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HomeMy WebLinkAbout017-78 Crown American Co. Et al - 104.159 ac - B1-M2 to B2 - Shawnee - ZMAP Board approved - Backfile (2)Page is too large to OCR. Page is too large to OCR. Winchester Evening Star 82ND YEAR...NO. 73 2 SECTIONS WINCHESTER , VIRGINIA 22601, THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 28, 1978 32 PAGES 10 CENT9 Rail Negotiators Facing Deadline WASHINGTON (AP) — The Carter administration readied plans today to take emergency action to end a widespread, three-day rail strike as union and industry negotiators struggled to settle their dispute before a midday government deadline. President Carter's options were reported to include declaring a national emergency under the National Railway Labor Act to get the trains moving again, or asking Congress to halt the strike conference for 4 p.m. EDT today. through special legislation. Negotiators for the Brotherhood of It was understood that with Congress Railway and Airline Clerks and the trying to take final action on several Norfolk & Western Railway met with important bills before it adjourns in about federal mediator James J. Reynolds in two weeks, some of Carter's government round-the-clock bargaining as they sought advisers were arguing against the to avert further government intervention. legislative approach. I Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, who had It was not known when Carter would kept in touch with the negotiators by announce his plans, but he previously had telephone throughout the night, met early scheduled a nationally broadcast news today with Reynolds, a former undersecretary of labor and veteran labor- Mao r Gas P r i e i n management mediator, for a report on the ' g talks. Shortly before dawn, Labor Department spokesman Donald Smyth said the two sides had made "considerable progress" but that "a number of serious issues" were Barrier Is Broken unresolved. There was a chance that Marshall would WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional backers pressed for quick action on minor parts of President Carter's energy program today after breaking through the major barrier of natural gas pricing. The Senate's 57-42 approval Wednesday of the natural gas compromise, which calls for deregulation of gas prices in 1985, was hailed by Carter as a sign "that we in this government, particularly Congress, can courageously deal with an issue, and one that tests our national will and ability." Carter originally proposed allowing gas prices to rise through continued regulation instead of decontrol but later endorsed the compromise as the best middle ground that could be achieved. And it was achieved only after months of pushing. The bill would lift price controls from most natural gas in 1985 and permit the regulated price to double between now and then. Sponsors say it will cost consumers who heat with natural gas an average of $20 to $25 more a year by 1985 than they would have otherwise paid. But liberal opponents contend homeowners will be hit with increases of $100 to $200 a year because of the measure. The bill now goes to the House, and although a pitched battle is expected there, supporters appear to have an edge. Meanwhile, backers of Carter's five -part energy plan hope to push through as much of it as possible before the scheduled mid - October congressional adjournment — even including some of the plan's long - neglected tax proposals. The five parts deal with natural gas After The Vote Associated Press Israeli Prime Minister Menochem Begin sits alone were to begin for negotiations to draft the Israeli - Thursday morning in - the chamber of Israel's Egyptian peace treaty after the Knesset agreed over - parliament, the Knesset, after the voting which en- whelmingly to -withdraw Jewish `settlers from the dorsed the Camp David agreements. Preparations Sinai Desert. JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government began preparations today for peace negotiations with Egypt, its largest Arab foe, after the Israeli Parliament voted by an overwhelming margin to ratify the Camp David accords and withdraw all Jewish settlers from the `''nai peninsula if Egypt makes peace. Prime Minister Menachem Begh, aaid negotiations coud start as early as next week on the peace treaty which he and President Anwar Sadat pledged at ramp David to complete within three mon Egypt's acting foreign minister, ,-.cos Adventure Comes To Bitter Halt TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Dreams of conquering the desert and the desire to bolster Israel's security drew several thousand Jews to what they thought would be permanent homes in the Sinai Desert. "I always wanted to be a pioneer," one American immigrant told a visitor in 1974 to Yamit, on the Mediterranean coast. The 11-year-old adventure came to a bitter halt early today when Israel's -For Frederick County Parliament voted to dismantle the 18 Jewish settlements in the Sinai and return the peninsula to Egypt to make an even ing greater dream come true — a peace treaty New Sho M a I I I s P I a n n e d with Israel s most powerful Arab foe. p p The first Jewish settlers went to Sinai in By GEORGE M. STODDART Star Staff Writer A shopping mall with three or four major department stores is being planned for a 115-acre tract fronting on Rts. 522 and 50 in Frederick County. Crown American Corporation of Johnstown, Pa. is currently planning the enclosed mall which would total between 500,000 and 600,000 square feet. According to Crown American's senior vice president, Russell Herbicek, the mall would contain the three or four "anchor" stores plus "75 to 90 additional mall tenants." He said the design would include fountains, live plantings and skylights inside the brick -fronted mall. Already, Crown American owns the K- Mart store which fronts on Rt. 50 east of Winchester. The balance of the land which the nation's 20th largest shopping center permit the talks to continue beyond his pricing, industrial coal conversion, energy noon deadline for a settlement if progress conservation, electric rate setting and were encouraging. energy taxes. Marshall did not specify what action the House -Senate energy negotiators slated administration would take, but experts Israel a n d Egypt CouId Start today's meeting to wrap up loose endson said the president's most likely options the relatively minor energy -conservation would be to force a temporary end to the and electric -rate sections, sending those- strike by declaring a national emergency bills to the floor of each chamber for final or seek emergency legislation from • action. . Congress to order striking workers back to Pe a e e Ne' ®t• a t e ®n s Next Week The coal conversion bill, aimed at their jobs. g Mgas-and oilburning utilities and industries to switch to coal, has already passed the Senate and is awaiting final House action. In addition, conferees on the fifth part — energy taxes — plan to meet Friday to approve proposed tax credits for home ;nsulation. They may also agree to tered-down versions of taxes on cars ,ath poor fuel economy and on inefficient industrial use of oil and natural gas The big tax in Carter's plan -- one ,Iesigned to make U.S. oil as expensive as )orted oil — has been abandoned for the ar by even its most ardent supporters, but chances seem good for approval of the other tax proposals. The natural-gas deregulation compromise took House -Senate negotiators nearly a year to frame, and Carter indicated he was optimistic it would make it through the House after Senate approval. Rep. Philip R. Sharp, D-Ind., head of a task force named by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill to rally House support for the compromise, said, "The Senate vote was a very strong one. It will help." developer has under option lies behind Delco Plaza, GW Motors and the Farmers and Merchants National Bank at the Rt. 50 and 522 intersection. The company did not release a price of the land which is under option. Herbicek said that the names of the anchor tenants cannot now be announced. He said, however, each was currently surveying the Winchester -Frederick - Clarke market to determine store sizes. Those sizes, Herbicek said, would be announced in November or December with lease announcements following later. HERBICEK said Crown American plans the opening in August or September of 1981. Crown American Corporation this summer opened two large shopping malls north of Winchester. The last nationwide rail strike, a 1971 signalmen's walkout, was ended by Congress after two days. Technically, BRAC is on strike only against N&W, the nation's seventh largest carrier, but the union, in an effort to bring pressure on the Virginia -based railroad, expand --1 the walkout to 43 other rail lines Tues( orning. The walkout widened :Wednesday to.. include virtually all':,Oe nation's'llxajor ; railroads wheh the union ordered -picket lines thrown up against 73'rail carriers. The , " -;ke produced sharp; swift reper )ns as millions of tons of freight were stranded and thousands of commuters were forced to their cars. Amtrak, the national passenger line, halted virtually all of its runs except for the heavily traveled Boston -to -Washington routes. The nation's two largest auto makers, General Motors and Ford Motor Co., put workers in 17 plants in this country and Canada on half -day shifts because of parts shortages. Thousands of coal miners were laid off because no railroad cars were available to haul coal. In Frederick, Md., the company opened a 610,000 square foot shopping center with. Sears and Hess stores as "anchors." In Williamsport, Pa., a 606,000 square foot center was opened in July. Its major tenants are Sears and Hess. A J.C. Penney store and a Sheridan Inn will soon be added to the Williamsport center, Herbicek said. CROWN'S ANNOUNCEMENT is the second mall plan made _public in the Winchester area. For the past several years, Development Corporation of America, has planned an enclosed shopping mall on land it owns on Rt. 7 east of Winchester at the Interstate 81 interchange. Development Corporation of America is currently involved in grading and drainage work at its site. The company has Continued on Page 2 the summer of 1967, shortly after Israel captured the peninsula in the Six -Day War. They were agricultural soldiers who guarded the land and started cultivation. The first civilians went in 1970, pioneers to further government plans to make the northern Sinai an integral part of Israel. Most of the settlement effort was concentrated in a sandy strip called the Rafah Salient, Moshe Dayan's pet project When he was defense minister. Dayan's planners envisioned Yamit as a thriving port with a population of 250,000 by the end of the century, and with 250,000 more Israelis living in an are of settlements from the Mediterranean to Beersheba, in the heart of Israel's Negev esert adjoining Sinai. Yamit and the 14 farm villages stablished in the salient were to be a curity buffer, blocking the Egyptian my's 1948 invasion route. B. Ghali, said in Cairo that Israeli and Egyptian delegations would meet either in Ismailia, on the Suez Canal, or in El Arish, the Sinai capital. . An advance Israeli party was going to Cairo today to re-establish the direct links Egyptian President Anwar Sadat severed in July. The 120 members of the Knesset, Israel's one -house - parliament, .s w -peace with Egypt in exchange for the Sinai settlements -to a vote early today following more than 17 hours of emotional debate. The vote of 84-19 with 17 abstentions showed wide acceptance for the two frameworks for peace drafted at Camp David and the painful settlement resolution demanded as a condition for further negotiations by Sadat. Winding up the debate, Begin said a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt would be "the great turning point in the history of the Middle East." "The circle of wars would be closed for five years, perhaps 10 years, perhaps 50," he said. "Syria can't attack us because it knows that would be suicide. Jordan can't attack because the Hasehmite king (Hussein) would lose his crown." President Carter hailed the Knesset vote as "a great step forward" and "sure proof 1 the tremendous courage of Prime finister Begin and the Israeli Knesset." the sharpest opposition in the Knesset came from Begin's Likud bloc, the Mainstay of his parlimentary coalition. .fight of the 20 members of Herut, Begin's own faction, voted against the accords or abstained along with the eight -member Laam faction because they believe abandonment of the Sinai settlements will set a precedent for the settlements Israel has established in the West Bank and on the Syrian Golan Heights. Likud's right wing insists Israel must retain those portions of the occupied territory that fall within Israel's Old Testament frontiers. House Units Asked to Probe Pickers' Conflict WASHINGTON (AP) — Puerto Rico's non -voting congressional representative asked two House subcommittees Wednesday to help resolve the conflict over who should harvest Virginia's apple crop. This fall, the U.S. Department of Labor sent hundreds of Puerto Ricans to Virginia to help with the harvest. But when the Puerto Ricans arrived, few found jobs and many of those who did were fired a few days later. Baltasar Corrada wants the House subcommittees on equal employment opportunities and economic opportunities to investigate the matter. Corrada said Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens, should be given harvesting jobs over workers from foreign cou9tries. The labor department has said it agrees, but many fruit growers have said they perfer to hire Jamaicans because they consider them better workers. Depending on the outcome of the subcomittee investigation, Corrada may ask Congress to pass legislation to prevent such a labor controversy from occurring in the future, according to Jose Delballe, Corrada's administrative assistant. Delballe also said the labor department is considering filing a class action suit on behalf of the Puerto Rican workers, many of whom feel they were discriminated against. Such a suit does not concern Delmar Robinson, a member, of the Frederick County Fruit Growers Association. "We have nothing to worry about," Robinson said. "We haven't done anything wrong." He added that the fruit growers would welcome a congressional investigation "if it's honest and not one that's stacked. "If it's referred to a committee that's pro labor and the outcome is known before it starts, then it's useless," he said. But Robinson said he did not believe any further legislation would be necessary. "There are already laws to cover the situation. It's just a matter of obeying them." enate Bill Would Give -larger Income Tax Cuts WASHINGTON (AP) — A $23 billion bill that would cut income taxes for 68 million couples or individuals is on its way to the Senate with the endorsement of the Finance Commmittee and the hint of a veto from the Carter administration. The administration's disenchantment stems from sizeable cuts in capital gains taxes, which would largely benefit those in the ;.igher income brackets. The bill, which compares with a $16.3 billion version approved by the House last month, cleared the Finance Committee on a 15-2 vote Wednesday night. Senate debate will begin early next week. The Senate bill would give larger tax cuts to virtually all classes of taxpayers, including corporations, than the House bill. Differences between the House version and the final Senate bill would have to be Cameo Bra lady again at Elsie Kay Shoppe, September 29th. Holland Bulb representative Saturday, September 30, 10.3. Weber's Nursery. worked out by a conference committee. The Finance Committee bill would result in a $48 income tax cut next year for a typical single person earning $12,500, compared to a $38 cut in the House bill. A typical family of four at the $12,500 level would get a $125 cut from the Senate bill and $105 from the House; the $20,000 family, $196 from the Senate and $146 from the House; the $25,000 family, $290 from the Senate and $232 from the House. All of the examples are based on taxpayers who claim personal deductions of 23 percent. Taxpayers who itemize deductions would find the widely used deduction for state and local gasoline taxes repealed under both versions in the interest of energy conservation. Sponsors say the Senate bill would offset for most employees the higher Social Security taxes that will go into effect Jan. 1. Sen. William V. Roth, R-Del., who with other Republicans has pressed for larger tax cuts, assailed the bill as "a banquet for the affluent and the poor but ...leftovers to middle -income Americans." Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., who also. voted against the measure, said the bill's deep cuts in capital -gains taxes were too much, for him. The reductions would benefit about five million people, with most of the money going to those with incomes above $50,000 a year. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had cautioned earlier in the day that the capital -gains cut "would be very, very difficult for him -,(President Carter) to accept." But he stopped short of saying flatly that he would recommend a veto. Congressional aides say the individual cuts in the committee bill would benefit 68 million couples or individuals while raising taxes for about 1.2 million, most of them single persons or couples with no children. The bill would cut individual taxes mainly by widening the tax brackets, thus allowing more income to be taxed at lower rates. It also would replace the current $35-per-person credit and the $750-per- person exemption with a $1,000 exemption per person. The bracket -widening process would increase the current standard deduction from $2,200 to $2,300 for single persons and from $3,200 to $3,400 for couples. Unmarried heads of household, who generally are widows or divorced women with children, would get a $3,000 standard deduction. Working families with incomes under $11,000 would qualify for the expanded earned -income credit in the bill. The maximum tax credit for qualifying families, some of which could receive money at tax time rather than having to pay, would be increased from the current $400 to $600. The committee bill would allow different treatment of capital gains realized from the sale of a person's principal home. But this provision would not be as generous to most as the $100,000 once -a -lifetime exclusion voted by the House. Under the Finance Committee plan, the profit from the first $50,000 of sales price would be tax-free. When the selling price is above $50,000, the tax-free portion would be determined by dividing $50,000 by the Equestriennes........ Page 11 This week's Clarke Compass feature reports on the three Clarke County women who recently competed in the World Championships, Flood Plain .......... Page 17 Part IV of a series examining the proposed Flood Plain Ordinances for Winchester is on today's Area News page. New Season .......... Page 24 On today's Spectator page, the sales price and multiplying by the profit. Capital gains, the profits from sales of assets owned for a year or longer, include stocks and real estate. Winchester Little Theatre announces its upcoming 1978-79 season of productions. Area News .................... page 17 Bridge ........................ page 23 Calendar of Events ...... :..... page 8 Classified .....................page 27-31 Comics '....................... page 24 Crossword Puzzle ............. page 24 Dear Abby .................... page 14 Editorials .....................page 4 Living ........................page 12-14 Obituaries ..................... page 8 Spectator .....................page 24 Sports ........................page 18-22 Weather ....... ...............page 2 WINCHESTER EVENING STAR 2 Thursday, September 28,1079 Striking Teachers Plan More Protests Associated Press has threatened to start Striking teachers in Fall dismissal proceedings by River, Mass., faced with the Monday against teachers who threat of firings, are planning do not report to work. The strike more demonstrations, while affects about 14,000 students. teachers in Dayton, Ohio, are Cleveland's 10,000 teachers, defying a court order by whose pay averages $14,873, are picketing during their walkout. demanding 20 percent raises The Fall River strikers said from a school system which they would march on school required a $20.7 million headquarters today to demand emergency loan from the state to see their personnel files. On to open classes. Wednesday they marched About 87 percent of Dayton's around the headquarters 2,200 zeachers remained on waving placards. strike demanding an 8.5 percent In Cleveland, meanwhile, raise, with many picketing in where a strike has affected defiance of a • judge's order. 100,000 students, signs pointed Sixteen teachers were arrested to a new school budget that Tuesday. Administrators have could cut as many as 800 jobs. opened 18 schools full-time as a Cuyahoga County Common trickle of teachers returned to Pleas Judge Harry Hanna work this week. Attendance at ordered both sides in the 3- the 37,000-student district has wdekold strike to resume been below 50 percent since the contract talks today. He told strike started Sept. 6. negotiators to "bring your tooth The Warren district, which brushes." has 29,000 students, resumed In contrast, teachers in classes as its 1,400 teachers Michigan's fourth largest school returned with a contract system, suburban Detroit's reportedly calling for pay raises Warren Consolidated district, totaling 18 percent. returned to work Wednesday, while 3,500 teachers in Seattle Seattle's teachers ignored voted to end a 3-week-old advice from their union walkout that affected 55,000 leadership and voted to comply students. with a court order and return to But strikes continued work while contract Tacoma, Wash., Levittown, n negotiations continue. They , N.Y., and four other Ohio struck Sept. 5 and are seeking a districts during a turbulent 10.7 percent increase in salaries September that has recorded that average $17,300. more than 50 teacher walkouts Elsewhere, Tacoma's 31,000 affecting as many as a half- students remained away from million students at any one school as the city's 1,600 time. teachers continued to strike. About 400 of Fjll River's 800 In Levittown, 700 teachers teachers are involved in the remained deadlocked with strike over salaries, class size school board negotiators as a and workload. School strike there has affected about Superintendent Robert Nagle 10,000 students. kISM Discussing. the New hop Star Photo by Hank Ebert The new organizational maintenance shop recently completed at the Winchester Armory was accepted 4y Manager Wendell Seldon; Major General William J. McCaddin, the Adjutant General from Richmond; or - the National Guard yesterday afternoon. Shown cliitect Hubert, Stratton; and Winchester Mayor discussing the shop, from left to right, are City Stewart Bell Jr. ArmoryGarage- Donated to Guard By SUE STEWARD Guard. Before construction of the The vehicles kept at the shop Star Staff Writer The shop, which has been in shop, the National Guard rented are used about 25 hours each A n o r g a n i z a t i o n a l the planning stages for about space at Pine Motor Company month when members of the maintenance shop, under four years, will be used for to do the maintenance work. National Guard meet in construction for about a year at maintenance of about 80 The shpp was designed by Winchester for their weekend the Winchester Armory, was vehicles that serve National local architect Hubert Stratton training. The Guard members formally accepted yesterday Guard units from Winchester, and was built by the local S&S also spend two weeks each afternoon by representatives of Manassas, Fairfax, Warrenton Construction Company. summer in training. the Virginia Army National and Berryville. The $128,000 cost of the shop I The National Guard division was paid for with federal funds. at the Winchester Armory has Day to day maintenance of five full-time employees o ..... , .� . the shop and the equipment is finnnrpdJ*nnTT1V?l -.4&fnndc_ working in the shop and nine administrative nersonnel. Durston McIntosh: Retiring After 40 Years as Fireman Star Photo by Susan Burke Chief McIntosh Retiring By SUSAN BURKE Star Staff Writer FRONT ROYAL - After 40 years of serving as both a volunteer and paid fireman in the Front Royal Fire Department, Assistant Fire Chief Durston McIntosh is retiring. McIntosh joined the department in March 1938 as a volunteer, and served in this capacity while working for ozllo Speak a Universal Language ... CALL USI SMALTS FLORISTS, INC. Phone 667.1687 American Viscose (subsequently FMC) over a period of 30 years. After leaving the rayon plant, McIntosh was appointed as a fulltime paid fireman with the department about eight years ago. He was elected second assistant fire chief in 1967, 1968 and 1969, and in 1970 was made first assistant chief. He has also been the department's :r. engineer since 1967. One of McIntosh's primary You only buy one memorial, make sure it's one of enduring beauty. OF.. ,, 4,iES� BERNARD F. GROVES MONUMENTS 213 S. Braddock St. . Winchester 662-5310 Shopping Mall Continued from Page 1 Like Crown, Development announced plans to build a Corporation of America has not Safeway store and a Drug Fair announced any of its major as "satellite" stores to the fenants as yet. Colonial -designed mall which it IT LEAST TWO other said it would build. ,copping center developers, _ P w neither of which has made plans public, are also seeking to place a shopping center in the Hear Raflo `Winchester -Frederick County m. Frank Raflo, a member of the Marketing specialists have Loudoun County Board of told The Star that Winchester Supervisors and supporter of could support only one major historic renovation, will be the shopping center. They say a guest speaker tonight when the mall in the Winchester - Preservation of Historic Win- Frederick County area could chester meets. draw from about 100,000 people. The meeting will begin at 8 Developers say this 100,000 p.m. at the Farmers and population figure is essential for Merchants National Bank. the success of a large shopping Raflo will speak on the center venture. economic importance of All developers interviewed by preservation to the business The Star note that shoppers can community. expect a "phased -in" mall Raflo, who is a Phi Beta where the initial construction Kappa graduate of the College would be supplemented over the of William and Mary, has first few years of the mall's-life. written several books o historic preservation and is a SAVE MONEYI former member of the Loudoun Use the Coupons in County Board of Architectural today's Star and Save Review. Money! You get a lot for The speech is sponsored by only 10' when you buy PHW, a non-profit private the Star. Read the ads in organization dedicated to the Star! historic preservation. objectives during his tenure was and the county is also served by to educate the public on the four additional volunteer prevention of fires. To this end, companies. he has answered innumerable questions from the public who FRONT ROYAL has two paid called in for information, and firemen. The other one is has worked closely with the McIntosh's son, Durston Jr. press to relate the causes of (Dusty), who after McIntosh's fires that do occur and how they retirement will be in charge of could have been prevented. the fire station. McIntosh and his wife Mary AS FIRST assistant chief, have a second son, David, who McIntosh's responsibility was to is a lieutenant with a fire station be in charge of operations when under his direction in Prince the chief was absent. He has had William County, near a number of other duties, Manassas. including the inspection of nursing homes and other public McIntosh gave his wife credit facilities for fire safety, the for her patience over the years, maintenance and cleanliness of"She's put up with a lot," he, all fire equipment and the fire said. "I've left her in movie house, and giving tours of the theaters, in the car, in the store, department for groups of school -children. not counting in the middle of the night, and there are all the As chief engineer, he was times she waited dinner on me." required to be trained in. firefighting, as well as be a Saturday will be McIntosh's qualified pump operator and last day on the job. The fire driver. department's board of directors "I'm going to miss it all, of is considering about a dozen course," he said today. "Staying applications for his replacement, and a n with a job all these announcement of the selection years, you've got to be interested in it and like it. I'll is expected soon. miss the men, I'll miss the action, just about everything." When McIntosh joined the department in 1938, it was' the only fire department in Warren County, and also fought a number of fires in Middletown and Stephens City, which at that time did not have departments. Front Royal had one pumper, one ladder truck and one ambulance. Today, the department has six pumpers, including a brush truck. and four ambulances: Winchester Evening Star Second Class Postage Paid at Winchester, Va. 22601 Telephone667-3200 Read Daily Except Sunday By More Than 76,000 Subscription Rates: Local Carrier Delivery Motor Delivery: (On Established Routes) (On Established Routes) $22,50 year $12.00 six months $24.00 year $13.00 six months $6.50three months $7.00 three months J0tuL Ji Mail Rates: $20.00year $11.00 six months $6.00 three months Cb Ch o C� ' Thinking of ways to cut your fuel bills this year? Look at our complete line of Jotul stoves. Efficient, 100% cast-iron construction. IJ101tul Now $20,$60 OFF SALE ENDS SATURDAY at The Woodstove Shop 326 W. Washington St. Charles Towne W.Va. 25414 CALL (304) 725-7172 Hours: Mon. -Sat. 9 to 5, Fridays 9 to 9 Distributors: Wood Burners Associates, Dayton, Ohio Until Friday 10 VFigures show do 70 70 low �o,area. temperatures lar area. Rain Cold 70 Worm 70\`\/] ® ® 60 Data from Showers Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ® 0100200001 NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Associated Press Map Warm weather is expected in the forecast period, Tursday until Friday morning, from southern California through the southern states and lower Midwest to Florida. Cooler weather is expected for the Northwest and northern Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast. Rain and showers are forecast for the central Gulf and upper Great Lakes. THE WEATHER Tomorrow': Mostly Sunny Forecast NORTHERN VALLEY Clear and cool tonight with lows in the 40s. Mostly sunny Friday with highs around 70. VIRGINIA Clear and cool tonight with lows ranging from the 40s in the west to around 60 near the shore. Mostly sunny Friday with highs ranging from the 60s in the mountains to the 70s elsewhere. EXTENDED FORECAST The extended outlook for Saturday through Monday calls for a cool and possibly wet weekend. Saturday will be partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the mountains. Highs will range in the mid 60s to mid 70s and lows will be in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Variable cloudiness with a chance of showers Sun- ; day and Monday, highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. TEMPERATURES Noon High Low Today 66 57 Year Ago 70 57 Yesterday's official high temperature was 74 degrees. Rainfall Rainfall during the past 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. today - none. a September rainfall to date - 2.21. 1978 rainfall to date - 36.38. The rainfall from January through December for the past - five years is as follows: 1977-31.29 inches;1976-45.03 r inches;1975-50.47 inches; 1974-36.16 inches; 1973-42.45 inches. Average rainfall per month for the past 62 years: Jan. 2.36 inches; Feb. 2.15 inches; March 3.01 inches; April 3.16 inches; May 3.71 inches; June 3.85 inches; July 3.82 inches; August 3.79 inches; Sept. 2.78 inches; Oct. 3.03 inches; Nov. 2.63 inches; r 47 inches. Highest ann,._ _: ainfall for the past 62 years: 53.02 inches in 1972. Lowest annual rainfall for the past 62 years: 17.15 inches in 1930. Annualaver, rainfall for past 62 years - 36.76 inches 6nPTEMBER MOON PHASES New Moon ..................................... 2-11:10 a.m. First Quarter..................................9-10:21 p.m. WEATHER CONJECTURE 1-5 partly cloudy, cooler, showers east; 6-11 possible offshore hurricane, much cooler; 12-14 warming, showers; 15-20 sunny, seasonal, few showers east; 21-23 fair, cool; 24-26 hot, light showers; 27-30 clear, cooler. Looking Toward Future Carl Fryling, Chairman of the meeting recently. Because of inchester-Frederick County the temporary nature of the Chamber of Commerce Task Force for eltablishing a Chamber's new location, it is IMrmanent location, presided necessary to take action now for over the committee's first the future, he said. Sportswear for Fall Functional and authentic outdoor sportswear -a beefy wool sweater, flannel lined nylon & cotton parka, cotton corduroy pants, onJ heavy wool socks. 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