Obituaries for Edwards and Smith, Rocky Mount and Norfolk
Two obituaries note the deaths of Hubert Preston Edwards 55 of Rocky Mount North Carolina and Lonnie Riddick Smith Sr 85 of Norfolk Virginia. Edwards funeral service Monday at Jones Funeral Home with burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Smith funeral Monday at Holloman Brown Funeral Home Norfolk with burial at Forrest Lawn Cemetery. Both notices include spouses children and other survivors and living arrangements.
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Hubert Preston Edwards
Rocky Mount
N.C
Mr. Edwards
Tennessee
Jay T
Ellen Hyman Edwards
Billie R. Richards
Jones Funeral Home
John A. Baden
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Lonnie Riddick Smith
Norfolk
Winchester
Norfolk Hospital
Mr. Smith
Gates Co
Ernest Lee
Lillie Waff Smith
Anne Maria Wright
J.S. Bell Packing Co
Park Place
Ernest Parker
Gates, N.C
Tommie Benthall
Ahoskie
William E. Gray
Winifred Smith
Holloman - Brown Funeral
Tidewater Drive Chapel
Paul B. Watlington
Forrest Lawn
Garfield Drive
Norfolk, Va
Prague Woman Patents Parachuteless Dive and Spring Boat Idea
Prague reports a 70 year old woman patenting a parachute free dive using gas filled balloons inside an airman suit and proposing an unsinkable boat. She also filed a patent for vehicles made of mattress springwire on a metal frame covered with rubber.
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Prague
Matress Automobile Design
Mlady Svet
Middletown Firemen Parade Rescheduled After Rain
The Middletown Firemen's Parade, cancelled by rain, is moved to 7 p.m. Tuesday per John W. Legg Jr. The carnival ends Tuesday night with continued large crowds and rides, games, and concessions, weather permitting.
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Middletown
John W. Legg Jr
Single Car Crash in Warren County Causes 1800 Dollar Damage
Virginia State Police investigate a Friday crash in Warren County. Dennis Dwight Showman, 19, of Woodstock lost control on Rt 55, skidded off the road, tearing down mailboxes and a fence, ending on its left side. Vehicle damage estimated at 1800 dollars. charged with reckless driving.
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Virginia
Warren County
W.J. Whitehurst
Dennis Dwight Showman
Woodstock
Whitehurst
Mr. Showman
Hand Tools Used to Contain 4100-Acre Big Sur Fire
Firefighters used shovels axes and hoes to corral a 4100 acre brush and timber blaze near Doolan's Hole Creek three miles inland from the Pacific Coast Highway. About 200 firefighters backed by aircraft pack mules and an Army carrier battled the stubborn flames as evacuation of 2000 residents and vacationers continued. The fire started Tuesday from an illegal campfire and scorched 200 acres of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park before closure.
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Big Sur
Calif
Redwood
Jim Coolidge
Doolan
Hole Creek
Pacific Coast Highway
Pfeiffer
Front Royal Man Faces Five Charges in Winchester Court
Winchester Police say 28 year old Kenneth LeRoy Deaver of Front Royal is to appear in Winchester Municipal Court on Aug. 11 for five charges including reckless driving operating a vehicle without a Virginia Operators license resisting arrest disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. He is free on a 350 bond.
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Winchester
Front Royal
Kenneth LeRoy Deaver
Virginia
Deaver
Grants Awarded in Virginia for Police and Drug Control
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grants totaling 562000 were awarded by the State Council on Criminal Justice to Virginia localities and agencies. Winchester Police Department receives 296000 and Strasburg Police Department 55300 in LEAA funds. Manassas gains 20000 for police communications improvements.
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
State Council On Criminal Justice
Virginia
Winchester
Strasburg
Manassas
Front Royal Family Hurt in Route 340 Crash
Ralph Seal and his wife Shirley Seal remain in satisfactory condition in Winchester Memorial Hospital ICU after a two vehicle collision on Route 340 north of Berryville. Their son Brian was treated and released. state police trooper Bruce Green leads the investigation.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Berryville
Ralph Seal
Shirley
Seal
Brian
Bruce Green
Panamanians Vote Monday For First Time in 4 Years
Panamanians prepare to vote Sunday to elect 505 members of an Assembly of Community Representatives as General Omar Torrijos maintains control through a 6,000 strong National Guard. The assembly will advise on constitutional changes and elect a president and vice president.
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Panama
Omar Torrijos
Arnulfo Arias
Assembly of Community Representatives
Torrijos
National Guard
Panama Canal
United States
Canal Zone
U.S
Barrington Hills Couple and Relatives Killed in Mansion Invasion
Four people died when gunmen raided the Barrington Hills home of Paul M. Corbett 64. Corbett wife Marion 57 and Barbara Boand 22 were killed along with Dorothy Derry 60. Corbett died later in hospital. Robbery suspected as motive. wallet empty, second-floor rooms ransacked. Corbett formerly led Johnson and Higgins of Illinois, Inc. insurance brokerage.
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BARRINGTON HILLS, _ III
Barrington Hills
Paul M. Corbett
Corbett
Marion
Barbara S. Boand
Warren preacher found guilty in horse theft case
A Warren County Circuit Court jury convicted Carroll Kenney a preacher and self styled minister of horse theft. He was found guilty of stealing two ponies last fall from Gurad Hill area and selling them at the Front Royal Livestock Market. The jury recommended a three year penitentiary sentence. A $10 000 property bond remains until the September term.
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Front Royal
Warren County
Carroll Kenney
Gurad Hill
Old Front Royal
Kenny
Commonwealth
John Ewell
Kenney
FBI probes operation of Virginia Beach jail
The FBI and the U S Justice Department announced an investigation into alleged civil rights violations at the Virginia Beach city jail. Sheriff John E Marr leads the jail but declined comment as state officials and a welfare board review whether to reopen hearings and allow witnesses and testimony.
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Virginia Beach
FBI
U.S. Justice Department
David Norman
Norman
John E. Marr
State Department of Welfare and Institutions
State Board of Welfare and Institutions
Marr
Weather summary for Northern Valley and Virginia today
Variable cloudiness cool conditions prevail through Sunday with low 60s tonight and high 80s Sunday. Virginia shows cloudy west and north with possible rain in the southeast and Sunday showers mainly in the southern half with highs in the 80s. Extended forecast calls for partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers, highs around 80s and lows 60s to low 70s. Noon high 75, low 58. yesterday's high 81.
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Virginia
Great Plains States
Atlantic Coast
Quiz Answers Summary Card
The list shows quiz answers across topics including countries religions states and notable names. It identifies The Netherlands Mohammedanism Ethel Waters Polk and Taft and the eye as answers with mentions of New Jersey and a set of US states and railroads nicknames.
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The
Netherlands
Mass
Conn
Del
New Jersey
Ethel Waters
Polk and Taft
the Eye
Women dominate US shoe production at nearly half share
Encyclopaedia Britannica reports 47 percent of US shoe output is for women, 17 percent for men, 23 percent for children, 12 percent slippers and 1 percent specialized types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bill to Restore 4.5 Million to Japanese Americans
A House subcommittee heard rapid-action appeals to return 4.5 million dollars confiscated from Japanese American bank accounts during World War II. The measure seeks to remove a legal roadblock allowing victims, now in their 80s, to reclaim family savings held by US branches of a Japanese bank.
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Washington
Congress
House
U.S
Spark M. Matsunaga
Hawaii
Matsunaga
House Commerce and Finance
Justice Department
Attorney General
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Committee of
Algiers Lets U S Hijackers Move Freely
Government sources report the Delta Airlines hijackers, a group of three men two women and three children, free to move about Algiers after collecting a $1 million ransom. A Black Panther spokesman said they were released from custody and are living in a hotel, unnamed.
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Algiers
Delta Airlines
Atlantic
Black Panther Party
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Vatioas Selecter
Morticiane
MDS Funeral Home
Amherst ST
Dial
the Order
Bernard F.groves
Monumen I'S
Boscawen St
Florists, Inc
Johns-Manville
John W. Rosenberger & CO
Commerce
John Hawse
Star
David Grim
Denny's New Furniture Sales
Anthony Boand
Warren
Plaza Theater
Snoopy
Superstar
Seater
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Come Howe
Cinema Center Films
National General Pictures
Glogy
Bill
Glaize
Bro
N. Cameron St
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