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1956 Traffic Toll Soars To 108 (By The Associated Press) ‘Virginia’s 1956 traffic toll had soared to 108 today as the result of nine, weekend traffic deaths. This was one more than had been killed on Virginia's roads by this date a year ago. An 8-year-old Tazewell County boy, Harless Gene Sluss of Abbs Valley, was struck, and killed by a car Sunday while returning on foot from Sunday School. The ac cident occurred on ‘Route 644, at short distance from his home. McKinney Parker, 23, and ‘Mar tha Elizabeth Parker, 33, two Vir ginia Beach Negroes, were fatally injured early Sunday in a single vehicle crash on Route 632, 1 mile south of London bridge in Princess Anne County. A lynchburg man, 54-year-old Grady Robert Bridges, was fatally injured early Sunday in a single vehicle accident on U. S. 60, nine and a half miles east of Amherst in Nelson County. Kenneth Robert Wood, 27, of Richmond died late Saturday in a single vehicle accident on Route 22, a mile north of Keswick in Alebmarle County. A 26-year-old Orange County man, Amos Wilber Rogers of Bar ‘hoursville, was killed late Satur day on Route 777 two miles south of his home. Police said Rogers was operator of a truck that ran leff the road. Walter Herbert Nichols, 27, of Rocky Mount, was fatally injured early Sunday in a single vehicle accident on Route 220, a mile north of his home. Mrs. Arleva Wright Mauney, 47, of Hazelwood, N. C., was killed and four persons injured early Sunday in a two-car collision on Route 10, four miles south of Smithfield in Isle of Wight Coun ty. The injured were Mr. and Mrs. Ted Troutman of Newport News, their son Teddy, and Joseph Emanuel Cargill of Smithfield, the lone occupant of the other car. Another Newport News man, Thomas Junior Hall, 34, was killed Saturday when his car left Route 609 east of Prince George Court house and struck a tree. OLD MAN’S GAME ! ROANOKE, Va. (P)—John A. Reid of Roanoke thinks golf is an old man‘s game. He said as much before the turn of the century. To day, at 84, he is proof of his theory. “In the olds days, younger folks played baseball and tennis,” Reid recalls. “I belonged to a tennis club. We didn't regard golf as strenuous enough. “However, I had a lawyer friend who played golf, and I kidded him about it until he got mad and chal lenged me to 3 match. The only course was a crude layout with short, Tough fairways, sand greens and tomato cans for holes. 1 “Well, T played a round of golf and got the bug.’* Reid has been playing ever since. Even at 84, he still gets in about, S50 rounds a year,
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Danville Bee
Danville, Virginia, US
Mon, Feb 27, 1956
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