Puerto Rican labor imports halted as workers seek return
U S Dept of Labor halted Puerto Rican shipments after 991 were flown to the mainland. A group seeks to leave Frederick Clarke County orchards and return to Puerto Rico amid housing shortages and uncertain jobs. 166 workers stayed at Darlington Inn Winchester Econo Lodge Mt. Jackson Best Western. Meals funded by federal CETA. growers may repay if kept 15 days. Donna Franklin reports four Puerto Rican workers picked four in four days.
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Star
United States
U.S
Darlington Motor Inn
Winchester
Econo
Donna Franklin
Clarke County
Housing Problem Being Solved For Migrant Laborers
Winter housing efforts continue for 166 Puerto Rican migrant laborers housed in area motels after their Monday arrival. Of the three motels used, one was vacated yesterday at the management’s request and the Darlington Motor Inn cleared the last of them by 6 p.m. yesterday.
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Star
Steve Wolfe
Darlington Motor Inn
Migrant Worker Movement Strains Local Lodging and Labor
In Frederick County Maryland migrants were housed at Econo Travel Lodge and Best Western Motel as growers move workers into camps or home, with 80 at Econo and 70 at Best Western. Interviews for job placement continue while the Labor Department reconsiders three court losses to the Frederick County Fruit Growers Association over Jamaican worker imports. Detecting pay cited at 32 cents per bushel domestically would have yielded 132 hours of work, but actual earnings totaled 357 dollars per worker with makeup pay of 225 dollars.
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Darlington
Econo
Rt. 50 East
Howard Brown
Best Western
Mt. Jackson
Migrant and
Delmer Robinson
Frederick County
Dept. of Labor
Planners Hesitant on Zoning Map Revisions in Frederick County
Frederick County Planning Commission officers show caution at a work session over the remaining 15 percent of new zoning maps. The group weighs down zoning changes near city boundaries and I-81 interchanges, with talks of down zoning for undeveloped tracts and nonconforming areas. They table key interchanges and properties, plan to invite the County Engineer to the next session, and set a date for the next workshop.
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Frederick County
Commission
Board of Supervisors
Langdon Gordon
County Board of Supervisors
Frank Brumback
Middletown
Rest Church
Rt. 50
Winchester
GW Motors
Spectrum Properties
Rt. 7
Apple Cart
Denny's Furniture
Wellington Jones
Planning Commission
Thomas Rosenberger
W. French Kirk
Manuel DeHaven
Elmer Venskoske
Clarke County Democrats pick three delegates for district convention
Clarke County Democrats elect James Wood Thelma Clare and Eleanor Lloyd as delegates for the Seventh District Convention in Charlottesville on Sept 23. John McIntosh named first alternate. Warren County will send no delegates due to low turnout.
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Clarke County
Charlottesville
Warren County
James Wood
Thelma Clare
Eleanor Lloyd
Clarke
County
John McIntosh
Claude Stokes
Warren
Ple
Stokes
Memphis
Winchester Council Tables Flood Plain Ordinance
Winchester City Council postponed action on a flood plain ordinance after a 90 minute hearing. The plan would require flood insurance purchases for loans and could affect federal disaster funding if not passed by November 15. Council also rejected the Planning District Comprehensive Plan and approved parking rezoning while pursuing a 911 emergency number study and jail improvements.
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Star
Winchester
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Richard Kern
Rick Kinard
Kern
Delmer Robinson, Jr
Kinard
Agnes
James Wilkins
Wilkins Shoe Center
Wilkins
Loudoun St. Mall
State of Virigiia
Robinson
Ron Gore
William Mote
Charles A. Pine Jr
Donald
Municipal Advisors, Inc
C&p Telephone
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
Clarke County
Winchester-Frederick County
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Winchester Evening Star
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Reed Nester
Hood Plain
James Wilkins Sr
Sue Steward
Council
Winchester Retail Merchants Association
Mike Stougi
RMA
Stougi
Sarah Zane Fire Company
Loudoun Street
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