Miss Virginia Contest Advances to Second Round
Roanoke AP report notes the 1965 Miss Virginia pageant entering its second of three rounds with further talent and swimsuit judging. Preliminary winners include Kathleen O Dell Levy of Colonial Heights in swimsuit and Linda Rae Pritchard of Longwood College in talent. Levy performed a 34 1 2 inch figure and Pritchard sang Steal Me Sweet Thief before about 1,400 spectators.
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Miss Longwood College
Linda Rae Pritchard
Conial Heights
Kathleen O'Dell Levy
Miss Longwood
Miss Colonial Heights
Roanoke
Lifes Virginia
Colonial Heights
Kathleen
O'Dell Levy
Longwood College
Miss Levy
Miss Pritchard
Longwood
Graceful bedspread knit on two needles pattern 7197
Advertisement for a knitted bedspread using fifty squares of rug cotton. Instructions note join squares for an heirloom spread and that pattern 7197 includes directions. Price 35 cents per pattern with 15 cents extra for mail handling. Order from Alice Brooks at Winchester Evening Star New York address.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
P.O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Chesapeake Teenager Killed in Motorcycle Crash
The Associated Press reports the death of 13 year old Robert James Sumner of Chesapeake after a motorcycle car collision at Homestead Road and Carlisle Road. The incident raises Virginia's highway toll for the year to 499. Police say Sumner was a motorcycle passenger.
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Associated Press
Chesapeake
Robert James Sumner
Homestead Road
Carlisle Road
Wilson Center Named in Will Bequest to Staunton Facility
New York AP report notes Bernard M. Baruch’s will leaves $20,000 to the Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Staunton Virginia. The bequest was disclosed yesterday as the will was filed in Surrogate Court.
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New York
Woodstow. Wilson Rehabilitation Center
Staunton
Bernard M. Baruch
Bristol Man Electrocuted at Valleydale Plant
Frank Sourbéer aged 52 of Bristol was electrocuted Thursday at the Valleydale meat packing plant in Bristol.
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Bristol, Va
Frank Sourbéer
Bristol
Valleydale Meat Packing Plant
Mayor Crowe Calls Tax Meeting on Sales Plan
Richmond Mayor Merrill M. Crowe called a meeting with Henrico and Chesterfield supervisors to discuss a statewide sales tax plan for promotion at the 1966 General Assembly. The three localities had aimed to enact similar local levies, but the Virginia Supreme Court ruled counties lacked power.
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Richmond
Merrill M. Crowe
Henrico
Chesterfield County
Crowe
General Assembly
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Motomoraton Advertisement Offering Special Pay Plan
An old advertisement promises 75 pay only 39.00 per month with a call or write option in whichester Virginia. Included contact details show a phone number p67 2127 for inquiries.
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Piicaeeins
Two Mount Airy Men Admit Virginia Armed Robbery
In Mount Airy North Carolina Raymond Nixon and Dwight Baker were jailed after Nixon admitted involvement in a $1000 armed robbery in Galax Virginia. Baker is charged with aiding and abetting while Nixon faces armed robbery counts. police found 470 dollars concealed in a radio in the men's car.
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MT. Airy
N.C
Galax
Raymond N. Nixon
Dwight Roosevelt Baker
R. L. Wallat
Nixon
Baker
N Lineberry
North Carolina State Penitentiary
Wall
Lineberry
Ex Virginian Dies in Miss
Edward Martinér Allen 83 former president of National Surety Co. of New York and retired executive vice president died after long illness at his Pass Christian Mississippi home. He retired in 1946 and lived in Keswick Virginia before moving to the Gulf Coast. He is survived by his widow and a sister. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow.
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Pass Christian
Miss
Edward Martinér Allen
National Surety Go
New York
The
National Surety Corp
Keswick
Gulf Coast
Hearing Set On Motion in Murder Case
Covington AP A hearing is set for Monday in Abbeck Circuit Court on a defense motion in the murder case of Donald Lee Tingler after a verdict of guilty for the death of his 14 year old wife Diane Wright Tingler’s lawyers ask to overturn the verdict. The jury recommended a 40 year term and Judge Earl L Abbott suspended sentence until the hearing. Tingler pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in the December 7 1964 shotgun death. He said he had been drinking and did not remember.
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Covington
Abeck
Donald Lee Tingler
Tingler
Earl L. Abbot
Diane Wright
Journalists Receive Funds for Advanced Study Program
A $700000 Ford Foundation supported program by the Southern Regional Education Board will fund advanced study for Southern journalists. Up to 15 newspapermen may study at Duke, Virginia, Emory, North Carolina, Texas and Vanderbilt, with about 150 journalists yearly attending short seminars.
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Richmond
Southern Regional Education Board
Duke
Virginia
Emory
North Carolina
Texas
Vanderbilt
Ford Foundation
Judge Urges Experienced Counsel for Indigent Defendants
Virginia Supreme Court Justice Harry L. Carrico called at the Virginia State Bar Association meeting for appointing an experienced co-counsel to assist inexperienced defenders in serious cases. He urged law schools to emphasize criminal procedure, require moot court and jury trials, and mandate observed trials for graduates to improve preparation for post graduation practice.
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Hot Springs
Virginia Supreme Court
Harry L. Carrico
Virginia State Bar Association
Carrico
Virginia Law Schools
Virginian Agrees to Guilty Plea in Bank Robbery Case
Lewis W. Cameron 25 of Hopewell Virginia has agreed to plead guilty to bank robbery charges in California Texas and Colorado He asked to be tried in Chicago under federal procedure allowing cross jurisdiction pleas The auto mechanic faced a sentence of about 12 years after pleading guilty to a 24251 robbery at the Old Orchard Bank and Trust Co in Skokie Illinois under Judge Julius Hoffman.
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Chicago
Lewis W. Cameron
Hopewell
California
Texas
Colorado
Cameron
Julius Hoffman
U.S
Old Orchard Bank
Trust Co
Skokle
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Old Dominion
Miss Virginia
By Ace Brookes
Wilson Center
Will
W.E. Hutton & CO
New York Stock Exchange
John Cussen
Caltheron St
Virginian
OTR
Bevan S
Rambler
Conn
Renault
S. Loudoun ST
Body Shop
Valley Ave
Winchester
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