Local hires and hires in Clarke Frederick Counties
Martha CookK joins Slater and Glascock Real Estate Firm in Middleburg to represent Clarke County clients. Kern Motor Co adds salesmen Ray Headley Jr and Millard Allen from Middletown and Winchester. William Ware Jr named Prudential Insurance sales service rep for Frederick Clarke Warren counties. Melvin E Bayliss promoted to Virginia Highway resident engineer in Pittsylvania County. ServiSoft national sales convention notes and Jonathan Winters entertain 300 franchised dealers.
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Martha Cookk
Slater and Glascock
Middleburg
Boyce
Clarke County
William Ware, Jr
Fox Drive
Prudential Insurance Company
Frederick, Clarke
Warren Counties
Ware
Winchester
Field Ave
ServiSoft
Rockton
Ill
Jonathan Winters
James Butcher
Holiday Death Toll Is 19 in Virginia
The Fourth of July weekend in Virginia saw nine traffic deaths and ten drownings. Victims include William Gainey Jr and brothers Ray and Richard Gaine of Portsmouth, and Richard McConnell of Norfolk. Other drownings occurred in Appomattox River and Madison Run with names Hopkin, Brickhouse, Burford, and others. Police report the Virginia toll at 492 for the year, three fewer than last year.
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Virginia
Norfolk
Ocean View
William Gainey Jr
Ray A. Gaine
Richard A. Bradley
Portsmouth
Richard H. McConnell
Orange
Robert Lewis Hopkins
Madison Run
Plato Warns On Urban Renewal In Ancient Athens
The fragment recalls Plato lamenting Athens crowded with harbors docks and buildings leaving little space for reason and justice. It frames urban renewal as a timeless problem reflected in ancient critique rather than a modern scourge.
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Plato
Athens
Spong Attacks Robertson Over Desperation Racism Charge
Virginia politics report details Sen. William B. Spong accusing Sen. A. Willis Robertson of using racism as a desperate campaign tactic. Robertson supporters deny the claim while campaign tensions include a federal employee tied to Robertson. Other candidates including Armistead L. Boothe comment on legislative reform and party dynamics. A separate Dublin crash claim notes Victoria Hughett 8 died in a wreck on Route 100.
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Associated Press
William B. Spong
Willis Robertson
Spong
Virginia
Robertson
Edward E. Willey
Came Palendriers
Mond Fan District” Association
Byrd
Senate
Boothe
William C. Battle
Battle
Congressional Committee
Came
Oral Lambert
Joint Committee For Defense Expenditures
Virginia Beach
Lambert
Commiteree
Willey
del. T. Coleman Andrews
Richmond - Henrico
Andrews
Fairfax
Roanoke
DeWitt Robej
Shawsville
Roanoke County
Virginia Independent Voter’s League
Richmond
Robert J.corber
GOP
Lawrence M. Traylor
U.S. Senate
Traylor
Heathsville
Corber
West Virginia man leads own march to pool queue
Christopher Thorne, 28, walked about 10 miles along the ticket line to a segregated Rock Lake pool in Charleston, vowing weekend returns through summer until he matches the Mississippi marchers’ 250 miles. He was repeatedly rejected, sometimes with his wife and infant son, before moving to the line’s end each time.
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Charleston
W.va
Thorne
Rock Lake Pool
No Rocks For Scotch in Atlantic City Heat Wave
Atlantic City faced a heat wave with 100 plus degrees over the holiday weekend causing an ice shortage. Bar staff reported many customers leaving due to no ice and customers seeking drinks like scotch on the rocks without ice at venues including Rendez Vous bar and lounge.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Rendez Vous
Early Soap Invention and Uses Around AD 500
Soap emerged before AD 500 in the region now Germany. Early uses varied from cosmetics to greasing carts and windmills, while many people were unsure how to best use the new material.
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Germany
Also Mentioned on This Page
Martha Cook
Thomas B. Glascock
Kern Motor Co
S. Loudoun St
Raymond R. Headley, Jr
Middletown
Millard G. Alelen
Ray’’ Headley
Jean Miller
Rockewile, Md
Red’’ Allen
Helen Chauderis
Washington, D.C
Melvine, Bayliss
Air Force
Mr. Bayliss
Highway Department
Jeanne Baker
THE
Prince George — Mathew Jones
Appomattox
Jones
Cheriton — Charles Brickhouse
Eastville
Northampton County
Here
Salem
Bailly Lee Burford
Donna Caroline Burford
Chesapeake
U.S. 11
Armistead L. Boothe
Harry F. Byrd Jr
U.S
Conseention
Republican Organization
Dublin
Victoria Lynn Hughett
Pulaski County
C. F. Schenck
Schenck Foods Co
General Foods Corp
Maxwel House
Gene Delacroix
General Food
C. W. Huntsberry
Schenck Foods
W. Va
Christopher Thorne
Miller’s Hardware
Loudon
Sears
Arlene Dahlays
Carole Christine
Sears and
SAVE
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Loudoun St
Winchester Savings and Loan
Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Winchester Savings and Loan Association
Boscawen and
Washington Streets
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