State's Water Problems Acute Warned by Assembly
Virginia faces increasingly serious water problems that could cripple the Commonwealth. A Governor's Committee on Water Resources asked the 1966 Assembly to expand the State Board of Conservation and Economic Development and enlarge the Division of Water Resources at a cost of about a half million dollars yearly to study river basins. If no action is taken, the federal government will act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Governor’s Committee On Water Resources
FitzGerald Bemiss
Commonwealth
State Board of Conservation and Economic Development
State Must Control Auto Graveyards and Billboards
A Virginia legislative study commission urges adopting federal style rules for auto graveyards and outdoor advertising to avoid penalties for non compliance. Outdoor ads in commercial zones allowed. most billboards banned within 660 feet of interstate rights of way. Auto junkyards limited by Jan 1 1968 with setback rules. industrial areas exempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Advisory Legislative Council
Petersburg Girl Killed Riding Bike
Patricia Evan Glover an eight year old girl from Petersburg was killed when her bicycle was struck at a Petersburg intersection. The death raises Virginia's 1966 toll to eleven, eight below the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Petersburg
Virginia
Patricia Evan Glover
State Highway Dept resumes bids on federal aid projects
The State Highway Department will resume normal bid advertisements and contract awards for federal aid construction projects after a federal directive from the steel price controversy was rescinded yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
State Highway Department
Wampler Elected President of National Turkey Federation
William D. Wampler of Harrisonburg Virginia was elected president at the National Turkey Federation's 26th annual meeting in Chicago. His father Carlos W. Wampler Sr. helped found the federation and was its first president in 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William D. Wampler
Harrisonburg
Turkey
Wampler
Federation
Carlos W. Wampler Sr
Bandit Steals Cash From Norfolk Bank in Broad Daylight
A middle aged robber brandished a silvery pistol at the Southern Bank of Norfolk on West 35th Street and escaped on foot with a cash bundle. Teller Cecil Ward Gwaltney, 22, said the bandit demanded he fill a manila envelope with small bills after asking to open a savings account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Ihy
Bank of Norfolk
West 35Th Street
Cecil Ward Gwaltney
Study Group Recommends $1 Million Annually for State Travel Promotion
A Virginia travel study commission urged creating a separate State Division of Travel Promotion and an annual $1 million budget to boost tourism. It urged flexible funding, expanded interstate information centers, and staff with travel-promotion expertise, while not resolving liquor by the drink at the local level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
Commission On
Resaurant
Richmond Norfolk Bus Drivers Approve Pact
Richmond and Norfolk bus drivers voted to approve a two year contract with four step wage boosts totaling 20 cents per hour. The pact raises retroactive pay, extends vacations after long service, and liberalizes pension and hospitalization benefits, averting a potential strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond, Norfolk
Richmond
Norfolk
Virginia Transit Co
WTC
VTC
State Officials Praised by Gov Harrison in Farewell Gift
Richmond AP reports Gov. Harrison lauds Virginia state officials as the finest in the United States and hints at a pay raise proposal in his 1966 68 budget. About 150 top executives presented a farewell gift, an album of records symbolizing the era. Lawrenceville details are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Harrison
Virginia
Thas
United States
Lawrenceville
Jones elected president of Potomac River Fisheries Group
The Potomac River Fisheries Commission selects Lewis Jones Jr. of Urbanna as president for 1966 and Jeremiah K. Valliant of Salisbury as vice chairman. Dr. George Weems of Huntington, Md., wins a fourth term as secretary. The bi state body regulates commercial Potomac fishing and rotates chairmanship annually between Virginia and Maryland members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Beach
Potomac River Fisheries Commission
Lewis Jones Jr
Urbanna
Commonwealth
Middlesex County
Jeremiah K. Valliant
Salisbury
George Weems
Huntington
Potomac
Virginia
Maryland
First Meeting In 2 Days at Tashkent Talks
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan met for the first time in two days at the Tashkent summit. They spoke about 50 minutes and planned another meeting that night as mediator Kosygin shuttled between them to bridge the Kashmir dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tashkent
U.S.S.R
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Pakistan
Alexei N. Kosygin
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Old Dominion
Assembly
Wampler Heads
National Turkey Federation
Lockheed-California Company
Rye Canyon Research Laboratory
Bandit
Norfolk Bank
Gwaltney
Gov
The
Potomac River
Fisheries Group
Jones
Corning Glass Works
Kern County Land
Swift & CO
Carlisle Corp
W.E. Hutton & CO
New York Stock Exchange
Joan Cussen
Cameron St
Winchester Evening Star
Shastri
Ayub
Kosygin
Kashmir
U. S
Harold G. Brown
Robert B. Fuller
John C. Blackburn
Ralph E. Coates
Kathleen B. Hash
Lewis M. Ewing
Jay H. Lowden, JR
Roy Harper
John L. Kater
Frank Armstrong
National Fruit Product Company, Inc
James L. Hockman
Robert D. Glaize
Elsie Mathews
William W. Fuller
Annie Jane B
Hicks
Thomas M. Harrison
William M. Battaile
Chevrolet - Cadillac Corporation
Joseph P. Dorsey
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Moore & Dorsey, Inc
Allen T. Hawthorne
Harold W. Gaskill
Financial General Corporation
P.A. Macsween
American Installment Credit Corporation
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Kuykendall and Whiting
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Law
Massie, Snarr and Monahan
Donald R. Grubbs
Claude R. Cammer
Treasurer Valley Distributors, Inc
William H. Lawrence
Clearbrook Woolen Shop
Stephen M. Rosenberger
John W. Rosenberger & Company, Inc
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
Smalts Florists, Inc
Ralph N. Dorsey
W. Nelson Page
Sam D. Preston
Shenandoah
National Winchester
Savice
Bank Virginia
Federal Reserve System and
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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