Fatal Collision in Clarke County Leaves One Dead
Mrs. Page Johnson, 79, of Boyce dies after a Saturday afternoon crash on Route 340 that injured five others and caused about 1500 in damages. Houston Wedlock and Roy Breeden among the injured as police investigate the cause.
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Page Johnson
Boyce
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Johnson
Mr. Breeden
Mr. Wedlock
Elizabeth Peyton
Pamela Marshall
Daniel Jackson
Governor to hold news conference at State Capitol
Gov Godwin will brief reporters at the State Capitol on the final tax receipts for the past fiscal year. The conference time was moved to Friday at 3 p.m. from the previously scheduled Wednesday slot.
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Skichment
Godwin
State Capitol
Bee blamed for bridge tunnel crash kills two in Virginia
Two people died and four were injured when a bee caused a car to lose control on a trestle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel near Virginia Beach. Victims were Dr. Osman Nuri Ulubor and his wife Muj Gan Ulubor, Turkish residents of Flushing, N.Y. Their daughter and an elderly New York couple were among the injured, along with driver Herbert Jesse Worsham Jr. of Lynchburg. The crash halted traffic for about two hours.
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Associated—Press
Virginia Beach
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Osman Nuri Ulubor
Muj Gan Ulubor
Flushing, N.Y
New York City
Herbert Jesse Worsham Jr
Lynchburg
Bridge-Tunnel Authority
Ulubor
Bridge Tunnel
Valley GOP To Meet in Staunton
The Seventh District Republican Committee will meet Thursday at Rowe's Steak House east of Staunton at 6 30 p m hosted by Waynesboro unit. Agenda includes new unit chairmen introductions reports on local candidates and district finance review.
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Valley Gop
Staunton
Edinburg
Warren B. French, Jr
Seventh District Republican Committee
Waynesboro
Republican Committee
Rowe’s Steak House
Watchdogs Named for Virginia 7th District Legal Oversight
A Virginia State Bar district committee is appointed to monitor ethics in the Seventh District. Benham M. Black of Staunton is chairman with members Beverly B. Bowers Harrisonburg T N Cooley Waynesboro John F. Ewell Front Royal Charles R. Haugh Charlottesville William O. Roberts Jr Lexington and Douglas C. Will Luray. The district covers Charlottesville Harrisonburg Waynesboro Winchester Staunton Buena Vista and Albemarle Culpeper Greene Fluvanna Orange Clarke Frederick Rappahannock Page Rockingham Shenandoah Warren Augusta Bath Highland Madison and Rockbridge. Ten such committees exist statewide under the Virginia State Bar to handle complaints about lawyers and unqualified practice.
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Virginia State Bar District
Benham M. Black
Staunton
Beverly B. Bowers
Harrisonburg
T. N. Cooley
Waynesboro
John F. Ewell
Front Royal
Charles R. Haugh
Charlottesville
William O. Roberts, Jr
Lexington
Douglas C. Will
Luray
Winchester
Buena Vista
Albemarle
Culpeper
Greene
Fluvanna
Orange
Clarke
Frederick
Rappahannock
Page
Rockingham
Shenandoah
Warren
Augusta
Bath
Highland
Madison
Rockbridge
Virginia
Virginia State Bar
Three Teens Drown in Weekend Water Mishaps
In Virginia and Maryland incidents three youths and a man drown as a rowboat capsized near Fishermans Cove in Norfolk. Richard Smith, 16, from Edgemeads School for Boys in Upper Marlboro, slipped from a raft at Smith Mountain Lake. David Mannas, 60, of Chesapeake, waded into deep water while crabbing with others in the Elizabeth River.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Percy Forbes
Norfolk
Fisherman’s Cove
Forbes
Richard Smith
Edgemeads School
Upper Marlboro
Smith Mountain Lake
Franklin County
James
David Mannas
Chesapeake
Elizabeth River
Hunter Assumes New PE Duties In Potomac Edison Move
Philip N. Hunter, southern division manager since 1962, is named eastern division manager and will move to Hagerstown Maryland on August 1. George T. Sanders replaces him as eastern division manager at Hagertown.
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Philip N. Hunter
Potomac Edisophere
Hagerstown
George T. Sanders
Hunter
Potomac Edison
Winchester
Mass
U.S. Army
Viet Nam
Sanders
Potomac
Frostburg
Zoning Appeals Granted by City Board for Fiscal Year
The City Board of Zoning Appeals granted four variances for the year ended June 30. Gulf Oil Corporation received a height and sign area variance, James V. Daniels a rear yard variance, Mrs. June P. Ranels a use variance, and the Church of the Nazarene a lot area variance. The building inspector enforces the zoning provisions and may inspect buildings to remedy violations. Board members included Hubert Stratton, Ralph Shockey, J. Lee Miller, Robert Pullems, Joseph White, and George Snarr Jr.
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City Board of Zoning Appeals
Gulf Oil Corporation
James V. Daniels
June P. Ranels
Church of the Nazarene
Board of Zoning Appeals
Hubert T. Stratton
Ralph D. Shockey
J. Lee Miller
George G. Snarr, Jr
Roberts Parole Sentence Extended for One Year
David Lee Roberts aged 20 had his parole extended by one year after violating parole terms by going to New York to seek work without consent. The court increased probation to five years while also addressing related cases and ongoing trials for forgery and grand larceny.
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David Lee Roberts
Corporation Court
Roberts
New York
Elliot D. Marshall
Marshall
E. Eugene Gunter
Stanley C. Dalton
Commonwealth
Dabney Watts
Shirley Ann Miller
Strike Looms At Union Carbide Plant In West Virginia
Union Carbide Chemical Corp ordered a shutdown of its Petrochemical plant in South Charleston West Virginia after the IAMAW Local 598 rejected a proposed contract. The strike threat followed a 24 cent per hour wage rise demand over two years.
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South Charleston
W.va
Union Carbide Chemical Corp
Carbide
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Colorful Clouds Over Weekend
WALLOPS ISLAND AP NASA sent aloft a sodium vapor rocket after a two week weather delay. The vapor created colorful clouds in the eastern Virginia sky as the launch aided studies of wind velocities and directions at upper altitudes.
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Wallops Island
Virginia
Mother Nature
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
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Berryville
Roy Breeden
John Enders
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
Clarke County
Rt. 11
Copper Lamp
Warren Garrett
Russell Patterson
Cedar Meade
Garrett
Patterson
Joan Pertz
Valley Ave
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Pauline Brown
Mr. Garrett
Miss Pertz
Stanley Cromwell
Summit Point
W. Va
Rt. 7
Shenandoah Farms
Peter Allen Taylor
Springfield
Richard Hebel
Annandale
Lofton M. Rodeheaver
Baltimore
Berryville Ave
Charles L. Clopper
Shawnee Ave
Clopper
Ray E. McDonald
Rodeheaver
John H. Fisher, Jr
N. Braddock St
Academy Circle
Leesburg
James Richard Lert Comer
Waterford
Loudoun County
Milton Dew
Grundy
Joe Harold Willis
Buchanan County
Middleburg
Channing
Richard Turner
Upperville
U.S
Greenville
Otto Burton Sutton Jr
Rt. 1
Greeneville
Augusta County
Martinsburg
Eva Elsey
Cumberland, Md
Hawthorne Dr
M. P. Scott
George T. Sanders, Jr
Saunders
P, N, Hunter
G. T, Sanders
Albert C. Lacy
Board of Supervisors
Back Creek
Pho
Tographer
Janet Greene
Route 1
Stephens City
Star
Jim Hamilton
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