy
Five Palestinian terrorists who seized 13 hostages at the Saudi Embassy in Paris departed Le Bourget on a Syrian Arab Airlines plane. The destination was unknown with six hostages and 12 crew aboard, including Iraqi ambassador Naama al Naama as a hostage. The event followed hours of threats and shifting demands amid a sensitive political backdrop. Meanwhile Washington faced relief from heat and pollution as a Canadian cold front was forecast to lower temperatures and end a 12 day smog episode.
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Paris
le Bourget
Damascus
Hafez Assad
Algiers
Munich
Israel
Na’ama al Na’ama
Washington
Canada
National Weather Service
Great Lakes
Arkansas
Washington Area
Boyle Charged With Murder In Yablonski Slayings
Former United Mine Workers President W A Tony Boyle faces state murder charges for the 1969 killings of Joseph A Yablonski and his wife and daughter. Federal indictments accuse him of conspiring to violate civil rights and plot the murders. Turnblazer, District 19 president, pleads guilty to federal conspiracy and admits embezzling $20 000 to finance the plot.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
W.A
Tony
Boyle
UMW
Joseph A
Jock
Yablonski
Washington
William J. Turnblazer
Albert E. Pass
Turnblazer
District 19
D.C
Union
U.S
Rabe F. Marsh
Rabe
United Mine Workers of America
Albert Pass
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Elmer W. Schifke
Nixon to push new State of the Union amid censure over Watergate
President Nixon will transmit a new State of the Union message promising action on curbing spending and advancing energy, education, housing, and defense as Congress debates administration bills. He defends anti inflation plans and cites Israel and Arab nations in the Middle East as at fault. He vows to veto a higher minimum wage and defends his use of taped conversations amid Watergate questions.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
White House
House
Carl Albert
Dekla
Gerald Ford
Michigan
Israel
Middle East
United States
Spiro T. Agnew
Senate
Supreme Court
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Green Acres
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
Philadelphia
Richard Sprague
Sprague
Rouss Fire Co
Thurs
Wilkins’ Shoe Center
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