Gillespie renamed to three-year term on ASC Committee
Jim Sam Gillespie Jr a prominent Tazewell County farmer is named chairman of the Tazewell County ASC Committee for 1982 and will serve a third term. The slate includes vice chairman Charles P Robertson and regular member William M Pridgen with alternates C G Jones Jr and Glen Peery. The panel administers programs such as wheat feed grain tobacco and emergency aid and assumes office in January.
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Jim Sam Gillespie, Jr
Tazewell County
Charles P. Robertson
Thompson Valley
Robertson
William M. Pridgen
C.G. Jones, Jr
Thompson County
Jones
Glen Peery
Bluestone
Peery
ASC
Burley Tobacco
Secretary of Agriculture
John Glenn Leads First American Orbit February 1962
Lt Col John H Glenn Jr becomes first American in orbit on February 2 1962 circling Earth three times in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7.
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John H. Glenn Jr