Crewe to get $1 million loan for water project
The Federal Farmers Home Administration approved a $1 million loan to Crewe to build a new water treatment facility and extend water and sewer lines. Town officials, including Town Manager C. A. Riser and Mayor S. W. Covington, were briefed after a Washington meeting with Rep. Watkins M. Abbitt. No grant funds were available.
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Crewe
Federal Farmers Home Administration
Washington
Watkins M. Abbitt
D-Va
C. A. Riser
5. W. Covington
Abbitt
Carolina Fire Still Blazing Near Stumpy Point
Wild forest fire roared to over 7,000 acres eight miles northwest of Stumpy Point in Dare County as 1,500 firefighters battled the blaze. Rain helped quiet most of the flames Tuesday though the West flank jumped barriers. crews sprayed retardants to reestablish a containment line and reported no structures touched. Damages totaled unknown with timber owned by West Virginia Pulp Company.
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Stumpy Point
N. Co
North Carolina Forest Service
Pine
Dare County
Ken Jeffries
Jeffries
Forest Service
West Virginia Pulp Co
West Vaco
This Bomb Call Was Different
Bridgeton detectives received a bomb call from ous san Glazebrook claiming a 3,000-pound World War II aerial bomb she wished to discard. Police called Army bomb experts from Granite City depot. nine men hoisted the device onto a truck and removed it for inspection to ensure it was inert.
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Bridgeton
Ous San Glazebrook
Granite City
Army Engineer Depot
Army
Speedup Of Construction On Interstate 77 Unlikely
A Virginia delegation pressed for faster Interstate 77 work at Roanoke hearings but was met with funding shortages. Highway Commissioner Fugate blamed a federal withholding of $6 billion and noted no signs funds would be released. The group also sought more Virginia 40 improvements and a bypass project, while Staunton officials warned of economic strain without better streets.
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Roanoke
Virginia
State Highway Commission
Douglas B. Fugate
Fugate
J. James Williams
Wytheville
Great Lakes
Ton
Farrier
Bluefield
W. Va
Ings
Virginia-North Carolina
Salem
Bristol
Rocky Mount
Smith Mountain
Lake
Franklin County
Commonwealth
Virgil Goode
William F. Stone
Martinsville
Mar
Countiesville
Farmier
Commission
Staunton
Greenville Avenue
U.S. 11
Western State Hospital
Pritchard's Hill
Middlebrook
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Chesapeake Corp
Chemetics, Ltd
Vancouver
B. C
North America
Lawrence H. Camp
The
Pulp and Paper Corporation
Chesapeake
Camp
Canadian Industries, Ltd
Montreal
Newport News
Navy
L. Mendel Rivers
South Carolina
F. Edward Hebert
Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
Eagle Rock
U. S. 220
Botetourt County
Art Guepe
State Highway Department
Guepe
Arlington
Thomas M. Louis
Brentwood
National Geographic Society
Clifton D. Harris
Robert A. Reiff
Pentagon
Susan E. Turney
Georgetown University Hospital
Virginia Beach
Virginia Association of Broadcasters
Hamilton Shea
Shea
Gilmore Broadcasting Group
Wsva- Am-Factyv
Harrisonburg
VAB
DSA
National Broadcasting Co
Gilmore Group
Virginia Broadcasting Industry
Robert Mitchell Fore
Prince Edward Academy
University of Richmond
Joan Elias
University of Virginia
Richard &. Wiley
Federal Communications Commission
Richmond
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
James River
Hampton Roads
Institute
Division of Water Resources
State Water Control Board
Senate Labor Committee
Merlin K. DuVal Jr
Tucson
Ariz
Health, Education ,and Welfare
Wythe D. Quarles Jr
Railroad Retirement Board
FBI
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Front Royal
Aland Arlington
Maryland
Lee Gordon Snellings
Clara L. Snellings
John R. Hickey
Jimmy Wyne
Charles Baumgardner
Front Royal
Andrew J. Koener Jr
Quantico
Vietnam
Jon M. Sweeney
West Babylon
N.Y
B. Raymond Perkins
Colin W. Gillis
Boston
Mass
Sweeney
James R. O'Connell
Sweeny
Hanoi
Gillis
William D. Palmer
Quantico Marine Base
Perkins
Seneral
Siveeney
Stockholm
Sweden
United States
Marine Corps
Commission On
Omer L. Hirst
Annandale
Edgemeade Ofirginia
Edgemeade Center
Carolina
Area Group
Culpeper
Richard A. Farrier
Augusta County Board of Supervisors
Shenandoah Valley
Usta County
New York
Nikolais Dance Theater
Department of State
Teheran Bienalle
International Ballet Festival of Weisbaden
Vienna
Holland
Tunis
Dubrovnik
Yugoslavia
Europe
Dad
Diskay
Nordan
Riverside
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