Talent Swim Suit Winners Chosen At Beauty Pageant
In Roanoke AP report two more Miss Virginia 1966 prelim winners were named. Marjorie Paige Smith of Bedford County won the talent contest singing La Donna Mobile, while Kathleen Jane Carson of Virginia Beach won the swimsuit award. Carson later fell from a wall in a theater parking lot and was hospitalized with injuries. Smith is a University of Cincinnati voice student. Carson is a Frederick College freshman and Norfolk native. Linda Jo Maclin won the Thursday talent prelim with singing. The pageant climaxes Saturday with 110 finalists, the winner receiving a 1000 dollar scholarship and Miss Virginia will go to Miss America in Atlantic City. First runner-up 750, second 450.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Bedford County
Marjorie Paige Smith
Barber of Seville
Virginia Beach
Kathleen Jane Carson
Miss Smith
Frederic E. Smith
Bedford
University of Cincinnati
Miss Carson
Edward G. Carson
Norfolk
Frederick College
Portsmouth
Roanoke Valley
Linda Jo Maclin
Jean Marilyn Inge
Virginia Pepsi Cola Bottlers Association
Jq Old Dominion
Atlantic City
Georgia Florida Belt auctions date set by poll next week
Opening dates for Georgia Florida flue cured tobacco belt auctions will be decided next Wednesday by a poll of more than 25,000 growers. The Georgia Tobacco Advisory Board will consider July 27 or August 3 as the opening date, with results likely to shape the market after years of disputes over allotments and MH30 use. The 1965 crop yielded over 113 million dollars for growers in the two states.
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Atlanta
Agriculture
Phil Campbell
Georgia Commodity Commission For Tobacco
Campbell
Macon
Georgia Tobacco Advisory Board
Georgia- Florida Belt
Secretary of the Agriculture
Georgia-Florida
Georgia
Florida
Alma
Senator Spong Visits Danville Airport During Campaign
State Senator William R. Spong, Democratic U S Senate hopeful challenging A Willis Robertson, plans a flying visit to Danville today arriving by plane at Municipal Airport around 5 P M and remaining about 30 minutes. Campaign manager Jones Cox says he expects to meet supporters and notes Spong’s second Danville visit and positive campaign momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Spong
U. S.senate
A. Willis Robertson
Danville
Jones Cox
Spong
Cox
Viet Nam Vet In Hospital At Portsmouth
A Danville sergeant wounded in Viet Nam last month has been returned to the United States and is hospitalized in Portsmouth Naval Hospital. William R. Madden of the 101st Airborne Division, A Company, 327th Group, was seriously wounded June 17 by fragments from friendly air strikes during a search and destroy mission. He is expected to recover for more than a year. Madden, born in Oklahoma, served 19 years and had tours in Germany, Korea, and Japan. He volunteered for Viet Nam and was six months into his tour when wounded. His wife Gloria J. Madden, now in Virginia Beach, has two children.
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Danville
Viet Nam
United States
William R. Madden
Gloria J. Mabley
Mt. Cross Rd
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
U. S
R. S. Mobley
Mt. Cross
Oklahoma
Maddens
101St Airborne Division
327Th Group
Germany
Korea
Japan
Fort Ox
Madden
Virginia Beach
Sgt. Madden
Robertson Campaigner Reception In Danville For Senator Robertson
Senator A Willis Robertson arrived in Danville after the Senate adjourned and held an informal reception at Midtown Motor Hotel. Hundreds greeted the veteran Democrat as campaign leaders, local officials, and supporters gathered before a Martinsville dinner and district appointments.
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A. Willis Robertson
Danville
U.S. Senate
Midtown Motor Hotel
Robertson
Martinsville
Henry County
Commonwealth
Eugene A. Link
Iity
Andrew A. Farley
Miss Marion Lynch Dies After Norfolk Accident
Miss Marion Reed Lynch 21 of Petersburg died Friday at 11 a.m. at Norfolk hospital from injuries in an automobile crash July 2 during an overnight trip. A Danville native, she trained as a nurse at Petersburg General and recently took the State Board exam. Survived by parents Johnson and Ruth Lynch, sister Mrs. Sarah Wilson of Raleigh, and half sister Mrs. Nettie Howell of Emporia. Services Sunday at 3 p.m. at First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rev. Don Whitfield. Interment Schoolfield Cemetery. Resting at Swicegood Funeral Home. family at W Stephens Street home.
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Marion Reed Lynch
W. Stephens St
Norfolk Hospital
Norfolk
Petersburg
Miss Lynch
Danville
Johnson Levant
Ruth May Sims Lynch
George Washington High School
Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Petersburg General Hospital
State Board
First Pentecostal Holiness Church
Sarah L. Wilson
Raleigh
N. C
Nettie Howell
Emporia
Don S. Whitfield
Schoolfield Cemetery
Swicegood
W. Stephens
Providence Horse Show Returns for Fourth Year
The Providence Horse Show, now in its fourth year, is set for Saturday at Cobb Memorial School on Park Springs Road in Providence, North Carolina. Sponsored by the Providence Volunteer Fire Department, events begin with an 1 pm show and conclude with a 7 pm evening program, both EST.
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Providence
N.C
Cobb Memorial School
Park Springs Road
Providence Volunteer Fire Department
New Attorney Presented To Local Court
Joseph Carlyle Russell an associate with Clement Wheatley and Winston was formally presented to Corporation Court yesterday morning. Russell graduated Dan River High School in 1950 and earned a B S from the University of Virginia in 1957. He taught at George Washington High School and in Newport News before studying at the University of Richmond where he earned an LL B with honors last September. He has been legal counsel for a Richmond firm since then. He and his wife Virginia Anderson and their 11 year old daughter Rhonda Ann live at the Sherwood Apartments.
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Joseph Carlyle Russell
Clement, Wheatley and Winston
Corporation Court
Russell
Dan River High School
University of Virginia
George Washington High School
Newport News
University of Richmond
Richmond
Virginia Anderson
Rhonda Ann
Sherwood Apts
Robertson seeks full FBI probe of Link case
Senator Robertson plans to urge Attorney General Katzenbach to direct FBI involvement in a full-scale investigation of the dynamiting of Commonwealth's Attorney Eugene Link's home. He notes FBI Director Hoover is a longtime friend and discusses federal jurisdiction and cooperation with Danville police and state authorities.
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Robertson
A. Willis Robertson
Washington
Nicholas Katzenbach
FBI
Commonwealth
Eugene Link
Tom Virginia
Rockbridge County
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Senator Robertson
United States
Katzenbach
Danville
Hoover
Robertson Asks Re-Nomination To Affirm Virginia Philosophy
Senator A Willis Robertson urged Virginians at a Martinsville rally to re nominate him, promising to defend constitutional rights and oppose federal overreach. He argued experience and seniority matter in government and attacked education funding as a federal issue while stressing local control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robertson
Virginia
Senate
W. C. “Dan” Daniel
Danville
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Daniel
USDA Denies Originating Leaf Plan Opposed by Tobacco Group
Virginia Beach AP report notes USDA spokesman J J Todd saying the department did not originate or approve a plan to let the Flue Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp take excess leaf, process it, and deduct costs from next season's quota. Royster warned the idea would push prices down and incentives exceed quotas. The Bright Belt Warehouse Association set next year’s convention for Wrightsville Beach June 19–22.
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Virginia Beach
U.S. Department of Agriculture
J. J. Todd
Department
Todd
Bright Belt Warehouse Association
Johnson
Tobacco Cooperative
Warehouse Association
Washington
Ficials
Royster
Stabilization Corp
Association
Board of Governors
Wrightsville Beach
N.C
Duke Plans To Establish A New Cancer Laboratory
In Durham NC Duke University Medical Center will open a regional diagnostic and treatment laboratory for trophoblastic neoplasms a cancer that affects pregnant women and can be fatal without timely care A federal grant of 35728 dollars announced by Congressman Horace Kornegay and Duke officials funds the project as part of a three center package totaling about 75000 dollars The grant to Dr Roy T Parker and colleagues aims to enable early diagnosis through chorionic gonadotropin measurement and expand regional centers for cancer treatment in a milestone advance in care for this rare disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
N.C
Duke University Medical Center
Horace Kornegay
Duke
United States
Boston
National Institutes of Health
Roy T. Parker
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
C. Donald Christian
Charles B. Hammond
Parker
City Council to weigh bond plan for 850000 civic center
Monday agenda centers on placing a proposed 850000 renovation of the City Armory as a high priority in a bond referendum to voters in November with no clash expected with the new Coliseum planned for the VPI Community College campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Center
Leigh Taylor
Taylor
Civic Center Committee
Elizabeth Smith
VPI Community College
T. E. Temple
Council
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L. L. Moore
Ringgold
W. E. Gardner, Jr
Glenn B. Updike, Jr
Byrd
Wm. M. Tuck
Landon R. Wyatt
Vivian Giles
Wayles R. Harrison
Sarah C. Powell
William E. Anderson
Robertson Committee
Joans
Orville Freeman
U.S
Carolinas
Senator Spong
Pittsylvania County
Randall Reynolds
William M. Tuck
A. S. Harrison, Jr
Thomas B. Stanley
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Pittsylvania
Marion Lynch
National Guard
United States Congress
Hts
Thas
Tuck
Landon Wyatt
J. Frank Wilson
USDA
Temple
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company
Winslow Hospital
Federal Aviation Agency
Sherwood Forest
Riverside
Norman
Norfolk, Franklin and Danville
C&p Telephone Company
State Highway Department
U.S. Gypsum Co
Holiday Inn Restaurant
W. Wann
Lillian W. Yates
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