State Air Safety Expert Is Plane Crash Victim
A Virginia air safety expert Lt. Col. Nowitsky perished in a plane crash on Ft. Mountain near the summit. His Piper Aztec disappeared Sunday morning en route to Woodrum and Dublin, with rescue teams finding the charred wreckage and Nowitsky among the dead a day later.
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Virginia
Nowitsky
State Nation Commission
Ft. 3 Mountain
Woodrum
Roanoke
Ft. Lewis
Richmond
Ralph T. Catterall
State Corporation Commission
SCC
H. Lester Hooker
Maury Cemetery
Virginia Civil Air Patrol
Danville
Jesse Dillon
New River Valley
Dublin
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Ex-Rocky Mount Officials Charged With Embezzlement
Betty Woody Mitchell and Linda M. Dillon, former Rocky Mount treasurer and assistant, were indicted for embezzling portions of a town shortage from 1959 to 1961 totaling thousands of dollars. Each posted $5,000 bond. trials slated for 2 1/2 days.
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Rocky Mount
Betty Woody Mitchell
Linda M. Dillon
Franklin County
Mitchell
Dillon
Langhorne Jones
Goode
Rocky Mount Treasury
WVU to Study State Highways with Major Grant
West Virginia University begins a 21-2 year study of state highways funded by 140,300 from the U S Bureau of Public Roads and the State Road Commission. President Paul A Miller announced the grant as one of the university s largest research awards. Dr Robert D Fowler leads as chief investigator.
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Morgantown
W.va
West Virginia University
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
State Road Commission
WVU
Paul A. Miller
Tax Increase Will Restore Teaching Jobs
Carroll County supervisors voted to restore 14 teaching positions by doubling the vehicle license tax from five to ten dollars. All proceeds from the higher rate will be assigned to fund teaching jobs in Hillsville and surrounding areas.
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Hillsville
Carroll County
School funding boost to restore teaching posts
School Supt. R. P. Reynolds says an estimated $50,000 added to the school budget will enable the school board to restore nearly all teaching posts cut during a recent budget trimming session by the supervisors.
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R. P. Reynolds
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