Plane Crash Kills or Injures Two Men in Shenandoah
Two men hospitalized after Memorial Day plane crash in fogged Shenandoah National Park. Elmer Seaman 42 of Landisville PA is in critical condition with a head injury while Ivan Gehman 22 of Landisville is described as satisfactory with a knee injury and two fractured vertebrae. Gehman walked to a ranger station to report the wreck ten miles east of Skyland along Skyline Drive on Thoroughfare Mountain.
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Charlottesville
Shenandoah National Park
Versity Hospital
Elmer Seaman
Landisville
Ivan Gehman
Gehman
Skyland
Skyline Drive
Thoroughfare Mountain
Survey Project To Be Conducted By German Institutions
O W Riegel director of the Lee Journalism Foundation at Washington and Lee University will lead a U S survey project in Germany this summer. He will study German universities and other institutions to assess public opinion training and research. He departs June 14 and returns in September.
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Lexington
Department of State
Germany
O. W. Riegel
Lee Journalism Foundation
Washington and Lee University
Riegel
Danville Wins Annexation Battle Over Pittsylvania County
A three judge court awards Danville 9.45 square miles from Pittsylvania County effective July 1, 1951. Danville pays Dan River Mills 200000 for utilities, the county 363000 for schools, and funds the state literary endowment. The decision excludes Glenwood Camp Grove and the southern corridor, with five years of free education for children in that strip.
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Chatham
Danville
Pittsylvania County
Martinsville
Dan’s Hill School
Liberty Hill
Kennon C. Whittle
Walter McCarthy
G. E. Mitchell
Southside Training School
Piney Forest Road
Dan River Mills
Schoolfield
State
Southside Colored School
Glenwood
Camp Grove
North Carolina Line
Kellam Sworn In As Conservation Head
Kellam sworn in as director of the State Conservation and Development Commission in a ceremony at Princess Anne County House. Justice John W. Eggleston administered the oath to the 46 year old former county treasurer who vowed to serve all sections of the state without partiality. Earlier, Judge Floyd E. Kellam also swore in Jonathan Vaughan as county treasurer to succeed Kellam, who held the post from 1952 before his appointment. C Roger Malbon was sworn in as sheriff to succeed Vaughan.
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Norfolk
Sidney
Kellam
State Conservation and Development Commission
Princess Anne County
John W. Eggleston
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Floyd E. Kellam
Jonathan Vaughan
Battle
C. Roger Malbon
Vaughan
Governor Speaks At Safety Conference Roanoke
Governor John S. Battle opened the 16th annual Virginia statewide safety conference before about 2 000 delegates. The three day event starts with a parade in which the governor will participate and review with Roanoke officials.
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Roanoke
John S. Battle
Virginia
Armed Forces
States
District of Columbia
Escape of Hospital Prisoner Stirs Northern Virginia Hunt
Authorities intensified a search in northern Virginia for Rowlee Browley a 47 year old Negro prisoner who escaped from Alexandria Hospital. Browley wearing only a hospital gown and barefoot fled after leaving his bed with an instrument still in his body and leaped a first floor window. He faces a 15 year sentence for robbery and was to be moved to a state farm soon. Browley had been connected to a November crowbar slaying and robbery case with Abe Lawson. Lawson was acquitted but Browley admitted robbery and Lawson was named the slayer.
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Alexandria
Virginia
Rowlee Browley
Alexandria Hospital
Browley
James Virengo
Abe Lawson
Raymond B. Dodson
Lawson
Bedford County Population Decline Noted in Ten Years
Bedford County shows a population decline over the past decade while Campbell County records a population boost, according to preliminary data from state officials in Richmond.
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Bedford County
Richmond
Campbell County
Bedford and Campbell Population Shifts 1950 Census
1950 census numbers show Bedford at 29,303 up from 29,686 in 1940 while Campbell records 29,056 up from 26,048. Bedford town limits increased from 3,973 to 4,050.
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Bedford
Campbell
Cassius Chichester Dies in Sleep at 67
Cassius Moncure Chichester, 67, longtime Virginia legal official and draftsman, died in his sleep at his Richmond home. Born March 25, 1882, in Fairfax, he held roles including director of the Statutory Research and Drafting Division since 1941 and secretary of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council. He studied at William and Mary and the University of Virginia, later practicing law in Richmond. He served as general counsel for the Virginia State Corporation Commission and held numerous state and national legal service positions.
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Richmond
Cassius Moncure Chichester
Virginia State Division of Statutory Research and Drafting
Fairfax
Daniel McCarty
Agnes Robinson Moncure Chichester
William and Mary College
Chichester
University of Virginia
University
Wise and Chichester
Pollard, Wise and Chichester
Virginia State Corporation Commission
Commission
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
Virginia State Planning Board
National Conference of Commissioners On
Newspaper Man Takes Chamber Post
Parke Rouse Jr Sunday editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch is named public relations director of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce effective June 12. He succeeds William A Lashley who resigns to join Ford Motor Company southeast region as assistant public relations manager. Lashley departs June 3 for vacation before moving to Chester Pennsylvania. Rouse, a Smithfield native raised in Newport News, started as a reporter on the Newport News Times Herald after graduating from Washington and Lee University in 1937.
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Richmond
Parke Rouse, Jr
Richmond Times-Dispatch
William A. Lashley
Virginia State Chamber
Coiferce
Lashley
Ford Motor Company
State Chamber
N. W. Kelley Lashley
Chester
Smithfield
Newport News
Rouse
Newport News Times-Herald
Washington and Lee University
Fare Hike Sought By Bus Company
The State Corporation Commission has under advisement a petition from Alexandria Barcroft and Washington Transit Company seeking intrastate bus fare increases. The plan calls for a five cent rise in zone fares and changes to the metropolitan intrastate zone rate structure covering south Arlington County and Alexandria.
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Alexandria, Barcroft
Bonds to Be Floated For Building Program
Fairfax County voters approved a 10.5 million dollar school bond issue and a 980 thousand dollar courthouse addition and jail bond. Unofficial returns from 28 precincts show 3,515 yes and 1,705 no for the school bonds. Courthouse jail bonds pass 2,619 to 2,495.
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Fairfax
Fairfax County
Harrell Receives Permit for 112 Story Brick House
M. J. Harrell of 3913 Loudoun St. is granted a permit to erect a 44 by 42 foot brick dwelling on S. Washington Street Cork Street corner. The full basement structure is valued at $16,000.
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M. J. Harrell
Loudoun St
S. Washington St
Cork St
Hospital Patients at Winchester Memorial Hospital
New admissions include Ruth Ann Wolfe and Miss Jean O. Wolfe connected to families in Augusta and Berryville. Also listed are David A. Bowers, Mrs. Raymond Spurling, and others from Maurertown Strasburg Romney Flint Hill Front Royal and Oak the.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Ruth Ann Wolfe
Elwood M. Wolfe
Acorn Heights
David A. Bowers
George R. Bowers
Cameron St
Raymond Spurling
W. Cork St
Ernest W. Burch
S. Loudoun
Jean O. Wolfe
Augusta
W. Va
Robert Z. Dean
Robert L. Dean
Maurertown
Ray Kern
Strasburg
Powell Wynkoop
Berryville
Eugene Cunningham
Romney
W. V
Clarence £. Jones
Flint Hill
George W. Cone
Front Royal
Ray L. Ambrose
Oakland
W Va
Dunlap Dies in Winchester Hospital at 76
Jerry S Dunlap a Gore farmer aged 76 died yesterday afternoon at Winchester Memorial Hospital Born in Frederick County he was a son of the late George and Elnora Elliott Dunlap Surviving are his widow Ida Palmer Dunlap six sons Wilbur William Walter and Daniel Dunlap all of Gore Herbert Dunlap of Mt Falls and Grover Dunlap of Fort Meade Md seven daughters Mrs Guy Anderson Mrs Harry Catlett
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Jerry
Obituary Fragments From Gore Area
Mrs. Roy Pugh and Mrs. Marion Shores of Gore along with Mrs. Ralph Orndorff of Berryville and Mrs. Vernon Kirby of Kernstown are named. Also listed are Mrs. Uother Swartz of Gerrards Town, W Va and brother Martin Dunlap of Gore with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Roy Pugh
Marion Shores All
Gore
Ralph Orndorff
Berryville
Vernon Kirby
Kernstown
Uother Swartz
Gerrardstown
W. Va
Martin Dunlap
Funeral services set for tomorrow at Bethal Church
Funeral services will be held tomorrow with friends and relatives meeting at 1 30 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home and proceeding to Bethal Methodist Church for the final rites at 2 30 p.m. Rev Schmucker will preside. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery.
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Jones Funeral Home
Bethal Methodist Church
Fr. Schmucker
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